Wednesday is piano lesson day for me! I have been playing for 25 years, and taken lessons for more of that time than not. And I am still totally excited when it’s lesson day! 😄
Although I think I’m even more excited these days. We moved in summer 2023 so I could take a position at a new university, and that first year was brutal. I worked 7 days a week (full, long days even on the weekend) and in the first semester, I hardly played piano at all. And no piano lessons, I hadn’t had in person lessons since before covid and the online lesson I’d had during covid ended in 2022 (if I recall correctly). So it had been a long time since I’d had lessons. In my second semester in my new job (Jan-May 2024) I was able to play a little bit more regularly but it was a struggle and I rarely had two days in a row with piano time. Still, I was playing more regularly, so I started lessons in Feb 2024, twice a month.
Now, in my second year in my new position, things at work are a little more under control. Although I still end up working on weekends far more often than I’d like, I’m not putting in 8-hour days every Saturday and Sunday, what a difference that makes! And I am able to make time to be at the piano pretty much every day.
At the end of August, I switched my piano lessons to be every week. And even after the semester has gotten into full swing, I’m still able to have piano time every day. Sometimes it’s little more than 30 minutes of running through my pieces, but more often it’s 1-2 hours of intensely focused practice.
After a year of not being able to have that piano time, and sometimes showing up to my lesson having not practiced, now being able to do my daily piano activities seems that much more special, that much more precious to me.
So I think that’s part of what makes me so happy to have a weekly piano lesson. Also I just feel like I have a special secret. 😃 I take my lesson stuff with me in the morning when I leave for work, and just seeing that bag in my office makes me smile. Then I go straight to my lesson after work. I feel like a little kid, looking forward to it all day.
Yay, it’s lesson day!!
🎉🎉🎉