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better and better
+ I apparently have magic skills that make it possible for me to ask procedural questions of a music director who is extremely on-edge and in fact had snapped at a colleague for asking a similar question less than a minute earlier, and have those questions answered calmly and helpfully (and even be thanked for having asked them).
+ My class today has been cancelled. (The professor has laryngitis, which is too bad, but she isn't feeling ill, so I'm not even feeling guilty for being all yay about this.)
- My Holy Week musical obligations include Good Friday, which service begins at 7:30, and probably precludes attending seder at Gentleman Caller's mother's house.
- One of the other two soprano section leaders over in Catholic-land has been going through quite a lot of stress, the details of which I don't know or care to know, but a week or so ago the choir director hired a substitute for her for the duration of Holy Week.
+ Stressed-Out Soprano was there on Palm Sunday and will be there Good Friday and Easter, along with Emergency Substitute and Second Soprano, and SOS encouraged me to talk to the choir director about leaving at some point during the service when all the tricky need-the-pros music is done and only hymns and things remain, because she really feels like a family thing should trump.
+ So I did, and after some discussion, music director and choir director offered me three options: (1) slip out after the last tricky need-the-pros number; (2) move that number earlier so I could slip out even sooner; or (3) have a lovely time at seder but don't get paid. !!! My feeling is, moving the number earlier would still probably not move it early enough to get me out of there before they spend aaages reading the Passion (they read Mark's version, I think, on Palm Sunday, and it took forever, and I understand Matthew's version on Friday will take even longer), so if they're sure they can manage with three sopranos (which is normally the maximum number of paid sopranos, after all), then I'd much rather go to the whole of seder than get paid. (Plus between last Saturday and next Sunday inclusive I'll have sung ten services even without Good Friday, where normally in that time span I'd only sing two, so.)
+ So when I see GC tonight (because no class, so I can go watch him make a stained-glass window hanging for his mother's Christmas-or-Hannukah present, yes, he's a little behind the calendar) I can tell him that I won't be coming to seder late after all, and the gladness will be extra, because that means that for the first time in probably his whole life, he won't be the youngest one there and have to ask the Questions.
:-D
+ My class today has been cancelled. (The professor has laryngitis, which is too bad, but she isn't feeling ill, so I'm not even feeling guilty for being all yay about this.)
- My Holy Week musical obligations include Good Friday, which service begins at 7:30, and probably precludes attending seder at Gentleman Caller's mother's house.
- One of the other two soprano section leaders over in Catholic-land has been going through quite a lot of stress, the details of which I don't know or care to know, but a week or so ago the choir director hired a substitute for her for the duration of Holy Week.
+ Stressed-Out Soprano was there on Palm Sunday and will be there Good Friday and Easter, along with Emergency Substitute and Second Soprano, and SOS encouraged me to talk to the choir director about leaving at some point during the service when all the tricky need-the-pros music is done and only hymns and things remain, because she really feels like a family thing should trump.
+ So I did, and after some discussion, music director and choir director offered me three options: (1) slip out after the last tricky need-the-pros number; (2) move that number earlier so I could slip out even sooner; or (3) have a lovely time at seder but don't get paid. !!! My feeling is, moving the number earlier would still probably not move it early enough to get me out of there before they spend aaages reading the Passion (they read Mark's version, I think, on Palm Sunday, and it took forever, and I understand Matthew's version on Friday will take even longer), so if they're sure they can manage with three sopranos (which is normally the maximum number of paid sopranos, after all), then I'd much rather go to the whole of seder than get paid. (Plus between last Saturday and next Sunday inclusive I'll have sung ten services even without Good Friday, where normally in that time span I'd only sing two, so.)
+ So when I see GC tonight (because no class, so I can go watch him make a stained-glass window hanging for his mother's Christmas-or-Hannukah present, yes, he's a little behind the calendar) I can tell him that I won't be coming to seder late after all, and the gladness will be extra, because that means that for the first time in probably his whole life, he won't be the youngest one there and have to ask the Questions.
:-D