After work last night Karen came over and we had Tazo Mint Tea and Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes and we watched White Christmas. I'd never seen it before. It was really good. :-) Thanks for sharing Karen. XX MWAH!

December 19 - my last voice lesson of the Fall Semester and the last "class" of the semester at that. YAY! I'm officially on Winter Recess. It's been kind of a different semester for me. I was busy - but not as overwhelmed "busy" as I was during my masters. I almost feel a bit busy. But 3 less credits (which is three less courses because most of our courses are 1 credit each) will do that to you.
Since I, again, haven't written in nearly a month I'll retrace my steps back to the beginning of the December.

December 1 - I remember this day clearly because when I got up at 7:30 in the morning to run it was 65 degrees outside and I ran alongside the Charles River in shorts and a sports tank-top. Eventually - that day (and the day before) were both balmy - springlike days reaching into the 70's. "Welcome Global Warming". BUT then it got cold Friday night and into the weekend.
I also remember this weekend because my oldest friend Sarah (not "old" as in like 95 years old - but the friend I've known the longest in my life thanks to those library reading times) was in town for some classes along with her colleague and friend, Heather. It was great to see her - and I remarked that she was very lucky because she was only in Boston for the weekend but in that weekend she was able to experience what it's like in Boston during the spring/summer and also the winter! It was a 2-for-1 deal! We had fun on Saturday night - went to the North End and had a good Italian meal and evetually found was, according to a local in their class, THE best pastry shop in the North End with THE best Canolis. Yeh... they were pretty good. After - Sarah and Heather and Karen (who met us for dinner as well) took a little night-time tour of Boston in the Boston Common/Downtown Crossing area.

December 7 - my friend Rachel's Birthday and a celebration at Algiers Cafe which is right in Harvard Square. I've lived in Cambridge for 2.5 years now and walked past the cafe probably a zillion times (well - not really that many) and didn't realize it was a cafe. But now it's one of my most favorite cafes here - along with Cafe Paradiso. They have food, and turkish coffees, and espresso, and desserts. Speaking of desserts.....
So I met Louis and Rachel at the cafe and then 3 more people from Fellowship showed up. We all ordered drinks and after recieving them someone asked Rachel if she had had a cake that day and I'm pretty sure she replied "no" because we all decided we needed to get a dessert for her. I don't remember exactly what was on the dessert menu - I think some normal things like a chocolate cake of some sort, maybe tiramisu - I don't know. But, there was something called Basbousa. Of course, there are no descriptions and we were all saying to each other "what's that?" So someone - again it was so long ago I don't remember who - said "That's it! THAT'S what we're getting for Rachel's birthday "cake". We're going to order it and no one is allowed to ask what it is. It will be a surprise." So, we ordered it and while we were waiting for it to come we had to go around the table and make up our own description of what it might be - but the rule being it had to be something completely farfetched. So we had "Carmalized Rat" and "something with mint leaves..." and the list goes on. I decided I wanted to liken Basbousa to a "seven-layer bar" only - the layers would be something to the effect of mashed potatoes, raspberry preserves, whipped cream, lamb, mint leaves, honey, and something else I cannot remember. (yes, I have a very short memory!!!) Would everyone like to know what Basbousa actually is?? Well - it's a cake-like dessert which uses semolina in place of flour. (semolina is coursely ground grain.) This dessert also had honey and almonds and was topped off with rose water syrup. It was, ummmmmmmmmmmm, interesting. I actually think that without the rose water syrup it would have been quite tasty - but from the get-go it had this aroma of rose perfume from the rose water syrup. It was quite sweet - which was fine - but then it had this after taste of, well, having eaten a cake doused in rose perfume! HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL! :-)

