Crunch.

Welcome to Crunch Fest at QC.

I try to forget the crunch stress by eating crunchy chocolate bars all day. But obviously they don’t work. All that keeps happening I happily refuse to notice in the mirror.

When papers are flying everywhere, your mind is running at 200 mph, you have 9 history essays due, and you have to prepare, and you have to do it fast, and you have to… and you have to….

 

STOP.

 

Stop for a second and breathe. Go take a walk. Make sure you keep calm and breathe. I hear breathing is good for the human body. And so is eating. And drinking. (Water, of course.) Focus on one thing at a time. First things first.

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When I sing, I am thinking of a million different things that I need to make sure I do or don’t do. Tongue position, jaw relaxation, posture, straightened spine, facial expression, emotional connection with song, awareness of extraneous movements, relaxed neck, relaxed hands, diction, singing on vowels and not consonants, open space i mouth, groundedness, musicality, and the list goes on… and on.

And the last on the list is: Don’t get too much in your head.

Sometimes you just have to get down to basic song. Read the poem to yourself. Read it again. Then humm the melody. You might see things you never saw before.

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Have a cup of tea with honey and make a list of priorities.

Remember to take time and smell the rose. It could surprisingly inspire you.

Get down to basic song.

Make life easier on yourself. Welcome to finals week.