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Given that yesterday work reduced my brain to scrambled eggs, I naturally went home and proceeded to try to memorize a song in German. I think I've pretty much got it, because I still had it when I woke up this morning. When I've really got it, I can sing it while concentrating on something else. Right now I can sing it when it's the only thing I'm concentrating on. That's close enough for government work in this case, though; I'm singing it in a recital in two weeks and it will be the only thing I'm concentrating on then. (Aside from stage fright, anyway.)

Generally speaking, I like November. It's got Thanksgiving in it, and I'm thoroughly in favor of Thanksgiving. But for various reasons, this November has been about twelve years long and I was ready for it to be over last week. The December P&R meeting is next Tuesday and the recital is the following Saturday, and after that December should be fairly easy. Christmas shopping got a lot easier when the immediate family all agreed we don't need any more Stuff, so I just go to Heifer International and buy a couple of pigs, one in my parents' name and one in my sister and brother-in-law's name. And then I give the family something small and pig-related. Last year it was calendars; the year before that it was chocolate bars with bacon in them. This year it might be peppermint pigs, if I can find any.

Now that it's after Thanksgiving, the Christmas music has appeared on store soundtracks. I suppose I can't gripe about that, but I have observed, as I do annually, that there's a difference between Christmas songs and Christmas carols. I don't like Christmas songs all that much, and that's all I've heard so far. Maybe the stores are saving the Christmas carols for closer to Christmas? (I hope.)