Countdown

Only one full day left before all "H-E-double-hockey-sticks" lets lose. (It's a Canadian expression - but you should be able to figure it out no matter where you're from - but just in case - hockey sticks, when upside down, look like the letter "L" - we also use it in Golf for when you score a seven - but of course, the hockey stick is upside up in that instance. It's "one less than a snowman").

Schedule for the work week for the most part looks like this

Mondays - Da Camera
Tuesdays - two lectures and movie night with the wife (see her post here)
Wednesdays - Church staff meeting and church work day, and University choirs in the afternoon, and hopefully curling league at night.
Thursdays - two lectures and church choir
Fridays - University choirs and "extra" work (i.e. Pro Coro and Scona Chamber Choirs)
Saturdays - various rehearsals
Sundays - Church in the morning, and various rehearsals and concerts throughout the year.

Somewhere in there - I'll blog, and I DO VOW TO BLOG MORE!

On that note, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that my blog post on ChoralBlog about the Apple iPad (published on the day the iPad was released) was referred to in a CBC radio national news broadcast this past weekend. I'm amazed at how the art of news reporting has moved into using the blogesphere - and happy to be a part of it!

All the more reason to get back into the blogging habit

August Prep

My "To Do" List this month:

1. Work on a presentation I'm giving next week on "Building a Boy Choir Tradition"
2. Prepare slides for my Music Appreciation Course (after 10 years, it's time to refresh my teaching material here)
   
3. Prepare syllabus and repertoire for intro to Conducting course which has only 6 people registered!
4. Finalize all repertoire for the first two concerts with Da Camera
5. Finalize the roster for Da Camera, and solicit 4 more tenors and 3 basses to join!
6. Prep anthem list for Church Choir from September through to Advent (did I just say Advent?)
7. Revitalize my approach to blogging both here and here.

What's on your To Do list this month in preparation for "Back to School?"