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	<title>Tales of a Wannabe</title>
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	<description>the winding path of an aspiring singer</description>
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		<title>Ah, finals, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways&#8230; umm&#8230; umm&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, finals don&#8217;t scare me like they used to. Finals week actually sounds relaxing after the last month or so. :/ No, it&#8217;s not finals that stress me out&#8230; It&#8217;s the week BEFORE finals week, and I have the cold to prove it! I just finished my DMA paper and emailed it to the prof&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=171&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/ah-finals-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways-umm-umm/</link>
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		<title>To DMA or not to DMA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My voice teacher assigned me a research project: pick 4 DMA programs, find out as much as I can about them, and then write a 20 page paper about them. So far I&#8217;ve got 20+ pages of appendices and I&#8217;ve written 3 pages about CU-Boulder. I&#8217;ve got a long ways to go&#8230;
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		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/to-dma-or-not-to-dma/</link>
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		<title>I almost died today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today as I was driving home from work (an hour drive along a busy freeway), a very determined jackass tried to run me off the road. He passed me, but didn&#8217;t have enough room. His massive van pushed my little bitty car half way into the median (luckily just a dirt median). I&#8217;m ok, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=166&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/i-almost-died-today/</link>
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		<title>Great Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you get put on Santa&#8217;s naughty list for having a large carbon footprint, does he still give you coal in your stocking?&#8221;
Thank you Morosoph! (about whom a professor once commented, &#8220;For the sarcastic, heresy comes much easier.&#8221;)  
FYI: A morosoph is a learned fool, and it is a nickname of his own choosing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=159&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/great-quote/</link>
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		<title>Quick Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I have far too much to do in too little time. Ugh.
2. I am fickle. Sigh.
3. I cannot abide teachers who do not teach (doing nothing but playing cd&#8217;s every day in class does not count as teaching) and then lose their students&#8217; papers and blame it on the students. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
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		<title>Songbird and Mosquito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have two roommates. They are both about 10 years younger than me, which can make for some &#8220;interesting&#8221; dynamics&#8230; One is a voice major, a Songbird, like me. We have our moments, but for the most part we get along quite well. Those moments tend to be the result of spending too much time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=154&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/songbird-and-mosquito/</link>
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		<title>The past 2 weeks&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last couple weeks were absolutely insane! Production week was tiring, but went more quickly than I had expected. At the beginning of the week I was scared that there was no way we were going to be able to put the show together in time, but by Thursday I was fairly confident that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=151&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-past-2-weeks/</link>
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		<title>St. Theresa&#8217;s Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve read this before, but I just came across it again and really liked it:
St. Theresa&#8217;s Prayer:
May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=145&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/st-theresas-prayer/</link>
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		<title>More Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I may not be a first-class composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.&#8221; -Richard Strauss
&#8220;Here rests the honourable and virtuous youth Guntram, singer of love songs who by the symphonic orchestra of his own father was cruelly stricken down. Rest in Peace.&#8221; -Richard Strauss
&#8220;I won&#8217;t do it, I&#8217;m a decent woman.&#8221; -Marie Wittich, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=140&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://operawannabe.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/more-quotes/</link>
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		<title>Quotes&#8230; the funny, the serious, and the offensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. -W. H. Auden (1907 &#8211; 1973)
I don&#8217;t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don&#8217;t understand. -Sir Edward Appleton (1892 &#8211; 1965)
I can&#8217;t listen to that much Wagner. I start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operawannabe.wordpress.com&blog=3808357&post=136&subd=operawannabe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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