SOLID Weekend.

Saturday

Basically, football dominated the day ...
Woke up pretty late, ate breakfast, read about macroeconomics for a while, then met up with the team to walk over to the pitches. The whole footballness from beginning to end lasted about 4 hours. yeah, FOUR hours, 1-5pm. Kinda crazy, but it totally brought me back to middle school club soccer days (or even weekend high school games - which were rarer since most varsity matches were on weeknights) where the large half of Saturdays or Sundays were taken up by games (changing, driving there, playing, post-game frivolities, driving back, showering). A ride down memory lane; it was fantastic.

The day started out rainy, then was perfectly sunny during our game, started drizzling as soon as we were done, and then proceeded to rain/pour/HAIL-for-15-minutes/rain/drizzle the rest of the afternoon. ... crazy English weather.

Anyway, so basically, met the team in the bar around 1pm, headed over to St. John's pitches 1:30pm, warmed up, kicked off at 2pm, sent John's home crying by 4pm, packed our stuff and dragged our muddy selves to The Eagle pub for a toast to our league semifinal victory! Onward we go to the Plate Finals next weekend!

[King's Women after 3-2 semifinals win vs. St. John's ... "muddy but ecstatic!"]
[photo credit: Christina]

I can't even express how happy I am to be playing football [soccer] again ... especially after being broken/not doing any physical exercise for an entire year (probably the longest consecutive vegetable state I've been in since what, age 5?). Really like the team too - much more of a unified team feel than when I rowed briefly with my college last term - though the inherent social/communication-intensive structure of soccer as a sport is probably an important factor, haha.


Sunday

Churned out my economics essay in 5 hours, then King's Voices took up the rest of the night.

Rehearsal at 5pm, and somehow I'd been oblivious to the discussions we'd had in previous rehearsals about this concert, because I thought it was just some small performance in the chapel, like any other Monday evensong service.

Wrong.

I walked in to the chapel, ready for rehearsal, and what else do I see but a full orchestra and stage?! My 14 years of piano evidently didn't teach me too much outside of performing very well ... I didn't know "Mozart Requiem" referred to a 16-movement choir composition complete with orchestral accompaniment until I walked into the chapel that afternoon, 3 hours before the concert. lol. I mean, yeah, we'd rehearsed and everything, but our rehearsals are always rather cursory and quick in terms of how much we [don't] belabor the practicing.

Anyway, so, no pictures, but here are two of my favorite movements that we performed, sung by another choir in similar orchestra+SATB format:


Dies Irae


Confutatis & Lacrymosa

(Links: Dies Irae and Confutatis/Lacrymosa)

That pretty much took up the entire evening, and there was a decent audience turnout. Imagine singing 45 minutes of Mozart in D minor inside here:

[King's College Chapel]