after three hours of losing my mind at the microphone

As Joe Gideon said to his mistress, Victoria Porter, in "All That Jazz" after she made it through her dance routine without screwing up:

"Better."

Not there yet, but better. It's not longer "Oh my God, so egregiously pedestrian I must go out and shoot myself." It is now more "Well, that's interesting, I wonder if he's done anything else."

Of course, you know what I am shooting for:

The nunc dimittis.