maybe i can post this way?

hiya - things are back, it appears, but not entirely, and i see that what's back is slow as all get-out (big surprise) -- i am not among what's back, as i'm on the FiletMignon cluster, but when FM is back up i should return.  [clings to flist]

three hours later

[closes eyes and takes deep breaths of the sweet, sweet air]

am later to get back than the rest of you because of the FiletMignon cluster.  but am back now.

am delighted not to be the LJ team this weekend.  [genuflects before LJ team]

there really is less of me here.

so i ended last term in much better physical shape than i began it.  i lost some weight, but i got smaller out of proportion with the amount of weight i lost -- tone, tone, tone.  and people commented on how i looked different when i got home, as well; my parents, who can be expected to say such things, but also former-teammate L at curling, which came out of nowhere.  so, yay.

but then i was home for a month, and trying to be reasonable, really, but honestly there's no way to get as much exercise there as i have to here.  so i was feeling Icky.

have now been back for 72 hours.  didn't leave the house yesterday, but thursday and friday i was out and about, for a total of probably three or four miles.

today i put on jeans that are brand-new and just out of the dryer, and they're just a shade on the roomy side.

carbs, schmarbs.  just have to keep moving.

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once upon a time, i took a survey i'd first seen in kingchiron's LJ.

old answers (23 may 2002)

( now: )

crazy how things change, eh?

this is the recording i was looking for.

My dad, funnily enough, had the Hadley~Hampson recording of "Au fond du temple saint" I was after last term.

The first minute and a half or so is "C'est toi, qu'enfin je revois", which is mostly the baritone (Hampson) -- lovely, but not who people come to hear, right?  But then the duet begins --

Actually they take it a shade slower than I'd have liked, and I wish they'd pronounced the t at the end of "charmant" before "et plus belle" [eta: because, now that i think about it -- i don't know where my mind was, a minute ago -- shouldn't it have been "charmante" anyway? if you pause between each word in "plus charmant et plus belle", okay, you might not have a released 't', even if people might prefer you run the words together. but when you've just said "oui, c'est elle, c'est la déesse", the next thing you say is "plus charmante et plus belle", isn't it?, so the unpronounced 't' is actually wrong. rar. {shakes finger at hadley and hampson and their director}], but you can't have everything.  I love this performance because of how well the voices blend -- in the middle of the octave, it's possible not to be sure which of them is singing.  And, and, and -- listen to Jerry Hadley at the four-minute mark, "Son voile se soulève".  There's no need to get fraught on those high notes, is there?  Absolutely not.  He's got the note; nobody thinks there's a chance he wasn't going to reach it.  But he reaches it so sweetly.  [flutter]  (He comes back more strongly, but not frantic, at 6:52 on "C'est elle, c'est la déesse", so it's not that he has no bombast at all.)

[hugs recording]