quick recap from end of night last night: hot enough in the apartment that i was genuinely exhausted. a little dismayed by a text exchange. practicing at end of the night was almost impossible; i got probably 35ish minutes in, maybe more, and passed out wearing a guitar. finally made it to bed around 1 am or so.
today's going to be tough. i woke up early enough but it is a low-energy day and so nothing has properly begun yet (8:04 am). asked someone if i'd be able to pick up a guitar from a repair, and suspect i am going to have to drop my primary guitar off in bellevue tomorrow.
sitting at roughly 8:50. noticing my hands are not happy. 1-1 with supervisor at work, i felt a little bad pointing out "these guys working for you have some issues to be addressed", but it was necessary. interesting point to note: an aphorism from the course in spain flew in from martin s. while we were still talking, "any act that is knowingly non-consensual offers violence." for me, the second one in the message, "honesty is a quality. our honestly invites honesty in others." is possibly a better encapsulation.
another longish call that fights to keep me talking. i'm noticing a few more utterances than yesterday outside of the planned-for speaking. some digging around to figure out a couple mysteries. it's hot.
break for lunch. breath of the wild.
back to work, but it's largely just checking on things, nothing particularly challenging. tomorrow's going to be the harder/longer day.
practicing on an ovation, which i have to admit doesn't play badly below the 12th fret. but it sounds awful.
working with a sort of made-up exercise: ascending by major thirds from C to E to G#, while singing the tonic, then the leading tone which is the dominant of the next key, while playing the dominant of that next key. right now it's just just the two-note primaries across the neck, but it works out to Cmaj/B7/Emaj/D#7/G#/G7. trying to hear the target pitch is really tricky, maybe a bit more than i expected when i decided this was on the list for this week's work.
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