Sibelius, Chicken and Life

I played a little tennis today - a good run around and I even managed to draw 5-5 in one set of singles against Mr.B who is 7 years my junior - quite an achievement I feel. After tennis, we headed out to Nando's, Edgware - a restaurant where they offer 4 levels of chicken. I opted for medium and Mr. B went for a hot - I think he regretted this later as it was hotter than he expected. We couldn't resist going into a wine and chocolate shop on the way home and I managed to down a large glass of wine before embarking on 3 hours of piano teaching which certainly 'took the edge' off things. I have been listening to Sibelius Orchestral works (brilliantly conducted by Paavo Berglund in an 8 CD boxed set of 7 Symphonies + other orchestral works) very inspiring, although who knows just exactly where music is heading these days? Progress on my novel is slow and I'm finding it hard to attract a literary agent even to read my work - the genre is perhaps slightly 'suspect', being so called 'science fantasy'. One tries to remain optimistic in the face of rejection, stupidity and arrogance and just plod on with life in a day-to-day manner hoping, hope against hope that yes - life can and will improve.