"You'll be there, like a handprint on my heart"
So I just had my singing lesson. I was extremely nervous and when the first thing that happens is "Caro Mio Ben" appears in front of me and I hear, "Let's start with this" I wasn't any less nervous. It didn't help that I could not hit the first note right off the bat - I really needed to warm up etc and I was dying of tense anyway so yeah. Anyway over the course of the half hour I did manage it, both on just "la" and with the words (though it got a bit thin at any of the parts where the music looked complicated - I have apparently forgotten how to sight-read) so that was good. I had to do a bunch of testing up and down for range and some silly-looking exercises etc. I mean, it was super embarrassing partly because I feel like I've lost a lot of range and technique and because the exercises made me feel silly. The teacher, on the other hand, seemed to think I was all right and didn't lose patience with me (at least not visibly haha), which was good. I feel really good about it, especially since I can forgive a lot of the squeakiness and music-fail as it's been 6 years since I did any of this in a serious kind of way. Plus I was never good at sight-reading. It's a lot of guesswork, just like my foreign languages. Context is the way forward haha XD ANYWAY it's over and I'm supposed to think about it and text him if I want to keep having lessons. Of course I want to keep having lessons, and I was pretty okay with his style so I don't see why not. I guess I'll text him tomorrow afternoon or Thursday so it doesn't look like I'm not thinking it over XD I bought myself a fancy sandwich on the way home as a reward lol
In other news, I am 2000 words behind in my NaNo, and I'll have to make them up sometime. I tried yesterday but only managed to scrape in with yesterday's 2000. This puts me at 6k when I should be at 8 - 10 by the end of today. So I have 4k to do today or I need to tack on 500 extra words to 4 days (because I spent Sunday moping and not writing) bleh. We'll see how it goes. Good lord. Fortunately, I have manufactured some plottish things to fit in between the bigger bits because otherwise it would just be bam bam bam and it's over. Not what we're looking for! I'd better get to work on that, actually. But first I've got some things to order so they'll get in before Christmas.
EDIT: PS I AM SUPER SICK OF THE NANO SITE BEING BROKEN SINCE YESTERDAY AND RIDICU-SLOW SINCE I SIGNED UP THURSDAY. WTF GUYS STEP IT UP.
In other news, I am 2000 words behind in my NaNo, and I'll have to make them up sometime. I tried yesterday but only managed to scrape in with yesterday's 2000. This puts me at 6k when I should be at 8 - 10 by the end of today. So I have 4k to do today or I need to tack on 500 extra words to 4 days (because I spent Sunday moping and not writing) bleh. We'll see how it goes. Good lord. Fortunately, I have manufactured some plottish things to fit in between the bigger bits because otherwise it would just be bam bam bam and it's over. Not what we're looking for! I'd better get to work on that, actually. But first I've got some things to order so they'll get in before Christmas.
EDIT: PS I AM SUPER SICK OF THE NANO SITE BEING BROKEN SINCE YESTERDAY AND RIDICU-SLOW SINCE I SIGNED UP THURSDAY. WTF GUYS STEP IT UP.