Fun violin lesson

I told the teacher I didnt want to look at the Bach this week, so we played a bunch of duets, focusing on my sight reading. That was awesome fun -- his viola is really beautiful sounding carbon fiber instrument -- I'm not sure if its from the MA guys Luis and Clark but I love listening to it. (I'm keeping an eye out for a viola, but I suspect I'll get an electric viola just to be able to mimic guitar tunes.)

but for fun, he'd just gotten two new carbon fiber bows from a company called Incredibow
and I ended up playing with one of them -- its a little different, but since the bow was so much lighter, I could feel how I engaged my arm in applying pressure rather then letting the bow do much of the work. (I definately need a new bow, my older wooden one has seen better days, and the fiberglass one is CRAP.)

He said I could borrow the Incredibow when my wood violin was returned, to see how it felt. :)

All in all, I had a great lesson -- my sight reading is coming along and my goal this weekend is to pick up a good metronome.

bit by bit, they take away our rights

Some of you might have noticed that the supremes upheld the ban on a particular sort of late term abortion, even at the risk of the mother's health.

I just read this at Spiked, and they were talking about 2nd term abortions, not even third term...

To me this isnt a matter of simply reproductive rights, but still a matter of womens' rights. There is still a fairly large contingency of people who dont like women having power.

No one _wants_ a late term abortion. Its not a matter of women using it as a method of birth control, but in my experience, a difficult choice between carrying a necrotic fetus to term and the resultant pyschological damage to the woman, or her triggereing a medical miscarriage for her own health and safety.

Why do you think they hate women so much?