4 hours to the doctor! and i thought mine was far away! :(
hope you enjoy camp! that sounds like quite a challenge 
but a fun challenge! 
hmm, mhd - that's positive, isn't it!
I hope that comes to something.
We had a man from an art project at choir last week - he was recording us to use samples that will be part of the sounds of the high street at the end of july (basically, he's putting little sound machiens on everybody's shop window, the window becomes the loud speaker and then people will be able to hear unexpected sounds as they walk past)
I did warn him we weren't very good!
Unfortunately, for us, he's got perfect pitch, so he could hear every mistake, every error, every missed interval etc.
I was chatting to him about it in the shop during this week, and I was excusing us for dropping pitch (i know there's one piece tht we did on sunday where we drop massively - we've even dropped pitch before the first phrase is over!) anyway, he was giving me little tips and ideas of why we've dropped - saying that if we don't quite hit an interval correctly, the pitch will drop, then each time we have that same interval, and get it slightly wrong, it will drop further.
the problem with that of course, is that we do the same anthems so many times that "we" get used to how our voices work when we do them, so it's nigh-on-impossible to correct.
It's a lot easier with new pieces, because our voices aren't sued to them, so we're more likely to get them right.
anyway, after this discussion, I sat at the piano with DH and explained the whole pitch/interval problem to him, and we worked on some interval exercises that we can do with the choir, using intervals that appear in the anthems we're doing this week.
The theory is that we will remember how our voices felt when singing those intervals when we get to that interval in the anthem.
DH says it's not going to work with our lot, because they don't concentrate .