Big Lecture 1 = DONE!
The first Big Lecture of Three is DONE! Speaker ROCKED IT.
The day was a bit more hectic than expected (and I was expecting hectic enough to wear good walking shoes to work) because Speaker has an achilles tendon injury and can't do many stairs or walk long distances. Thus, we had to move a meeting or two and I spent a good chunk of the day driving her around in the department van and the department golf cart (whee!). She's awesome and a total bad-ass in re: research, and quite nice to boot. She was also delightfully frank in appraising one of our two faculty members who has been known to reduce me to blushing and stammering, so that was fun.
Big Lecture Two is tomorrow, but all her meetings are over at Other Institution, so all I need to do is make sure to tell them where their special parking space is (and find the damn thing myself...) and be there for set-up. This is good, because I have tons of stuff to do, including place cards and nametags for the gala on Wednesday, for which I am staying at work until 9:30 pm. Blargh. But I get fed tasty food, will have the open bar at my disposal, and get to hang out with our Master Chorale accompanist, whom I have hired to play during cocktail hour and dessert. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Rehearsal tonight on Mozart's Mass in C Minor was excellent, if painstaking. We sight-read and then woodshedded the movements that we hadn't yet done, so over the three rehearsals we've had on it, we've gone through all the chorus bits. It isn't easy- the Requiem feels like a walk in the park by comparison. But already I'm feeling this yearning to leave rehearsal and be singing this music, so this week I am hoping to do some work on that as well as the Bach. Even 30 minutes each night is going to make a huge difference.
Right. Off to distract and relax the brain, and then hopefully keep up this getting-enough-sleep trend. Because illness is something I can't afford.
Magnificent Mondays/Terrific Tuesdays to All!
Mun42
The day was a bit more hectic than expected (and I was expecting hectic enough to wear good walking shoes to work) because Speaker has an achilles tendon injury and can't do many stairs or walk long distances. Thus, we had to move a meeting or two and I spent a good chunk of the day driving her around in the department van and the department golf cart (whee!). She's awesome and a total bad-ass in re: research, and quite nice to boot. She was also delightfully frank in appraising one of our two faculty members who has been known to reduce me to blushing and stammering, so that was fun.
Big Lecture Two is tomorrow, but all her meetings are over at Other Institution, so all I need to do is make sure to tell them where their special parking space is (and find the damn thing myself...) and be there for set-up. This is good, because I have tons of stuff to do, including place cards and nametags for the gala on Wednesday, for which I am staying at work until 9:30 pm. Blargh. But I get fed tasty food, will have the open bar at my disposal, and get to hang out with our Master Chorale accompanist, whom I have hired to play during cocktail hour and dessert. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Rehearsal tonight on Mozart's Mass in C Minor was excellent, if painstaking. We sight-read and then woodshedded the movements that we hadn't yet done, so over the three rehearsals we've had on it, we've gone through all the chorus bits. It isn't easy- the Requiem feels like a walk in the park by comparison. But already I'm feeling this yearning to leave rehearsal and be singing this music, so this week I am hoping to do some work on that as well as the Bach. Even 30 minutes each night is going to make a huge difference.
Right. Off to distract and relax the brain, and then hopefully keep up this getting-enough-sleep trend. Because illness is something I can't afford.
Magnificent Mondays/Terrific Tuesdays to All!
Mun42