Picking Up the Pieces: A Piano Practice Journal

I've been thinking a lot about my " Looking Ahead to June " post from a few days ago. I had just about decided that I would set aside my non – PWJ  projects (other than the usual maintenance) and focus on my three PWJ courses: Bare Necessities, Blues 10-Lesson Challenge, and Lead Sheets/Seventh Chords. Those three courses focus on ragtime, blues, and theory/improvisation, respectively, but my mind is kind of thinking June is going to be very blues-oriented. A bluesy June. And then my every-two-or-three-weeks piano teacher/consultant went and suggested that I take on Gershwin's Prelude II.  I honestly don't know if I want to do this. It's not an easy piece, and it's going to take a lot of time away from my PWJ stuff. I'll also still be working on the Rondo alla Turca . I'm not quite ready to graduate from it just yet; I can play it start to finish, by memory, but I'm nowhere near where I want to be with the tempo. (I'm at about 80, and I wan...