Yesterday was pretty darn spectacular.
Slept in late, got up and made ready, had lunch. All the APOs, whom I normally eat with, were in some annual meeting-thing, so I ate with Evelyn, Kate, Albert, and Katya instead. That was pretty cool. Albert I've been getting to know better through linguistics class (though he eats in the Asylum with us a lot anyway), Evelyn through hanging around with Kristin a lot, and Kate through choir--but Katya I've only seen here and there, and when the others left, she and I hung around. I've heard some pretty mixed things about her, but she's certainly interesting, seems very methodical.
Went back and did some cleaning (yes, you see it written, cleaning!), then went over to John'n'Tom's dorm and hung round with them. Though they get along, it's a rare day that they hang around in Tom's room talking, so that was cool. We went to dinner after that--was pretty good--and then John came back with me. He and I played some DDR for a bit, then he and Lily and I decided that we should finally practice our songs for Fiddler tryouts.
So we walked all the way down to the performing arts center in the cold and went into one of the practice rooms. Lily played with a few songs from Godspell, trying to decide which was best, while I stuck to Kiss Me, Kate's "So in Love", the one John gave me to learn a few weeks ago. I'd never sung it in front of anybody before, and had really dragged my feet about it in days past, but finally I tried it for Lily and John, and it went a lot better than I expected.
John took us into the dance studio after that, where it's big and echoey, and had us stand across the room from him (he was at the piano) and sing our songs. From there, he played with our technique. Lily and I got put through quite a few paces--enunciation, projection, placement. ::laughs:: John has an amazing knack for picking technique games that I've done for choir and can't stand. But it was fun trying to sing my whole song with my mouth really wide open, and it sounded pretty cool at times, too.
I can hit all the high notes, which is good. Nothing higher than F-sharp, top line of the staff, but that's good, 'cause it's a solo; I don't want it any higher than that. I am an alto, after all.
After all the singing, Lily decided we needed to have an ice cream party (she decided that a few days ago, actually, when her meal plan got changed and she ended up with all these snack shop dollars), so John got Libby (that's his girlfriend, as I think I said long ago) and we went to one of the cafe-type things and got Ben & Jerry's and hot chocolate, courtesy of Lily :), and hung round eating and talking and laughing.
And then we went back to Lily's and my room for more DDR. We taught Libby, and John and I played, too. Lily went to the late-night gym thing after a while, but we were still playing (albeit on fingers) by the time she got back.
So we were up late, and John and I're going to go halves on the price of two ignition pads for DDR (that's the really sweet kind, one step down from metal) at some point.
Today: singing at Friendly's for choir, a bit of shopping, a bit more song practice, and Fiddler tryouts.
w00t!
-Laurel