singing!
So the sight-sing I referred to in my last post occurred tonight. We didn't find a second male, but we had a soprano (quantumkitty), two altos (myself and siderea), and one flexible tenor/bass (luckylefty), and siderea was able to switch to tenor sometimes, so we did a pretty passable job. And I had a GREAT time! My voice is one of those things I surround with some weird baggage, but I figured what the heck, I love the song and I like people and it has been too long since I made music. The result? While my breathing is absolutely horrible, and I need to figure out how to make register changes smooth, and sometimes I get the wrong note or word stuck in my head and just. can't. shake. it. out, overall I did not feel completely out of my depth and luckylefty suggested I do more sight-singing! And, more importantly, I got out of my rut for a while and had a good time. So all in all, A+++, would do again.