Yay! Finally I'm on holidays - my first time off with nothing medical to do in nearly 3 years. Very strange feeling and I'm not entirely sure what to do with myself, so I've set a few holiday goals. In no particular order:

1. See a few movies (planning on going to The Motorcycle Diaries this afternoon)
2. Play with my camera a bit more - but fear not, I've decided that this isn't really the place for my lame photographic experiments, and especially when they're not really related to anything, so I've set myself up on flickr.com - http://www.flickr.com/photos/minim if anyone actually cares
3. Play around with Photoshop and Illustrator a bit and get to know them better
4. Go to some exhibitions (tomorrow's plan is for the Bill Henson exhibition at AGNSW)
5. Cook lots - try out new recipes
6. Actually compose something, I don't know what
7. Listen to lots of music

I've at least made a start on the last point with the first 2 LPs of my set of Prokofiev's Seven Symphonies:

Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
An old favourite - lovely and uplifting

Symphony No. 7
Amazing orchestration, although I'm not 100 per cent convinced by the 3rd movement's reinterpretation of his incidental music for Eugene Onegin. I love the simplicity of the original and some of the variations made for the symphony feel a bit like gilding the lily.

Symphony No. 2
Quite scary. I think I need to listen to this one a lot more to get the hang of it - it's quite confrontational. This symphony came after Le pas d'acier (The age of steel) on the record, which I'm quite taken by - fantastically powerful music.

I did listen to both Nos. 7 and 2 twice over each, so not a bad morning's work, I feel :-)