You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

-Mary Oliver

Wednesday 5 March 2008

Two down, two to go

Another term come and gone, and I couldn't be more pleased. Last week saw our end of term presentation with three tragic choruses, four grotesque/parody pieces, five songs, and an overwhelmingly positive response. So much so that in our class meeting with the teachers following the performance, they said (more or less) "Chill out. You're not that great. Don't let it go to your head." And they're absolutely right. But it felt So Good to do these pieces, and to feel that we'd finally hit on something, and to have the audience respond so positively. At the end of Thursday night, I was on an exhilerated natural high that lasted well into Saturday afternoon. What an incredible way to end the term.

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