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meanfreepath too much, but:
So Harry messed with the rhythms a bit and added a couple of fancy things, but we did "By the waters of Babylon" in Prayers this morning (Thursday is for only the girl Fellows, and Harry sometimes likes to do overly pretty songs, but that's usually fine by me). It was so pretty!! I don't think I actually thought it sounded better than when I andophblekuwufu and thenemm or others do it, but while I always get this sort of sense of weaving my voice perfectly and easily among sounds when I sing this song, I don't think it had felt quite that...vibrant...before, and quite so much as if every step was just right. Or maybe it was like swimming, because there it was being carried along by things (the notes and the harmonies) that would not drop me and I had no choice but to keep going and not mess up--not because if I were to mess up it would sound all wrong, but because I to keep up felt like the only natural thing to do. Meh...it's really not a complicated song and only gets to three-part harmony, so I'm not sure why it appeals to my ear as much as it does.
Also, having talked to a useful person about it, I've decided that I'm writing a thesis next year, for almost sure: if I can't find a topic I like and a professor I sort of like, I won't. The argument for /not/ writing one is that I plan to go to grad school in math (maybe not right away) and will therefore learn the skills it will give me anyway, and that it's not really that useful: it's a lot of writing that you do when you haven't necessarily learned or done enough to /need/ to write a large amount about anything. But apparently grad schools will be "surpised" if I don't write one, and more importantly, the more prepared I actually am for grad school, the better. And now I have people I should talk to about actual topics--whee!
Meanwhile, I get to learn how to do research in history and ethnography for the benefit of Native American tribes this semester, and in knot theory. :) So exciting!
meanfreepath too much, but:So Harry messed with the rhythms a bit and added a couple of fancy things, but we did "By the waters of Babylon" in Prayers this morning (Thursday is for only the girl Fellows, and Harry sometimes likes to do overly pretty songs, but that's usually fine by me). It was so pretty!! I don't think I actually thought it sounded better than when I and
ophblekuwufu and thenemm or others do it, but while I always get this sort of sense of weaving my voice perfectly and easily among sounds when I sing this song, I don't think it had felt quite that...vibrant...before, and quite so much as if every step was just right. Or maybe it was like swimming, because there it was being carried along by things (the notes and the harmonies) that would not drop me and I had no choice but to keep going and not mess up--not because if I were to mess up it would sound all wrong, but because I to keep up felt like the only natural thing to do. Meh...it's really not a complicated song and only gets to three-part harmony, so I'm not sure why it appeals to my ear as much as it does.Also, having talked to a useful person about it, I've decided that I'm writing a thesis next year, for almost sure: if I can't find a topic I like and a professor I sort of like, I won't. The argument for /not/ writing one is that I plan to go to grad school in math (maybe not right away) and will therefore learn the skills it will give me anyway, and that it's not really that useful: it's a lot of writing that you do when you haven't necessarily learned or done enough to /need/ to write a large amount about anything. But apparently grad schools will be "surpised" if I don't write one, and more importantly, the more prepared I actually am for grad school, the better. And now I have people I should talk to about actual topics--whee!
Meanwhile, I get to learn how to do research in history and ethnography for the benefit of Native American tribes this semester, and in knot theory. :) So exciting!
