six long months i spent in quincey...
first real audition in the city with no one else...accomplished...
how well it went is a total other story, but i didn't bring shame and dishonor unto my kith and kin...i don't think i got the audition, but it is experience, and that is half the battle in truth...actually, half the battle is learning that the bus stop changed...thank you to the random tie wearing yuppie who pointed me to the direction of the new bus stop along the route 80 line when you get picked up at the rockaway mall...because not showing up would bring shame and dishonor to my kith and kin...
i think the recital that i sang today went well also, but hell if i know...it felt so ridiculous getting all dressed up to sing one song, but i guess that is the nature of the beast...i wouldn't have felt right if i was any less dressy than i was...those things are hard to judge when everyone else is an instrumentalist...they seem to have different codes of dressing up...or maybe i am wrong...whatever...
i have decieded, have looking over my check book, that my monetary problems come from a continuous ebb and flow situation...i realize that is the way with everything...i get money for a month, then pay off the bills...but it seems that i make money, and then just lose the whole load of it...so i am going to make a concious effort to spend less (which means i will be buying pretty much nothing but gasoline and will be driving as little as possible) and will be tracking both incomes and spending...the problem is also that sometimes i get huge spikes in income...around this time of year, there is easter action and tax returns from the feds and the states, while january pretty much had nothing coming in because i didn't work for two weeks because of a performance...hopefully, this magical plan of mine will let me see better what i am doing so i can see where i can scrape away what i don't need...and all will be right in the universe...luckily i also won the war against the hours at work...i have about twenty a week, which is not really the ideal, which was fifteen, but i am really not going to complain about it at all...i guess being more aggressive about asking people for any hours they didn't want as well as taking the hours from the guy who stopped coming into work got the message to my manager that i actually did want more hours and wasn't just putting up post it notes for her for a good time...
this week includes (but is not limited to):
monday: latin, greek studies rehersal, lesson, opera rehersal, soldiers-war-another war rehersal, make appointment with surow....
tuesday: refill advair, two more applications, vocal coaching, work
wednesday: testing for memorization, opera rehersal
thursday: latin, vocal coaching, work
friday: ms genitron rehersal, work
saturday: visit my aunt from california at my aunt in south jersey's
sunday: church, work
so i got a lot more work going on, but more work is more money, which can help pay for the diagnostic that i just had to get on my car because the check engine soon light was on...took me a bloody week to get that bugger into the shop...
however, the week looks a lot cleaner as far as auditions and performances are concerned...
still in the middle of joseph campbell's oriental mythology...half of the book is about india...so i'm still on india cause i'm only half way through the book...
apparently this doesn't exist on a dvd format playable on us dvd players...but it looks pretty cool...it was translated into english and then has french subtitles (which begs the question of it if you are just going to have subtitles, why not keep it in german)...but it takes place during world war two (which might answer the question)...i would love to see this, but i think i need to hack into my dvd player, and that would back fire, and then everyone would be angry because i busted the dvd player, and while puccini is worth it, i'm not quite sure mozart is...
how well it went is a total other story, but i didn't bring shame and dishonor unto my kith and kin...i don't think i got the audition, but it is experience, and that is half the battle in truth...actually, half the battle is learning that the bus stop changed...thank you to the random tie wearing yuppie who pointed me to the direction of the new bus stop along the route 80 line when you get picked up at the rockaway mall...because not showing up would bring shame and dishonor to my kith and kin...
i think the recital that i sang today went well also, but hell if i know...it felt so ridiculous getting all dressed up to sing one song, but i guess that is the nature of the beast...i wouldn't have felt right if i was any less dressy than i was...those things are hard to judge when everyone else is an instrumentalist...they seem to have different codes of dressing up...or maybe i am wrong...whatever...
i have decieded, have looking over my check book, that my monetary problems come from a continuous ebb and flow situation...i realize that is the way with everything...i get money for a month, then pay off the bills...but it seems that i make money, and then just lose the whole load of it...so i am going to make a concious effort to spend less (which means i will be buying pretty much nothing but gasoline and will be driving as little as possible) and will be tracking both incomes and spending...the problem is also that sometimes i get huge spikes in income...around this time of year, there is easter action and tax returns from the feds and the states, while january pretty much had nothing coming in because i didn't work for two weeks because of a performance...hopefully, this magical plan of mine will let me see better what i am doing so i can see where i can scrape away what i don't need...and all will be right in the universe...luckily i also won the war against the hours at work...i have about twenty a week, which is not really the ideal, which was fifteen, but i am really not going to complain about it at all...i guess being more aggressive about asking people for any hours they didn't want as well as taking the hours from the guy who stopped coming into work got the message to my manager that i actually did want more hours and wasn't just putting up post it notes for her for a good time...
this week includes (but is not limited to):
monday: latin, greek studies rehersal, lesson, opera rehersal, soldiers-war-another war rehersal, make appointment with surow....
tuesday: refill advair, two more applications, vocal coaching, work
wednesday: testing for memorization, opera rehersal
thursday: latin, vocal coaching, work
friday: ms genitron rehersal, work
saturday: visit my aunt from california at my aunt in south jersey's
sunday: church, work
so i got a lot more work going on, but more work is more money, which can help pay for the diagnostic that i just had to get on my car because the check engine soon light was on...took me a bloody week to get that bugger into the shop...
however, the week looks a lot cleaner as far as auditions and performances are concerned...
still in the middle of joseph campbell's oriental mythology...half of the book is about india...so i'm still on india cause i'm only half way through the book...
Click to viewapparently this doesn't exist on a dvd format playable on us dvd players...but it looks pretty cool...it was translated into english and then has french subtitles (which begs the question of it if you are just going to have subtitles, why not keep it in german)...but it takes place during world war two (which might answer the question)...i would love to see this, but i think i need to hack into my dvd player, and that would back fire, and then everyone would be angry because i busted the dvd player, and while puccini is worth it, i'm not quite sure mozart is...