Being social

The local filk gang has been holding basement gatherings and I went last night. It’s a group that is at least aware that COVID exists, and while it’s the worst air quality room I’ve spent any significant time in since pre-COVID days, they do require a negative COVID test before attending. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one using a nucleic acid amplification test (I use Metrix) and a negative on a rapid antigen test is pretty meaningless, but at least we’re trying to avoid people who are just obviously ill showing up, which is more than pretty much anyone else is doing, and I wear a Flo Mask and bring my portable Clean Air Kits Exhalaron air filter and friends don’t hassle me about it.

Also bonus to wearing the Flo Mask is I could play with these adorable kitties without any allergy problems!

Anyway it’s super nice to actually see people and get to chat in person and to hug friends, it’s really nice to get some touch. And hang out with one of my old trans friends from way back and have that kind of chat you can have with someone who really knows.

And of course singing, I’ve been away from it for a while. Aside from needing more practice making music I’ve realized I used to try to sing as far down toward the bottom of my range as I could, because, uh, you know, but as a woman now I don’t really want to do that so I’ve been doing some exploring of where in the range I want things.

It was super nice to hear some songs I hadn’t heard in a long long time, and do some singing again. I think everything I sang was written by Cat Faber, what can I say, she’s written a lot of good ones, everyone likes them!