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Hey, does anyone want to sing Handel's Messiah this fall season? I went back to choir tonight (the Northwest Chorale, they do Messiah every other fall, I sang with them in 2003 but haven't since), and we could totally use more people. Mostly, we need basses and tenors, could use some sopranos, have too many altos but would take more if people were interested. Rehearsals are every Monday night at 7:30pm up in Lake City -- I'd be happy to carpool with people if they wanted.

I'm singing tenor again, which is great. Almost all of the other tenors are people who I remember from last time I sang with this group. (although, Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi no longer lives in the area, so he and his wife are no longer in the choir.) We're actually doing the whole Messiah this time, not cutting out numbers 33-40 or whatever we did last time, so that's kind of cool. (Mostly, I just want to do "Their Sound Is Gone Out"; I could have happily skipped most of the stuff we skipped last time.)

My throat is pretty sore now though. And so are my arms, since I decided to go to the gym and lift weights after choir rehearsal. I don't know what possessed me, but ah well.

Tomorrow I take my family to the Mariners-Rangers game. Should be... interesting.

But, no, seriously, if anyone is interested in choir, let me know. The choir director is pretty religious, and he does pray at the end of rehearsals, but there are plenty of non-religious people (like myself, of course) in the group as well, and things are really pretty easy-going and funny, I really had a blast last time I performed with them too.

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ooh. tempting. um, maybe? I'll dwell on it.

if only i knew how to sing....

What kind of experience and level of training do they look for? I've sung before (church choirs, school chorales, high school musicals), but I'm not at all in condition -- and I've never sung at the level of Handel. I sing baritone, mostly.

Too many altos??????? My heavens, is there something in the air out there? I've never heard of such a thing.

Really? Every choir I've ever been in has been alto-heavy and tenor-light, which is why I've sung tenor since 9th grade. They sure as hell didn't need me in the alto section.

Well, tenors are always in shorter supply still, but I've always been forced to sing alto because the soprano to alto proportions are like 5:1.

How weird. We always have the phenomenon of women not wanting to sing soprano because it's so high and stressful, so they hide in the alto section.

By the way, do you still hate me, or what? I no longer know anymore.

I still don't know where you got that from. I unfriended you because that was right around the time you got back from Japan, and as interesting as I find many travelogues, they were pretty dang dense first thing in the morning. I didn't know about filters :P

I don't hate anyone. It is true that some people drive me absolutely bananas, but to my knowledge you've never been a prime offender.

Actually, you unfriended me after I made a friends-only post talking about what a fuckup Jason was, and you then deheartied me in game as well and stopped speaking to me for a while. I guess it finally occurred to me now (a year and a half later) to ask whether you were still pissed off at me about that.

It's cool either way, I just was curious.

I never thought I'd get into the drama of friending and defriending :P Yes, I did that, but I tend to keep my hearty list pretty small anyway-- if I don't actively have something to talk about with someone, or if I'm not much of a pillager, then eh.

I never went out of my way to Let It Be Known that I Am Displeased. I'm generally too lazy for that, but if I get genuinely pissed off I let people know. Of course,

jacquilynne thought that I was carrying a big grudge, but like I said-- I'm just too lazy. I'm kind of surprised that this seems to have festered so long.

Oh, it didn't fester at all. Generally, my reaction to the "I'm unfriending you because you SUCK" thing is to go "Well, okay, that's your prerogative, have a nice day" and be done with it. I figured at some point you'd start speaking to me again, or not, and either way, whatever.

Problem is, it didn't quite go that way, and I always figured I'd ask at some point, but I'm also a pretty lazy person, so I guess I let it slip for a year and a half. But now with the upcoming Key West thing I figured it was worth getting it back out on the table, so I know whether I'm welcome to hang out with you and all, since it would be somewhat unfun to arrive and *then* find out.

(Jacq thought you had a grudge against her? Or me? Wha?)

Grudge was supposedly me against you. She brought it up in Toronto-- I can't remember what it was, but maybe I had said something about you and she said, "Oh, because Janthina thinks you hate her." and I was like, "Huh?"

This is so ridiculously junior high, especially since I must be the only person on the planet who unfriends with less implied than "OMG you suck." What a fricking pain-- it's about as useful as putting paperclips on your dress to signify how many boys you've kissed :P

It's really the semantics of the LJ term "friend" that are at fault.

Ah well, whatever. I'll see you in Florida.

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