Back in June (suspected yesterday of being another lifetime) I had saidI want to take another music class in the fall, both in the hope that it will be great and in the practicality of wanting another four-month bus pass, but I'm not seeing anything in the fall course catalog that both even mildly jumps out at me and wouldn't require seriously ( Read more... )

I can tell my music classes have been over for weeks, because when I used my iPod a few days ago (for a DVD-making-related experiment) it was the first time I'd turned it on all month. No more learning and practicing songs as a matter of course, though obviously I am perfectly capable of doing that on my own at any time, classes or no classes. I ( Read more... )

( my current rule-of-thumb is that if an entry gets longer than about four paragraphs I put at least some of it behind a cut tag )

This morning broccolipwns and I rose before the sun and walked through the mist over to the lighthouse to watch the Seabright Morris and Sword and White Rats Morris dance teams. Unlike last year, this time they did not do the keyboard-smashing "dance of the parameter settings" (though as I saw a stack of keyboards next to a stack of sticks, I'm sure they left ( Read more... )

is what someone wrote on a critique form for me in voice class Monday. I wonder if it was the same person who wrote (if I remember this right) "you opened your mouth and sang like a bird" on a friend's form last semester ( Read more... )

Yesterday too many nights of not enough sleep caught up with me, and I spent pretty much all day lying in bed feeling seriously wretched, occasionally staggering outside to apply more gold fabric paint to broccolipwns's costume. I still feel pretty hung over from it today, too, which is unfortunately pretty typical for this sort of thing. At least it's been ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday was the final for my voice class, and tonight was the concert for my choir. I haven't had much time to write about either of these things, but will make a brief mention of the cookies I made for each event ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that Sam and I are both taking some community college classes, and that mine are music ones -- a voice class and a second round of the "Westside Community Folk and Gospel Choir". One part of the voice class is doing anonymous critiques of each other, using little forms where you can circle ratings or scrawl comments as you ( Read more... )

and just about a year since my square dancing group bit the dust, alas. My Monday-night choir and Tuesday-night voice class will both be ending at the beginning of June, so I'm going through yet another bout of wondering whether I should now take a turn at something a little more physical for a while -- dance or martial arts or what have you ( Read more... )

Never enough hours in a day, for LiveJournal or for anything else! I'm always meaning to mention this or that and then never getting around to it. Here are a few things, though ( Read more... )