I watched the trailer for the second season of “You.” I like things with a bit of suspense to them. Then I was on Instagram, and I found a video of a someone teaching their cat to say “Hi” in a Southern accent. That was pretty funny. I’m not a pet person. I’m from New York, and I’ve never really lived in a place big enough for a pet. I’m also allergic to cats.

I had a voice lesson over FaceTime. I don’t really work on songs, it’s more about mechanics and technique. It’s like going to the chiropractor, being realigned. Then I went out to 30th Street Guitars. I’ve been there a lot this week because they were helping me eliminate some noise from my pedal board.

I had a couple hours before the show, and I had to put together a set list for a holiday concert I’m performing with my family on the 22nd. I put together a list of potential songs by searching through Spotify for different Christmas classics. The Bing Crosby Christmas album is a pretty incredible album. So there’s definitely a few from that that I thought would be cool. And I’m a huge Nat King Cole fan. There was a Peter, Paul and Mary song on there that I actually sang with them when I was a kid, a song called “Light One Candle.” I want to try and do a few songs from other faiths.

I went to the theater. My voice teacher, Valerie Morehouse, sent me about an article from the Guardian on vocal health. It talked about Adele’s vocal surgery, juxtaposed with certain voice teachers’ opinions about the human voice, which led me to Beniamino Gigli, one of the greats in the early area era of recorded music. I have to listen to his “Nessun Dorma” again. He projects without any sort of tension.

At intermission, I watched a tutorial for the Chase Bliss Gravitas guitar effects pedal. I have no idea how to how to use all the hidden features. Whenever I’m onstage, it’s important for me to be as deep into the character as I can get. But if I’m not onstage, using technology is not a detriment. I can comfortably be on the phone five minutes before I go onstage.