When the sun turns traitor cold

[sovay]

I need a bumper sticker that says "I Survived Yom Kippur."* For various health reasons, I had planned not to fast this year, but due to spending the entire day in a synagogue and consequently not near anything edible—they notice if you try to snack on the congregants—I inadvertently kept the fast. But it was worth it, for the music. I did have to tell at least half a dozen people that I am neither an out-of-work cantor nor studying to be one, which amused me immensely. And I arrived home to discover that I had just won a hideous fictional death from sosostris2012. L'shanah tovah, on that note. Now excuse me while I effect a nervous collapse.

*I also need a bumper sticker that says "Never Blaspheme The Aspidistra," but that's another story. Suffice to say that the simultaneous re-reading of Dorothy Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse has been producing some unexpected side effects. I shudder to think how I sound in correspondence these days.

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[coraline]

I also need a bumper sticker that says "Never Blaspheme The Aspidistra,"

if you get/make one, you MUST let me know :)

(i'm surprised you didn't use the appropriate icon for this post :)

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

"Suffice to say that the simultaneous re-reading of Dorothy Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse has been producing some unexpected side effects."

I read Lord of the Rings, Atlas Shrugged, The Kama Sutra, and several James Cabell novels at about the same time.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

they notice if you try to snack on the congregants

Perhaps you should try when it's not a high holy day?

I did have to tell at least half a dozen people that I am neither an out-of-work cantor nor studying to be one, which amused me immensely.

There's a vague, unformed comedy routine about part-time cantors going through my head right now. But I'm too busy beating the damn poem out of my head to do any justice to it...

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I did have to tell at least half a dozen people that I am neither an out-of-work cantor nor studying to be one, which amused me immensely.

Did this come up for any reason other than the easily predicted? (Namely, that you're a good singer and a loud one.)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

but due to spending the entire day in a synagogue and consequently not near anything edible...I inadvertently kept the fast. But it was worth it, for the music.

I think I can relate. Kinda like going to Christ Church (in large part for the music) on Good Friday, and winding up fasting due to the 2.5-hour-long noonday service... (They take liturgy SERIOUSLY)