A New First

I got my first broken bone yesterday- a broken toe! I kicked my old bike's kickstand and it hurt like crazy but I didn't think anything of it until today when my toe turned purple and black and is all swollen and ugly! EWWW!!

Queen of the Beach

Back in December, the director of the opera department at UT approached me about singing the Queen of the Night in a production of The Magic Flute in Costa Rica and Mexico this summer. I was really excited at the time, but then didn't hear anything else from him until a couple weeks ago. He didn't want to give the part to me after all since I was supposed to have graduated and he was trying to cast only students, and I learned he had been asking all over for someone else to do it, but when he found out I still have an incomplete hanging over my head, he agreed to let me take the part! I guess he already has another Queen from Mexico, but wanted 2 covers so we could alternate and not get too tired.

So, now if I can raise $900 and some living money for the trip, I will be spending June in rehearsals here in Austin, July 14-August 12 in San Jose and Mazatlan, and then September doing 28 performances in and around Austin! The production will be crazy because I'll be off stage the whole time singing to a video camera, so the audience will only see video screens on stage, but it should be fun and a great experience!

SPRING BREAK!!!

WOOYA!! I love spring break!! At least I would if I had a break! I am actually working every day this week, and must admit I am enjoying my new job at the Opera. It's really laid back (surprising in the operatic world), casual dress code, really nice people to work with, and comp tickets for Rossini's Barber of Seville. Not much to complain about, really. Things will get crazy as that performance draws near, but even that seems pretty easy to deal with, especially now that I'm getting the better of my cold. I swear I've been sick every month since I started working in the nursery at church!

So how is Ross enjoying his spring break? Staying up all night, sleeping all day, video games 24-7? Actually, not so much of that! Ya, he stays up all night and sleeps a good portion of the day, and has had his share of crits and pwnage, but he has also cleaned up all my closets that had previously been left in utter chaos by yours truly, he's filed our taxes, and is trying to get the laptop working again. Spring break? or spring clean? o.O

Ya, I know. We're nerds.

Catching Up

I have not forgotten my blog- I promise! Right after my last post, Ross' and my laptop died, and since then, I've had to fight for computer time since Ross practically lives at the computer! Today I have actually caught him away from the desk and am taking the moment to blog to my heart's content!

I had a great birthday- thank you everyone for the phone calls, emails, cards and gifts! I celebrated with a couple parties with friends, some delicious cakes, and I got all I wanted, including a new job which just fell into my lap- I have been working at the Austin Lyric Opera answering phones and selling tickets since Monday! So far it seems exactly like the kind of job I was looking for. I also had a great lesson with my teacher last week, which cleared up a lot of the doubts I vented in my last post. And Ross has made a final decision about UT that has seemed to lift a lot of the burdens he was feeling, making the both of us much more happy! UT just is not the place for him, and we now look forward to a new and better school for him. Keep him in your prayers as he begins the process of finding that dream school!