Today was one of two halves, one of pure evil and one of pure contentment. It was a relatively ordinary day in the calendar, nothing special about it (unless you're American, and if so then Happy Martin Luther King Jr day) but it is definitely a day worth mentioning :-).
It started off pretty bad, running late for an exam I got stuck in traffic, because it seems people forget how to drive when it snows, spent the morning in the library writing mind-numbingly boring peer reviews and was then forced to stand in front of a stupidly large amount of students and field questions-all in the name of a good grade. So far so bad right? Did I mention this was all on 3.5 hours of sleep and wearing a suit dress made out of the thinnest material EVER!!!
But I survived long enough for a celebratory lunch with my team. What are we celebrating I hear you cry? Why, the end of my exams, the end of my first semester of Uni and the start of an actual fortnights holiday, dear readers!!
I am finally free to do whatever I want for the next two weeks, until my placement-if I get one- starts, and I can't wait to enjoy some me time.
But alas the joy of that realisation was to be shortlived! Because it was on to my interview in snowy, cold, arse end of nowhere, Altens/Cove. The details of my interview are being kept a secret for now as I don't want to jinx it :-). I did a wee errand for mum after which resulted in me being frozen to the bone and in a hooring bad mood :-(...but fear not, all that was about to change!
Tonight was a great night, tonight was La Boheme night, tonight I plucked Damo's opera cherry and he loved it!! La Boheme is one of my favourite operatic pieces ever written and Cineworld screened last Thursdays live performance from the Royal Opera House in London, for one night only- just days after I but an unlimited card, I can only believe it was fate!!! I'm not going to sit here and explain the story of La Boheme to you all because it would take so long and I'd get to passionate and preachy and ramble on for pages and pages. But I will say if you like the opera, or think you may like the opera, or even if you're not sure but want to try new things- make sure La Boheme is on your list of things to see, along with La Traviatta, Madama Butterfly and Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty Ballet (currently on at Sadler's Well Theatre in London
These are my recommendations to you an these would all make it on to my list of goo life decisions.
A bad life decision concerning the opera? Cosi Fan Tutti! A comedy that should be ashamed to call itself such- also known as Mozart's love letter to his own arias!
Anyhow I'm off for a double feature of The Impossible and Les Miserables tomorrow so night night :-).
Xo AJ Xo
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