the semester in review
i'm not even sure what to say about the last few months. it's been insane, to say the least.
november killed me:
-nov 3: i get really sick
-nov 4: student health diagnoses me with a bacterial throat infection
-nov 7: opening night of my show: i start losing my voice and push it too hard, losing it completely by the end of the night
-nov 8-9: i perform silently, and officially announce that i will direct "don giovanni" next semester
-nov 11: i have a physics test on which i perform terribly partly b/c of being sick/having the show and not having enough time to study
-nov 12: sight-singing test in musicianship; quartets in choir: one person from each part has to sing to prove that you've learned your music--choir director is alarmed at my lack of voice
-nov 14: choir concert--i'm told to "sing what i can"
-nov 17: i see an ear/nose/throat doctor who tells me i have a hemorrhage on my vocal chords, and have to be completely silent for a week and can't sing for two weeks
-the next week is extremely difficult, especially as i'm supposed to be working hard on "don giovanni"
-thanksgiving break is a much-needed escape from uva, even though i had to catch up on a lot of work and didn't do enough studying
-dec 1: doctor says that i can sing again but i have to be gentle because my chords are still swollen
and of course i then have 2 choir concerts that weekend, and my voice teacher was going to get me out of singing juries (when you sing for the voice teachers) but the choir director insisted that i sing anyway, so i find this out the night before and have to get up at 8 the next day to go find out when they can fit me in, and i'm so upset about it because i wasn't at all prepared, etc. etc.
from overextending myself academically to struggling through illness to tolerating an annoying roommate to dealing with emotional angst/disappointment to dealing with a terrible show, i couldn't have been more ready for the semester to end.
unfortunately, it's back to the grind in 3 days and i don't know if i can handle being back with those people again so soon
november killed me:
-nov 3: i get really sick
-nov 4: student health diagnoses me with a bacterial throat infection
-nov 7: opening night of my show: i start losing my voice and push it too hard, losing it completely by the end of the night
-nov 8-9: i perform silently, and officially announce that i will direct "don giovanni" next semester
-nov 11: i have a physics test on which i perform terribly partly b/c of being sick/having the show and not having enough time to study
-nov 12: sight-singing test in musicianship; quartets in choir: one person from each part has to sing to prove that you've learned your music--choir director is alarmed at my lack of voice
-nov 14: choir concert--i'm told to "sing what i can"
-nov 17: i see an ear/nose/throat doctor who tells me i have a hemorrhage on my vocal chords, and have to be completely silent for a week and can't sing for two weeks
-the next week is extremely difficult, especially as i'm supposed to be working hard on "don giovanni"
-thanksgiving break is a much-needed escape from uva, even though i had to catch up on a lot of work and didn't do enough studying
-dec 1: doctor says that i can sing again but i have to be gentle because my chords are still swollen
and of course i then have 2 choir concerts that weekend, and my voice teacher was going to get me out of singing juries (when you sing for the voice teachers) but the choir director insisted that i sing anyway, so i find this out the night before and have to get up at 8 the next day to go find out when they can fit me in, and i'm so upset about it because i wasn't at all prepared, etc. etc.
from overextending myself academically to struggling through illness to tolerating an annoying roommate to dealing with emotional angst/disappointment to dealing with a terrible show, i couldn't have been more ready for the semester to end.
unfortunately, it's back to the grind in 3 days and i don't know if i can handle being back with those people again so soon