There's been a particular piece of church-accounts related admin that's been hanging over me pretty much since I got back from retreat, and for reasons that are opaque even to me, I've had an enormous ugh field about it, and it's been sitting in the back of my head making me feel guilty about doing anything else, which means my productivity has been horribly low across the board.
And this afternoon I have done it, and doing it has cleared the way for me to handover the rest of the church accounts to the new treasurer, and then none of it will be my problem any more. As with so many of these things that one puts off for months, it wasn't actually that difficult or unpleasant once I actually got started on it, but I'm still feeling a bit drained from psyching myself up to do it, so I shall largely be taking it easy for the rest of the day, and try to make some progress with all the other stuff that it was getting in the way of tomorrow.
I do have a beginners Hebrew class this evening, taught by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
liv, which I'm pretty excited about. (Unlike Greek, where I'm hoping that I'll be able to jump straight into what would normally be a second year course when I start at Leuven, I'm definitely going to be starting Hebrew from the beginning, but I'd quite like to get to the point where I can at least translate the script into sounds with reasonable fluency before term starts, even if I have very little in terms of grammar and vocabulary).
I was quite pleased with myself at mass this morning. I have been getting a bit lax about preparing the music beforehand, as I'm now feeling a lot more confident about sight-reading, and improvising on the offertory hymn if needed. Occasionally however this leads to me not realising until after I get to church that one of the hymns goes down to a Bb, and I've only brought the soprano recorder with me. So I transposed it up a tone on the fly, and whilst I'm not going to claim zero wrong notes, there were only a couple over five verses. I wouldn't want to do that too often, but I've definitely levelled up a bit in the last few months of playing for services regularly.
And this afternoon I have done it, and doing it has cleared the way for me to handover the rest of the church accounts to the new treasurer, and then none of it will be my problem any more. As with so many of these things that one puts off for months, it wasn't actually that difficult or unpleasant once I actually got started on it, but I'm still feeling a bit drained from psyching myself up to do it, so I shall largely be taking it easy for the rest of the day, and try to make some progress with all the other stuff that it was getting in the way of tomorrow.
I do have a beginners Hebrew class this evening, taught by
liv, which I'm pretty excited about. (Unlike Greek, where I'm hoping that I'll be able to jump straight into what would normally be a second year course when I start at Leuven, I'm definitely going to be starting Hebrew from the beginning, but I'd quite like to get to the point where I can at least translate the script into sounds with reasonable fluency before term starts, even if I have very little in terms of grammar and vocabulary).I was quite pleased with myself at mass this morning. I have been getting a bit lax about preparing the music beforehand, as I'm now feeling a lot more confident about sight-reading, and improvising on the offertory hymn if needed. Occasionally however this leads to me not realising until after I get to church that one of the hymns goes down to a Bb, and I've only brought the soprano recorder with me. So I transposed it up a tone on the fly, and whilst I'm not going to claim zero wrong notes, there were only a couple over five verses. I wouldn't want to do that too often, but I've definitely levelled up a bit in the last few months of playing for services regularly.
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Date: 2024-06-02 03:19 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2024-06-03 11:21 am (UTC)From:Well done also for the transposing on the fly!
I hope learning Hebrew is as much fun as it sounds.
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Date: 2024-06-03 09:30 pm (UTC)From:Also transposing a hymn on the fly!