encouragement

remember that thing in the last post (scroll down) where i said that one of the first things i do in the morning is talk to hilary on IM? yeah, well, it's true. first, here's a funny exchange we just had:

hilary: gah!
robert: what baby
hilary: runing to tell people they have phone calls
hilary: i'm like
robert: get their intercom #'s!
hilary: hellooooo! i'm trying to listen to Wilco
hilary: and IM

it's so true.

also, we have this bach gig coming up on sunday. (shameless plug: st david's of roland park, roland ave, in baltimore, at 6pm.) we're singing the coffee cantata and it's, um, extremely fucking difficult. like absurdly difficult. george lam-ly difficult, but in a very different way. it's two arias a piece with recits between each one. and since i had a recital last week i've had about 6 days to learn it before yesterday's rehearsal with the orchestra. right.

so of course i was nervous. the rehearsal actually went pretty smoothly and i got most of my notes. most of, that is. hilary just told me, though, that my coloratura sounded really good. mind you, she's a coloratura soprano, one of the best i've ever heard in real life (and i'm not just kissing ass because she's my friend), so it's nice to have that lil' pat on the back. yay.