Something You May Not Have Known About Me

I decided to audition for the Stanford Mendicants. They're actually the oldest a capella group on campus, an all-male a capella group. They wear red blazers and sing lots of old school love songs (think "Build Me Up Buttercup" and "Sugarpie, Honeybunch"). I signed up for an audition, and went to Xanadu (I kid you not, that's the name of the dorm) to sing. I had to do some range exercises, singing 5 notes up and down the scale. Then I had to do rhythmic stuff, clapping out beats that were given. I also had to sing back notes that were played on a piano. The last part of my audition was to sing about 60 seconds of whatever song I wanted. When I had signed up, I had thought "oh I know the perfect song to sing for these guys!", but when I checked their website, I saw it was actually in their repertoire. Nonetheless, I sang it anyways. "Everything" by Michael Buble. A song that I know very well, and a song that I can sing with passion. And I guess that showed -- I got a callback for a few days later.

So the callback said Friday, 12:40. I went to Xanadu once again, during lunch, and tried to get in. The door was locked. After standing around for a couple of minutes, a guy answered the door. Fortunately, he was a member of the Mendicants. Unfortunately, he told me none of their callbacks started until 4:00 pm. Turns out, they meant 12:40 am. As in 20 minutes before 1 in the morning. A small surprise, but no big deal. It gave me more time to learn the sheet music that they had given me ("Brown Eyed Girl" and "Delia"). At 12:30 am, I left Sigma Nu's "Disorientation" (I'll do a party post some other time), and walked across the street to my callback. I actually ended up being accompanied by a small posse of people who had been partying with me. Funny story, I didn't speak at all while I was at Sigma Nu, because I would have had to scream and that would have made my voice hoarse right before my callback. They asked me a few questions about my personality, then had me sing the two songs, and then sang the backup to Brown Eyed Girl while I sang the lead (that was just for fun). They said the results would be posted on Sunday. Saturday night I stayed up until nearly 5 with a bunch of my friends, and forgot all about it until 11. So, I walked over to Tressider, and checked the list.

I didn't get it.

It was disappointing, yeah, but I know I'll have more time to work on my 19 death-wish units of class. And who knows? Maybe I'll be auditioning for them again next year.