Rosh Hashanah 5778 prep

[chanaleh]

Overall I've been too crazed to journal, but today is weirdly slow* at work so I am taking a few minutes.
*(Edited to add: I suspected it was too good to be true. Of course the shit hit the fan on about 3 different projects as soon as I finished posting this, so, we'll hope I get out on time.)

Cards: mostly sent; I ordered 50, and carefully

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[sanpaku]

I'm also doing Shacharit tomorrow for the first time, after a few years of either Musaf or Mincha. Good luck to us both! And shana tovah!

[chanaleh]

*fistbump*

[sanpaku]

So I asked at Slichot last week if I was doing the Torah service too and was told no. Finished Shacharit - went pretty well, I hit all my "marks" - go to sit down and then told, no, you are doing the Torah service. And I got flustered enough to start "Bey Ana Racheitz" (Shabbat)... once I started, they didn't stop... facepalm.

Oh well. Such are the travails of a lay-led minyan. How about you?

[chanaleh]

Ha! I'm sure I would have auto-piloted in the same exact way, if it were sprung on me. Good on you anyway.

Mine went fine; a few small brain-blips where I had to scoot through the text to get to the next "hook" I could remember an actual melody for, but I doubt anyone much noticed. I should note that they do heicha kedusha (q.v. for those playing along at home) for RH Shacharit, which cuts down considerably on the amount I had to learn. But for YK they do a "full" repetition (which means, still skipping a bunch, with part of the rest in English, but at least a token amount of repetition

[gansje]

Shana tovah u'metukah! Your meal plans sound marvelous! Funny, L is leading Shacharit tomorrow too!