Improvement
I managed to make it home yesterday without falling asleep on the bus and missing my stop, though it was a near thing. Thankfully, I'm reading a pretty engrossing book (Stephen King's "On Writing") and my bone-cracking yawns and stretches resulted in successfully oxygenating my blood and making me feel just refreshed enough not to fall asleep until I got home, washed my face, and promptly collapsed on the bed, where I slept for about an hour until the dogs reminded me that it was food and walkies time. So I took them for a brisk walk (the evenings are starting to feel autumnal, for all that I can still comfortably walk in a tank top in the evenings), and by the time we got back, Mr. 42 was home from teaching lessons at [nice middle school] and a quick Target run (yes, such a thing exists: he's discovered online ordering with in-store pick-up!).
We had tortellini in red pepper cream sauce for dinner (the dogs' favorite because we let them lick the plates when we're done), finished S3 of Better Call Saul (the last season on Netflix, sadly), drank some lovely beverages (Lost Abbey's excellent new brew Citrus Sin, Council's delightful Staircase of Everlasting Peaches, Lost Cause's Bolt Fan Blues, a superb blueberry lemon mead), and then went to bed, where I slept like a rock, despite having napped earlier.
Today, I received music for our next Willan West 2018 musical offering. I'm singing Alto II, so I will be working hard to change my default top-line, melody-reading settings for that music, especially since I already know the soprano part of the missa brevis we're doing. We're also doing a rather stunning motet that I'm looking forward to learning, plus a bit of Renaissance polyphony for fun. Should be a lovely time! However, I'm trying not to get too focused on that, since it's still over a week away because tonight I have to honestly evaluate my preparedness for Sunday's service music (morning, Evensong) and figure out if I need to work on the pieces at home, which will involve requesting PDFs from RV, because he doesn't want the church's music to leave the church (apparently a lot of it disappeared last season). I should also review the trickier bits of the Brahms German Requiem prior to the choral retreat (morning rehearsal UGGH) on Saturday. The bright side of not being in the French Baroque small group is that I only have to stay for the morning part of the retreat. But did I mention they want us there at 8:30 am to socialize prior to the 9am downbeat? ON A SATURDAY? Um yeah. We'll see about that... (or not...).
But order of musical priorities aside, the WW2018 folks are being exceptionally silly today, which I am deeply appreciating. RV's phone keeps autocorrecting "Willan West" to "Willan Wear," which is now a running joke about introducing a clothing line inspired by the always-nattily-turned-out Healey Willan, including but not limited to liturgical gear. The festival co-director has made us a very handsome logo gif, and there have been puns. Bad ones. And not only by me! This bit of levity is greatly appreciated when I'm still a bit (but not terribly) sad over not getting to do the French Baroque concert.
Also... I seem to have gotten a nudge from the universe on a writing project just when appears that I'll have a bit less music to work on in the next couple of months. Obvs, my sshg_giftfest is my top writing priority at the moment, but I think it'll be good practice for what I've got in mind. We'll see how that goes. *ponders*
Right ho! Off in search of nourishment, which I need, and also possibly caffeine, which I don't need, but think that I would enjoy. We shall see!
Smooches to All!
Mun42
We had tortellini in red pepper cream sauce for dinner (the dogs' favorite because we let them lick the plates when we're done), finished S3 of Better Call Saul (the last season on Netflix, sadly), drank some lovely beverages (Lost Abbey's excellent new brew Citrus Sin, Council's delightful Staircase of Everlasting Peaches, Lost Cause's Bolt Fan Blues, a superb blueberry lemon mead), and then went to bed, where I slept like a rock, despite having napped earlier.
Today, I received music for our next Willan West 2018 musical offering. I'm singing Alto II, so I will be working hard to change my default top-line, melody-reading settings for that music, especially since I already know the soprano part of the missa brevis we're doing. We're also doing a rather stunning motet that I'm looking forward to learning, plus a bit of Renaissance polyphony for fun. Should be a lovely time! However, I'm trying not to get too focused on that, since it's still over a week away because tonight I have to honestly evaluate my preparedness for Sunday's service music (morning, Evensong) and figure out if I need to work on the pieces at home, which will involve requesting PDFs from RV, because he doesn't want the church's music to leave the church (apparently a lot of it disappeared last season). I should also review the trickier bits of the Brahms German Requiem prior to the choral retreat (morning rehearsal UGGH) on Saturday. The bright side of not being in the French Baroque small group is that I only have to stay for the morning part of the retreat. But did I mention they want us there at 8:30 am to socialize prior to the 9am downbeat? ON A SATURDAY? Um yeah. We'll see about that... (or not...).
But order of musical priorities aside, the WW2018 folks are being exceptionally silly today, which I am deeply appreciating. RV's phone keeps autocorrecting "Willan West" to "Willan Wear," which is now a running joke about introducing a clothing line inspired by the always-nattily-turned-out Healey Willan, including but not limited to liturgical gear. The festival co-director has made us a very handsome logo gif, and there have been puns. Bad ones. And not only by me! This bit of levity is greatly appreciated when I'm still a bit (but not terribly) sad over not getting to do the French Baroque concert.
Also... I seem to have gotten a nudge from the universe on a writing project just when appears that I'll have a bit less music to work on in the next couple of months. Obvs, my sshg_giftfest is my top writing priority at the moment, but I think it'll be good practice for what I've got in mind. We'll see how that goes. *ponders*
Right ho! Off in search of nourishment, which I need, and also possibly caffeine, which I don't need, but think that I would enjoy. We shall see!
Smooches to All!
Mun42