end of the year

I sat down for lunch, no phone, no computer, no studying, no running through arias and dreams in my head. It was tough. I didn't quite succeed. I am still coming down from this season's travels. Learning to relax and rest again. I thought that I would have time to write and chronicle my auditions this year. It was all I had in me to get through the auditions, work, and get ready for my family to show up for Christmas. I am looking forward to their arrival and I am also looking forward to the week after Christmas in which the office is closed and I have the days to myself with the evenings full of opera rehearsal. I am getting there.

I don't believe that I will come out of this fall with a young artist program to call home. I did better than last year but I still have a ways to go. I tackled the nerves issue and was focused 80% of the time with the 'oh lord, what am I doing' only coming in intermittently. Practice and perseverance is all I can give.

Back to lunch with Nat King Cole.