7am — 10pm non-stop.

Non Stop.

Tonight was the Hol­i­day Stock­ing con­cert. My final Stock­ing (at least as a stu­dent). I also had the honor of serv­ing as Tech­ni­cal Direc­tor. It was a lot of fun, but I'm exhausted …

As was stated pre­vi­ously, I came to the Lin­coln Cen­ter at about 7am. Mr. John­son and I ran over the script, and then he intro­duced me to the LC staff. These were an awe­some group of peo­ple! I had a lot of fun work­ing with them …

Any­way, in the morn­ing, we ran through the pro­gram with the choirs. I had no idea what I was doing, and I think it showed through, unfor­tu­nately. Luck­ily, I had lunch to recover …

Almost every­one left for lunch or to go back to Rocky. The only peo­ple left at the Lin­coln Cen­ter were Nick Val­cho and myself. We had a rather friendly dis­cus­sion, talk­ing about home­work and other things. And then Sharon came back from lunch.

We talked for a lit­tle bit. I end­lessly teased her about her new glasses. She told me that she had been diag­nosed with a "stress-induced ulcer­ated cornea," and that she couldn't wear con­tacts because her eye was sen­si­tive. I found this laugh­able. It was fun to flirt with her again … fuckin' Sharon …

Round Two: We ran through the pro­gram again, this time with the bands and orches­tra. I felt a lit­tle bit more com­fort­able this time, all the time see­ing her. Oh well. It was time for the 4:30 show …

I was both excited and scared — mostly scared. But it went fairly well. We only had one glitch in the show, which I con­sider a real fuckin' achieve­ment, con­sid­er­ing the amount of shit I had to deal with …

Din­ner was a nice change of pace. Until then, I hadn't been off of my feet at all, and I was already really exhausted. But the show must go on …

The Big Finale: the 7:30 show. This was where me, and all of my fel­low seniors would make our mark. Once again, we only expe­ri­enced one snag, and I was ecstatic!

By the final song, "Oh Holy Night," many of the seniors were already cry­ing — myself included. It was a very emo­tional time, and I loved every minute of it. At the end of the con­cert, Mr. Cropp came to the podium and thanked the LC staff and every­body else. By this time, the entire audi­ence was stand­ing and applaud­ing. After his thanks, Mr. Cropp did some­thing I never thought he would do — he thanked me! It really was too much for me. I was cry­ing. Sev­eral oth­ers around me were cry­ing too. It was such a spe­cial time. I don't think that I've ever been so honored …

After the Stock­ing, Buffy, Kris­tine, and I went to Perkins. Kris­tine had to leave sud­denly, so Buff and I stayed and talked for a lit­tle while. It was a nice way to end the night …