| Current location: | home |
| Current mood: |  rejuvenated |
| Current music: | Chelsea Morning--Joni Mitchell |
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As of this Friday, I'll no longer be working for RSA (my second job--stocking cosmetics and baby supplies at the local Martins.) They lost their contract with Giant (Martins's parent co.)
I'm starting a new hobby--playing recorder. Actually, I've been playing soprano for about two years--I think it was Kath's or Rebecca's old one from school. I got the idea from whwn I was at the Israel LARP in PA some years ago. We were on break, sitting in a courtyard and I heard this flutey music coming from the woods beyond. One of the participants was tootling away on --I think--a soprano recorder and I thought: instant, portable loveliness. And I decided someday, I'm going to learn how to do that.
I was finally 'forced' to act on my serendipity when a professor at the local college I was singing in the chorus of announced that she was getting a group together to learn recorder. So I learned some medieval music from that, and another prof who was heading up the school's jazz band made up a piece just for us.
Now I have four recorders of various size and tone and am having a lot of fun playing Irish music with my friend Emily Reid who is a Celtic harpist. We played together at the Fairy Festival in PG over the summer and it was great fun.
And I just joined a group that plays antique music (and I think also some world music and jazz). They are a bit antique themselves, so I'll fit right in. They meet in Bethesda. (Yeah, it's a long drive, but it's only twice a month and they have free food.)
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