well, that took longer than I expected.

Our choir has another holiday performance coming up, but this time we are to have the lyrics committed to memory. Since many of the songs are hard to follow on the sheet music, with different voices singing different words and no two of them using the same pattern of how they communicate that (e.g. sometimes my lines are above, sometimes below the notes they go with) I decided to take the time to type up the lyrics to all 13 of them. I started at 19:20, and before I was done it was nearly 23:00! But I didn't notice the time elapsing at all. (I am still half convinced that someone sneaks in and changes all the clocks when I am not looking.) However, it does mean that instead of making progress on my hood or on the sprang, or any of the other things I could have been doing that I only accomplished that task. The good news is that I played the midi files of the tunes as I typed, so I know my part better. Now to actually learn the words, now that I know what they are. Perhaps it is time to do another entry in the learn Swedish one song at a time series, since I just typed them up. But not tonight--it is after midnight, and there is still yoga to do!

In other news I finally got an email from the mine with data. I don't know if I can open it yet--it arrived this evening after I got home, and I was already busy with this project when I saw it, but I am looking forward to opening it in the morning...