First off, thank you to all of you excellent people who responded to my last post by saying, "Dude. You don't have sheet music? You're fucked." It was so NOT what I needed to hear ON THE MORNING OF MY AUDITION to inspire confidence. However, there was (thank the gods!) a sheet music store around the corner from the theatre, where I picked up the Maroon 5 songbook out of Utter Fear, so I could use "Harder to Breathe" as a backup to the song I wanted to do a cappella.

Me: I have a song a cappella which is really fun, or something a little more standard from the songbook. Which would you like?
Them: Er, why don't you do something so we can hear you with the piano.

Best Dumb Suggestion award goes to , whose idea was to call Rob in the middle of the night, have him arrange the song for piano accomaniment, get the song back from Rob, and get it into paper form (which would've involved going to Kinko's with my laptop) before leaving for the audition at 8am. Genius, buddy.

All in all the audition went decently. I had to re-start twice because of nerves, but made (if I do say so myself) a stellar recovery, and sounded great. After having waited for me to get through the song properly, one of the auditioners commented, "Thanks for coming. It was worth the wait." They didn't call me back, but that felt pretty good.

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I made the best discovery at work the other day. While looking up "Sacroiliac Pain" in the big book of ICD-9 Codes (used to record diagnoses unambiguously for billing/referral/precertification/etc. purposes) I found the following:

846.# SACROILIAC DISORDER

846.0 Lumbosacral (joint) (ligament)
846.1 Sacroiliac ligament
846.2 Sacrospinatus (ligament)
846.3 Sacrotuberous (ligament)
846.8 Other specified sites of sacroiliac region
846.9 Unspecified sites of sacroiliac region

302.84 SADISM (SEXUAL)

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Academy Awards in 8 hours, 32 minutes and counting. Let's see them fudgepackin' cowboys win them some Holl-ee-wood approval! I wish you all could come to my Oscar Party...