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[cahn]

So, at church I have an unofficial calling (as of last month) and (as of this morning) an official calling now! The unofficial calling is "music coordinator for the church Christmas music fireside," which people who have been around for several years might remember I did several years ago and it was a mess -- it is way less of a mess this year, thankfully -- and the official calling is "ward music chairman," which mostly means I wave my arms around on Sunday (this person also functions as the chorister) but might also mean I need to be involved in the morning church Christmas program.

Anyway, my December in numbers:

Number of church Christmas music events I have successfully completed: 1
Number of church Christmas music events yet to be completed: 3
Number of rehearsals I had for entirely different pieces with separate groups of people this weekend: 4
Number of times I am going to be performing in some capacity at the church Christmas music fireside next weekend: 4
Number of people who apparently wanted to perform "O Holy Night" at the fireside but did not tell me: 4
Number of people who actually did tell me she wanted to perform "O Holy Night": 1
Number of pieces that have been definitively planned for the morning church Christmas program: 0 (choir director and I are going to have a Talk tomorrow)
Number of people who are causing ~DRAMA~ in regards to the fireside: 0 (HUGE improvement over last time I had to do this)
Number of Yuletide fics I should probably be writing: 0
Number of Yuletide fics I am in fact writing: 2
Number of words I need to write in the next week while I'm also figuring out all the music stuff: ~1000
Number of words I could probably have written in the time it took me to write this: 100 (this fic is going kinda slowly)

Comments

[philomytha]

The start of December: possibly the most stressful time to start organising church music in any capacity. Congratulations on having less drama, and good luck getting it all sorted out :-)

[cahn]

Ha, yes! Fortunately I found out tonight the morning Christmas program turns out to have been organized by the bishopric (the people in charge of the ward) -- it's not their job to organize it, but the people whose job it was supposed to have been don't seem to have been doing it, and they were kind enough not to actually expect me to organize it starting two weeks beforehand, whew!

[antisoppist]

OK that is making me feel better about the merely three musical things I have to do before next Sunday. Good luck with yours.

[cahn]

Ha. Each rehearsal isn't super long (at this point I'm kind of like, is it falling to pieces? No? Okay, done!), so you might have more of a time commitment :P Good luck to you too!

[umadoshi]

Whew! Good luck with it all!

[cahn]

Thank you! I always manage to overcommit myself in December :)