Mitraillette #713

Because she can.

• Grading parties at Moe Joe's with Jay (and Sherri when she's not under the weather) are making me almost as productive as I used to be in A*burn!
• Laura the cat/housesitter came over today for her Frontline tutorial with Sam & Lucy - it went pretty well altho both of them looked at me like, "No fair changing the rules of the game. Everyone knows you're supposed to do that at night so that we know when to hide."
• Still unseasonably cool in the Upst*te - might have a rather seamless climate re-acclimation (kee) this year when I get to France.
• Jay has been showing me his graphic communications students' final projects - how wonderful it must be to have students really keen on what you're teaching and the majority eager to do a great job, and THAT for more than just their GPA. Hmmm.
• I really want to sing the Mendelssohn "Ich wollt meine lieb" aka "I would that my love" as a duet with Susan Ch*ndler after I get back, either as a potential piece for UU (Elaine suggested for Valentine's Day service) or just for fun. Sent her a YouTube sample the other day, don't yet know if it's piqued her interest. I think we would sound great.
• My dream of being skinny before Paris did not come to fruition. Spring break totally messed up my workout momentum (and my schoolwork momentum for a long while too actually). Crap.
• Not that it matters; I'll be so broke this time that I won't have money for any fun French clothes anyway (the biggest reason for being skinny there). 
• Way to look at the bright side, Susan!
• Oh, I'm all over silver linings, y'all.
• Already missing the kits; must stop thinking about that. What's that quote about regret being the most wasted emotion? Dread should probably be #2.
• Sammers has decided he likes those Alessi thin breadsticks as much as I do. He is a much bigger pest when I'm eating those than with anything else. Ice cream is a distant second, and beyond that he really doesn't pay attention. Get those breadsticks tho and you'll have a certain tawny cat climbing all over you.
• Do you feel caught up on Susanfixes?
• I'll keep trying. There's REAL hope that the blogging is on the upswing again; I've been writing letters and journaling the last few weeks almost as much as before the great Clemson Funk set in. As I told my cousin Beth in an email this eve, the Susan-in-France postcard machine might even be back in business (systematically sent regular pc's to all and sundry every single overseas trip prior to 2009 - rather spoiled everyone actually). 
• On verra.

Bai.

Part 1. Modesty Be Damned; Part 2. Susan the Perfectionist, some will say; the Most Qualified Critic, I say :)

I posted this on FB also but here I'll go ahead and say that I'm quite proud of my still being able to hit a high G this many years after high school and with so many intermittent long periods of No Real Singing.

Couple of rough spots but it's an incredibly difficult piece - overall we sound pretty good and I'm very proud of all my notes except that last high D :( . It makes no sense to me that it would sound so awful when my high E sounds fantastic :) and high G sounds Quite Respectable if a little reedy. Anyway, mine's the voice on top as you listen - hopefully it is blending most of the time and can only really be heard individually on my long high holds, where it is not supposed to blend as much.



The biggest difference between singing in HS and college and now is that I'm HUGELY nervous now and never was before. The nervousness tightens my throat which is why this piece went crappy on my end, I felt. I just never got opened up all the way to get on top of the notes that would have been the most fun :(  Still I love the piece and I had mentioned it to a bunch of you. So here.



Sherri and I want to do it again sometime - maybe by then my throat butterflies will have dissipated. I'll post if it turns out better :)

No, I won't just post videos forever now...

...I promise.

But here's one more anyway - really this one is for Facebook since Kathryn W. doesn't read my blog (unless unbeknownst to me that is). I decided to post it here tho anyway since it's a nice bookend to last night's.

Happy almost Friday, y'all.

Für Eric, and the rest of you, too

Here's the coffee song - please JFF or someone alert Eric that it's posted for him in case he's not been online for a while.

I think the rest of you will get a slight kick out of it, too, in the absence of my being up for doing all my Major Online Socialness Catchup, at least. If it's not kick-worthy then just consider it a musical thank you for all your FB messages and emails and HOV comments during my crazy last several weeks of funk and stress. I sincerely appreciate it and promise I'm almost back. So yay.

One more preface-y note: does anyone know why b&w vid makes me look like I have no upper lip? Hmmm.



Geez just sing woudja? The actual song is at approx. 1:15 if you want to scroll up and skip the yacking.

I admit I did do some online scribing this evening, if you can call it that. It was on a certain teaching blog, so as some of you can imagine it was more like vomiting than anything either creative or entertaining. Those of you who do not know about that blog, I can't think of any of you really who shouldn't be privy to it so if you're interested email me and I'll give you the link. I don't post it anywhere on here or on FB, whether to preserve secrecy or to protect you all from an accidental vitriol OD (i.e., those visiting the teaching blog should probably have a wee idea what they're about to jump into.) There is the hope of course that with another couple of years here that blog will turn more humorous again like it did in Aub*rn, rather than 100% bile and spleen... yada yada yada...

And so it goes.

reminiscing

Fun that HOV has been in existence for nearly 4 (Count 'em!) years. To celebrate tonight I went to see what was happening in the farthest-away September postings (06). Pretty fun memories. Check it out. Thanks again Eric - I really need to find a choir here or get back to piano finally or voice... promised myself piano would be first... now just have to find time. Tee hee.