I've just written a whole essay and then, because I am a computer-illiterate fool, I managed to loose all that precious brain fodder. Damn damn damn!!! I was talking about what I do and I was getting all philosophical and well, it was good! Really good stuff! Gone forever into the ether. Perhaps I can remember some of it. Oh yes, I explained that the title of my blog "barelytonal" is a play on the word baritonal and that I am a classical singer and a baritone... *biiiiiig breath*. I am on the verge of my first ever performance of Le Nozze di Figaro and I'm playing the role of Count Almaviva. A rather unfortunate charachter but I love him. He is a horny man and a jealous possesive husband in 18th century Spain. Not the ideal combo for a happy life but I guess he gets his kicks and gets a kicking for it. This opera is wonderful. Go listen to it or see it this very instant if you haven't already and you're life will be better for it, I promise. It's one of humanity's greatest achievements, that was the philosophical bit. And that is all I can recall... If you happen to find my essay somewhere in a deep ravine or a desert-dream or a thought-graveyard please return it. It was good. *Sob*