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1. Your audition dress has started to stink but it's the only one your boobs can fit into.
2. You've mastered the art of warming up in a crowded subway car.
3. The people at National Opera Center know you now.
4. You've wondered if it were possible to just rent and live in a room at Shetler since you're there more than your own apartment anyway.
5. You are now FB friends with the people you've repeatedly seen at auditions.
6. Your credit card bill is 90% YapTracker charges.
7. You can spot an opera singer a mile away by their curled hair, sassy red lipstick, knee length jewel tone dress, nude pumps...
8. Instead of drinking on weekends, you drink on whatever day you have a shitty audition.
9. You find bobby pins in the most bizarre places.
10. You repeatedly tackle the age old question of why you need to provide a copy of all your materials when they were already included in your application...
11. That audition you had where you sang perfectly and the director gushed about how great you were and gave you a knowing wink as you walked out the door?
12. You reminisce about the years when you had money to eat an actual meal.
13. And while sometimes you feel like you're just another number in the auditions rat race...
14. At least you have your friends to commiserate with about how crazy this whole thing is! And how it's almost over...
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