It went very well, yay. My feet hurt because I wore pumps instead of flats. I am feeling vaguely hyped still but also very, very tired. I hope I can sleep soon, but first, I really want some ice cream.

My laptop has been sent off to Apple. When the guy was telling me all the boilerplate stuff they have to go through when you bring in a machine for repair, I just about lost it. It was just... one thing too many. None of it was a surprise, this laptop has been shipped off to Apple maybe half a dozen times, and I've heard it all before. But just ( Read more... )

Set down the laptop to get a beverage, returned, picked it up again and the screen looked all wonky. Can't get it to completely start up again, or on some occasions it may be starting up properly but the screen stays blank. Could quite possibly be yet another logic board failure since it's the sort of wonkiness that I saw when that happened before ( Read more... )

What a day. Found out that someone I'm really very fond of is dying. I knew she'd had cancer but as of a month or so ago she'd recovered quite a bit. Now she's taken a turn for the worse, is mostly unconscious and isn't expected to live more than a few days, a week at most. She's about 50 ( Read more... )

Last night I spent an hour lying awake in bed in a mild panic, because there was a persistent ringing in my right ear. Not a terribly loud one, it didn't take much to drown it out, but it was there. Finally it faded, and it took me another hour or so to feel sufficiently unpanicked to sleep. So I'm very tired, underslept for sure ( Read more... )

Not only am I to learn the soprano 2 part for the quartet #35, I'm to learn the soprano 2 part for the trio #28, which is just three women -- unaccompanied. Assuming it's not done by chorus (which it sometimes is, but in this case likely won't be; we still don't know yet). Apparently I have a stronger low range than our section leader? Knock me ( Read more... )

I just said "yes" to the wee solo quartet bit. Yes, I'll be buried in the middle of four voices (2 soprano, 2 alto, I'll be singing soprano 2, sop 1 and alto 1 are the pro soloists and the other two parts are from the chorus) and it's only 32 measures of actual singing. But. Solo. Part. In. Benaroya. Hall. With. The. Seattle. Symphony. And. Helmuth ( Read more... )

Home from a two days of babysitting mom after her second hand surgery. Realized again how badly I do when awakened in the night: I went to sleep at 11, got up at 2 to give mom meds, was awake for an hour or so, got up again at 6 to give her meds, was awake for an hour or so, woke up at 9 to a phone call, got up again at 10 to give mom meds only to ( Read more... )