Banquets, Books and all that Other Stuff

Worries in order of importance:

1. Stupid Choir Banquet. Gotta make certificates, which means I have to think nice things about my students. ...it's going to be hard. I'm getting very cranky.

2. Auditions. I will gag if I have to hear one more mangled rendition of Happy Birthday. For the Love of all that is Holy, do people not TEACH this song any more? I've had two or three who didn't even know how it went!! Sad days.

3. Starmites. I don't know what the composers were thinking. And that's all I have to say about that.

On the bright side, I ran my Concert Choir and Women's Choirs through their paces today. I showed them exactly how I plan to run my rehearsals next year and told them that if they didn't think they could handle it to go change their schedules. I think I'll go all Machiavellian next year. Fear Me!!

And now for my discussion (brief as it may be) on Fanfiction.

Fanfiction, my closet obsession. I love to read good writer's interpretation on well-known characters. It saves me from having to get to know the protagonists. I'm re-reading the Sacrifice series by Lightning on the Wave. It's a Harry Potter fanfiction. Probably the only dark, angsty series I'll ever willingly read. The concepts the author comes up with for Rowling's world are amazing to me. Plus it deals with the issues of free will, child abuse, the gray line between dark and light and, my favorite, high society.

I love the concept of high society since we don't get much of it here in America. Granted, I don't think it's a practical way of life, but it's interesting all the same. European nobility had a code of conduct that they lived and breathed by. Yes, the rules were frequently bent and broken, but the concept is fascinating to me. Who on earth decided these rules to begin with? Where did society ever come up with the idea of the Language of the Fan? Bored nobles? Probably.

I like reading stories that deal with political maneuvering every once in awhile. Simon R. Green's Deathstalker Series is like that. Of course, I also like the novels with heroes who completely ignore the niceties of society and blow the pretentious nobles out of the water. Those are fun too.

The Mistborn novels I'm reading are pretty awesome. ...well, I'm listening to them, not really reading.

Okay. Back to pointlessly worry about the Banquet for Thursday that we have no money to decorate for. Ghetto Banquet. *sigh*