mikao's world

standing beside a rockstar's mother

so the internet was not working on the cruddy public computers around campus this weekend, so i couldn't check my email all weekend... and so i was greeted with 129 spam in my junkbox and 80-something "real" emails (of which it turned out only 2 were real), which took me forever to sort through, but made me feel somewhat important momentarily when i opened my email account at first.

jodi and i went with another girl to regina on saturday (and it was grey cup weekend, and the grey cup was in regina, and so we almost had to eat sitting on the floor in the foodcourt at the cornwall shopping centre because there were so many people downtown for the parade... the grey cup is like the superbowl, but for Canadian football) with the primary purpose of procuring costumes for our parts in the Christmas musical. we are, of course, members of the elite community choir, the choir that anyone can get into by showing up at. but, nonetheless, we are officially in the Christmas musical november 28-30th. we had to find 1920s style outfits... which, is no small feat, in case you've never tried it and don't know. anything remotely 1920s-ish hasn't been in style for the past 70 years. we did somehow manage to wrangle up some real nice outfits, jodi has a *really pretty* blue lace blouse to wear with a black skirt she already owned, and i got a navy blue polyester pleated skirt that goes past my knees, a *lovely* white blouse with embroidery all over the collar and the front, and a white, yellow, and bright green dressy scarf to brighten up the whole deal. we are going to be the prettiest looking gals out of the whole 130-voice choir. or.... maybe not. i am looking forward to dress rehersals next week when we get to see what everybody else ended up with.

today we had our first rehersal with the whole choir and the orchestra. well, not the whole choir or orchestra, lots of people couldn't make it, but it was the first time we practiced with the orchestra and not just the piano, so that was neat.

we have practices every day at lunch now this week. and dress rehersals are next week. and then next weekend we have 4 performances. this is going to be exhausting.