Singing again

After a brief hiatus of 28 years I went back to school the summer of 2007. My counselor (super-helpful lady named Carol) had explained that if I wanted to go to nursing school I'd need a few prerequisites, the prerequisitiest of which was Chemistry.

I was actually terrified to take Chemistry, having gotten a "D" in it during high school. Daunted by a decades-old D. But lo and behold, Chemistry was no longer the bugaboo I had feared; it was even interesting. And I passed (thanks, Mrs Oganian!). That class left me with a smattering of math and a soft spot for the Periodic Table.

After that I took a science class every semester, and I took some other stuff too. I was back into the swing of school, and it took up pretty much all my free time.

What was the connection to singing? Ah yes. No free time -- no hobbies. I hadn't gone to a Sacred Harp singing in So Cal since summer 2007. I was going to 2-3 singings a month before that, and was even chairman of the LA regional in May 2007. Then I evaporated from the local singing scene.

But last weekend I actually WENT to the monthly singing in Century City. It was great to be back! They were sort of wondering what had happened to me, and were glad I was in school all this time and not crushed by an asteroid.

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Come to find out that was also the weekend of the New York State singing convention. Since I couldn't go to New York this year, it's kind of cool I was singing at the same time as all my singing friends out East.