Well, free for six or so weeks at least! Term has come to a close and the production I was in has had it’s final night (thursday). I’m obviously delighted at the prospect of a holiday, but I am surprisingly missing the atmosphere school has had over the past two weeks not to mention the numerous moments of hilarity.
The production (a victorian melodrama) was great fun, especially in the last few days where we had full days of rehearsal before performances in the evening. I think it was generally agreed amoungst the cast that no one wishes to see another needle or cotton reel for quite some time as, when not on stage, most of us spent our time injuring ourselves sewing costumes together. That and, in the hour or so before we went on stage, having hair yanked into buns. In my case, it took the whole hour and my bun still exploded during the second scene in a shower of hair pins!
I’ve just realised how long it really is since my last blog, so I’ll give a brief run down of events: I passed my Grade 6 drum exam (not sure of marks yet, but passed so that’s the main thing!). The percussion for Carmina Burana was a bucket of fun (pedal timpani are so much fun) and went resonably well. We went to a lovely jazz concert in the grounds of Lacock Abbey which was sadly rather wet and, most excitingly of all (err), it looks like I might get the chance to do my ICT GCSE a year early and then go on to my AS level - yay for geekdom!
I’m going to Ireland for ten days or so where I will have to survive sans internet access, so whilst I’ll try to get a blog in beforehand, expect another slight lull in activity. However, upon my return, I will try my upmost to get back to a resonable rutine or update-y-ness.
Written on at 1:44 pm.
I’m slightly concerned that p-t.net may not be working in Internet Explorer 6, yet I’m not entirely sure. This is because, when I tried to access it from school it didn’t come up at all. IE kindly told me it was “done” whilst I was still staring at an entirely blank page. Now, the most logical thing is that the school computers are playing with my mind, however, I’m slightly concerned it may be something in the new(ish) layout as it worked up until the switch. Are there any IE6 users able to see P-T.net all fine and dandy? (I’m not going to try and ask you if you don’t see it!)
The countdown begins to my Grade 6 drum exam on Tuesday - MASS PANIC!!!!!! Really nervous as, due to swing band performance and (awesome) sleepover, today was the first day I’ve played my exam pieces since Wednesday. Oh well, there’s no point me writing my panic down, it’ll just make me more worried! Come Wednesday I will be a sea of calm (despite it being sports day).
A couple more movies have been added to my film rating page, but other than that the site has been (hopefully understandably) neglected so please accept my sincere apologies - normal service will resume come Wednesday!
Written on at 7:44 pm.
You may be pleased to hear that I am no longer a mumbling, incoherant gummy bear or, on the other hand, you may not, as if you know me, you may have quite enjoyed the muted ramblings! The performance went surprisingly well and, to everyone’s relief, I managed not to spatter blood over the audience, despite the gaping holes where my teeth should be.
I spent yesterday mulling over the fact that I have just one week and two days (PANIC STATIONS!!!) until my Grade 6 drum exam and also did a painting for art that I wasn’t particularly keen on doing as I knew it would take forever, which it did. Today I had a drum lesson where we went through all the stuff for the exam. IT was better than I thought it would be although one piece still needs a lot of work (why am I blogging?! I should be practising)! There was also a meeting for Carmina Burana which my drum teacher’s having to organise the percussion for. We went through and allocated the parts and I get to play the loud stuff (bass drum and some timpani) so I’m happy enough!
Arghh! My wireless keyboard’s battery is going (for the first time that I can remember) and it insists on telling me every five letters I type!
Before the keyboard decided to die on me, I tidied up a bit of the CSS and Wordpress templates so that there’s now a handy little message before the comment form and the fonts are all relative using percentages…I hope! I also wrote a little “article” thingy about what I’d prefer not to see on a website and am desperately hoping it doesn’t sound too pompous/snobby as I appretiate I probably made all these fatal errors mistakes at some point.
I doubt I’ll get a blog in tomorrow as I have auditions for the school production of “Oh! What a Lovely War” for which I have to sing. Ahhhhhhhhhjdgdrgjkdvnsdmf! *is terrified* I’m singing Summertime, a song I know really well. Despite this I will be ridiculously nervous by tomorrow night as singing on my own is the one thing I am most scared of doing (despite really enjoying singing - I think I’m scared of someone realising I can’t!). I could talk to a room of thousands, but sing?! Yet, if I got a part I would be fine as I would know that someone had the confidence in me and thought “she could do it”, therefore suggesting I could. Oh well, now or never eh? The good news is that TopGear starts again tonight!
Written on at 7:24 pm.
Ta dah! Or, if I were to say it out loud; ma mah! I had two teeth extracted this morning and half my face is numb so it’s best I keep to typing.
Having made a fuss over attempting one layout design, I actually got this one together pretty quickly! It now includes snazzy flikr stream (one that worryingly suggests I might have to take more photos some time soon), me peeking over the top of the content and *gasp* no sidebar! I’m still not quite sure whether I’ll survive without my usual beloved little collection of junk to the right, but I’m going to have to try. Most of the sidebar content is still here, just dotted throughout the rest of the site. Overall I’m happy with it as it’s a bit clearer and hopefully neater than previous versions.
The next bit of fun for me to look forward to is the play tonight. I’m now having to stand in for someone who had a larger part (whilst someone stands in for me) as I roughly know the blocking. I’m just desparately hoping I’ll be able to talk coherently and will stop dribbling (really embarrassing side effect of being unable to feel half your mouth)!
Written on at 11:35 am.
I’ll be setting about recoding the failed layout (no longer the default, but can be seen under “swirls”) at some point, but am also fiddling about with another design idea (although not yet in the correct colours). In the mean time (that sounds like procrastinating to me!) I’ll continue with a general updatey blog.
My original plan for a laid back, relaxed school term seems to have gone to pot. I expect I’ll successfully evade large quantities of homework, but that’s the least of my worries; somewhere along the lines I managed to get a tooth extraction (in preparation for the dreaded train tracks) on the same day as Wednesday’s drama performance, so it looks like I’ll be mumbling my lines! More excitingly and less painfully I have the first rehearsal for the play I’m in this term, tomorrow night. It should be quite entertaining as I play two roles, one of which is a French governess (it’s a Victorian melodrama - think girls and mother left destitute and staying with kind aunt), quite amusée as my French accent is rather appalling… nonetheless, the cast includes staff as well as students so it’s bound to be entertaining!
I feel somewhat as if, despite blogging quite frequently, I’ve been neglecting Party-Truffle.net content-wise. I’d like to resolve this, however, looking at my schedule, I fear it may take a few weeks, especially now I’m getting some local website design work. Ho hum; I’ll just have to see what I can do!
Written on at 4:11 pm.