I'm having shooting pains in my heels. Every morning, my left one hurts so much when I get up that I can hardly put any weight on it.
Plus, I was so excited for opera studio this term...but we've been assigned our arias, and while the rest of the class will be preparing ones from operas by Massenet, Mozart, Donizetti and Menotti, I've been assigned "When Frederic Was a Little Lad" from The Pirates of Penzance. I guess at the bottom of my heart, I don't think of Gilbert and Sullivan as "real" opera, which I suppose is snobbish, but if even one other person in the class were doing something from The Mikado or whatever, I wouldn't feel so singled out or so childishly disappointed. And I really don't feel in a position to say anything about it to the instructors, because I was lucky to be admitted to the class at all.
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Plus, I was so excited for opera studio this term...but we've been assigned our arias, and while the rest of the class will be preparing ones from operas by Massenet, Mozart, Donizetti and Menotti, I've been assigned "When Frederic Was a Little Lad" from The Pirates of Penzance. I guess at the bottom of my heart, I don't think of Gilbert and Sullivan as "real" opera, which I suppose is snobbish, but if even one other person in the class were doing something from The Mikado or whatever, I wouldn't feel so singled out or so childishly disappointed. And I really don't feel in a position to say anything about it to the instructors, because I was lucky to be admitted to the class at all.
Boo.