GLOOOOOM
*waves* June Gloom is certainly living up to its name.Yesterday, morning walkies occurred in a fine mist that got as heavy as sprinkling, but mostly it was just grey and cold and blech. Today, morning walkies were grey but dry and reasonably warm, but the grey turned cold and drippy while I was on the bus to work and intensified into light rain. Fortunately, I'd left my umbrella in my purse, so I managed to stay relatively dry walking from the bus to my building, but I was a bit sorry that I hadn't brought a coat for extra warmth, because it's downright clammy out there. The annoying thing is that I checked the weather both yesterday and today, and neither report said a bloody thing about rain today. So thbbbbt to weather apps and thbbbbt to June Gloom.
Yesterday was not wholly unproductive at work, which is nice to be able to report. I also had a meeting bumped until 4:15 pm, which meant I could go straight to the bus stop after we finished. Due to sleeping poorly Sunday-to-Monday, I was exhausted by the time I got home, so I took the shower I hadn't had time for that morning between work and rehearsal, which woke me up even more than I'd hoped. Rehearsal was fun, although I was a bit yawny due to aforementioned lack of sleep, but my brain was mostly functional and brain-fails were fewer than last Wednesday's rehearsal. JR is off singing at the Spoleto Festival, so last night's fearless leader was AL, the chair of music at one of our large community colleges. I worked with her while volunteering for a high school honor choir a while back, which was a bit of a disorganizated nightmare, but AL was awesome, as were the kids. And she was not only delightful during rehearsal, she was also awesome about calling out what we needed to fix and making our phrasing more Mozart-y. JR left us in excellent hands, methinks! Although we won't really know that until next week when we have our firs rehearsal with Maestro Francis.
Tonight is more Mozart with AL, and we'll see if we can get the final chorus anywhere near MF's suggested tempo of half note = 124 bpm. *meeps*
I started working on the lyrics for my friend RH's piece yesterday on the bus before I'd printed out the music, and I'm pretty sure I can't use any of it now that I have a copy of the music to work from, because even if it scans perfectly with the original, RH broadens the bits he likes and shortens others, so sensitivity to that is needful. This is, of course, totally fine. I had a couple of other ideas and since I have zero motivation at work today, I might see if I can make any progress on that. He clarified that he doesn't need the lyrics immediately, but there are other things I need to be writing, so I'll see what I can do.
Off to go do some things that may or may not be strictly work-related.
Smooches to All!
Mun42
PS I forgot to mention a lovely thing from yesterday. GA, who led Sunday's Evensong, sent the sweetest email thanking us for our singing. <3 I was largely pleased by how everything went, so I'm chuffed that he was, too!
PPS Please be enjoying this blog post in which a neural networks tries to name cats.