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Dec. 20th, 2012 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- We did get to the Revels last night and it was awesome. I mean, it is always awesome, but this year it was especially good. They did what I'm thinking of as Downton Abbey Revels, set in an old English manor house in 1925, but the house was haunted and so all the old songs were sung and danced by ghosts. I got to sit next to a couple ladies who'd never been before and they were so enthusiastic. I think this was the best mummer's play I've seen them do - the dragon was hilarious. And they did the Abbots Bromley horn dance, which they've left out of a few recent productions and is always my favorite thing, so I was happy.
- There was a really beautiful moment that actually made me cry, too. They always sing Dona Nobis Pacem (and the audience joins in). The ghosts invited the father of the modern-1925 family to join them in singing a prayer for peace, and that was the first thing he participated in, saying that he had seen the horrors of a world war, and may it never happen again. And then I couldn't sing because I was crying.
- Today is my last day of work before my Yule vacation! After today, I off until the next Thursday! Hurrah!
- Also, I have the best thing in my lunch today. I made couscous to put in my lunch, as I often do, but to jazz it up a little today, I added ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, a little sugar, and some tiny cut-up pumpkin pickles. Between the pickles and the spices, I think this is the best couscous I have ever eaten.
- We did get to the Revels last night and it was awesome. I mean, it is always awesome, but this year it was especially good. They did what I'm thinking of as Downton Abbey Revels, set in an old English manor house in 1925, but the house was haunted and so all the old songs were sung and danced by ghosts. I got to sit next to a couple ladies who'd never been before and they were so enthusiastic. I think this was the best mummer's play I've seen them do - the dragon was hilarious. And they did the Abbots Bromley horn dance, which they've left out of a few recent productions and is always my favorite thing, so I was happy.
- There was a really beautiful moment that actually made me cry, too. They always sing Dona Nobis Pacem (and the audience joins in). The ghosts invited the father of the modern-1925 family to join them in singing a prayer for peace, and that was the first thing he participated in, saying that he had seen the horrors of a world war, and may it never happen again. And then I couldn't sing because I was crying.
- Today is my last day of work before my Yule vacation! After today, I off until the next Thursday! Hurrah!
- Also, I have the best thing in my lunch today. I made couscous to put in my lunch, as I often do, but to jazz it up a little today, I added ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, a little sugar, and some tiny cut-up pumpkin pickles. Between the pickles and the spices, I think this is the best couscous I have ever eaten.
