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I am absurdly tired for 9pm, but it has been a long couple of days. Rosh Hashana is draining when 1. the service lasts from 9am to 1pm and is mostly standing and 2. the order and content of the rep list is constantly changing (including during the service). It has been fun to do gigs with Laura, though ( Read more... ) -
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First chamber choir concert (inside the city limits) of the season tonight. Dan is bringing an unexpected number of people, both of whom are subbing for me in upcoming Wednesday night church rehearsals, since high holidays are soon and full of Wednesday rehearsals. Man, I will be glad when that is done with ( Read more... ) -
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For the last couple weeks, there have been very determined, busy, and undeniably loud sounds clunking and skittering in the ceiling directly over my bed. These sounds occur intermittently in long sessions at various times, but those times are inevitably between 3 and 6am. Sometimes it sounds like someone is having a very intimate but unskilled ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a weird couple weeks back. Lots of chamber choir, lots of dayjob, lots of church (especially on Sundays :P ) and now lots of High Holidays, too. My one-on-one interview for chamber choir did not go well, so now I'm tiptoeing around Bob in the first place while trying to navigate the constant conflicts between Beth Yeshurun rehearsals and ( Read more... ) -
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Iceland is a strange and cold place ( Read more... ) -
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So, the last events of England to record are the visits to fantastic castles. After A&C and Noel Fielding (but before the V&A and Julius Caesar), on the day between the two London showstravaganzas, mama and I drove around in the southeast and saw Leeds Castle, which is huge and majestical and contains absolute miles of fascinating history, being ( Read more... ) -
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It was one thing to go to the V&A, which I didn't realize was free, in the company of another history enthusiast and fellow fan. She shepherded me, or we shepherded each other, around the ancient, medieval, and renaissance exhibits, around the jewelry collection, and through the silver and glass corridors to the secret members' tea room, which was ( Read more... ) -
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So last night I got back around midnight from a day in London seeing shows ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday was a day of magic.
You might think it's because we took Talitha southward awhile and looked at three 700-year-old castles including one by a lake with swans, and I knitted in the car and finished off the purple yarn she gave me when I asked for something to make. And that is part of it, because there really is nothing like climbing around ( Read more... ) -
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Stirling Castle is delightful.