State Solo

Well, yesterday was State Solo. I felt like I did horrible. I had very little breath support, my legs were spazzing, and for some reason I was extremely nervous. I know it is normal to be nervous, but I was almost scared. That's unusual for me. Anyway, My first song, the flirty Italian one, I felt, went horribly, besides the acting. At the beginning when there is just accompanyment, I totally made some guy feel uncomfortable and more aware of his posistion. I gave him a look, I can demonstrate much better in person than in writing, and he sat straighter and kind of looked around to see if I was actually loking at him. I laughed at my own cleverness. The second song went ok. I had more breath support, but not by much. I did, however, have vibrato (?) on every note. But all in all, I felt the performance was horrible.

On a ggod note, after I was done, I watched myself, and it sounded better than it felt. So that made me feel better. And the judges were cool. One of them was my District Solo judge, the one who sent me to State. Another one was Karen's High School Choir director. The third was some old guy who was gay. And of course, Karen knew all three. But she told me to flirty especially with the old man durning the "I burn men's brains" part because it didn't mean anything. So I did. I did have fun flirting, but it was a lot harder to do so with my legs spazzing.

So how did I do? Well at 4:30 AM Dad pounds on my door and yells at the top of his lungs, "Crystal Carlisle tied for 3rd!" I got 3rd! Actually, my division was tied for 1st, 3rd, and 5th. Kind of interesting huh? The judges didn't even get to converse about the scoring. Scary! So after we found that out, I couldn't go to bed for at least another hour. But I'm really excited! And, mainly for Michelle, Morgan also placed 3rd. And, I tied with the girl who drove with Devin and me to All-Northwest. Cool huh? State was definitley a great experience. So I guess you can't always judge a performance on how you personally felt it went.