Well, I changed my strings today and suddenly life had color. I think I might have been WAY overdue for an A and D string. Its nice, because a lot of things sort of fell into place today. Tomorrow morning I"m leaving for Lenox for another lesson with Sato. I'm going to leave a lot of time to fight the potential holiday traffic. After the lesson I'll stop in Ware and visit Aunt J. 5 days and counting until the audition! All the excerpts seem to be settling except for brahms piano concerto and the blasted La Mer (but only because I hate to practice La Mer).

Ok, off to bed.