Just a slice…

Thursday:

  • A 3 a.m. coursework special after some rather intense conversation with S and a big cry. Finally, finally…
  • Handing in of coursework.
  • Brief trip to college.
  • A complimentary ticket to en excellent gig, where a good friend was playing in the support band.
  • Drinking tea til the wee small hours with one of Scotland’s best new folk bands. (I love the way people from the isle of Uist say my name!)

Friday:

  • A visit to the naughtiest, loveliest deli in Manchester, where I impressed myself by speaking some Polish.
  • Portraiture class.
  • Rehearsal with my repetiteur who has decided he is in love with me and is making it difficult for me to work with him. Especially when he keeps going on and on about my life and wasting my time. This is bearable when he’s doing me a favour, not so bearable when I’m paying him. But he’s a great repetiteur and no-one else I know does it half as well.
  • Orgasmic risotto. Nothing nicer than spending an hour in the kitchen and creating something truly beautiful. But someone is getting comfortable…
  • Self-indulgence.
Saturday:
  • Waking up with a hangover.
  • Rushing to a modelling job.
  • Someone who’d been drawing me for three hours attempting to get my number - not nice! Definitely knocking that job on the head soon.
  • Purchase of many beautiful LPs, including Palestrina Stabat Mater etc, and two Deutsche Grammophon opera box sets - Don Giovanni and Figaro! Wish I had an LP player…
  • Coffee and cake.
  • Religious debate.
  • Randomly bumping into friends around the university.
  • The bellini hour.
  • Three bellinis and many secrets later, decadent Italian food.
  • The train ride home where I saw sights no respectable citizen should ever have to see.

Sunday:

  • A peaceful start to the day
  • Peace shattered: thanks dad.
  • A charade for guests.
  • Revision.
  • A realisation. A big, scary realisation.

Monday:

  • More arguing - what could be more selfish?
  • Being used for emotional dumpage one hour before my exam (because he thinks it’s preferable to meeting up and talking properly. Thanks for that.)
  • An exam that I know I passed, perhaps it wasn’t a spectacular success but I know I’ve passed it.
  • An encounter with a beautiful lady.
  • A rehearsal for Don Pasquale - one of the most celebrated Wagner tenors of the last few decades singing "You do something to me" - to me. Surreal…
  • A trip to HMV for a copy of Sondheim’s Company. Fantastic recording with the delectable Adrian Lester.
  • The cinema to see this. Awful. Just awful. I can only guess at how bad the second hour was! My friend and I got through by eating a lot of Ben and Jerry’s, belly-laughing very loudly, and running away for a Nando’s when it all got too much. Do not go and see this film.
  • Fabulous conversations about just everything.
  • A promise of a night of Poulenc opera soon! Excited!

Now I have to go and continue the increasingly farcical end of my uni career. Take care and let me know what you’ve been up to.

Posted: April 22, 2008 Comments (9)