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[sovay]

I am returned from singing in the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. I had a wonderful time. You can watch the webcast! I am tragically not on camera at least one of the times I was shouting at the accordion player, but you can watch me know-it-all to the music of Bach just fine. I have glasses and a frequently aghast expression.

Tomorrow I get up early to help with childcare and in the evening attend the opening of The Revenger's Tragedy; Saturday I start rehearsing in Yiddish again; right now I'm going to collapse. My ears are still ringing because the chorus applauded with its clickers for the bows. It was like receiving a surprise MRI.

I enjoy very much being onstage. It used to be a staple feature of my life and now it is an intermittent opportunity. I should find out how to change that.

An auditorium full of funny science and paper airplanes seems a good place to start.

Comments

[yhlee]

Yay singing! I hope you get some good rest.

[sovay]

Yay singing! I hope you get some good rest.

Thank you! I'm just waiting for the adrenaline to wear off so that I crash.

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you had fun! The Ig Nobel Prize is a wonderful thing.

[sovay]

I'm glad you had fun! The Ig Nobel Prize is a wonderful thing.

Thank you! I'm really just delighted to have been involved.

[a_reasonable_man]

This is the first time I've seen you perform, and you were fun to both listen to and watch. And I'm glad you're involved with Igs! Igs folks are your kind of people.

[sovay]

This is the first time I've seen you perform, and you were fun to both listen to and watch.

Thank you! I didn't realize you'd never seen me perform before. It was fun to sing.

And I'm glad you're involved with Igs! Igs folks are your kind of people.

I like all the ones I've met so far!

I'm glad you were there.

[rosefox]

I'm so glad it went well! I have deeply fond memories of being in the Igs. Maybe I'll ask Marc about coming back for the 30th First.

[sovay]

I'm so glad it went well!

Thank you!

I have deeply fond memories of being in the Igs. Maybe I'll ask Marc about coming back for the 30th First.

I think you should; it would be fun.

[thistleingrey]

I'm glad that you had a wonderful time! It seems important.

[sovay]

I'm glad that you had a wonderful time! It seems important.

Thank you! I think so, too. It wasn't something I didn't know I was missing, but it was something I thought was no longer possible-feasible, and now that seems not to be the case.

[thistleingrey]

*nods* Having the choice for yourself seems important, too. (Okay, auditions, potentially, but I mean the parts that you can enact.)

[teenybuffalo]

Your solo sounded cool, and I enjoyed hearing you perform and seeing the look on your face at the moment you got a close-up reacting to someone aggressively picking his nose.

Likely see you at "Revenger's Tragedy" tomorrow evening, I hope -- I'm making a snap decision to go then.

[sovay]

Your solo sounded cool, and I enjoyed hearing you perform and seeing the look on your face at the moment you got a close-up reacting to someone aggressively picking his nose.

Thank you! I was on a stage full of infuriating people! I did not count myself among them, of course.

Likely see you at "Revenger's Tragedy" tomorrow evening, I hope -- I'm making a snap decision to go then.

Awesome! See you then.

[moon_custafer]

You had the best voice!

[sovay]

You had the best voice!

Thank you!!

*hugs*

[coraline]

“applauded with its clickers for the bows. It was like receiving a surprise MRI.”
That's an amazing and terrible image :)

Someday I'll make it to the ignobels! Or manage to network my way into being part of them...

[sovay]

That's an amazing and terrible image

Thank you. It was loud!

Someday I'll make it to the ignobels! Or manage to network my way into being part of them...

You should! You are kind of the target demographic. The band was at least two-thirds scientists.

[coraline]

do you have any connections for how one might get involved? :)

[sovay]

do you have any connections for how one might get involved?

I was invited in originally by a friend who is involved, so I suspect the answer is "I e-mail relevant people and tell them you're awesome."

. . . Do I actually know what you do in terms of science awesomeness? I have a much better idea when it comes to music.

[oracne]

What a fun time!

[sovay]

What a fun time!

It really was!

[asakiyume]

It was like receiving a surprise MRI --This made me laugh... and also tells me something I didn't know about an MRI!

Congratulations--this sounds lovely. The amount of wonderful stuff you do, in spite of everything, inspires and impresses me. Looking forward to watching the webcast!

(Now collapse deeply and restoratively please!)

[sovay]

--This made me laugh... and also tells me something I didn't know about an MRI!

In the spirit of the prize itself!

(SO LOUD.)

Congratulations--this sounds lovely. The amount of wonderful stuff you do, in spite of everything, inspires and impresses me. Looking forward to watching the webcast!

Thank you! Enjoy! There's so much in the ceremony.

(Now collapse deeply and restoratively please!)

(I did my best. I am now into the childcare part of the day.)

[selkie]

But there are going to be clowns in that play. You can't go to a thing with clowns. Clowns are fucking terrifying. You might be living with a clown right now and never know it.

[sovay]

Clowns are fucking terrifying. You might be living with a clown right now and never know it.

Fortunately, I have never been frightened of clowns, not even as a small child, and am therefore perhaps uniquely qualified for the uncertainty of my living situation.

[labingi]

Sounds like a blast! Enjoy The Revenger's Tragedy. I quite like it as a play.

[sovay]

Sounds like a blast! Enjoy The Revenger's Tragedy. I quite like it as a play.

Thank you! I had a great time at The Revenger's Tragedy; I had read it and seen the film by Alex Cox, but never managed to catch it staged before, and I really liked this take.

[hamletta]

Thanks for sharing! I thought I'd just watch a bit and then got totally hooked. What a fun ceremony! And great to see you perform! :)

[sovay]

Thanks for sharing! I thought I'd just watch a bit and then got totally hooked. What a fun ceremony! And great to see you perform!

That's a wonderful endorsement! Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.