Procrastination?

I've been getting my head together for finals week and grading. It's really just the finals, juries, and a few late entries into the homework assignments, so it isn't so bad. The test is ready except for the photocopying, and juries aren't until Wednesday.

I should start putting some effort into either my SNM commission for next year, or the wind ensemble piece I started this semester, a re-harmonization of Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. I've got all my materials ready. It's just a matter of some broad sketches and fleshing it out.

Should is the operative word.

Instead, I spent this weekend finally beginning to input and tweak my Symphony No. 2. There is a brief passage I want to fix near the beginning, but the rest will be mostly straight input as well as clarifying some dynamics. I'm about 3/4 into the first movement. (I had started a long time ago when I was trying out a new version of Sibelius.) My Euphonium Concerto is in the same state, although possibly further along, except it needs more extensive revision.

My Notagraphia website has been trailing a coming score to Oyre's Garden for a long time now, and that is what I spent today on. I've converted it from Finale to Sibelius and increased the staff size, so it doesn't need to be printed out on large format paper to be able to read it. There are some minor revisions, mostly making it look a little more like it sounds. Again, I've added and clarified some dynamics. All I have left to do is the front matter, and then I can upload it to Createspace. I'm trying to decide whether it needs new parts or whether I can easily adjust the Finale parts.

I'm also going to tweak the score to Chaos. I'm not happy with the accolades (the instrument names in the margin), so I'm going to improve them, add the front matter and post it - probably at the same time as Oyre's Garden. That's probably an afternoon of work between the two scores, so I should upload them by Christmas, and get to the new pieces.

Saying that, I have a typesetting job on its way, so that might eat into my composing time.