blah blah saturday blah blah...
Today is my favorite day of the whole semester...the first Saturday in December, which has been, for the past four years, been Choral Union hell rehearsal and Choraliers hell day. I'm sure my Choral Union Choraliers members must hate me for all of the additional singing I made them do tonight. Oh well. Sucks to be them! :)
But overall, it wasn't too bad. Except for the disorganization. Short of finding something heavy to whack the slacker members over the head with, I'm not sure if there's much more I can do to make people show up. Curses to them! *scowls*
So after a fun fun rehearsal of Choral Union and orchestra (and having a tremendous urge to tell my clueless orchestra director that she's shit out of luck for having me as principal oboe next semester...but I think I'm going to wait. I'm actually signed up for the class, so I think I'm going to tell them I'm dropping it for credit, and then actually just not showing up to no penalty because hey, if I'm not taking a course for credit....ah, I'm so clever. I can't just flat out say that I want to drop the class, because that won't happen. They won't let me. I know, it seems ridiculous, but I just KNOW they won't let me drop orchestra. So I have to go about sneakier means. Shh, don't tell). I had to wait for Joe and other Choraliers members, so I stuck around while they practiced the not-Magnificat pieces. Yeah, I brought along a book, but my butt totally fell asleep after about 10 minutes. That's why I hate going to church! :) That and Joe was making faces at me during 'Deck the Halls' so I of course am sitting there cracking up, and people were asking me if it was really that bad afterward....no, Joe just made me laugh.
So after running around like chickens with our heads cut off, we finally managed to successfully get everyone into the cars and ready to head to the Heidel House. Not after having someone show up LATE and then have to get their music, got stuck behind a deliberately slow driver on 23 west to Green Lake, then had to wait for Sally because she didn't pass deliberately slow driver like Joe did, then me half-stripping in the Heidel House parking lot, getting to the Heidel House like a bunch of clowns, me playing the piano in terrible lighting (what note is that? and that? and that? etc), yikes. It was not our greatest performance, but eh, meh, it happens. We've got next week to redeem ourselves. In the grand Christmas Choraliers tradition, I burned both my thumb AND my tongue on the hot chocolate. I don't think the holiday season would be complete without me burning at least one of the above on the post-singing hot chocolate.
In a new tradition of me and Joe, we headed over to Roadwhore with Kali and Christina, had a lovely dinner of grease, only to be interupted at like, 5 minute to 7 by an extremely out of breath Sally who had run over from the Commons to tell us that they were expecting us at 6:00, NOT 7:30 (somehow that story got mixed up, whoops). So we got a doggy bag for Joe, and hauled ass over to the Commons to sing at the Crachit Cocktail party. One of our better performances, though we had to stifle our groans because of the extreme out-of-tune-ness on the piano in the commons (it was covered in dust too, ew).
Needless to say, it was an amusing day.
Anyway, I'm going to go watch Titanic now, to further prove that I would rather be doing ANYTHING besides homework on a Saturday night. Even though I have a 10-12 page research paper due at 1:00 on Monday. For which I have no topic. Oh well. If I can pull a B on this paper, I'll be happy. :) I think that may redeem me for all those classes I've skipped. Whoops. Can't wait till 1:00 on Mooooooooooooonday!!! (or sooner, depending on when I turn said paper in)!!!
- posted by L. @ 9:52 PM