December 15 - Schumann Song Cycle concert. It went so well and it was great to hear everyone's piece within it's cycle and also quite polished. I've written a lot about Schumann and this Song Cycle class in previous blogs so I won't bore everyone to snores - but it was just really amazing. The Frauenliebe und -Leben went so well and the way we performed it was really quite effective for both performer and audience. Just as a reminder - the songs in the cycle decpict the emotional stages of a woman's life from the time she first sees the man of her dreams through engagement, marriage, motherhood, and then finally - the very sad death of her husband. The postlude in the final song (mourning his death) is actually a restatement of the theme of the first song (when she sees him for the first time). Yumi and Bree and I shared the cycle - each singing 2 or 3 songs (there are 8 in all). Jane (our teacher) did a little staging for the performance so that as the postlude to the a song was finishing the next person to sing would slowly move into place and the next song would begin instantly without having the interruption of the one song ending, the person who sang it sitting down, and the next person getting up and getting into place. It was quite effective. Then during the postlude of the last song (Yumi sang the last song - she was AMAZING) Bree and I - at seperate times - got up and slowly moved and stood next to Yumi. There we were - all the stages of this woman's life - the young girl, the mother, and now the widow. It was really quite something. I felt
a little teary-eyed standing up there and even Karen said she got a bit misty ("a tear" said she).
So the Frauenliebe is not the only song I performed. I also performed Mondnacht which is gorgeous and very decievingly difficult. It's from his Liederkreis, op. 39.
Now that I have everyone interested in Schumann and his song cycles I can direct you to some good recordings to check out!
Schumann Lieder: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Deutsche Gramophone
Schumann:Liederkreis Op. 24; Dichterliebe Op. 48 and 7 Lieder: Ian Bostridge, tenor EMI Classics
Schumann Lieder: Robert and Clara : Barbara Bonney, soprano Decca

December 17 - Bree's Recital!!!! It was amazing and she sounded and looked so beautiful! Brava to her! and shame on all of you who didn't come and could have!!!! tsk tsk...
Also - that evening (almost immediately after) was the Vocal Chamber Ensemble class concert. It went really well. Karen and I sang our two Purcell (Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove and No, Resistance is but Vain), Faure's Ave Maria, and Donizetti's L'aurora. Again - it went so well. Our voices fit so well together and we were very happy with our performance. Some of which was the best we had ever done. We just got up there and had fun and we rocked!

And now - it's today. I'm leaving on Friday to come home. I can't believe this semester is over with already and that I have one more semester to go. Which reminds me - I REALLY need to figure out the rest of my recital. I have three sets down and two more to choose. Last year at this time everything was already planned out! Why am I so behind this year. I think - I need to be done with school. For a while. :-)
I hope to try and see everyone while I'm at home. I'm in Shelby from the 22nd-28th and then Columbus the 29th-1st. I leave to come back to Boston on the 2nd and then NEW YORK CITY here I come. Reminder: I don't have mobile service at my parents house so if you need to get ahold of me via phone call me at my parents house and if you don't have that info then email me because I do have email access. Word to the Columbus gang - what's going on New Years Eve???

Hugs and kisses and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. xxxxxxxxx

Go, lovely Rose-
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired:
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

Then die-that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

-- Edmund Waller

How did it get to be the week of Thanksgiving already? How did this happen? After this week is over there are 3 more weeks left in the semester. Oh the agony!

It's officially winter here in New England! FINALLY! lol - well I don't know about "winter" so much as it's finally cold. Our Autumn has been very mild. It's been in the 60's and 70's most of September, October, and even the first part of November up until now. Yesterday was the first real "cold" and it feels like it's here to stay. I don't care as long as the weather just decides. This going back and forth from chilly to warm and muggy and back to chilly wreaks havoc on my sinuses and my singing. Wouldn't you know it though Thanksgiving is supposed to bring with it a Nor'easter that's coming up the coast. It's only going to be rain - can you imagine what it would be like if it were snow??!!

Not too much time has gone by since I last posted so I'll start from the past and work my way back up to the present.
So let's see... Saturday was the BIG GAME! We had a small party of 5 Ohioans celebrating at my apartment. We were loud and raucous and I'm sure that the neighbors were wondering what on earth was going on next door. Actually... it was a big "game day" here in Cambridge as well as it was Harvard-Yale day. Home game! I was walking Simon at 9:30 am and the house on the corner was well into a party with what had to be a crowd of 50-75 people and good number of them doing beer funnels out on the front porch. Yes - at NINE-THIRTY in the morning. Igh!
It's actually quite funny to see all these Harvard-ites get worked up about this game. It's the last game of the season and they go all out: tail-gaiting, regalia, their small little band that doesn't really have uniforms, people walking in packs to the stadium. This is what it's like at a NORMAL university with a NORMAL football team on a NORMAL gameday. I think that Harvard wouldn't know what to do if they had to set up a "mini-court" on campus during gameday or had to hire a police force to guard their goalposts. No offense to my Harvard friends that read this blog (Rachel). It's just very humourous - that's all.
So anyhow - back to Saturday. Brian and Karen and Jenny and Bob came over and we had a good time.

