Today we had our Christmas party at work. It was definitely a lot more fun than I had expected. Take a normally quiet office, and give the folks free rein, and watch out! Good food and games. Our department is all decorated, and who knows if or when the decorations are coming down. We spent a lot of time hanging up snowflakes (and microfiche), constructing a tree out of document folders, and so forth, that it’s a shame to take it all down. We figure at least the tree should stay. It’ll be our generic holiday tree: Valentine’s Day, Easter, umm, Arbor Day?
I went home early and watched some music specials on PBS, including Christmas with Chanticleer, broadcast from the medieval sculpture hall at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chanticleer is a San Francisco-based men’s a cappella group that sings mostly early Renaissance and sacred music. The one word that comes to mind is virtuosic. One thing you note is how high they sing; it’s phenomenal. I saw them in concert with Federica Von Stade last year at the Kennedy Center, and the whole program was amazing.