Archaic vocabulary lesson of the day

Dight = dressed, covered. From the Old English "dihtan" (where the "h" is pronounced like a kind of Hebrew "ch") meaning "to arrange".

Now you can read "Faire is the Heav'n" by Edmund Spenser. And tell me what the hell is going on with the rhyme scheme. It gets funky about halfway through.

We're singing that song in the Chamber Chorus. It's awesome. As is everything else we're/they're singing. Y'all should come see the concert. It's gonna be hawt.

Other random thing I learned yesterday -- since the rehearsal took place on a holiday, the normal place we rehearse was closed. So instead, we rehearsed at the school where the director teaches, John Burroughs. Those of you from the Lou may recognize that as the hoity-toity private school where all the rich people send their kids. Anyway, their school day is really strange -- they go from about 8:15 to 4:30, divided into 10 periods of about 42 minutes each. What the hell? Plus, I'm told that that schedule includes time for sports, as every student has to play a sport. What the double hell? I also happened to find a pamphlet lying around that showed the top 20 or so colleges the class of '05 went to. Harvard got 15. Brown got 6. What the mother fuck? Don't you people know Harvard sucks?

Huh. I should probably be doing something work-related now.