Sunday was the Longy SAC hosted Thanksgiving dinner. It's traditional that SAC hosts this dinner the Sunday before Thanksgiving. SAC provides the Turkey, stuffing, gravy, rolls, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, and drinks. Then we ask everyone to sign up to bring other side dishes and desserts. We always have a good turn out and it's a lot of fun. Every year we've ordered 2 fully cooked turkey's and 2 full dinners (the dinners include all the sides SAC provides)from Shaw's (like Krogers to those of you not out on the East Coast) and we pick them up hot and ready to serve when we get back. We've never had a problem with this before. So, Sunday, Brooke and I go to pick up the food and drink and we get to the deli, give them our order number and the guy comes out from the back with 2 huge boxes filled with our complete order. But there was a slight problem - everything was COLD and the "fully-cooked" turkey was still wrapped in the plastic packaging that turkeys come in when you buy them at the store. Brooke and I took one look at the order, then each other and then started to have a panic attack. Literally. We couldn't figure it out. We ordered this EXACTLY the way we ordered it last year (we didn't have to tell them last year we wanted it HOT when picked it up. "Fully cooked" meant FULLY COOKED!) So we called those decorating back at School and let them know that some serious microwaving was about to happen upon our return. Dinner was to start sometime after 5:00 - it was 4:30. We got back and the nuking began. Luckily, the turkey was thawed and was actually fully cooked - it just had to be heated and there were microwave instructions. While Jen and Elinor and myself microwaved the potatoes, gravy, and stuffing, Brooke and Brian carved those two gobblers. Once the sides were done we started on the turkey slices until they were steaming hot. We kicked butt because everything was on the table by 5:15 - hot and ready to eat. Not exactly like our Kodaly Institute feast 5 years ago - but definately still a good dinner.

Yesterday was slightly stressful because last night's vocal seminar was a bit like a mini mid-semester jury - except not. It's really too much detail and too much unnecessary information to go into why all of us were unhappy with this little set-up. Instead of complaining (I'll keep that to all of us in the voice department)I'll just explain what we had to do which won't sound nearly as bad as it really was, nor really as bad as 1/2 the semester has been in this class. So, 1/2 the voice faculty was sitting in "panel-like" formation in the back of the recital room - all set with their pens and pencils and forms on which they critiqued our presentation. We had to come in, slate our name, the piece, the composer, the poet, and then give a small spiel that would draw in our audience - something interesting about the composer or song. Next we had to recite the text of the piece as a monologue. If the piece was in a forgeign language we had to first recite it in English in a literal translation - but as a monologue. Then take a moment and recite the text in it's original language as a monologue and then take another moment and sing the piece. For example: I sang Süsser Freund by Robert Schumann (I think I posted it in a previous blog perhaps a month or 2 ago). So I came in, did all the slating stuff, and then gave the literal English translation as a monologue, took a moment, and then recited the German text as a monologue, took a moment, then sang the piece. It actually went well. But it was quite stressful. "Class" began at 6:15 and I was number 17 to go on the list so I didn't actually get to perform my piece until well after 8:00. It was torture and it was ridiculous which was the general sentiment amongst, actually, all the performers.

BUT now - it's Tuesday. Classes officially are over tomorrow evening but I don't have class on Wednesday so I am officially on break! Woo-hoo! Although I have a lot of practicing to do - I won't have class and that means some good ol' R&R.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.Colossians 3:17

As Promised: Dancing on International Night? Can you find me? Probably not - and that's a good thing! :-P

Our trip to Salem on Halloween weekend.
The first picture of the Cry Innocent performance - a re-enactment of one of the Salem Witch Trials. It's a fun performance because they act out the first 1/2 hour or so of it and then it's audience interaction time. Members of the audience are allowed to stand and ask questions of the defendent as well as witnesses. It's basically an improv for the actors and makes for a different show each time!
The other pics are of the group that went.

This is what 55 + mph winds did to the tree that almost crushed my car several weeks ago!!!!

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog (in the words of Karen 5 days ago "You NEED to update your blog!!!). Instead of starting where I left off I'm going to start from yesterday and work my way backwards.

