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Holy carp, I've never so much in my life wanted a backrub as I do at this moment. I played volleyball for a couple of hours tonight after three weeks of not going to the gym at all, and not only that, we had barely any people show up -- 7 total at our max, 5 or 6 for most of the time, so we were playing a lot of doubles and triples. I was playing well -- extremely well, actually, if I do say so myself -- but I think I may have thrown my back out -- a few hours later now my arms ache to hell and back, and it's actually uncomfortable to lie down flat. I was originally planning to go back to the gym tomorrow night to lift weights and run, but I think that'll be contingent on how crappy I feel when I get home from work.

I've been sorting and scaling my Key West pictures for the last hour or two, and I'm finally done. Yay. Now I just need to label and thumbnail them... I've been trying to write my LJ entry about the trip, but there's a lot of things I don't want to say in a public entry, or even an entire friends-list locked entry, so it's tough. I wish there were tags so you could tag parts of your entries as private/etc.

In the meantime I'm listening to Messiah and singing along (does that count as reviewing my music? heh), and thus I am inclined to remind you all yet again to COME TO MY CONCERTS THIS WEEKEND, because you all love Handel's Messiah too. Right?

I'm singing in the tenor section of the chorus, and I stand in the front row right behind the soloists, so you can totally spot me this time.

http://nwchorale.org/

Friday December 9th, 7:30 PM
Location: Prince of Peace Lutheran Church -- 14514 20th NE, Shoreline

Saturday December 10th, 7:30 PM
Location: Woodinville Community Church -- 17110 140th Ave NE, Woodinville

Admission is free, but we do pass around a hat before the intermission for a free-will donation to Northwest Harvest, one of the local food banks. The choir is a non-profit organization, we pretty much just sing for the fun of singing and to raise money for charity, basically. But, seriously, since it costs like $50 to see the Seattle Symphony do Messiah, you're still getting a pretty good deal even if you only donate $5 or $10.

As I said before, I think the Saturday place has better acoustics than the Friday one -- also, my guess is Friday's performance may be a little wacky. But come anyway!

After Saturday I will suddenly have a lot more free time. Whee.

Cold, in more ways than one

I find myself extremely fortunate in that the laziest choice for lunch for me at work is the salad bar place. Well, I suppose there's the salad bar place and the sandwich place, but I feel like I have more control over my lunch at the salad bar place and healthier choices. Either way, they don't require exiting the office building and walking into the cold. I can only imagine how bad it'd be to work in a building that only had something like, say, a McDonald's in the lobby.

Speaking of cold, my throat started feeling sore this morning and got worse as the day went on. This sucks. I have to SING tomorrow night, dammit.

I'm reading Goose Gossage's autobiography and it's the funniest thing I've ever picked up. Laughed aloud three times on the bus ride home tonight, even.

I also came to the conclusion today that John Olerud is the Mark Jensen of baseball players. I can't decide whether this is a bigger compliment to Jensen or to Olerud.

Tonight I went to the gym with Megan and Heidi for a bit, but since my left arm is shot from volleyball and my throat is sore, I couldn't really do a lot of lifting or running, so I mostly just did some stretching and some light lifting. I came home and hung out chatting on PP for a bit. Now, I should go write more, or sleep, or both.