Hooray for choir concerts!
Have you ever noticed how most choir concerts are kind of boring if you're not the one singing? Just a thought.
So I got up to sing my bit with the wonderful choir I belong to, and before we even started SINGING (my sister is quick to point out that "it's always the sopranos!"), I started feeling like I was going to pass out. Here is a brief review of my thought process:
**Oh no! I feel funny... what if I pass out? Are my knees locked? No... Are my hips locked? No... Do I feel lightheaded? Not really... my legs are just really stiff and kinda shaky. Why is that? Should I take my heels off? No, I'll just trip over them later if I do. PERSON NEXT TO ME, STOP MOVING! You're rocking the risers! Okay, only three songs left. I can do this. Knee lock check... hip lock check... Knee lock check...**
That was what I was doing the whole time I was singing. Good thing I know all the songs well enough that I don't have to really think about them to sing them. :/ Although I was definitely the only soprano singing at one point, so of course I freaked out and stopped, but by that time all the other sopranos had realized that they were supposed to come in when I did, so I think I win points of some kind.
After the concert, my mom asked me why I didn't smile more and why I looked so stiff. Well, Mom, let me tell you...
It really is always the sopranos who pass out. In all my years of choir (and that's a lotta years), I have never seen an alto pass out. That's why altos rock. ;)
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