GGDF

Gotta Get Down on Friday...

I'm excited to say that I have only one more class before the first week of school is over. I'm taking 13 credits, working 21 hours a week, and rehearsing for the opera every weekday. For now I'm confident that I'll be able to handle it all.

The classes that I'm taking don't require all that much effort outside of class. Vocal rep coaching just entails singing in class and listening to others sing. World music is almost all lecture--there will be a paper though. The most important class I'm taking is aural skills review for grad students. It's been so long since I've taken a theory or aural skills class that I decided I might need a refresher. Even when I did take those classes I still only fumbled my way through them. This time I need to actually improve my skills so that they don't hold me back during grad school auditions and diagnostic exams. We did some exercises yesterday and I was disappointed to find out that I had not gained perfect pitch in the last few years. If I had one wish it would be perfect pitch...or the mad piano skills of a world-class concert pianist. ..That's totally a lie, I'd totally ask to be a wizard.

What would I do with wizard powers...?
The first thing to do is give myself golden vocal cords of the gods. I'd be so freakin' amazing I wouldn't have to worry about doing a masters degree, just go right into concert tours with the cd that I recorded of german lieder. Become world famous for concert singing and then a few years later I'd break out into the opera world and sweep people off their feet.
Unfortunately, becoming a world famous opera singer would be so effortless that I'd probably lose interest pretty quickly... so then I'd take over the world. I'd take out all the world leaders that have no respect for human rights, solve world hunger and poverty, and fix the world economy. One idea I've had for fixing the economy is destroying things and making everybody rebuild them. After solving all issues and getting bored doling out socialism, I'll resign, fake my death, and then travel the world first as a crazy wisdom lama and then as a big time thief pulling off the biggest heists of the century. All this while I'm watching the rest of the world fuck itself up again.