December 16th: Concert day!

Oh shit.

That is what I'm thinking right now. It's what I'm always thinking when I have things such as this to do; things that scare the absolute pants off me. Don't get me wrong, I adore singing and I'm growing to love performing, but I still get the craziest nerves/excitement before I do anything. I also didn't get much sleep last night which really doesn't help and I was too hyped up to eat breakfast this morning... so. Also my cough seems to have got worse overnight: RUDE! I just want it over with now, because we've done soooo much work towards this, and it's been crazy with preparations for it for the last month.

But enough of me complaining. When I get the recordings back I'll stick them on YouTube for you guys to have a listen to and you can tell me if we messed up (though I think we'll already know).

(Random point: my IT teacher just randomly goes "Ooh! It just reminded me of my birthday" to nobody in particular. I love it when teachers say stuff out of the blue like that. Once, when I was in year seven, my science teacher - who is like middle aged and very proper - said "Oh, she's such a bitch!" and the entire room went completely silent. It's like now when a teacher says fuck and everyone starts laughing in a shocked oh-my-God-did-he-just-say-that kind of way. My history teacher does it all the time; yesterday he was trying to put the DVD on with the lights off and he couldn't see what he was doing - it resulted in a lot of "Oh, fucking hell!" - Love it.)

Sorry I didn't write here last night, by the way, but I was running around like a headless chicken trying to get everything organised for the concert. I usually have to leave to go to vocal group half an hour after I get home, but today I'm getting the train/bus home so I'll be home an hour and a half earlier. I adore not having anything on a Wednesday afternoon. I don't think I'll have time to write here tonight either (hence why I'm doing it now) because we probably won't finish until nine at the earliest. I'll let you know tomorrow how it went.

Oh my God, I heard the most horrible thing yesterday! I must not have heard her say it, but my friend Charly told me that Hannah said that we might not have her for English next year because she might not be teaching second years. This absolutely can not happen! I need her teaching. I can't have anybody else for English now that I've got used to her! I love English to bits, but when she was away (she had swine flu for two weeks) it just wasn't as good. She is the most amazing teacher and yes I know I sound like I'm totally sucking up but it's all true! I just love her. (Not in a stampy way. D'oh.)

(I should probably explain "stamp collecting"; when my friend Georgina was little, she asked her parents what a lesbian was and her parents, reluctant to tell her, said it was somebody who collected stamps. When she told us this, we found it hilarious and have called lesbians stamp collectors ever since. It can be so funny when one finds something talking about actual stamp collectors (as in the kind who collect those sticky pieces of paper one puts on letters) and reads it as lesbians such as "this is a serious matter, and we're treating it as if it were stamp collecting!")

Anyway. Back to Hannah. Charly and I intend to beg her at the end of tutorial today to teach us next year; we simply can't have anyone but her. Besides we're in her tutor group so we can't be in another teacher's class... oh God, I absolutely refuse to change tutor groups. She's amazing! And she's a really good teacher and it's just so depressing to think that we might not have her next year.

Anyway I'd better be off now since IT's over, so I'll see you tomorrow. Wish me luck! *Hint Cora* :)

Molly x

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I don't see the point in starting another post since it's still the same day, but I'm in media and since Zoe's put music on and seems not to mind that nobody's doing any work, I figured I'd give you 'orrible lot an update in what's been going down in my "crazy" life since I stopped writing here two and a half hours ago.

Firstly: IT'S SNOWING!

Usually this would be fabtabulous news, but my auntie and my cousin are only going to come to the concert if the weather's good because they live an hour away and I so want them to be there. I do understand that it's dangerous on the roads when it's icy, especially in the dark, so that's why they can't come, but it's still disappointing. Bloody weather and it's definitely snowing. And settling. I ask you! The one time it actually snows in December - and I do believe this is the first time within my memorable lifetime when it has - is the one time I don't want it to. And it usually never settles either! Honestly. I don't want it to snow tomorrow either because I freaking love Thursdays. And we're having a Christmas party in English tomorrow.

Oh, speaking of English, I talked to Hannah after tutor and she said it was unlikely that our class would be split up because we're block 2 (which won't make any sense to you - it's just the blocks of time in which our lessons are etc) and it depends on whether she teaches second years next year, but she'll try to. Or, she whispered to me conspirationally, she would try to get me in her friend Anna's class "because she's lovely". I've met Anna before actually; she taught the creative writing enrichment classes I dropped out of ages ago because they clashed with Starbucks Friday. Did I already tell you that? I forget these things. But yeah, I think Anna and I would get along well because she's a grammar freak who loves David Tennant. Now where have I heard of someone like that before?

I'm sure I would like her, but Hannah's still the most amazing teacher I've ever had and I refuse to be given someone else for English. It's just simply rude.

Ooh! All I Want For Christmas just came on the radio and it's one of the songs we're doing tonight, so I was singing along. Hannah (-from-media) was as well, it's not just me. I still don't understand why Marion gave the lowest singer in the group the highest solo in the song... but hey, I like a challenge.

Anyway, I'll be off now (for the second time). I don't think there will be any more posts today so I'll catch you later!

Molly x