A Day in the Life: Piano Frustration

Yay, what a wonderful topic for me to start my blog off on, right? But this series is all about music majoring, and part of that is being frustrated. I would say that it's a pretty big part of being a music major, actually.
So if you're a music major, then you know that no matter what instrument you play, you also have to be proficient at singing and piano. Singing is allright, I'm not the best at it, but people tell me I have a nice singing voice, so I'll try to be happy with that.
Piano is... complicated. I love to play piano. I dream of being able to play Clair de Lune, and Arabeque no. 1, and all the piano classics. I want to play romantic tear-jerkers like Liebestod by Wagner/Liszt, and Romeo and Juliet Before Parting by Sergei Prokofiev. But alas, my piano skills are not that great.
I love playing piano, like I said before, but let me tell you this, I did not love it today!
Our recital is on the 8th of December (Immaculate Conception feast day!), so pretty soon, right? I'm playing the 3rd Movement of a Clementi Sonatine, and I'm playing the beautiful piano solo from the beginning of the second movement of Ravel's piano concerto in G major. I absolutely love that piece, but to quote Ravel...

Ah, that flowing phrase! How I worked over it bar by bar... It nearly killed me.

Maurice was talking about the process of composition, buuuut... it applies to performance too.
I'm extremely frustrated with piano, and it doesn't help that a whole bunch of my friends are extremely good at piano.
I couldn't be more eager for the end of the semester, because I feel like it's a reset button. I wasted a bunch of time this semester trying to learn Rondo Alla Turca, but I hit a wall because my tiny flutist hands are not stretchy enough to do the ol' octave stretches at that one part.
But when the semester is over, I'll be free to do whatever I want for almost a whole month! I can practice without feeling pressured, and finally enjoy piano again.

Anyways, wish me luck on my piano final, chums. I leave you in the hands on Monsieur Ravel. Enjoy this ethereal piece of music!!