I can’t say I accomplished much today.
Well I did if playing with this web site and sitting at the computer for hours counts. But that’s about all I did. I did add a page of favorite journal and other links. A couple of the journals are recent finds, and I'm really enjoying them.
I also subscribed to some new mailing lists for paper artists and journalers, and unsubscribed from another. The one I left was too full of anger for me. Life is tough enough without that in my e-mail.
I appreciate people who act with kindness and well-intended advice. Particularly when it come to this web design business. I mean, I’ve been at this for a month, and it’s been a slow learning process but I think I’ve come a long way.
I also realize that many won’t like what I’ve chosen as my current design, but you know, it currently pleases me. It’s all experimental, and if it isn’t someone else’s cup of tea, there’s not too much I can do.
I think I need to be sure I’m pleasing myself with this first. I hope there are others who will find this a pleasant place to wander into and to hang for a bit, or to e-mail me about, but I know I can’t be worried about making strangers happy.
I did something really unusual tonight. I had dinner with the chorus director. Now we are friends, kind of. But usually if we go out Dee and Laura are with us, so it’s usually a foursome.
Dee is on vacation and Laura just started a new job as a hostess at a restaurant in the area, and she wanted Lois and I to come in for dinner. I was a bit nervous, but we seemed to have an ok time and I didn’t say anything that I’ll later regret. We talked about chorus music, learning the new stuff we’ve been given, and how overwhelmed many of us are feeling.
We’ve been given ten new arrangements to learn between the months of June and September. It’s a tough pace. Because we are an Adelines chorus, all our music has to be memorized. We don’t hold chorus books during our performances. We also have to pass each piece by singing into a tape recorder during a specified time at rehearsal, and then giving the tape to a music committee member to determine whether or not we’ve passed and can perform the song.
I can usually learn music quickly, provided I have a learning tape to sing along to, but even I am feeling a bit overwhelmed here. And these selections are all Broadway songs. Which is my all time favorite type of music……but sheesh! I’ve passed the first five songs, but still have five to go. I think I’ve got the next two ("Somewhere" from West Side Story and "Who Will Buy" from Oliver!) almost learned. Each song has a couple of funky notes that I just can’t get into my head. I continue to play them over…and over…and over….
Back to the conversations with Lois….we studiously avoided the emcee issues. I was so good to not bring them up. I think she was scared that I might. I probably should have, but I sort of felt that it was important to keep things friendly and positive. Sometimes it’s easier for me to just ignore things.
I hate confrontation.
It’s also easier if Dee isn’t around, because she’s taking this so seriously and gets me so wound up. I’d like to find a way to start enjoying being a part of the chorus again.
It’s a week to week thing with me though. I could go crazy tomorrow. Or whenever I get the next e-mail or phone call that sets me off.
I also had a choreography meeting tonight, but it was quick and painless because all we had to do was refresh some old stuff we’d done years ago. We’ve resurrected the "Cohan Medley" that we used to sing, so we also revived the old choreography. Why reinvent the wheel? It worked.
Tomorrow I’m getting together with R.J. for the afternoon. I guess he just wants to wander around a bit to get a feel for the area he’s in right now. We’ll venture further afield at a later date.
I’m sure we’ll have a few good laughs.
Michael may be back, but other than the two lines he sent on Monday, I haven’t heard another word. This is very hard for me. I know he doesn’t have any idea, or if he does he doesn’t care, but this really is a huge disappointment to me. I was hoping for so much more.
Sigh….
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