this weekend was hot. damn hot. and i had two concerts. one in a non-air conditioned building. which i thought was going to be fine, because it was in rancho palos verdes (closer to the beach than where i live) but it was at the top of a mountain. no breeze, just sun. ick. so i got a little sick from the heat, even though i was drinking lots of water and had eaten lunch and everything.
i forgot the words to my solo.
ok, that’s happened, like, once in my life. the words, no matter how hard i tried, would not come back into my head. so on the first verse i had to run over to my choir director’s music and read the words off the page. then during the chorus part i went over to the accompanist’s music to verify the next section. i did that just fine. then i had to repeat the first verse again. and i forgot the words, again. by this time my choir director was just like, “why don’t you just take the music?!?!!?!??!” so i did.
good thing i’m on drugs that keep my anxiety level down. didn’t really care at all that i couldn’t remember the words, just kinda laughed and kept going. and then i had to do the solo again at the next venue, which, thank god, was air conditioned. but i took my music up on stage with me anyway.
it took a couple of hours for me to cool down, even sitting in my room with the air on full. sucks when you fry your brain.