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My semi sleepless lifestyle has dragged me down this semester. My erstwhile Judge has gone to grad school on the East coast, my boyfriend struggles to make some serious money while waiting to come back into CA for the SF Opera auditions in November, and I am here with simply the internet and my wardrobe- sort of casually cosplaying Heathers by wearing the same four colors in sequence and trying to come up with cute outfits around them. In musical news, we're doing chunks of Act IV from Le Nozze di Figaro and act II of Falstaff for Opera Scenes this semester. I have to perform in the Figaro bits as Countess Rosina Almaviva on November 14th. T

-I'm back in school at last, after a long and quiet summer. -I have just gotten the lead female role of the Plaintiff (aka Angelina) in Trial By Jury, which my school's voice students are putting on in November. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. -Yes, this will probably mean at least a few chibis- nothing like G&S to inspire illustrations. The Judge is being played by our resident comic baritone, really the only one for the job, who happens to be a great friend and crush of mine. :) Our Defendant is attractive as well as singing gorgeously; my Counsel is tall, dark and handsome (he was Pish-Tush back when I was in The Mikado) with a

But I hear them singing in French. Because I have fallen over head and ears in love with Les Miserables. Went and read the Brick; am now listening to the concept album; just spent an hour and a half in the shower singing "A La Volonte du Peuple" over and over in various keys with the lyrics taped to the (glass) door. Of course, all this may have been foretold by the miles of LM art I have been adding to my faves of late on here. I am determined to know every line and note in the English. Keep meaning to get the 3-disc symphonic recording (reportedly weak Cosette or not), but am thwarted by homework and other things. No matter, I'll get it on