Yesterday was an eventful and fun day. Our department chair
took us peon types to lunch at the building with the Mesozoic garden, and I was
surprised that we walked over by cutting through another building. True, that
is a shorter path, but I forget that not everyone wants to maximize their
outside time. I am inside all day, so any chance I get for fresh air, I take.
But of course many people do not feel the same way. After that I went to the
December free Bach concert and sang in/listened to other people singing in
German. Hockey Girl and I met for dinner at the French House, so then we spoke
in French until I had to leave for choir practice, which was at Richard Bonomo’s
house because the church was full of people celebrating the festivity of Our
Lady of Guadalupe, and again we were singing in German. We are working on a
Christmas piece once attributed to Bach but now generally considered not to be by
him (our choir director thinks it is by his predecessor, Kunau, but I can’t
find any actual musicologists who share this opinion), and our choir director
hated the English translation and kept changing the words. It was so confusing
that I agitated for just singing in the original German, and to my utter
surprise, he agreed. So it was a very linguistic day for me once again.
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