Wheee!
Actually, not really. I wish I felt more jazzed after sending in that submission to The Other Journal, and I'm glad I pulled it together, but mostly I just feel a bit smooshed. That sleepless night and the nauseating pain today kind of wiped me out more than "Caritas et Amor" and hitting a deadline can fix.
Stroope's arrangement of Caritas has this beautiful kind of harmony at the end of several lines that sort of transports me. I wish I knew enough musical theory to explain it, but it's like the lines come towards each other and the resolve is not really a resolve, just a bit of closer dissonance. Or something like that. We read it in choir today, and I loved reading it because when we're just starting out reading a piece in our choir of really non-professionals, everyone is kind of quiet and gentle with things, and the sopranos voices just sort of hover lightly, not strained or harsh or loud, and everything mixes into something like what I honestly hope I will hear in heaven someday.
Anyway, because I ate my vegetables today (my 18+ hour day), tomorrow I shall feast on a DVD I've been withholding from myself. It's the next bit of that baseball series, and I hope no one gets intentionally walked. (That scene brought back some surprisingly bitter memories. I HATED getting intentionally walked, especially at the tournaments when the bases were loaded or almost loaded. It drove me NUTS! GRAWR!)
I will also take a crack at submitting to the Mid-American Review, running a lot of errands, possibly finishing up an application for a teaching position at a really unique college, and maybe singing a new song in choir. Hooray. Now, to bed. To sleep, perchance, etc.
What do you use to reward/motivate yourself? I know for some people it's food, for others books or music or movies. Some people even use spending time with their friends as a reward. So what's your cookie?
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