Mm, alphabet soup.

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.

colorwheel gave me the letter A.

( A my name is Alice and I come from Alabama... )

In other news: orthopedist poked and pulled and pushed (and had a really brusque, not very helpful bedside manner), and said it's either an injury to the MCL (medial collateral ligament, the one that runs down the inside of the knee) or a tear in the meniscus. The former would heal on its own; the latter would need surgery. MRI is scheduled for early Friday morning to determine what the state of affairs is. (They had to get approval from my insurance company before they could schedule it.) In the meanwhile, I'm still in the immobilizer, but can lose the crutches. (I've switched to a cane, to keep some extra stability.)

One morning's anecdotal evidence suggests that Boston commuters are much less likely to give up a subway seat to someone with a cane than someone with crutches. On the first ride, one person did, but it took a while for anyone to offer; on the second ride, nobody even offered.

Songs.

Songs I should learn/relearn/master (Broadway):
"I'm Not That Girl"
"There's a Fine, Fine Line"
"I Ain't Down Yet"
"Moments in the Woods"
"When You're Good to Mama"
"Look to the Rainbow"
"Growing Up Catholic"
"Hold On"
"He Plays the Violin"?
"My Mother's Wedding Day"?
"My New Philosophy"?
"Back to Before"? (probably too belty)

Songs I should learn/relearn/master (Classical/opera):
"Chacun a son gout"
"Pret des ramparts de Seville"
Something Mozart
Copland's "Old American Songs"
Something Vaughan Williams
"A lady fair, of lineage high"?
Mad Margaret's solo
"Alone, and yet alive!"
The awesome songs in that book of Spanish-language art songs
"O Thou That Tellest"
Other oratorio stuff?

Must be others...should find voice teacher...should do more singing...should have a life...