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Happy New Year - a 2010 wrap up of sorts ;)

Greetings and Happy New Year! It’s that wonderful time of year, that week between Christmas and New Years, neither of us is working and so we finally have a chance to catch up on things, including our yearly holiday letter. We’ve had a pretty amazing year so it’s hard to know where to start so I guess I will just touch on some of the things we’ve been up to. We are both still working part time at Harold Washington College (HWC) as the college music tutors, we split the 40+hour/wk job. The hours are very flexible with our gigging schedule and helping the students (who can range in age from 17 - 65+) learn and appreciate music is extremely rewarding to both of us. This year we moved from having a desk in the music computer lab to having our own office, which we’ve decked out with all sorts of “musical” cards. We get a lot of non music students stopping by our room to ask questions just because of all the colorful cards on the wall. HWC is part of the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) and ha