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Organization and its Fruits.
Sep. 13th, 2022 09:54 pmSo we had the League of Women Voters fall potluck picnic this evening and I reaped the fruits of being vastly more organized this year, and everything went off without a hitch. This bullet journal stuff is working well for me so far. I got the League Booklet wrangled, finished and in to the printers in good time to pick it up yesterday afternoon and had a list printed out (and on a clipboard! With a pen!) so that I could keep track of who got theirs. This year I am damned well going to get everyone a booklet if I have to mail half of them! And knowing who already has one is half the battle.
Past Cat made a lot of gifts of time and thought to present Cat so that this could all work smoothly and I am grateful to her; thank you past Cat!
In the meantime I got saddled with the Bean Supper for the Democrats so my new organizational skills are definitely being put to the test.
In other news I have been entering music for Chamber Filk, the chamber orchestra for the Ohio Valley Filk Festival. Before you get any grandiose ideas, this is simply a place for anyone who played an orchestral or band instrument in High School or anywhere else to show up and do filk music, since we don't always fit in with the guitars and vocalists. I started participating last year since I play the violin now, if not very well (but better this year than last by jing!) and pestered the organizer for the sheet music early so I could practice it and hopefully be less than completely terrible. Then his computer died and he was doing all the sheet music transpositions by hand and I said "oh I have Finale; give it here; I can have it all entered in an afternoon and then the transpositions will be literally three mouse clicks." So he did, and I offered to do the same this year so I am, and this means I have a voice in picking the tunes, so we're doing one of mine (Wild Rose), as well as Ship of Stone and 2 folk tunes, Banks of Sicily and Morning Has Broken.
Call it the Finale Tax.
And it occurred to me this evening that one of the instrumentals (Marsh Haven Morning) I wrote for a podcast a couple of years ago is a very classical-sounding piece and is not that much harder than the Sitt Etude I have been working on so I took it out this evening and I can more or less play it, and I think this is totally do-able. And I got out Finding The Apothecary and I'm doing much better on that in spite of not having practiced it for ages, and I think I'm definitely better on the violin. I might not be the worst musician at Chamberfilk this year! Or if I am that's okay because it means we all got better!
Past Cat made a lot of gifts of time and thought to present Cat so that this could all work smoothly and I am grateful to her; thank you past Cat!
In the meantime I got saddled with the Bean Supper for the Democrats so my new organizational skills are definitely being put to the test.
In other news I have been entering music for Chamber Filk, the chamber orchestra for the Ohio Valley Filk Festival. Before you get any grandiose ideas, this is simply a place for anyone who played an orchestral or band instrument in High School or anywhere else to show up and do filk music, since we don't always fit in with the guitars and vocalists. I started participating last year since I play the violin now, if not very well (but better this year than last by jing!) and pestered the organizer for the sheet music early so I could practice it and hopefully be less than completely terrible. Then his computer died and he was doing all the sheet music transpositions by hand and I said "oh I have Finale; give it here; I can have it all entered in an afternoon and then the transpositions will be literally three mouse clicks." So he did, and I offered to do the same this year so I am, and this means I have a voice in picking the tunes, so we're doing one of mine (Wild Rose), as well as Ship of Stone and 2 folk tunes, Banks of Sicily and Morning Has Broken.
Call it the Finale Tax.
And it occurred to me this evening that one of the instrumentals (Marsh Haven Morning) I wrote for a podcast a couple of years ago is a very classical-sounding piece and is not that much harder than the Sitt Etude I have been working on so I took it out this evening and I can more or less play it, and I think this is totally do-able. And I got out Finding The Apothecary and I'm doing much better on that in spite of not having practiced it for ages, and I think I'm definitely better on the violin. I might not be the worst musician at Chamberfilk this year! Or if I am that's okay because it means we all got better!
