Things I have discovered recently

Just because we've just finished singing five stanzas of sturdy G major doesn't mean I should start the Sursum corda on a G. Sure, I'll sound like the lyric baritone I've always secretly wanted to be, and that's ever so gratifying -- but the congregational responses will sit uncomfortably high for most of the folks in the pews. And then it's All About the Priest. Get a good breath, let the G major fade, and go back to your usual F.

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There is no administrative task so simple that my senior colleagues can't screw it up, and no screw-up so minor that I can't get exasperated over it.

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The "Christian classics" we're reading in my undergraduate course -- Athanasius, Basil, Augustine, Benedict, Anselm, Aelred, Julian, and so forth -- pretty much teach themselves.

Scotus, not so much.

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My tendency to decorate the ends of phrases with extra vibrato may be attributable to too much listening to hair bands back in the 80s.