In which Rachel attempts to learn kohelet trop

I underwent a whole saga* of trying to find a good recording of kohelet trop online, since I am supposed to read the first 4 chapters on Saturday.

After my googling turned up nothing, I posted to the various WJ communities, and hatam_soferet saved the day and sent me her own recording of it.

Now we come to a different problem.

I still can't sing! Or at least as of last night I was still sounding horrible.

So I wonder how wise it is to read kohelet. Up until last night I was the only one to volunteer (there are 12 chapters). Luckily, another person volunteered for the last 4 chapters. So now just the middle 4 are open. Maybe if those get covered I can bail on my 4 chapters. Though I do want to read them. I just don't want to torture the congregation! And unlike Yom Kippur, I can't go on pure emotion and expect it to work. There's not so much emotion in kohelet. It's more blah. Nothing has a point. The world is meaningless. I'm King Solomon and I'm so emo. Give me a hug!

So we'll see. As of now I'm still doing it. And I have a non-Jewish friend at the div school, KC, who was interested in hearing it read, and I told him I would give him the details if I thought I was going to sound decent. Of course, I have to make the decision tomorrow. But he doesn't need to hear me reading kohelet sounding like I currently do. That's just cruel.

*The first thing I googled was "kohelet trop." Try it and see what happens. It's ironic.