Wishing Upon A Star

July 6 --Too Hot to Breathe

I'm a wilted, limp, damp individual.

School was brutal.

I had three fans going, but they barely stirred the air. I'd planned a very quiet activity to try to keep the sweat down. It was a long morning.

The place had been so closed up that there was no air stirring at all.It's like a sauna, but lacking in luxury suroundings. It's one of the buildings where the windows are way up near the ceiling and you have to use a pole to open them, so they don't produce much air.

Now I'm sitting here, just starting to cool down. I have one of those too busy weeks ahead of me. Rehearsal tonight, show committee meeting in Westboro tomorrow night, and choreography meeting Thursday night. Saturday I'm supposed to go to Northampton for a barbecue.

It's either feast or famine with me.

And of course it's never what I want.

There's no pleasing me.

In some ways I'm looking forward to rehearsal tonight. For almost six years I've been begging for the song "This is the Moment" from Jekyll and Hyde. Finally tonight it becomes part of our repetoire.

There's something about that song that I find inspirational.

I think it has to do with the fact that we compete each year, and I have visions of this being our acceptance song when we win.

Of course we haven't won contest since 1990. We've come so close, placing second third or fourth, at least until this year. We placed an abysmal eighth this year and I'm not sure that we're going to recover from this for a while.

It was an enormous blow.

Part of it had to do with singing too early in the contest, but the other part was lack of energy.

I have such a hard time dealing with people who don't go on stage and just give it all away. I mean, if you're going to perform, shouldn't you put everything into it?

Your job is to please the audience and make sure they're on the edge of their seats.

Why hold back?

It just makes me so frustrated!
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