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[amethyst73]

It's looking a little unlikely that I'll be able to do an 'attempt at good writing' post this week, due primarily to a lack of time.  Work is being busy: I'm doing the usual round of wet-lab work, and now that I've figured out how to call SNPs without developing a migraine, I'm trying to do more of that too. 

This week is also concert week for the community/university chorus that the huz and I are in.  The schedule for the week runs like this: regular rehearsal Monday night, dress rehearsals Tuesday and Thursday nights, concert on Friday and Saturday nights.  We're performing Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time, which I made a very brief reference to awhile back.  At some point - hopefully sooner rather than later - I intend to write a 'good writing' post about it.  But for now, suffice it to say that it's relatively modern, that Tippett really liked writing angular, non-melodic stuff (about Kristallnacht, in this particular instance), and that the piece was pretty difficult to learn.  In last night's dress rehearsal, it was clear that parts of the chorus still don't know chunks of it terribly well.  Sigh.

On the Wii front:
Rayman: I cheated the other day and got the huz to win my warthog race for me.  I'd spent more than sufficient time working on the Day 3 trials and wanted to save my game already.  (The one serious issue we have with Rayman is that the game WILL NOT SAVE until you have completed the last trial of the day.  We both feel that it ought to save after every successful sub-trial.  The huz, happily, passed the trial on his first go.)  But this morning, I was myself finally successful in breaking the time barrier!  Yay!  So now I don't feel like a cheat anymore.  I also finished the maze game in Day 3 in just barely the allotted time this morning.  So, double yay!

Sports: I now hold medals in all 3 tennis exercises and in all 3 golf trials, as well as one each in the baseball and bowling ones.  Neither of us has gotten a gold medal yet, but it's only a matter of time.  :)

Zelda: I've determined that if I spend too much time either playing Zelda: TP myself, or watching the huz play Ocarina of Time, I get dizzy, then motion-sick.  So at the moment I'm trying to figure out what my maximum 'safe' time is for watching or playing.  15 minutes of continuous watching from the couch (figuring that if the screen takes up a smaller portion of my visual field, it won't get me so sick so fast) is perfectly fine.  I'm looking forward to trying 20 minutes of play from the couch later today.  :)

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[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

20 minutes: fine
25 minutes (with fishing, and with some irritating in-and-out camera work while trying to figure out how to wiggle the bobber) : probably starting to push it a bit
30 minutes: need to stop!

It wouldn't let me save my first little fish - dunno why. Then when I caught a second, it said I could catch one anytime and made me throw it back. Ya know, I really don't think the cat cares about the size of the fish - it just wants fish!