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.
- 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.
Blimey you’ve been busy Des. It all sounds fabulous though. Apart from all the men lusting after you, sighhhh. What a chore. ;)
Comment by Jo Beaufoix — April 22, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
Hello lovely,
great to bump into you yesterday! Wow, looks like you’re really busy, but I hope you will be able to fit a coffee in soon!
Viv xx
Comment by Viv — April 22, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
Wow, pretty busy. At least you’ve got music and risotto, though.
BTW, did my emails asking for the last couple of passwords come through? I haven’t heard anything back, even though I DIDN’T ask for your phone number.
Cheers,
John
Comment by John — April 22, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Jo, I have been busy - you should see the stuff I left out! It is a chore, I just want some male friends who don’t want me! Been trying to do a 6 word memoir, it just isn’t happening, never was!
Viv - coffee and the return of your beautiful scarf - mail me your address then I can post it! xxx
Comment by missdespina — April 22, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
John, I’ve been being a poo and not checking my emails - Despina Love is on its way to you! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Comment by missdespina — April 22, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Busy busy!
I’m glad to be having a little break at last! Another Schumann 4 last Saturday (wow!) was the last of 5 gigs in 4 weeks… It’s nice to be that busy for short periods but now I need to recharge the batteries!
(Fortunately/unfortunately I don’t get that long to rest up though. More scores to learn/re-learn!)
Make sure you rest when you can. We don’t want a burnt-out soprano on our hands!
Comment by concertmaster — April 22, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Happy go lucky, name says it all really :-)
Comment by sugar007 — April 22, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
I could never ever get away with writing out a post this way. mainly because it would go something like this:
Monday: got up, faffed about on the internet, had a shower, took a walk, faffed about some more
Tuesday: watched Loose Women and took some photos of myself at funny angles
Wednesday: ate a sandwhich and wrote a blog post
Thursday: sneezed
Friday: …
You’ve been a busy lass but do take care of yourself, am thinking of you ma p’tite puuuuuce!
xxxx
Comment by princesse ecossaise — April 22, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
Man, you seem to do more in a week than me in one day!
I’m afraid I’ve been working, sleeping, computer-ing etc. Nothing exciting!
Comment by Zhu — April 23, 2008 @ 2:54 am