The Queen of the Night’s aria Der Holle Rache, here sung by Diana Damrau. Enjoy!

“I have passed an amount of urine into at least one of your many elegant fragrances.”

I had to scroll way too far down to find this.

I sit across from my manager’s manager, and he spends 80% of his time on the phone in a seemingly non-stop stream of buzzword laden nonsense. Every time he says “Ping me,” I die a little inside.

You know, for all the time you’ve spent commenting on this article, you could’ve read it a couple times.

How do you figure? Is a seven-year window that much more representative than a 4-year window for running into trouble with credit?

If they’ve got the answer wrong on this one, why would you move in with a monster?

::cries from lower Manhattan::

Whoever aimed a camera at this guy was pretty bold.

The Humble Origins of Instant Ramen: From Ending World Hunger to Space Noodles

OK, I didn’t actually mean ALL my bills. But my new school/job may give me access...

I will give all of my dollars to anyone who can figure out a streaming service that adequately handles classical music. I don’t want every track title to be an essay-length Composer-Title-Conductor-Orchestra-Major Soloist-Ensemble-etc in order to keep shit straight.

FINALLY. I’ve been craving a mint julep.

I transferred one of my IRAs (which kept getting hit with bullshit fees) to a Vanguard account. Currently waiting on my paperwork to go through to rescue my old 401k and roll it into the same account. Once that’s done, I’ll get the third IRA into the party.

I’m in. I want to consolidate my retirement savings. I’ve currently got three IRAs (two with my bank, one that my 401k from my old job rolled into), and I want to put the funds all together in a Vanguard target date fund.

My God, everything’s on fire

As someone in one of the original gig economies (classical music), Facebook has been invaluable for getting work. Audition notices, temporary substitutions, last minute replacement work, I’ve gotten tons of work through the wide network of people I’ve stayed connected with on Facebook.

Samesies. Anyone figured out how this works?

Samesies. Anyone figured out how this works?

It’s their Holiday Presentation, a shortened version in English geared towards kids. Flute adapts well to that.

Coffee on the way there, sandwich at first intermission, pull from the flask every time the lights go down to start back up. Unless you’re seeing Meistersinger or something of similar length, in which case lay in provisions for a long winter.