I missed Lost tonight- because I was hiding in the basement. There was a tornado warning that lasted about an hour, and there's still a watch until the middle of the night! It sure sounded bad out there. Lots of rain and wind, and trees were bending. I'll probably find a bunch of branches on the ground in the morning!

Tonight was just not fun! I had a bad headache, too. Weather related, I'm sure.

ETA- new warning issued. Oh noes...

...went very well for a change. Unfortunately, the air conditioning was out, so the choir loft was unbearably hot! All the windows in the sanctuary were open. According to the ushers, when we sang our anthem, people on the street stopped to listen to us! The director sent us all a nice email praising us. That's very rare.

I wasn't the only one in the family who cried after the Derby yesterday! My sister called last night...and the first thing she said was: "MY HORSEY DIED!!!!" :( The Derby was all anyone talked about in choir before practice started.

It really was too hot this morning. I hated wearing my robe. They aren't designed for warm weather.

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I went into choir tonight thinking that our director would chew us out for our lousy performance Sunday. Instead, he complimented us for not stopping when he tried to start over. He singled out the sopranos for keeping it all together! We are pretty awesome...:p I still think it was a disaster, though. Catastrophe and fiasco also apply. But maybe it was just the beginning of the piece that was bad. Anyway, practice went well tonight. I'm still planning on taking a break, though!

Someone posted a link to Tom Lehrer clips at YouTube!

National Brotherhood week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY

The Element Song (required listening in my high school chemistry class!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs&feature=related

My friend did these two for his recital in college- Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The Masochism Tango

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE&feature=related

I got it from Agnes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKZR3Bcj4jw&feature=related


My dad has the Tom Lehrer Songbook somewhere...I'll have to ask him to find it.

I loved the stuff Lehrer did for The Electric Company!

Edited to add- a site with the lyrics!

http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/song_index.html

From the "I hate my choir director" files...

We did one of my favorite works today: If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis. We practiced and practiced and had sung it well in rehearsal...but when it came time to sing in church, something went wrong. The director insisted on doing it without organ, and he directed from a spot where many of us couldn't see him. We started off wrong (his fault, totally), and he tried to get us to stop! None of us stopped...we kept on going. I think it would have been far worse to stop and start over. We did finally get it together, but he was not pleased. What the hell did he expect from us? If we can't see him, and we don't have the notes, we're not going to be able to sing. He insulted us by trying to make us stop. I never want to sing this work again. :( I'm dreading practice on Wednesday. He's going to chew us out for things that were his doing! I have a feeling that people are going to quit. I know that once Pentecost has come and gone, I'm going to take a long break.

It really was awful. I had to leave before the last hymn because I thought I might cry.

The bell choir rang this morning, too. We didn't do as well as we did in practice. The youth bells were much better than we were!

Other stuff- I read  You Suck by Christopher Moore, which was hilarious. I didn't know that it was a sequel! I'll have to read the first book, Bloodsucking Fiends, later. Also, I'm going to start reading M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth series. My mom and I loved watching the T.V. series (though the episodes really didn't resemble the books much!), so now I want to read the books! The library has a bunch of them on audio cassette/CD/MP3. 

Seven years at TrekBBS. How time flies...has it really been that long? And I'm still there...

If you haven't seen it...avoid the cut.

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I can't believe I've kept this journal for so long. And I don't know what I'd do without it, or the people who post here! *hugs f-list*

Eddie says hello.



He was just posing. Kira was hiding that day, so no new pictures!

I just updated my recipe blog with a nice chicken and mushroom dish.

http://kiraskitchen.blogspot.com/

It's yummy!

That's all I need, another fandom! *laughs* I had a whole night of Doctor Who and Torchwood! That was fun. First it was Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and Last of the Timelords. Whee! So much fun. I admit to not having a huge knowledge of Who-lore, but I got enough to enjoy everything.The Master was so evil! And I actually like Martha, and won't mind if she really does end up on Torchwood. I finally understand that "Tinkerbell Jesus" thing about the Doctor now. Hee! I thought for a moment that Martha had told everyone "If you believe in the Doctor, clap your hands!" That seemed like a too-easy way to break The Master's hold on the world. I just love David Tennant. It was fun watching Jack with the Doctor, too.

Q, you've gotten me hooked on yet another show. I've even added a shiny new Doctor Who tag! :p I still haven't watched my tape of Voyage of the Damned. I'll make sure to check out the seasons I missed. I did watch older Who (and Red Dwarf, too...) in college with friends...it was a fun show to get drunk to. :p

I watched Fragments and Exit Wounds again. Waaaaaaaaaaaahhh! I cried again. :(

Just got back from seeing Leatherheads. That was a funny, cute movie! I can't believe I ever disliked George Clooney. Now I think he's just awesome...

Some other thoughts behind a cut as they may contain spoilers (for those who haven't seen the last two Torchwood episodes)...

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I finished my cousin's wedding present last night!



It really came out nice. I think it's a much better present than The Bride, which I gave up on. It took me thirty hours to do.

In other news, I went to a bell festival last weekend. It wasn't as good as last year's- the classes weren't interesting. I didn't go to any. The rehearsals and concert went really well, though. And I got a new bell shirt:



Hee, hee!

Only about half of the choir went this year. My nephew was a substitute for one of the players. He did really well.

I'm still tired from the weekend! And my new medicine is making me sick. I'm having a hard time adjusting to it. Yuck.

From Fragments, mostly. Two pages of 'em, starting at this link.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=3142036&view=findpost&p=10093505

Got home really late from the bell festival last night...and I forgot to tape Doctor Who (yes, I'm starting to like Who too) and Torchwood. Oops. Thank God they repeat next week!

Medicine is already making me sick. Hope I adjust to it soon...I'm only taking a quarter of the dose I'm going to end up with!

I found a cross stitched piece that I'd finished but had never done anything with last night. I finally decided to make a journal cover out of it:



Something I need to remember....

FYI, I print out all of my journal entries (usually exclude the memes) and paste them in books like these- it's like a diary and scrapbook in one!

It was a pretty day today, warm, somewhat sunny, and a bit breezy. Would have taken a nice long walk if I hadn't been feeling so sick. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow...yet another new one. A woman this time, at least. I find it so much easier to talk to a woman doctor...

This weekend is the bell festival. That should cheer me up a bit.

Still not sleeping well.

Had to use up some old bananas today. I made fritters:



Recipe here:

http://kiraskitchen.blogspot.com/

I couldn't resist using one of Ianto's big lines for my entry title.

Happy birthday, ghost07  !!

Spoilers, of course.
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