a little snappy happy-ever-after

After the spring concert, my chorus breaks for the summer. (Many things in this town break for the summer. It's only reasonable.) But we are, just for these couple of weeks, back together rehearsing a Christmas program -- of all things -- to be recorded for Public Radio International early in June and, presumably, distributed at something more resembling Christmas time. We're doing some stuff -- preparing four pieces of which the producer will pick two, it seems -- from this past year's Christmas concert, (including Sweelinck's "Gaudete Omnes", my favorite, so I hope it makes the cut); some traditional carols, with Willcocks descants (naturally); and some less-traditional carols, also with Willcocks descants, including "Of the Father's Heart Begotten", which it turns out I sang at Oxford probably four Christmases ago and made me very nostalgic and happy!, for once, instead of being the kind of nostalgia that makes me a little sad.

I hunted up the e-mail address for the director back there, whom I liked very much, to let her know I'm doing this piece that made me think of her and smile. I hope it reaches her. :-) Yay.

... and an LJ question I'm crossposting anyway

Hmm. Looks like my mood theme isn't showing up. Don't know how long this has been going on. When I go to manage/customize/what-have-you and click "use this mood theme on my friends page", which I don't normally have selected, my West Wing mood theme pictures show up on some (but not all) other people's entries; but nothing is at the moment showing up on mine, either on my own journal page or my flist. Anyone have helpful suggestions?

yay!

Heard back from the director of my old Oxford choir (the college one, not the B-team one at the cathedral)! I am so pleased to hear from her it's a little surprising even to me how delighted I am - but it has brightened what was already a very good day. I'm about two minutes from clapping my hands and twirling.

I had a thought here about where that puts me on the introvert~extrovert scale, but it's escaped me and I'm off to look into some shelving options for my pantry and re-sign my lease. [claps hands][twirls] Hope all of you have a good afternoon -- wouldn't it be something if good moods were infectious instead of the flu? I'm just saying.