| | Lots has happened in the last few days since I last wrote.
Dimitrios has completely swept me off my feet. He is more wonderful than I could ever have dreamed.
Enough about that though. Nobody wants to read my gushing...  Who would have guessed that Cooper's legendary heart of stone could be cracked open like this?
Yesterday, I sent off my graduate school application! I have somewhat mixed feelings about the whole thing. While I'm really excited about the new opportunity to move ahead, and feel satisfied about finally ending my procrastination, I'm also nervous about it. Part of me (neurotically) worries that going to graduate school will finally expose me as a professional fraud once and for all, or that I really am just too old for a master's degree program and all the other students will be 10 years younger than me. Of course that's all nonsense, but I still feel a little funny about it. I'm also nervous about practical issues: balancing working and going to school (commuting to Boston), financial issues, and time/sanity issues. But I guess I'll never know if I can handle it if I don't try. All said, I think it's the right thing for me to be doing.
Meanwhile, work is annoying me. While technically I'm still on break (classes start up next week), the opera production started rehearsals yesterday. I'm the secondary repetitur on the production, but the lead coach, Miriam, is a pushy, overbearing nut-job. She creates stress where there needn't be any, and changes everything at the last minute. Today, the production manager calls me to talk about the rehearsal I'm playing today...which I was never asked to do. He was so stressed out, trying to manage Miriam, the stage director, and the huge cast, and all of their schedule conflicts. I felt bad telling him that I couldn't be there today, but we at least straightened it out for the rest of the week. It seems to me that the whole thing can be organized in a calm, efficient way, but there are too many crazy people involved, and I end up covering gaps. Oh, well.
Good news: piano tuner coming in half an hour! Tonight, gym, maybe some helio-therapy, and working on Gianni Schicchi so I can play it by Friday.
UPDATE: The piano tuner just left. He replaced the broken string, but didn't tune the piano because the new string needs to stretch before it will stay in tune. So the rest of the tuning is postponed until next week. grrrrrrr.
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