It's crazy around here with theses and setting up thesis defenses and people finishing papers and projects in order to graduate three weeks from now. Then there are the people who are just now trying to do a semester's work all at once in order to get through the term without blowing their grades. Then there's the usual work.

Then there's rehearsing for tomorrow night's choir concert. Then there is rehearsing for Saturday's Opera Night. Then there's rehearsing nearly every evening for the following weekend's Mozart Requiem.

It's all fun. Maybe not dealing with the overstressed students, but the papers and the classes and seeing good students get master's degrees and honors degrees and publication awards is all rewarding. The rehearsing is a pleasure and so is hearing the other singers and contributing with them.

Good stuff. I'm burning pretty hot this week.