From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Well, Holy Shit.

August 10, 2006

You know, I couldn’t even believe I’d made it as far as the stage – descended upon by the press – live television and radio and people scribbling away on notepads… but then I placed second! I am completely overwhelmed and still processing. So much has happened, and I intend to write down every single [...]

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Superspeed Minipost!

August 9, 2006

Guess who made it through the preliminaries!! I don’t have much time to post – I have to get to sleep very shortly so that I can be up early enough in the morning to prepare for being on stage. My competition starts at 11:45am, same time zone information applies (from last post), please think [...]

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Wednesday’s Schedule

August 8, 2006

This is my schedule for tomorrow. Folks in Texas – I’m six hours ahead of you. Folks in Ohio – the number is five. That means that at 5pm, around which time I’ll be singing my prelims, it’ll be 11am in Texas and noon in Ohio. I’m just telling you all of this so you [...]

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Eisteddfod (Part Two)

August 6, 2006

We all parted ways, Olwen and her husband Trefor, me and my dad. They were very complimentary, and we planned to meet again an hour before prelims on Wednesday. I will be competing against ten or eleven other mezzos on Wednesday, and a portion of those will go on to Thursday’s competition. I don’t know [...]

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Eisteddfod and Rehearsal!

August 6, 2006

I woke up this morning, I may or may not have mentioned, at 10am – after nearly twelve whole hours of sleep. I may be off slightly – but not by much! I woke up a few times during the night, but I did get back to sleep and it didn’t take me too long. [...]

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