I had my flu shot on Wednesday - I managed to squeeze in ten minutes of vocal riyaz and five minutes practicing riq and five minutes practicing finger cymbals. I also practiced the kathak warmup, including 100 cycles of tatkar footwork, and the flower, bird, and fish mudras. In the evening I watched the sus 2 and dominant 7 sus chord tutorials from Piano Skills For Singers Level 2. I improvised rough chord progressions for “Naive” and “The Dress I Wore.”
I was feeling bored on Thursday because I had to rest my left arm, so I spent the day improvising chord progressions for “Resisting Me,” “The Body Says,” “Bengali Winter,” “The Heart of the Snow Queen,” “Sang With The Tongue of an Angel,” “Seven Layers of Muslin,” “Unfold,” and “Next Winter.”
On Friday morning I worked on a grant application. I had a good teacher training session with Neeraja Aptikar. She taught how ragas involve the five senses, and the nine rasas in Indian aesthetic theory. We did laundry, and I changed my bed linens.
On Saturday, for the first time in a while, I dozed off after breakfast. I did chop onion, garlic, and peppers for Ma's cooking, and peeled prawns for her acorn squash dish. I folded and put away my laundry.
On Sunday, I dozed off after breakfast again. I did the 10 minute object writing exercise from Pat Pattison's book “Writing Better Lyrics” that Anjalica Solomon had suggested we do as a songwriting exercise.