We're Digby-bound tomorrow, if it doesn't snow too badly, so I'm enjoying my last night with the little Advent candles I have in my bedroom. I should really get some sleep because there are a million things to do in the morning before we leave, but this last week before Christmas always feels so special and goes by so quickly that I don't want to ( Read more... )

It now officially feels like Christmas: Karen's home, the gingerbread houses are assembled, and I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm NOT going to have all of my knitting done for Christmas morning. I say coming to terms with because I never fully resign myself to not finishing until the last minute on Christmas Eve. Ah well. I could have it ( Read more... )

I was kind of hoping that I might get to bed a little earlier over the holidays, but I suppose that doesn't happen when you decide to make eight hats a week before Christmas... just finished Hat #3 at 1:30am.

I think I already posted the other version of In the Bleak Midwinter, but this one is just as lovely.

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Ah.... vacation. I read today (not a textbook!), knit, went out to lunch, practiced a bit for Christmas Eve, baked panforte, and curled up with Amber to watch The Polar Express (I know, it's not as good as the book, but it gives me warm fuzzies). It was perfect ( Read more... )

How many times on how many different networking sites can I post this and with how many exclamation marks?

I'M FINISHED FIRST TERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seven more like that and I'll have my degree. First degree. Meh, it wasn't too bad. It just feels good when it stops for a few weeks.

Here's more Britten, A hymn to the Virgin, which I could tell ( Read more... )

Sooooooooooo close... this time tomorrow I will be done first term. Satisfying and scary all at the same time.

You know what else is scary? Watching all sorts of videos of last year's Carols from King's and being able to recognize some of the choral scholars as boy choristers from nine or ten years ago. What's really funny is one of the ( Read more... )

I think all musicians go through various favorite-composer phases. I certainly do. The Composer of the Term for me was Britten - I wrote my Music History term paper on him, read large chunks of a biography, and listened to Rejoice in the Lamb obsessively for a few weeks. But since it's Christmas I'm coming back to the first Britten I ever knew, the ( Read more... )

I vaguely remember something about posting the Sussex Carol on Karen's Birthday last year, because, although she probably didn't see it, I knew she liked the carol anyway. So here we are on her birthday again (for one more minute, that is), and since it generally suits my festive we-have-a-tree-and-it's-snowing-again (!!!) mood, I thought I'd post ( Read more... )

I've been studying Gothic art all day so... check out that Late Gothic architecture! You can tell by the arches and the windows and the particular type of vaulted ceiling. Four days till freedom!

I seem to be all about carols I haven't heard before this year (maybe I did the regulars to death over the last few years), so here's another one: Hodie ( Read more... )

One exam down! Four to go. Music History was almost ridiculously easy this morning (hoping that'll be trend-setting), and the weekend ahead seems to be mostly free to study for Art History and English, so I'm feeling good about life in general at the moment. It also helps that I spent the evening with Amber and Liz watching It's a Wonderful Life, ( Read more... )