Shopping and laundry

[algeh]

Today, I shall buy jeans, do my laundry, and find some sheet music for Over the Sea to Skye. The fact that it is nearly 1300 and I am still on the internet and in my nightgown in no way is a flaw in this plan. Really.

I almost immediately seem to revert to this kind of schedule when I have no job. I am so lame.

I will probably drive down to Eugene tomorrow, and if not then I will on Friday. At that point there will be a gap in my internetting until I can establish some sort of land-line phone service and possibly high-speed internet. My cell phone number is not changing, so that's probably the best way to reach me if there's a time-sensitive element.

Comments

[genarti]

Ooh, I like that song. Possibly because my parents sang it to me all the time when I was little, although I think they generally left out the verses about bloody death.

Anyway, its technical name is "Skye Boat Song," and you'll probably have better luck looking under that name. (Assuming this is the one with the chorus beginning with "Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing; onward the sailors cry...")

[algeh]

I've seen sheet music under each name in the past, so I'm going to check for both. Assuming I ever leave the house today.

I fell in love with that song in 6th grade choir, although we sung a really weird version with lyrics I have never found since. I sung a more normal version in ORSCC (my high-school-age choir) later, but haven't been able to persuade any directors into it since. I now need an audition piece on short notice (this is the first time I've been in an audition that expects me to bring in a prepared piece with sheet music for an accompanist in many years and moves) so I'm hoping it will be easy enough to find a reasonably traditional solo arrangement on short notice...I so don't need this this week.

[genarti]

Ah, cool! Good luck, then.

(Although now I'm really curious about the alternate lyrics, as the only ones I've ever heard are the standard ones about Charlie and Culloden and all.)