And then I get a scary thought: that he's here means he's never lost.
1) We don't talk about the Canucks game versus the Dallas Stars last night. Unless we are discussing the beautiful return of Ryan Kesler, or Henrik Sedin officially beating and setting a new franchise scoring record. Then it's cool.
And I swear this is not turning, and will not turn, in to a hockey blog. Honest to God.
2) Yesterday afternoon, after a craptastic morning -- a migraine and the screwy, yet expected, side effects of the meds I took for it -- I mercifully had a spare last block. A couple of my students who play piano and had a study that period came in to my room, and we jammed for a while.
I may have done some absolute belting as I slammed on the piano. I don't get the chance to do that here in my apartment, of course, even with my keyboard. I usually plug my headphones in to it, and play away, mouthing words. My classroom has thicker walls, which is more conducive to singing out loud. My voice is showing it today, however. Ask me about my black coffee and cigarettes diet: you too can have a thick two-pack-a-day rasp.
(Dammit Percy, you shouldn't go straight in to a belt without warming your voice up, even if you are physically able to do so. It will murder your throat/vocal chords, as you are being reminded today. Did you learn nothing from from your choral training back in high school and university? God.)
Totally and completely worth it though. It left a goofy smile on my face and I felt better for it. Still do, really.
Though I really do need to remember to watch it with my voice.
3) Weird as it may sound, I think my plan for the day is to drink a good deal of green tea. Not sure if this is connected to item two on the list. Not even sure it can be connected to it. I'm not even sure if there's a reason at all. I'm just craving green tea, and a lot of it.
4) The other items on my to do list today are getting my grocery shopping done, watching the most recent episodes of "Arrow" and "Elementary", and finishing at least one of the three books I have on the go right now.
I should probably quit with the reading numerous books at a time thing. I should also probably recognize this is an exercise in futility. Meh. At least I've addressed that it's a (possible) problem.
5) I know I go on about this quite a bit, and I know it probably irks the hell out of you all, but I just watched the trailer for "Fast and Furious 6". Han and Gisele are there. There's a shot of them dodging bullet fire together. There's another one of them back to back, guns akimbo. Yet another of them in the same car during what's presumably a major chase. It's quite possible I flailed at seeing all this.
Fandom gave me nothing last time despite their being awesome together in "Fast Five". It better frigging deliver this time around.
That is all.
And I swear this is not turning, and will not turn, in to a hockey blog. Honest to God.
2) Yesterday afternoon, after a craptastic morning -- a migraine and the screwy, yet expected, side effects of the meds I took for it -- I mercifully had a spare last block. A couple of my students who play piano and had a study that period came in to my room, and we jammed for a while.
I may have done some absolute belting as I slammed on the piano. I don't get the chance to do that here in my apartment, of course, even with my keyboard. I usually plug my headphones in to it, and play away, mouthing words. My classroom has thicker walls, which is more conducive to singing out loud. My voice is showing it today, however. Ask me about my black coffee and cigarettes diet: you too can have a thick two-pack-a-day rasp.
(Dammit Percy, you shouldn't go straight in to a belt without warming your voice up, even if you are physically able to do so. It will murder your throat/vocal chords, as you are being reminded today. Did you learn nothing from from your choral training back in high school and university? God.)
Totally and completely worth it though. It left a goofy smile on my face and I felt better for it. Still do, really.
Though I really do need to remember to watch it with my voice.
3) Weird as it may sound, I think my plan for the day is to drink a good deal of green tea. Not sure if this is connected to item two on the list. Not even sure it can be connected to it. I'm not even sure if there's a reason at all. I'm just craving green tea, and a lot of it.
4) The other items on my to do list today are getting my grocery shopping done, watching the most recent episodes of "Arrow" and "Elementary", and finishing at least one of the three books I have on the go right now.
I should probably quit with the reading numerous books at a time thing. I should also probably recognize this is an exercise in futility. Meh. At least I've addressed that it's a (possible) problem.
5) I know I go on about this quite a bit, and I know it probably irks the hell out of you all, but I just watched the trailer for "Fast and Furious 6". Han and Gisele are there. There's a shot of them dodging bullet fire together. There's another one of them back to back, guns akimbo. Yet another of them in the same car during what's presumably a major chase. It's quite possible I flailed at seeing all this.
Fandom gave me nothing last time despite their being awesome together in "Fast Five". It better frigging deliver this time around.
That is all.