Things I Miss About Columbia

I had the total meltdown of the semester on Friday.  I feel completely incompetent as a singer and miss everything that gave me comfort when I lived in Columbia.  Here's a few things that I wish I had here in Bloomington:

-The old ladies in the First Baptist Church Choir (well, especially the not-so-old ones like Robbie, Colleen, and Norma)

-The ease in which I used to recycle.  I can't find any recycling bins here in Bloomington and have boxes and boxes of recyclables stacked in my kitchen.

-Rachel AuBuchon, who (not-surprisingly) is irreplaceable.

-U Singers comradary

-Living with Mark, for SO many reasons.  But specifically for his insistence that I do the dishes and keep my shit out of the living room.

-Reality tv.  Bloomington HAS reality tv, but I'm too poor to afford cable right now.

-Gauchos, and how I could get three martinis and a plate of gross food for only 6 dollars...and watching Craig get ridiculously drunk...

-Schubertiads, formal and informal.  

-Kyle Stegall and all the hillarity that ensued whenever we got together.

-The inevitability of running in to Dr. Budds (smoking) every time you set foot on campus.

-The comfort of knowing everyone in the music school...and the discomfort of knowing that almost everyone had seen my nipples at some point.

-The Legend of Neil's Uncircumcised Penis.

-The shopping.  The mall here makes me depressed.

-The gays.  And their innate knowledge that I was their queen.

-Dr. Crabb's ability to say terrible, terrible things when prospective students and their conservative mothers came to visit rehearsals.

-Whitney Reed and Neil Ostercamp, between whom I had so many inside jokes it wasn't even funny.

-Mark Woodward, and all the things we would do together whether it was watching Will and Grace with a plateful of terrible Chinese food, or stylistically interpreting Bach inventions, or annoying each other at all hours so it was impossible to do any work.