Blog block

Blog block. I think I have one. Whenever I tell myself I need to write a post, I promptly forget. Checked off as done. Or something like that. And oh, by the way, try and say "Blog block" 10 times fast.

Rattling through another couple of sweaters. I'm actually almost done with this one (about 3" left to go on the second sleeve), but I haven't taken a photo since this one:


Not to bad, actually, I'll have it done tomorrow and I started on March 16!

Which is technically AFTER I started this one:


Cables, in my defense, take a while, though they are fabulously interesting to knit. Worsted weight yarn is also more difficult to take along for larger projects, whereas the first sweater in this post is knit with sock weight. Much more portable.


I had a voice lesson with the Voice Coordinator for VCU.

Oh right, we're in the Final Four and that makes it a legitimate school now. Not the music department, not that MCV/VCU has done the first successful artificial heart transplant, not that it's #1 in sculpture and nursing in the nation. But NCAA basketball. Go Rams? I mean, go Rams!

Where was I? Right, voice lesson (it was on St. Patrick's Day)!

It is truly amazing how someone can say something that just meshes with your brain. Even when your awesome voice teacher has been telling you, IN ESSENCE, the same thing for almost a year, the rephrasing can just make so much more sense and accomplish so much in working out technique. Also, we sped up "Voi che sapete" a bit, and it felt so much better. It sits right in my break, but it felt easy when we took it up a bit. And that was just in one lesson. And my amazing voice teacher, Becky, has incorporated some of that lingo that seems to work for me and I really feel like I've made extensive progress just in the past couple weeks.

I am working on four new pieces now (I finally caved and told Becky I was not a fan of the Italian piece I was working on, so she gave me a different one: no point in doing a piece you don't like, she said. True that.). "Après un rêve" by Faure, "A Lover and His Lass" by Roger Quilter, "Widmung" by Schumann, and "L'abbandono" by Bellini. Fun times!! I realize I should not have taken French though. Spoken French is NOT the same as sung French. Oops. That's what I get for being proactive.

Choral concert this weekend, so off to a 3 hour dress rehearsal. Thomas Beveridge's "Yizkor Requiem" and Eric Whitacre's "Five Hebrew Love Songs".