Actually, what I am doing is taking a break. I have been working for two days on a paper on Jewish chant and I needed to step away from it for a bit and then go back to organize and edit what I have written. I am in the home stretch with this paper and two others due on Thursday. The others have been done for two weeks week, one on my field study work on the Torah service of the Dublin Orthodox community, and the other, a ritual reconstruction of a 13th century High Mass for the Day of Ascension.
This week I have two classes that are make up from earlier in the semester when the tutors were unavailable. On Thursday I will hand in my papers in triplicate and on Friday my classmates and I have our elective chant performance. I will be singing five Jewish chants that are rooted in the Sabbath service. I will have one week off and will be working in earnest on a special writing project and then our chant teacher will return from Paris for a few days of group and private lessons. And then the semester is officially over.
Unless some amazing fare presents itself I will be staying here for the vacation and I am deciding how to spend my time. As it stands now I will be heading to in England for a few days. I will also probably explore Ireland a bit and then just before classes start go on retreat at nearby Glenstal Abbey, where I can spend some quiet contemplation time, walk in the woods and generally be in very lovely surroundings. Classes will begin again on January 18. So I will keep you posted on any adventures. And for the short term I will go and finish my paper and then have some Chinese food delivered. Oh the life of a student...got a run.
Love from Glocca Morra.
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