Senior Year: Week Three

I'm sure everyone remembers the last post, in which I stated how much was going on in my life, and how overwhelming it was. (If you don't, stop reading, scroll down to the next entry, then come back when you're done!) Well, it was overwhelming. And now I'm sick. Not horribly sick. Not the throwing up, can't move out of bed, only getting up to pee and take more medication kind of sick. Rather, I have a super stuffed nose that occasionally feels the need to drain and give me a sore throat, and a ton of sinus pressure that threatens to make my head explode from underneath my eyes. 

I started getting sick on Thursday, which most people would look at and say, "Well, at least you had the weekend coming up!" Haha. I work Friday through Monday opening at Starbucks (there goes sleep), and I had to record my excerpts for my prescreening for Eastman on Saturday, and go out and do headshots with Curtis on Sunday. The symptoms definitely come and go throughout the day, depending on what I'm doing and what time of day it is. It makes it hard to predict how I'll feel at any given time, because one day at work I had to drink honeyed tea just to be able to talk through my sore throat, and the next day at the same time I was sneezing every minute, but my throat was fine. 

One of my professors sat me down today to talk to me about my work load, and how I've been taking the world on my shoulders. He basically ordered me to find an assistant (and someone to come in and replace me in the library after I graduate). He's right, as much as I hate to admit it. If I'm not willing to give anything up, then I need to get help doing what I can't do by myself. 

As for this past weekend, both major events went pretty well, in my opinion. I feel good about how I sounded in my recordings (especially after finding a recording of a pitiful attempt at Mozart 4 I did my senior year of high school and comparing it to my best recording from Saturday. What a difference four years of hard work can make!) and what little I saw on the screen of Curtis' camera makes me feel good about how I looked (and how good his photography skills are! Seriously, you should all go check out his work. Curtis Chapman Simpson IV). I look forward to the (hopefully) easier next round of recording solos with my accompanist, and getting to see the fabulous edited pictures. 

This next week looks to be full of preparing for the solo recordings, and finishing up everything in my application for Eastman (and beginning the others!). I have an appointment on Thursday with one of the ladies in the Center for Career and Calling at SPU to help me with this strange case of writers' block I'm having with my personal statement for ESM. I hope she'll be able to look at what I have so far and help me expand it to be what they're looking for. 

It's a big week ahead, with lots to do, so I hope all of you who are awesome enough to read this every time I post would think positively for me, both that I'm successful in all these crazy adventures and that my illness will go away. 

Thank you for always reading and sharing this journey with me!

Allison