pumpkin carving, pumpkin carving

First big social event at MurkNorth; the quiet room downstairs was just as needed as I thought it would be, and we also had to have a separate one upstairs (which was okay); hanging ghosts is hard; death's head cakes; pointy heads are bad; children become dinosaurs; two pounds beef in sloppy joes but not enough tapir chow; pumpkin guts everywhere; bad improvisational matches; oh noes black frosting on Kero-chan!; ink somehow confined to paper; far too much snacky food eaten by yours truly. One tentative RSVP didn't make it, one non-RSVPer found time, and that was good. ^_^

18 present: Me (solarbird), annathepiper, spazzkat, mamishka, drglam (visiting from MA), dustbath, Joby, Abby, Isabel, Perrin, wrog, emmacrew, Philip, poodlgrl, Eric, Violet, kathrynt, llachglin. Pictures of only some follow, because I forgot about the camera and was too busy cooking!

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singing log

0. Kind of skipped around instead of going through my usual practice routine. That was fine though, really. It means that I sang the high A but never actually hit the high Bb, which doesn't matter so much. I didn't actually try to do either until I was already pretty well tired out, too.

1. Sang some of my usuals - Caro, Amarilli, Quelle Familla - and the scales and such.

2. Tried having the microphone on my headphones and singing some - not really significantly different to having the microphone on the speakers. That kind of surprise me - I guess I thought I'd get more amplification before getting feedback if I went to the headset, but I didn't. Well done, little directional microphone.

3. Recorded some of the singing I did - including a somewhat impromptu attempt at "Somebody to Love," by Queen, that I don't know well enough to sing past the opening. I get tired quickly, and it really shows. But ... when I'm less tired

...I'm not necessarily sounding too bad.

It's kind of neat. ^_^