Things I've learned over the last five days:

1. I can sew, and I can sew a lot quicker once I get into it. The cutting is by far the most time-consuming part of the process.

2. Maybe not use denim for a piece with lots of open edges

3. If I practice the difficult parts in the songs we're playing, I get better at them. Even the parts too difficult when sightreading because they're too fast. Who would've thought, right???

4. Yes, playing the Legére plastic reed #3 was a mistake in that it's so soft that my mouth suffers during extended playing on the harder reeds I should be using. But that plastic reed is so goddamn sensitive that anything but perfect embouchure creates a shite tone quality, and the right ring finger even slightly out of place makes me squeak, so it's actually forcing me to mind my two biggest hurdles towards playing the clarinet passably.

5. Four years and I'm still bad at bullet journaling