Epiphany

Just now, I was practicing and semi-worrying about my paper that I have to write in order to graduate.  I've spent the entire weekend reading all the materials I'd gathered over the semester, and I came across dissertations that covered my exact ideas - and since you can't just repeat what someone else said in your own words (you have to come up with your own idea?!?), I didn't know how to create my own angle within the framework of what I had already submitted as my proposal.

And then it came to me while playing scales... I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that I'm pretty excited about it.  It's an interesting aspect of the pieces I had chosen, especially in today's society, and I actually can't wait to start writing.

I really didn't expect to feel this kind of anticipation about writing this paper - afterall, I'm a performer, not a theorist... but now that I'm going about it in a way that makes sense to me, I can see myself pursuing similar ventures in the future... and that's kind of cool.

This might actually turn out to be fun... and perhaps it'll even be a good paper.