So yesterday... yes, yesterday. A day that everything needed to go as planned so I could stay somewhat sane. First I had church in the morning, then a rehearsal at 1:00 which was for another rehearsal from 1:00-3:00. A rehearsal at 3:15 for the Voice Department Coffee Concert at 4:00 and then an audition over at NEC at 7:30. At any rate, if the 1st half of the day was to be an indication of how the 2nd half of the day was going to go then I knew I was sunk. Luckily - things got much better as the day went on. First of all, my alarm went off quite early and I kept hitting snooze thinking - "Why is the alarm going off so early? This is not a day that I have to get up early." And then 5 or 6 hits of the snooze later it was 8:35 and I sat up suddenly exclaiming to myself "OH MY GOSH IT'S SUNDAY! I have to be at Church at 9:00!!!!" So I was late to our warm-up for choir - but I am never late so I didn't feel so bad. Then the service went over by like 30-45 minutes because it was Confirmation Sunday and not only that, it was DOWNPOURING and I didn't bring an umbrella and because of everything else that was going on that day I had a choice: Walk home, be absolutely soaked, take the time to dry off and re-do yourself for all your performances later today and then be very late to your rehearsal OR wait for a ride home, be dry, take the time to focus when you get home and only be slightly late for your rehearsal I opted for the latter - and my group was completely fine and very understanding about me having to be late - THANK GOD! I think that because I took the time between getting home and the first rehearsal I was actually less stressed and ready to begin the second half of my day which went fantastic. But, have you ever had one of those days where, not only do you have a specific way you want it to go and not only does everything start to go the complete opposite of what you planned - but it's a snowball effect of being able to sort of predict and see how wrong everything is going to be. Igh. Perhaps God's way of trying to get my attention I suppose! "SLOW DOWN" He says! LOL. What a little, little human being I am! :-)

So that was yesterday. Don't worry - I'm not going to go through a hour-by-hour, day-by-day synopsis of the past 2 1/2 weeks! Nobody (not even me) is that interested in what's going on with my life.

Friday - I dropped my phone. Big surprise, eh? Well it hit the floor so hard that the LCD display screen went blank and remained blank. So - I had to get a new phone. Good news and bad news. Good news: I had this phone for 5 years so I got a really good upgrade deal AND I wasn't replacing a relatively new phone. Bad news: I lost a lot of numbers. Some of you are going to have to send me your phone numbers again.

This past Thursday Ashley and Bree and I went to Scullers Jazz Club to see Audra McDonald perform. Amazing. Really - just simply amazing. The nice thing is that the Club is such an intimate setting so there's really no bad seat in the house. I smiled, I got teary-eyed, I laughed, I was moved - just really, simply moved. And she did some favorites too! Stars and the Moon (Stef and Orla - she's the one on the recording I played for you way back in the day for our Institute Cabaret night!!), My Stupid Mouth, Bill - and then some new ones as well.
Last Sunday was Longy's International Night I hosted a Hungarian Table. Mostly because I wanted to make Palacsinta which is a crepe-like pancake. I opted to make the Gundel palacsinta which is a dessert crepe and filled with a cremey substance which is a sweet-cream base with walnuts, raisins, candied orange peel, and rum. The palacsinta is then folded and topped with a chocolate sauce (which I didn't make but used Hershey's - much easier) and then tradition is that you pour rum (or the chocolate sauce has rum in it) on top and light it a-fire. Being that we were at school I couldn't do that. But they were a great hit anyhow. I also taught a Scottish dance. Woo-hoo. In addition I learned a Philipino dance called the Todo-Todo and some other crazy fast calorie burning dance. Michelle took video on my camera so I'll see about posting that on here.

The week before that was the annual SAC trip to Salem. The weather was a big big bummer - 35-40 mph winds, downpouring and raining sideways!!! It was fun though and we went to acouple of re-enactments of the Salem Witch trials.

Can it be that it is only a week and half until Thanksgiving??? How is this so? After the break is done it's 3 weeks of finishing up the semester - loads of performances. I really need to decide what I'm doing on my recital and also what I'm doing next year - SOON. Igh! Stuff I don't even want to think about - but seriously need to very very soon.

That's all for now folks. When I get home (or this evening) I'll try to post some pics from the Salem Trip and International Night.


