Today, I.....

...Enjoyed a tender moment with my harp together with Bruckner's eighth symphony. The symphony lasts over 70 minutes and the harp part altogether around 3. It consists of slowly but brilliantly arpeggiated chords, and is one of the very few harp parts I can already play... roll on, Berliner Philharmoniker!!

...had an exasperating 30 minutes which consisted of trying to get out of the house - first, the washing machine took much longer than I thought, then it wouldn't open, then my travel card was missing, then I threw the garbage, then I remembered I had to return my parents' vacuum cleaner, then I remembered I had to make my shopping already in the morning because I was going to have a late day, then I tried to adjust my sunglass clip-ons onto my glasses but they wouldn't stick........

... Spent the whole day in a t-shirt, trousers and sandals. Yesterday, my thermometer put the temperature at 36 degrees celsius, but then on the other hand, I am on the highest floor....

... Spent six hours working at Cantores Minores. It was my last day of work before the summer. First, together with Timo Pihkanen, we wrote, printed and signed about 30 certificates which we later gave out to the students in a traditional ceremony. Then, I listened to entrance exams - out of 10 boys, we took nine. After that, we had a teachers' meeting.

...Came home as the sun was setting behind the clouds, made two sandwiches, sat down at the computer and started seriously looking forward to my three-and-a-half weeks in Syria, which will begin in a month.