Mozart, Chocolate and a whisky

Second day back at Uni and I'm beginning to get to grips with the mountain of reading and work to be done this term and a huge amount of learning and questioning to be done too.

I'm not so good on the original thought so really want to get that going this term - challenging something new that you are reading and know little about is quite hard to start with, although I do find that if I don't like the style of the author then it's easier to do!  Funny that!!!

So, I'm sitting here having eaten a whole bar of Divine 70% orange and ginger chocolate, with a whisky and contemplating the torture of a Mozart string quartet.  I feel ill equipped to deal with the basic structural requirements to contemplate a 120 bar composition of this type (trust me I think that finding the melody will be easy in comparison to everything else that has to be done!).  My personal goal is to achieve a good mark in a composition of this type - so far I seem to have done well on pure luck and a muddle through, but I really want to crack this one as it will be a basis for next years composition challenges.

The essays that I have to do are already invading my space and my mind is whirring with all the interesting things that I've already found out and the great tutorial I had on essay planning and writing.  With luck my essay on Mendelssohn will be cracking.  Music stage and screen will be more challenging, but of course in a good way.

Tomorrow is a day of reading books - various (and they're all really thick!) and trying to make notes using the Tony Buzan mind mapping thing.  Should be interesting and colourful (as I have a new set of coloured pens especially purchased for the occasion).

Baking hasn't had a look in, but I did manage to clean the oven at the weekend so it is all shiny and waiting for inspiration to strike.

As we have apples a plenty I may well have to do something along those lines - but oat and raisin cookies are in the back of my mind and wanting to be baked......such therapy!  Maybe I'll make a load for Uni for Monday.......