P.S. everyone shout out a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY (on the 16th) to Orla who joins the ranks of us in our last year of being 20 something. :-) Love you Shennanigans!!!!! xxxx

I must first start off this blog by giving kudos to Karen who will most definately be reading this and who also just made my night a little better by only charging me for a 'Tall' Chai Latte when I ordered a 'Grande' and then actually making me a 'Venti' in the end. Sneaky little girl! xxxx
It's Tuesday night and I'm at work. I've actually been pretty productive this evening with some homework, necessary letter writing, and necessary emailing. These 5 hours always seem to go by slowly for the most part and I find that working at night is much more agreeable to me getting my work done rather than when I work during the day here. It's always much quieter and there aren't a ton of people coming in - unless it's finals or mid-terms season. Two years in a row I've worked with some fun girls on Tuesday nights. Last year it was Stephanie - who always distracted me with her online puzzles and very interesting stories about her work in Peru. This year it's Caroline. She and I both have a crush on this very very very handsome Scottish professor who will pop in on Tuesday evenings. He'll walk in, I'll look at him and say "Hi", he'll leave our presence, we'll giggle A LOT and then Caroline will proclaim that she "hates me" because I say "hi" to him. It happens the same way every week. Well...I guess... it's only funny to us - but we just saw him and I had to write about it! :-)
I haven't actually "blog" blogged about anything in a while. I got older in the past week. I guess we're always getting older - but my number actually changed. It was a good day. Bree, bless her, got up at my hour of the morning and greeted me at my bedroom door with fruit, chocolate covered cherries and a danish with a candle in it. She also wrote on all the bathroom mirrors and then left cookies in my coat pocket. Thanks Bree! I had to work and then had a lesson and then Karen took me out to lunch for a quick sandwich as I had a meeting. I spent the afternoon lying on the couch, chatting with friends from home and then headed off to work from 5-10. Blech! But... when I arrived home I had a little party of Bree, Karen and Ashley awaiting me as well as beautiful flowers, cake, and prezzies. :-)
Classes are going well. This semester I am taking the new Experiential Education Program which is reqiured of all Conservatory students. Last Thursday evening my group (Bree, Michelle, and myself) was asked to come and present our group project for the EEP to the Board of Trustees. We had dinner and then had to go up front, almost in a "panel" type setting give some background of ourselves as individuals and then a description of our project - how we came up with the idea, what we expected to teach others and learn from it ourselves. Everyone really loved it and we got tons of questions as well as some good points that were brought up to think about. I know... I know... I haven't really fully explained what exactly the EEP is all about or what our group project is. However, I've rambled on far too much already in this blog and will save all of that info for another day. It's exciting though! Stay tuned.
I don't know if I've said it before - but I really really like my Schumann Song Cycle class. Schumann lieder are a new favorite for me I think. I'm sorry to all you Schubert fans out there - but I just find Schumann Lieder so much more deep, daring, original, interesting and beautiful to sing. Am I going to be shot for saying that? I suppose I'm entitled to my own opinion.
I'll leave with a text by Eichendorff and set to music by Schumann in his Liederkreis Op. 39. It's probably one of Schumann's most beautiful songs and I got to sing it acouple weeks ago. It's amazingly beautiful but deceptively difficult!

Mondnacht

Es war, als hätt' der Himmel,
Die Erde still geküßt,
Daß sie im Blütenschimmer
Von ihm nur träumen müßt.

Die Luft ging durch die Felder,
Die Ähren wogten sacht,
Es rauschten leis die Wälder,
So sternklar war die Nacht.

Und meine Seele spannte
Weit ihre Flügel aus,
Flog durch die stillen Lande,
Als flöge sie nach Haus.


It was as if the sky
Had quietly kissed the earth,
So that in a shower of blossoms
She must only dream of him.

The breeze wafted through the fields,
The ears of corn waved gently,
The forests rustled faintly,
So sparkling clear was the night.

And my soul stretched
its wings out far,
Flew through the still lands,
as if it were flying home.

THANK YOU!
Big hugs and kisses to all who called, emailed, sent cards and packages and e-cards, sent text messages, wrote on my bathroom mirror with lipstick and decorated my bedroom door, came to celebrate after 10pm even though they had work the next morning, got up in the early hours to give me a birthday danish and chocolate covered cherries - the list could go on. Thank you thank you thank you. I am so blessed to be alive and to have all of you in my life. xxxx

God be in my head, and in my understanding;
God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God be in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at mine end, and at my departing.

