I am back in Maryland!

...I have been back for several weeks, as those of you I have seen in comment threads have probably noticed. Just. Have not updated.

(I have been watching all the people who came back with new enthusiasm for journaling, and going 'well, at least I was also this patchy about journaling back before tumblr existed'.)

(I have posted some stuff to tumblr but really you aren't missing much except chat injokes and wrangling stuff.)

Anyway, I came home and promptly volunteered to cover for our church organist who is on vacation for three weeks, because the alternative was NO MUSIC AT ALL (our church is tiny okay.) So I've been desperately trying to remember how to play piano ever since then. I haven't quite gotten brave enough to play with both hands at once yet, but at least I've mostly remembered how to read the bottom clef? Luckily I learned last Sunday that once the congregation starts singing nobody can hear the piano anyway, so nobody can tell when I totally lose the thread.

....hopefully this three weeks of abject terror will end in me actually continuing to work on piano with some regularity, that was the idea when I volunteered. I would love to be able to improvise chords like my father could, but that's a long way off. In the meantime, I am constantly going "can't get on computer, should practice piano". This doesn't actually keep me off the computer, but it does keep me from starting anything productive on the computer.

Anyway onto important stuff, by which I mean ( YULETIDE NOMINATIONS )

Obviously solution: poll which I will then procede to ignore! :D