Around this time of year people sometimes make posts revealing the Yuletide fics they wrote and discussing the writing process. This is not that post. (That one's coming.) This is the post about "a bunch of stuff that happened over winter vacation visiting my family, much of which is sort of Yuletide-adjacent so I didn't want to spoil it." Under a cut not because it's particularly awful, just rambling.

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Anyway, a fun break overall, and hopefully I won't be too listless/frustrated trying to get back to work. (But it's me, so no promises.)

 Not frivolous in terms of happy but frivolous in terms of trivial, I guess:

I do not like students who are, in class, *raise hand to show off how much they know*. And my choir is...weird. It's a small church, with a few oldsters (at least one of whom is going deaf and complaining about the director, but...she sticks around anyway?), and fewer youngsters (hiya) who are just enthusiastic amateurs.

But...we're also down the road from a large and prestigious university with a music school. So we hire a bunch of ringers, and the choir makes up a very large portion of the weekly attendance, and is pretty good for our church's size. If anything, the director holds us all to the same high standards, getting annoyed when we underperform at times.

So we often have the show-offs being like "ooh, I think we need to do measure 41 again" or "it would be nice if we all watched the director (:" or today, most annoyingly, "let's stand in a circle so we can listen to each other better!" This is not the place to play teacher's pet. :(