I have a recital date!!!

drumroll please............

Monday, May 14, 2007
8:00 pm

"Before I was made
You searched me and knew my ways
You numbered all my days
And You set forth the steps I would take."

from Before There Was Time by Caedmon's Call

This verse really struck me as I was walking home from class today - iPod glued to my ears as usual.

EEKS! A spider!

Ashley was finally able to reach an apple on top of the tree only to find it had a huge spider living in it. She threw it on the ground - it landed on my shoe -I screamed - stepped backwards and stepped on an apple - rolled onto Bree - and it's all caught on video!

Trying to reach the apple

Rachael's brilliant idea of trying to reach the apple. We first tried having Ashley hoist me up in her hands - then stepping on her knee - then standing on her back. I thought a piggy back ride would be safer. Perhaps I should have gone for standing on her back. (Aside: We didn't know Michelle was taping)

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It's been a busy past week/weekend. I'm so excited that Autumn is here. It's been a strange Autumn already though. It's been perfect weather for the most part - although it did rain a lot on Sunday. Other than that it's been warm during the day and chilly in the evenings. All with the exception of today which was 75 degrees!! The leaves are starting to turn too! I feel an apple picking trip coming on. Anyone game? I can fit 4 other people in my car!
I'm finding a lot more time to practice this year which is really fantastic. Really really fantastic actually. Karen and I were placed in the same Vocal Chamber Ensemble group and we're doing some really nice duets together. Some Purcell, Donizetti, a beautiful Ave Maria by Faure and so on. This is actually my first time working with another singer in the VCE class. The last two times I took it I was placed with a saxophonist the first semester and a flutist the second semester. We are having a lot of fun - the two of us are - and, not to sound vain - but man we sound really good together. LOL. I guess a more humble way of saying that would be - our voices blend together quite well together.
I'm really loving the Schumann Song Cycle class that I'm taking. I've always loved Schumann but have never sung anything by him. This was my chance - so I took it. Anyhow - I just finished a coaching on Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an from Schumann's song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A woman's love and life). This is the last cycle Schumann wrote before his marriage to Clara and was intended as a wedding gift to her. The poems are a cycle that give the emotional experiences of a woman at various stages in her life - narrating the progressive stages of her relationship with her love from her first sighting of him, their wedding, announcing her pregancy to her him, and finally - the death of her husband.
I was assigned song no. 6 which is the moment when she is trying to tell her husband she is pregnant. Well Friday was my last coaching on the song and I basically had to act it out - but under the direction of my classmates Yumi and Bree who had been told the previous week to come up with some sort of scenario and direct me through it. Well, guess who my husband got to be? Brian - one of the teachers who co-teaches the course. My accompanist wasn't there that day so he was playing for me and Yumi and Bree thought it would be interesting if he was the husband. Great. Thanks guys. I thought I was going to die. Poor Brian - I don't think his face could have gotten much more red.
The scene played out so that he was playing the piano (actually accompanying me) - and I was desperately trying to get his attention - trying to tell him in so many ways - but he was a like a man distracted by a football game. At one point he even pulled his phone (still playing the piano with one hand) and pretended to make a phone call at which point I grabbed the phone away and eventually sat down at the piano with him. Then it got to the "intimate" part of the song and I just wanted to melt to the ground. I was trying to stay in character and keep the fourth wall going - I continued moving closer and closer to him on the piano bench and he starts cracking up and then I started cracking up and then I spit on his hand!!! EWWWW!!! It wasn't a lot of spit - just singer spit - but still!! So that was how my Friday played out. I don't think I've ever been so embarrassed (not just about the spit thing - just the whole situation in general) but we are both adults and could laugh about it afterwards I suppose.
So there is a story for you all to laugh at. Next time we'll sell tickets for the show!
This weekend's supposed to be nice and we're trying to come up with something fun to do outside of the city. Apple picking, cranberry harvest festival - we're not sure yet. It's my first free weekend in a long time and I want to make the most of it. And who knows - this may (or may not) be my last Autumn here in New England so I want to fit in everything I haven't done yet. Good Luck with that Rachael