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Jan. 15th, 2005 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildI was behind on my friends list before, but now it's going to be goddamn mayhem as everyones posts the stuff they couldn't for the last day or so.
I can't remember the last time I posted. Hmmmm....I had so much to say, too!!
I had my first official rehearsal for Aurora. I got there late and had to hurry to find my section, so I ended up sitting between two people who were alto one mezzoes instead of alto one altoes. So anything we sang in three-part was lost on me. In any case, I think it was the first time I ever sung in harmony. It was far too awesome to realize I couldn't hear my own voice. The lady to my right was so helpful when I was lost or confused. At one point she grabbed my sheet music and started marking it up because I didn't know what part I was singing. *lol* I'm planning on photocopying all of it so I can write all over it. That's going to be pricey. There's a lot of music, and we don't even have all of it yet. We're going to sing the Bobby McFerrin version of Psalm 23, and a Native American song that I have on the Earth Chants CD of their performance a few years ago (in which my section will be doing "dudum dum" the whole time), and a very silly song about wind chimes ("the sound of angels irish step dancing"). We're doing a song Joan wrote based on quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt that I like, even though it's freaking complicated.
At one point the alto one part changed and I got confused as to where our note was. I was getting frustrated, but when Joan stopped us, someone in my section raised their hand and said, "The alto ones can't find the E!" so I didn't feel bad at all.
I don't know how anybody could do this without being able to read music and know at least a little music theory. I mean, we'll get our practice CDs in a few weeks, but oy!!
But, singing! So freaking awesome!! *happy dance* I know people are getting sick of hearing about it, but ...as I told my friend Katrina, I don't think a lot of people realize that this is a huge shift in part of my self-image. So, there...or something.
What else have I done? Hm. I need a roomate that can move into an apartment sometime near/after the beginning of March. I haven't talked to Deanna in at least a month, so I have no idea wtf is going on with her. And no one seems to understand my urge to live in westside Portland. "OMG, it's so expensive!!" Um, not really. And I am willing to pay a bit more to be in Portland and have the max and/or streetcar and/or bus mall within freaking walking distance, along with the almost all my errands being a walk or short bus trip away. I like the idea of being relatively centrally located.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infernarl is moving into Beaverton, which is a place I'm thoroughly sick of. Interestingly enough, the complex he's moving into will be almost literally across TV Hiway from where I work. Bwah ha ha ha ha...
I think I'm getting used to the whole full-time job thing relatively well. Office politics and all.
Fred Meyer raised their CD prices. I returned a pair of pants I got for Christmas that didn't fit, and they'd gone on clearance and I didn't have a receipt so I only got fifteen dollars. None of the clothes I could get for fifteen bucks appealed to me so I ran to the electronics department...but every fucking CD I wanted was a dollar or two more than that. Even the ones on sale!! I have a burned copy of Modest Mouse, but I was going to get Franz Ferdinand too. Look at me, I'm such a musical sheep. Oh well. I ended up buying yarn instead. Just what I need. More goddamn yarn. I've started a scarf made out of the skein of black wool/angora yarn left over fromalicia_stardust's kitty hat and blue/green/yellow fun fur yarn. It's so freaking awesome. An older lady on the max today loved it. It's going to be very soft and warm, and the black yarn really shows off the fun fur.
Anyway. Maybe I'll say more later. *lol* In fact, it's almost definite. For now,infernarl are going to brave the elements to walk to plaid pantry....oy!!
I can't remember the last time I posted. Hmmmm....I had so much to say, too!!
I had my first official rehearsal for Aurora. I got there late and had to hurry to find my section, so I ended up sitting between two people who were alto one mezzoes instead of alto one altoes. So anything we sang in three-part was lost on me. In any case, I think it was the first time I ever sung in harmony. It was far too awesome to realize I couldn't hear my own voice. The lady to my right was so helpful when I was lost or confused. At one point she grabbed my sheet music and started marking it up because I didn't know what part I was singing. *lol* I'm planning on photocopying all of it so I can write all over it. That's going to be pricey. There's a lot of music, and we don't even have all of it yet. We're going to sing the Bobby McFerrin version of Psalm 23, and a Native American song that I have on the Earth Chants CD of their performance a few years ago (in which my section will be doing "dudum dum" the whole time), and a very silly song about wind chimes ("the sound of angels irish step dancing"). We're doing a song Joan wrote based on quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt that I like, even though it's freaking complicated.
At one point the alto one part changed and I got confused as to where our note was. I was getting frustrated, but when Joan stopped us, someone in my section raised their hand and said, "The alto ones can't find the E!" so I didn't feel bad at all.
I don't know how anybody could do this without being able to read music and know at least a little music theory. I mean, we'll get our practice CDs in a few weeks, but oy!!
But, singing! So freaking awesome!! *happy dance* I know people are getting sick of hearing about it, but ...as I told my friend Katrina, I don't think a lot of people realize that this is a huge shift in part of my self-image. So, there...or something.
What else have I done? Hm. I need a roomate that can move into an apartment sometime near/after the beginning of March. I haven't talked to Deanna in at least a month, so I have no idea wtf is going on with her. And no one seems to understand my urge to live in westside Portland. "OMG, it's so expensive!!" Um, not really. And I am willing to pay a bit more to be in Portland and have the max and/or streetcar and/or bus mall within freaking walking distance, along with the almost all my errands being a walk or short bus trip away. I like the idea of being relatively centrally located.
infernarl is moving into Beaverton, which is a place I'm thoroughly sick of. Interestingly enough, the complex he's moving into will be almost literally across TV Hiway from where I work. Bwah ha ha ha ha...I think I'm getting used to the whole full-time job thing relatively well. Office politics and all.
Fred Meyer raised their CD prices. I returned a pair of pants I got for Christmas that didn't fit, and they'd gone on clearance and I didn't have a receipt so I only got fifteen dollars. None of the clothes I could get for fifteen bucks appealed to me so I ran to the electronics department...but every fucking CD I wanted was a dollar or two more than that. Even the ones on sale!! I have a burned copy of Modest Mouse, but I was going to get Franz Ferdinand too. Look at me, I'm such a musical sheep. Oh well. I ended up buying yarn instead. Just what I need. More goddamn yarn. I've started a scarf made out of the skein of black wool/angora yarn left over from
alicia_stardust's kitty hat and blue/green/yellow fun fur yarn. It's so freaking awesome. An older lady on the max today loved it. It's going to be very soft and warm, and the black yarn really shows off the fun fur. Anyway. Maybe I'll say more later. *lol* In fact, it's almost definite. For now,
infernarl are going to brave the elements to walk to plaid pantry....oy!!
