Full of rationalizations
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owlectomyI want a digital piano.
This is a bit of a new thing and a bit of an old thing; I started lessons when I was eight, dropped them when I was eleven-ish, acquired a cheap electronic keyboard (the piano having rusted to the point of unplayability), fooled around on it when I got the urge, and had occasional bouts of taking it up again when I happened to have a keyboard nearby. And I have the urge again, and I am rationalizing it SO BADLY.
(1) Given that I live with roommates, and probably will need to be mindful of neighbors for at least the next few years, if I play any instrument it really ought to come equipped with a headphone jack.
(2) I willfeed it and walk it practice is every day, really, I promise!
(3) New York has the best sheet music store I have ever seen.
(4) And a Kinokuniya, which has video game scores and a Shiina Ringo score.
(5) And if I could play anything off Muzai Moratorium, I would collapse into a little puddle of happiness. Even if I had to rearrange the guitar part for the piano, which I certainly could do.
(6) I always pictured myself having a piano when I grew up. I will be 26 in two weeks, and 26 is grown up, because 25 is not yet quite grown up.
(7) Both my knowledge of theory and my ear are considerably better than they were when I was taking lessons.
(8) I have been saving really hard these past few months.
Of course, I have been saving really hard so that I could survive if laid off; and also so that I would be able to not cry when I look at New York real estate prices. Or even not-New-York real estate prices. (Kiplinger's thinks a $300,000 house is "affordable," because they are all smoking crack.)
The most sensible thing is to wait until I get my stimulus check, wait until the new fiscal year and for-sure news about my job, wait and see if the urge passes. And in the interim, make sure I keep up with at least some of the things I'm always promising myself to do better on. So. That is what I will try to do.
This is a bit of a new thing and a bit of an old thing; I started lessons when I was eight, dropped them when I was eleven-ish, acquired a cheap electronic keyboard (the piano having rusted to the point of unplayability), fooled around on it when I got the urge, and had occasional bouts of taking it up again when I happened to have a keyboard nearby. And I have the urge again, and I am rationalizing it SO BADLY.
(1) Given that I live with roommates, and probably will need to be mindful of neighbors for at least the next few years, if I play any instrument it really ought to come equipped with a headphone jack.
(2) I will
(3) New York has the best sheet music store I have ever seen.
(4) And a Kinokuniya, which has video game scores and a Shiina Ringo score.
(5) And if I could play anything off Muzai Moratorium, I would collapse into a little puddle of happiness. Even if I had to rearrange the guitar part for the piano, which I certainly could do.
(6) I always pictured myself having a piano when I grew up. I will be 26 in two weeks, and 26 is grown up, because 25 is not yet quite grown up.
(7) Both my knowledge of theory and my ear are considerably better than they were when I was taking lessons.
(8) I have been saving really hard these past few months.
Of course, I have been saving really hard so that I could survive if laid off; and also so that I would be able to not cry when I look at New York real estate prices. Or even not-New-York real estate prices. (Kiplinger's thinks a $300,000 house is "affordable," because they are all smoking crack.)
The most sensible thing is to wait until I get my stimulus check, wait until the new fiscal year and for-sure news about my job, wait and see if the urge passes. And in the interim, make sure I keep up with at least some of the things I'm always promising myself to do better on. So. That is what I will try to do.
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24/6/08 01:23 (UTC)...yeah. Sigh.
I think waiting is a good idea but I think getting one after you've waited a bit is also a good idea! Go you!