How are you today?

[ceez]

I played piano in a concerto competition today for which I've been preparing since September and I didn't even place in the top three. I'm pretty severely disappointed. Practicing for 5 hours a day for half a year... This competition has consumed my every waking thought (and often sleeping ones too).

I didn't embarrass myself though, so that was nice. And the experience was valuable.... but god dammit, it would've been nice to win. What a colossal, anti-climatic let down.

it's good that you took something positive out of it. when I played high school basketball our team sucked, but I loved to play and I had fun, even though we worked our arses off in practice 6 days a week.