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December is the month in which my ward goes crazy with musical activities.

Bishopric: cahn, would you like to be in charge of the ward musical fireside [evening event] again like you were last year?
Me: NO. Thank you.
Bishopric: Um, okay, thanks for being honest with us!
Me: You're welcome! :D

Things I have done in the last two weeks:
-Figured out how to play a cello part on viola without embarrassing myself (did not take too long)
-Helped E figure out how to play a viola part with quartet, choir, and conductor without embarrassing herself (E would tell you this took Much Too Long)
-Planned out Christmas Sunday morning music (on one hand, this was not hard as the choir director did most of it; on the other, people keep helpfully asking if they can be in the program and I am like... this would have been MUCH MORE HELPFUL a month ago)
-Planned out instrumental number for fireside (this took way longer than I feel it should have)
-Fielded fireside drama regarding instrumental number (much milder than previous fireside drama, thankfully)
-Did NOT play with choir in additional church (stake) Christmas thing last night, nor did E (which I thought we were going to have to do), for which we are all grateful, not least the audience
-Wrote 3/4 of a Yuletide fic (I am a little worried this is a Zeno's fic, though... I keep thinking it is going to be done and then I am like oh crap I have to Fix The Thing, and the Things To Fix keep Happening, so I don't even have a complete bus draft yet)

Things I need to do in the next two weeks:
-Learn a piano part
-Rehearse with the singers for whom I'm playing piano
-Rehearse choir number with E at a tempo that it turns out is way way faster than we were taking it, after having worked with E for two weeks to slow it down
-Rehearse the instrumentalists for fireside
-Possibly rewrite a cello part into treble clef for one of them
-Possibly figure out rehearsal time for (another) singing number
-Write the rest of my yuletide draft and beg for beta help
-Start writing a fic treat

why do I do this to myself
because it's fun
it will be more fun once it's done

Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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