I thought it would be impossible to over-schedule myself working from home at a time that live choral singing can't happen.

HA.

Guess who's managed it?

This week, I get to...

• Start re-drafting the musical script based on the cast list that will be set in the next couple of days
• Audiorecord myself singing the sop part of Commissioned Choral Work A ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, in response to one of my Comic-Con reports about an amazing YA fantasy writer's panel, gelsey mentioned that she particularly loved one of the panelists, Maggie Stiefvater, and recommended her novel "The Scorpio Races" as a good place to start. I added it to my wish list and received it for my birthday. It took me a little bit to ( Read more... )

Well, the news has been... batshit. I know y'all have seen it and are being affected by it. I myself did little besides fret over the weekend. Well, apart from joining sharebears and solarwind with Mr. 42 for a virtual movie night to watch Knives Out, which was the most fabulous dynamite-ensemble-cast murder mystery I've seen since Gosford Park, perhaps even better ( Read more... )

That's the only explanation I can come up with ( Read more... )

The news continues to be awful ( Read more... )

Welp, I haven't heard a peep out of the BookLife Prize. They haven't updated their website with a new date for announcing the quarterfinalists, so I guess I'm waiting.


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My brother is winging his way back to the midwest as we speak, after a brief but excellent visit. I don't know if I've convinced him to move to San Diego, but I let him know I was trying. And I got him to change his home zip code on LinkedIn to mine, so at least he'll get leads for potential new gigs here, where his skills are very much in demand. ( Read more... )

This is my typical Wednesday whine about being tired and needing to get to bed at a more reasonable time with sincerely-stated "I have only myself to blame"s and "can't afford to get sick"s blah blah blah.

And now that that's out of the way, solarwind brought over Pitch Perfect last night, so I now have some sense of why all my singer friends are gaga for ( Read more... )

I'm starting to feel like myself again having been laid low by the lurgy. After being nearly adopted by a miniature dachshund named Cocoa at Fiesta Island, I serenaded Mr. 42 and winter712 with selections from my Tom Lehrer songbook, including but not limited to "Fight Fiercely, Harvard!" and "The Masochism Tango" while corn roasted and short ribs ( Read more... )

Dear Movie Theatre,

I love that you hosted an early-showing of The Dark Knight Rises to be at the same time as the east coast premiere. That was awesome. I was also really impressed with your much-touted digital projection system, even though the movie was shot on 35mm film, but whateves. What I did not appreciate was the eardrum-rupturing volume ( Read more... )