Posts

Showing posts from August, 2025

Chowder

 Almost two years on, I feel like I should bring up a list of things and see where we are... What is this, an appraisal already?! Well, dear reader, I have  rolled the dice on the DM sandal game and have come out rather the better this time (although I should probably have one of those little knives people have for taking stones out of horseshoes, what with the amount of grit I pick up on a daily basis). I've been in a new job, pushing pieces of paper around and making sure those emails hurry along, since September last, and still keep my hand in with some ongoing hospitality work (because actually... I like it?). I think my relationship with singing is it its worst place so far really, especially miserable after what should be some totally unmitigated triumphs (new teacher, doing my first Messiah as soloist with a real orchestra) but being faced by the fact that I might just... not be consistently good enough ? Maybe this is as good as it's ever going to get and I'm strugg...