State of the Stine Address

Looks like I'll probably be teaching a class at Southwest this semester. I'm alternately cheered and bummed by this, because it means I've blocked off another four months without a permanent job. On the other hand, it will give me time to commit to work at Kaplan, save some money (as long as I don't go crazy at Christmas - good luck, there!), and make some more contacts. I'll be volunteering at the Ducks Unlimited Expo (what used to be the old Great Outdoors Festival) on the Conservation committee, so I have high hopes for meeting some folks there who can help me with a job.

This also means that I know where I'll be for the next few months. So I sent the Chorale director an e-mail last night. He was very happy to hear from me, and I have been enthusiastically invited... to audition for Chorale. :P I was moderately offended by this, seeing as I sang with the group for about seven years, but it seems Tim is reauditioning everybody in the chorale. Does this strike everybody as oddly as it does me?

Anyway, I have an audition time tonight at 7 PM (meaning I'll be late for anime night - please set aside a plate for me and start when you're ready! I'll be there by eight, I suspect). I'm terribly nervous about it. I checked out my range last night, and as I expected, vocally I'm in TERRIBLE shape.

In other news: I replay FF6. I'd forgotten:

1) How nice it is of Edgar to pretend he and his Autocrossbow NEED ANY OF YOU.
2) How much Edgar looks like shadowstitch. Where's your burrowing castle, Kevy?
3) How much Locke really irritates me. I like the boy, but he's just creepy. "I'll protect you, Terra! I'll protect YOU, Celes! OH, DON'T MIND MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND PRESERVED IN ROSES."