Merry Christmas! Oddly enough, I feel like Christmas has already happened because of the large number of Christmas things that have been going on as of late. If this were true, then Christmas would definitely be more than one day long. In fact, it would have started on November 2nd, when our Wind Ensemble started rehearsing Christmas music for the annual Gala. Rehearsals continued all the way up through December 5th, when the Gala actually happened. The day before, I had played a gig in NH with a quintet that was missing an oboist, and we played Christmas music for an hour for a bunch of people in a library. Soon after that came the lessons and carols service at church in Hamilton, which was FANTASTIC! Decidedly the best Christmas service I've been to, probably ever. After that came finals, and finishing those felt like five Christmases put together. And finally, a wonderful cookie-decorating party with lovely people was a great way to finish the season. Except that Christmas still hadn't happened yet. And so here we are on Christmas Eve, and it sort of feels like Christmas is starting all over again, in a different town with different people. I really like Christmas, so this is a good thing!
On a different note, I've decided to read the entire Bible in a year. It'll be the second time I've done this, but instead of reading parts of the Old Testament and the New Testament each day like I did before, I'm just going to read all the way through from cover to cover. I was going to wait until January 1st to start, but then I just started reading Genesis one day and decided to start early. So I guess in order to truly finish reading the Bible in a year, I have to be done by December 18th, 2010.
Well, the clock tells me it's 12:01, so it's actually Christmas now. Merry Christmas for real this time!
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