A New Endeavor

So, I've started out on a new endeavor.  (And I have dragged Matt along with me, though he seems to be going willingly enough...)  We have joined the Oklahoma Master Chorale.  Unfortunately, their website hasn't been updated lately.  A friend and former fellow St. Paul's chorister is now the director.  (Dr. Vicki Schaeffer.)  It is going to be fun to work with Vicki again, and lots of my fellow students from Karen Smith-Pearson's voice studio are in the Chorale, also.  (So I have people there who already know how I sing.  Vicki knows, but it's been a few years since she sang with us.)
This is going to be a LOT of work, but it should be fun.  I will no doubt be wondering if I hate myself by the time the first concert is over.  (Do I really want to stand that long?  Do I really want to learn that much music?  At least I look good in black.)  Yes, I really do want to learn all that music.  I need a challenge.  Matt and I both do.  Our work at St. Paul's is a challenge, but we don't do really intense, major things very much, and the works the Chorale is doing are VERY intense.  We both need the vocal stretch.  (Though, I think the Donizetti piece and the Zarzuela piece I am currently working on for Karen are a pretty big stretch.)
Anything that makes me use my mind and my talent must be a good thing, right?  I think so.
I just hope I can do a good enough job that I don't let Vicki down.  I know I can sing well enough, it is just the mental discipline and the practice (outside rehearsals) that I hope I can stick with.  I don't want to embarrass myself..
So, here's hoping the allergies and my energy are going to allow me to be up to the challenge!