quick takes
Oct. 18th, 2002 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioVery quick. But I have a few minutes before Shabbat due to making unexpectedly-good time home.
At choir on Monday we had two new people. I hope they both stay; they are both nice people, and near as I can tell they are both good. One came out for dinner with us afterward, which is a good sign. The new alto was picking things up very quickly; I infer sight-reading skill.
Tuesday Dani and I went to the first meeting of a group of SCA dancers who are going to get together a couple times a month and work on harder stuff. I stopped going to dance practice years ago, in part because we never did harder stuff, so this is appealing. We spent about two hours working on one dance (Gracca Amorosa, 16th-century Italian) and had it in decent shape by the end. (Part of this time went to learning 16th-century Italian steps, which were unfamiliar to many of us.) We need to work on it more, but after a little more practice (and some memorization work) I could dance this at an event. Neat. We had seven people, which was about right (I think).
I don't know if I'm going to go to all of the meetings -- I don't want to constrain my schedule too much. However, if I skip all the ones that are going to focus on English country dances (which are pretty uninteresting to me), that will probably be about right.
Enterprise Wednesday: what was that tripe? The actors should sue for being forced to associate their names with such drivel. Porthos (the dog) was the only redeeming feature. I want my 53 minutes back. (West Wing was kind of "eh", which for that show is disappointing. At least one of the Twilight Zone episodes was very good.)
Last night I went to part of the choir practice for Ray and Jenn's church group, because the SCA choir is joining them on songs for R&J's wedding. (Aleluia Psallat, Deo Gracias (not Deo Gracias Anglia!), and Exultate Deo.) Their choir has about 20 people, I think, so with our dozen this should make for an impressive sound.
And now it's time to turn down the oven and light candles.
At choir on Monday we had two new people. I hope they both stay; they are both nice people, and near as I can tell they are both good. One came out for dinner with us afterward, which is a good sign. The new alto was picking things up very quickly; I infer sight-reading skill.
Tuesday Dani and I went to the first meeting of a group of SCA dancers who are going to get together a couple times a month and work on harder stuff. I stopped going to dance practice years ago, in part because we never did harder stuff, so this is appealing. We spent about two hours working on one dance (Gracca Amorosa, 16th-century Italian) and had it in decent shape by the end. (Part of this time went to learning 16th-century Italian steps, which were unfamiliar to many of us.) We need to work on it more, but after a little more practice (and some memorization work) I could dance this at an event. Neat. We had seven people, which was about right (I think).
I don't know if I'm going to go to all of the meetings -- I don't want to constrain my schedule too much. However, if I skip all the ones that are going to focus on English country dances (which are pretty uninteresting to me), that will probably be about right.
Enterprise Wednesday: what was that tripe? The actors should sue for being forced to associate their names with such drivel. Porthos (the dog) was the only redeeming feature. I want my 53 minutes back. (West Wing was kind of "eh", which for that show is disappointing. At least one of the Twilight Zone episodes was very good.)
Last night I went to part of the choir practice for Ray and Jenn's church group, because the SCA choir is joining them on songs for R&J's wedding. (Aleluia Psallat, Deo Gracias (not Deo Gracias Anglia!), and Exultate Deo.) Their choir has about 20 people, I think, so with our dozen this should make for an impressive sound.
And now it's time to turn down the oven and light candles.
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Date: 2002-10-19 12:29 pm (UTC)As for Enterprise: I dunno. It was a shallow and silly episode, but I thought it had its moments. "Do we have a chainsaw on board?" definitely qualifies as one of the least-expected Star Trek lines of all time.
-- Justin
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