I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

10 goals from 2012 ( cf. original list: LJ | DW )
( A mixed bag, but overall, progress was made. )

10+ additional achievements of 2012:
( It was actually a good and stabilizing year for me, despite the ongoing crises in the world at large. )

11. ... And, oh yeah, turned 40 and had an awesome celebration to mark it.

10 goals for 2013:
( Some that build on last year's, and some new ones. )

Wishing all of us a year of physical health, emotional growth, and spiritual abundance.

Couple of notes on things immediately upcoming:

• My a cappella group, Honorable Menschen, is performing in a benefit concert at Temple Bnai Brith in Somerville this Saturday night, along with Tufts' Shir Appeal.
  
• Also, we went into the studio at WERS tonight to record a "live" feature for this week's Chagigah, the Jewish/Israeli music show on Sunday mornings. The show is 8-11am, but our feature should air sometime around 10am (tune in by 9:45ish to make sure). You can even listen online!
  
• I already bought a ticket to go see Bad Habit Productions' Book of Days (by the recently departed Lanford Wilson) on Thursday 4/7. You should come too! It's general admission at the YMCA Theatre in Central Square, 8pm.
  
• Leapfrog Press (founded, although no longer owned, by Marge Piercy & Ira Wood) is running a fiction contest (novella- or novel-length: 22k word minimum, no maximum) with a deadline of May 1. I am not going to get it together to enter this year, but some of you might.

And with that...
( April 2011 calendaring )

WED 12/1
Chanukah night 1
(6pm Lights at The Chestnut Hill Mall: Chabad of Chestnut Hill)
7-8:30pm book inquiry meeting, Lincoln Public Library
TJ's: buy latkes & fixings!

( the rest of December )

*Side note: Did you know that besides being a Latin-derived bibliographic term, passim is the Hebrew adjective used for Joseph's biblical coat of many colors, ketonet passim? 'Strewth!

This just in!

Dear Honorable Menschen,

What a way to start off the year!

In case you hadn’t tuned in to The KolCast [N.B.: fast forward to 11:54 to hear the Menschen clip] to find out, your group is officially among the Best of Jewish A Cappella! "Cuando El Rey Nimrod" has been selected by our team of judges to appear on BOJAC 2, being released nationwide this November. We will be in touch in the next week with information about purchasing your copies.

Mazal tov and thank you for participating – we hope you’re as excited and proud of your group as we are!

Shana tova,
The BOJAC team

In other performing news, I am off shortly to my choir gig at Shirat Hayam in Swampscott. L'shanah tovah to you all. ETA: I forgot to mention (well, really just forgot until last night) that they are "shulcasting": live-streaming video of the entire set of services ON THE INTERNETS. I find this religiously problematic, as will many of my readers, but it's still kind of cool.

Additionally, it transpires that, this fall, rather than West Side Story again, MTG will be doing Guys & Dolls.
Hmmmm.

As many of you know, I am currently actively rehearsing for two shows, with a third in the queue immediately after. Plus, the big school event that I am co-running is just a week away, which means it will All Be Over Soon (and I can get back to the longer- as well as shorter-term stuff that's been getting back-burnered, as one does). So on the whole, things have been pretty good around here of late.

( Gondoliers )

( things that are lost, or at least apparently mislaid beyond retrieving )

( Menschen concert in RI tomorrow; )

if anyone should find themselves in the area, it's 1-2pm at the Village Inn, 1 Beach Street in Narragansett, RI.

Plus, signups are now live for AUDITIONS for ALL VOICE PARTS this spring! Auditions are being held Sunday evening, March 14 by appointment only. More info at the website, or feel free to ask me anything (I've been in the group for almost 7 years now myself).

And tonight as well as tomorrow is Purim and we're putting on a show in the barn CLUB DANCE AT THE SHUL after megillah reading tonight: tremontstshul, ~9:45pm to 1am. Costumes recommended; so I have to go figure out whether I'm wearing the Dress What Is Too Sexy For Shul (see icon); if not, what else, and if so, with what else, and -- oh yeah, eat some dinner, especially as the time for napping has now been used up with writing for you all.

Chag sameach!