Diva Disaster

Tonight was my first rehearsal with the Cantata Singers for my itsy bitsy solo in their "Sing-Along Messiah." I was really looking forward to tonight, and then I got up there, and boom! Words gone. That's what practices are for, really: making the mistake now so you don't do it at the performance. Still, so embarrassing. What's with that?! Here I am, the only professional soloist there, other than the conductor (who is my colleague at the music conservatory), and I messed up! Ugh. Doesn't help that I've been sick so much this last month...lost 2 weeks of practice time with that. Oh boy. Well, I have a week to get it together. And, if all else fails, out comes the black choir folder and I'll hide my music behind that!
I feel much better now, although I was up often last night with sweats and still have the post-vaccine headache this morning...ick. Still, much milder symptoms from the vaccine than I would have had from the actual flu bug, were I to have contracted it. But powerful all the same! I've never had side effects from a vaccine knock me out like this.
My novel is frozen at 54,000 words...I'm looking forward to some book time this weekend, but I have a concert, as pianist, on Saturday. Oh, how the Christmas season is busy! Looking forward to 3:03 on Friday, December 18th...Christmas holidays!