weekend

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Coronation was Saturday, and local, so we went. It meant missing Shabbat services, which I didn't want to do, but I'm told the service went well. (This was only week three of the new format, and I'm sort of in charge of shepherding that.) The Coronation ceremony was a little unusual: the princess (who would have been queen) abdicated, so we just have a king this reign. He's getting a lot of support, though, and he did a good job on Saturday, so I think it'll be fine. In what turned out to be unrelated news, apparently the Board of Directors objected to our laws covering what happens if both heirs abdicate, or if either is found to be inelligible, so we got our laws rewritten on us. Whee. It would have been really unfortunate if the succession had been determined by the board overturning our laws, so I'm really glad it didn't happen that way.

The choir performed in the afternoon. I think it went well, and I'm pleased with how Hashkiveinu came out. (It was only our second performance of it, and I was alone on my part this time. Fortunately, I know it pretty well.) tangerinpenguin's new version of the Agincourt Carol, more suited to our French king, went over well.

I was a bit under the weather in the afternoon -- tired (don't know why), and it was very bright and sunny outside (which is hard for me). I got to spend some time chatting with people, but a lot of people either weren't there or weren't in plain sight. Oh well. Dinner was good, and there was enough for the vegetarians (yay!), but they were way too optimistic in the announced schedule. 8:30 was decision time: if we stayed any later I wouldn't make it to S'lichot, but there was one more course coming and it sounded yummy (and we were having good conversations at the table). Dani said he was fine either way, so I decided that we should bail.

The schedule for the evening at my synagogue was a program of some sort (mainly discussion), then a bit of a social (cookies and lemonade), and then the S'lichot service. I got there just as the social part of this was starting, so I ended up with about 15 minutes to spare. (In an ideal world I wouldn't have missed any of it, but I knew that wouldn't happen. My goal was to not miss the service.)

Traditionally S'lichot begins at midnight, but that isn't a popular idea at my synagogue. So we started around 10 and finished up around 11 or so. I'm reminded of some very pretty music that I haven't heard since Yom Kippur last year. (Most of the formal music that shows up for the high-holy-day services is too "artistic" and operatic for me, but last night's mostly wasn't like that.)

Today I learned of one glitch in the HHD part assignments, which I'll try to fix tomorrow. We have a rehearsal (more like blocking, so people know who goes where when) on Wednesday. I'm participating in the Yom Kippur morning service (I have the haftarah blessings).

Today was mostly errands and household foo. We watched two more episodes of West Wing tonight, and got a really good laugh during mostly-serious episodes. I'm glad the funny bit came right before the opening credits. :-)

Rosh Hashana is soon. I bought some extra food on spec today (chicken doesn't go bad, after all :-) ), because I ordered guests for dinner Friday and don't know yet if I'm getting them. I should know by Wedenesday. (Well, "ordered" might not be the right word. I let the person who's organizing such things know that I would welcome guests for that meal, and she'll tell me soon if I'm getting any. I have different guests for Saturday lunch already.)

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