OCTOBER

I LOVE October! The weather! The leaves! The PUMPKINS! I think pumpkins are the most amazing fruit in the WORLD! It is delicious savory or sweet! Even the seeds are delicious! And you can carve them into incredible jack-o-laterns! And you get to dress up and get candy for it! Cider mills! Apple picking! Hay mazes! All incredible happiness! I love Fall! Ironically I always feel like FALL is the time of rebirth. I feel horribly uncomfortable in the spring - summer is too hot - but FALL is perfect! The colors! Today was the Fort Tryon Renaissance Festival - which is always the first weekend of every October. I could only go for an hour - but what a wonderful hour it was!

And of course, we have VLOG. I remember rehearsing for Pinafore last FAll - and now IOLANTHE. It just feels right. And I love the cast! Everyone is so nice! (I even met a wonderful girl who shares my ridiculous love of pumpkin today! And lives in the Heights! We were jumping around and squealing like middle schoolers - which of course made the boys make fun of us - like middle schoolers, which resulted in laughter for all.) I hope the joy continues!

One of the chorus members (who was also in Fiddler and Pinafore) asked me to be a first soprano in another company's production of TOSCA! I would LOVE to do it. TOSCA is the one opera I love that is "normal" and not Philip Glass or something else super weird. And I'd FINALLY get to use those high notes that never get exercised except for my warm-ups!

So - the SADNESS is that Fabrizio leaves for tour for 8 months on Wednesday - but oddly asked me to stay at his place for a few weeks to cat sit. He is going to pay me AND I get to be away from the HORRENDOUS reggaeton and be closer to the glorious Fort Tryon park to enjoy the leaves even MORE!

I have high hopes for October - let's hope it lives up to expectations!