High Performance Season

Ah, November and December... when Holiday visions dance in people's heads, and almost instinctively, they turn to music to help it ring in their ears as well. So, inevitably, choruses and choirs the country over get called upon to bring those fantastic visions of auditory holiday bliss to life.

And so it has come to be that in the past 5 days, I've been involved in two different performance gigs with the chorus — one, a convention in town (where we performed non-holiday music), and one a local charitable holiday event. These were the third and fourth performances so far this season, with yet one more remaining before our official concerts. We've actually turned down at least three other performances that I can think of this season. It's fun doing these gigs, but at the same time, I'm glad Easter doesn't have this hire-a-choir sensibility about it.

I've had to kick into high-performance mode in my work, as well. Actually, not so much the day-job work that pays the rent, but mostly for Chorus stuff and other side business. My task-list is growing mightily — as, unfortunately, if it doesn't get written down, I don't get it done. Even then, I just have to hope I can find the piece of paper with the latest additions to the list!

One ongoing "performance" of mine has finally come to a close. About a week ago, my parents ended a week-long visit, and on the last night, we had "The Conversation," so I no longer have to play the role of straight son. Of course, Mom and Dad are intelligent adults, and they had easily figured out long ago that my roommate-of-ten-years was, in all actuality, my partner. So there, officially and completely out to Mom and Dad (little sister heard a while back). And just in time, too: my technophobe Mom told me she had Googled someone's name. (I never imagined I would ever hear her use "Google" in a sentence, much less as a verb.) So that's one chapter of life closed. And aside from not needing to watch pronouns and all that stuff, there is one other major advantage: Now I can give them the Gay Chorus' new CD as a Christmas gift!