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Last week consisted of lots of church, all in a row. Admittedly, it was a higher-quality spectacle than usual, including some really beautiful pieces of theater, such as Thursday's Stripping of the Altar, and all the bells and fire involved with Saturday night and Sunday morning (yay for pagan carry-through traditions! Even awesome phallic maypoles. In church!). Meanwhile, I'm fixing lots of italic subscripts on this physics book Dan has me proofing. And listening to lots of King's Singers HIgh Flight. Especially those same two Whitacre things. And also the new Guild music video, which is both adorably vengeful and upliftingly It Gets Better.

Last night I took out my portable keyboard and tried it out on some Crash Kings again, trying to remember how to play the songs I can play and relearning the beginning of the one I was learning when I put the keyboard up. Saving Grace followed by an attempt at remembering Hold the Line is an exercise in... wrist exercise. Those right-hand repeated chords are murder.

I think that when I leave on Thursday for the (very short) tour, I will not bring my computer, but instead my little green book. It has a lot of NEC ideas in it, as well as a few post-school, and I'd like to revisit getting something out of those and maybe writing a little. So inspires the little piano. And the Guild, which I've been rewatching as they repost each season as a full-length single-arc video on Geek and Sundry. It made me reconsider Dr. Horrible, which is just as awesome as it was when I got so freaked by inspiration that I spent a summer (and some boring Phonetics classes) writing a musical. More things! More awesome things should be in the world! Also I want to read the Guild comics, and the Dr Horrible comic, and possibly also the Serenity ones. I even put them in my Amazon shopping cart, but I'm looking for alternatives because Amazon is a jerk and I try to avoid buying through them if I can.