done and over with

oh, dearest readers, what a crazy day i've had already. not crazy bad, necessarily, just crazy. multiple study participants, training my replacement, leading the goddamned lab meeting. ah well, i'm here with you now. that is, until amanda picks me up for lunch in fells point in about 10 minutes.

so the recital went pretty well yesterday; it's always nerve-wracking to have my friends in the audience. it was an elderhostel recital, which means that the audience was chock-full of really appreciative old people, and, if you can ignore all of the candy-wrapper-unwrapping, program-flipping, translation-whispering, and nodding, they're a wonderful audience. other than them, though, i had a really nice turnout: friends from peabody, friends from hopkins, friends from out of town, boyfriends, coworkers. in some instances it was the first time people have heard me sing; in other cases it was the first time they'd heard me sing in like two years. so, obviously, i wanted to impress, which meant, obviously, that i was a little nervous.

all in all, though, i think the recital went pretty well. i didn't miss many notes; i only missed one entrance ("vamp!" i thought to the pianist. "vamp!"). and, i'm happy to say, it's over. now all i have to do is, um, throw/give away half my shit and pack the rest of it into boxes. in the next two weeks. oh, and cancel all of my utilities. and then, you know, one more little thing: find a job in new york city.