it's simply...

Admittedly, when I talked of simplicity, I was thinking more about wonderful musicians, great teachers, connections between body and soul, the Alexander Technique, meditation, religion, Mozart...But, TwTwTw has always tried to marry the philosophical with real life, and hey, there's a symmetry here that would be funny if I wasn't out of pocket.

I have, for the last five years, taught chamber music on a summer school.  Last July, I was only there for the first of the two weeks, as I was ill for the second.  Seeing as all the stuff to do with harp was in any case finished, the course said it would be fine for me to return to London to see my doctor.  What they didn't mention at the time was that they were then going to halve my fee. 

I appealed (I mean, I waived my entire fee one year out of the goodness of my heart, when the festival was particularly broke), and it was agreed they would resolve the matter one way or the other by the end of October.  It looks, however, like it will be a cold day in hell that I see the money - I've just been thanked for my understanding that the decision is indefinitely postponed, because the secretary is...ill.

Get well soon and all that, but it takes the fucking [without asterisks] biscuit, doesn't it?