It’s allergy time and since I’m allergic to almost everything they sell for head colds, I’ve had to wait until everything migrated south before attacking it. I’ve been very intimately acquainted with my inhaler and my bottle of Robitussin. I woke up choking at 3 am and almost sent Jon into a panic attack. Thankfully, I was able to communicate to him where my inhaler was and that some water would be *really* nice. At least the thunder and lightning and torrential rains should cut some of the pollen down.

My intonation practicuum today was…. interesting. (Intonation is basically where you sing the words of the liturgy on tones and switch tones at various points.) I was playing through my music today and Hilde (one of the MACM students — Master of Arts in Church Music) walked in and asked if I wanted some help. She and I went over the music and I felt a lot better when I had to go and sing with Kara (our intoning instructor who is also basically the lead cantor around here and a classmate of Jon’s — she was a music major and her husband is a music teacher). I was able to sightread most of the WOV Setting 4 stuff and Hilde helped me with the LBW Setting 2 stuff. (WOV and LBW are two of the worship books that we use.) My voice was cracking and I was coughing violently by the end but hey, I passed the practicuum with flying colors.

Just before chapel, one of Jon’s classmates (Matt) invited us out for lunch. Over lunch, we talked about internship stuff since we’re probably going to be at the site where Matt was. He was able to fill us in on some stuff that we did need to know. It was good because I finally feel like someone is cluing me into things in this process.

Today, I got a really interesting email. It was from Ellen, who happens to be an IV staffer in Bosnia. It turns out, she’s been rading my weblog for a few weeks and wanted to know if she could be part of my liturgy survey. My response: YES!!!!! I checked out her site and it is really neat. I also think her ministry work is really wonderful. She teaches English to Bosnian students. I encourage all y’all to check out her weblog. Oh yes… she’s also Episcopalian!!!!! (My Anglican side rejoices mightily!!!!)

OK… time to go heat up the leftover “Prego Pasta Bake” and read some ecumenical dialogues. Slan lait!