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This blog is all about the life and struggles of being an opera singer...and a little bit more about the crazy things I think of and think I can get away with in life.</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/560362" /><rdf:li resource="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/555586" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/560362"><title>Secret Agent Opera Singers Report</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/560362</link><description>Sometimes I think I missed my calling in life...actually it happens more often than I realize. I once wrote this essay for graduate school admissions about how I watched Katerina Witt skate to Bizet's "Carmen" when I was a little girl and I thought that I was supposed to be a figure skater --...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/555586"><title>This wild opera life...</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PaintedTape/555586</link><description>A friend from South Africa convinced me that starting a blog about the struggles of a young professional opera singer would be interesting to readers around the world....well, interesting or not....at least it might help me retain my head of hair and give me a place to scream at the opera world....</description></item></rdf:RDF>