Monday, August 25, 2008
Aug 21 - 24 update
Okay, so the post title isn't terribly exciting, but in my haste to get this post completed and get to work on a Monday morning, that's all I've got right now. I woke up on Thursday morning with a kind of scratchy throat. I figured it was from doing a lot of talking and not enough water intake on Wednesday evening. My plans were to do the singing auditions on Thursday and get them over and done with, but by the time I got home from work and tried singing "Funny Honey," any noted in the lower end of the spectrum were gravelly and flat. So I decided to wait and audition Saturday morning. Since my evening freed itself up, I headed down to Akhord to check out John and Andrew Mazerolle's show, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Foggier" which was very much worth going to. Kudos to both brothers for a job well done.
I woke up Friday morning with a full-fledged cold. I had a nicely coated throat and wondered how I'd managed the singing auditions at all. Great. So I stopped in to the pharmacist and explained things and picked up a nice little combo of stuff to clear things up, and then I proceeded to rink a ton of lukewarm water with lemon for the remainder of the day. By the end of the workday I was feeling a bit better so I decided to go to the dance auditions. They were a blast. Jenn is really good at teaching and explaining the moves, and it sure helped to have Kristi up front to show how they should be done. It was a good sized crowd of folks and I think we all had fun dancing together. Not to mention the fact that the dance itself was fun to do! That lasted about 2 hours, after which I down some pad thai and then tried to watch a bit of Prairie Home Companion before finally going to bed - at 9:30!
I got up super early Saturday morning to try and warm my voice up. Thanks to the cold, I wake up with a pretty gravelly voice each morning. Vocal auditions were at 10 AM. There weren't too many people there, but I was glad to see Jay & Lisa M come out. After we finished our auditions, we popped over to the market to get coffees and to kill some time before the dance auditions. I'd offered to help out (helping folks with sign-up forms, etc) but there was a pretty small crowd, so I headed home instead. The rest of the day was pretty mellow - grabbed a late afternoon special drink at Starbucks with Jay and Lisa, and read & napped for a bit, then got a late dinner with Doug & Colleen at Churchills. I couldn't even finish my meal - and felt really run-down. I'd intended to check out some of the Pop Goes the City festival and then stop down to Jason's CD launch party but I wound up going home and early to bed instead. Guess I really needed my sleep.
Sunday was another blissfully quiet day. I slept in, then met up with Keith and we headed to the gym, hopped on some bikes and caught up. Poor guy has had a long and stressful week of work - 10 days of it in a row. I made sure to do a ton of stretching and generally to not push myself too much, still having a cold. For the afternoon, I got groceries, popped out to the vortex (McAllister & environs) and then settled in for a quiet evening. I did wind up going back out, however. I headed to Cinema 3 with Scott and Mare and Jay M to see The Clone Wars, which I really enjoyed. I loved the style of the animation from the hand painted textures on the 3-D models to the shapes they used for each characters face and body. The story was entertaining and interesting. It was definitely worth seeing!
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