odds and ends

[chanaleh]

I keep forgetting to mention: Someone left a scarf at my house on Erev Christmas (fleece, printed: green and pink and tan). If it's yours, let me know.

Also, does anyone want any 2005 calendars -- either the wall kind or the notebook/planner kind? We get them from practically every vendor we deal with, and it's a shame for them to go to waste.

Honorable Menschen is having auditions! Specifically, we're trying to recruit one or more each of tenor and bass/baritone. (Also an alto, but I really want gilana to join so I'm not pushing hard for additional candidates. ;-) Auditions will be next Sunday and/or Monday evenings, 1/16-1/17 (between 7 and 9pm). If you're interested, or if you have friends who might be interested, please please contact me, and I (as Membership Chair) will send you an audition notice and book you for a timeslot. Go on... be a Mensch!

Glancing over my calendar, I had the sudden urge to go back and manually type up the entries from all my old journals from 7th through 12th grade, just so I could have backdated entries going back to 1984. :-P I'll never do it, but now the thought is in my head. Maybe, if I can bear to look at the things, someday I will dig out my old notebooks and pick out a few entries that actually have *content* (as opposed to endless nattering about boys, although even that might show some enlightening patterns in retrospect), and put them in.

Okay, back to office clean-out day.

Comments

[gilana]

(Also an alto, but I really want gilana to join so I'm not pushing hard for additional candidates. ;-)

Awwww.... you're the best. You know I'll do my best!

wish i was u p there

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

as i am a tenor/bari.

Re: wish i was u p there

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

You sing, too? Man... :-}

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Maybe, if I can bear to look at the things, someday I will dig out my old notebooks and pick out a few entries

That would be interesting, along the lines of the early poems on your website. But would LJ/Six Apart support backdating entries to pre-WWW days? Depends on the code they used, I guess.

Re: wish i was u p there

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

you didn't know?

i've even done cantorial for high holidays.

i am job hunting.:) and have decided that i am not restricting myself to the metro dc area.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I have determined experimentally that, yes, it would work fine. :-)

Re: wish i was u p there

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I knew you danced. Singing, I forgot.

Are you going to make it up here for Arisia? :-) Pity our concert is this Sunday.

Re: wish i was u p there

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

nope. am Assistant Sound Sesign/Sound Op. for "The Death of Myerhold" at The Studio Theatre Secondstage.

[mangosteen]

Yes. Interested. bass/bari. Monday.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

*jumps up and down*

I'll send you mail!

*jumps up and down some more*

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oooh oooh, I'll gladly take one of those wall calendars off your hands!

[cos]

*laugh!* cute.

I'd love to see some of your old entries nattering about boys!

And do you have any such journals from college?

[awfief.livejournal.com]

If they have images on them, I can take them. I fold them into envelopes and send pretty stuff in them.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I do also have some 2004 wall calendars that might qualify. I know chaiya does this too. I'll hold onto them for the moment and see when there's a good time to get them to ya.

It works, to a point

[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

I tried to put in an entry for my earliest memory (the moon landing), but 1969 is apparently out of range. Not surprising, since Unix defines the beginning of time to be 1/1/1970. So, it works, to a point. It'll work for you, obviously. :-) Some of us are older than dirt.

Re: wish i was u p there

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I got that part, didn't know the date range.

[dzmonster.livejournal.com]

Calendars with large elementary school appopriate pictures are great. I use them to give my students stuff to look at when they ask me how to draw a ... whatever it is they want to draw.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have some, although fewer. If you're really good, maybe I'll show some of them to you. :-)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I'd be delighted to have a 2005 wall calendar. My MIL has given us one the past few years, but didn't this year.

There should be a special word for the feeling that reading through old journals evokes. A mix of nostalgia, shame, familiarity and surprise that you were ever the person who could write that. Last year around this time I was cleaning out the boxes of old papers and had a read through my extremely detailed journal (v. bored at work that year) from 1991-1993 and was shocked by how much like Bridget Jones I sounded.

[kalessin.livejournal.com]

A nice calendar for my office would be cool. Are you keeping them at work, or bringing a stack home?

I dunno if I could do baritone for Menschen; I might need *lots* of help.... On the other hand, my singing has been improving after a few years going to TBS... :-)

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

a wall calendar would be muy useful!

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

I could use a new fun wall calender for the kitchen. My "play with your food" one expired at the end of 2004 and my Antonio Gaudi one expires in a few months.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

chaiya has said she doesn't need them this year, if i recall correctly. Although feel free to ask her.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

If you have a small wall calendar, Ann can use one for her office cubical.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

I lost a black scarf in illinois in January of 1991. Is it that one?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yes! -- Oh wait. No.

Neither is it the wonderfully large charcoal-gray fleece scarf that I lost in O'Hare Airport several Decembers ago. I wish it were, though.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Goddamn Chicago, eating scarves.

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

I think the scarf is mine, thanks. I'd give you your grey one in exchange for it, but, sadly, I don't have that one.