"Coffee in a fight...HAHAHAHA"

Aha, Friends :D

I didn't realise that yesterday's post was my first half century! 50 posts! I have no idea how that happened, I feel like I never blog.

So, this post shall be the belated celebratory post.

Today's not been too bad :) Those IDIOTIC MyMaths things and the past paper took me all morning, and then I had my hair done, but the rest of the day has been spent on Sibelius... writing...for an actual ORCHESTRA! I'm inspired for the first time in ages and I'm throwing ideas around with that awkward piece of software whenever I can.
Fingers crossed all this creativity lasts....

It's great getting the best of both musical worlds at the moment though, one minute I'm writing for the band, the next I'm writing for the musical; it certainly mixes things up a bit :)

My Mum won £100 on the Lottery website earlier! Fate is a funny thing indeed.
As a result, I've been nice(r) to her all evening and she's taking us out for lunch tomorrow, awww :)

Summer seems so much closer at the moment. OHHHH I cannot wait :')

So, Happy 51st Post everybody :D :D :D
*attempts to pop open champagne, but resorts to smashing it open with frustration instead*

This is the wonkiest eclipse you will ever see.

That week went even quicker than last week. One more blink of the eye, and it'll be Easter.

AND I CAN'T WAIT.

My computer chooses to do virus checks at the most inconvienent times, making life 10times more difficult than it needs to be for me...

It may have sped by, but te week wasn't even that good. Monday was...meh, Tuesday was AWFUL, Wednesday was long etc etc....but the biggest thing to come out of it, is that now on top of EVERYTHING else, the Barstow and I are now official musical writers. With Nick's sister doing the book and lyrics, we're adapting Dickens' Little Dorrit, and we've started throwing ideas of the musical kind around, and the man is a genius, really. It would be pretty incredible if we got something finished and sorted out a REAL LIFE production :D

There's just one slight issue.

We have to finish it before Nick leaves for Oxford at the end of the summer...

Soooo, back to reality (or not), I've decided that when all my plans for hitting the West End either as a writer or performer have failed miserabley, I shall return to dear ol' Lutterworth College and pretend I know something about computers so I can become an ICT technician.

Seriously, those people know how to live. I had to go down to the little hatch for AAAAGES in RE as the little notebook thingy I was using decided to be tremendously awkward and lazy, and they had The Killers blaring out,had fans on, were eating loads of cake and were making faces at Mr Hostead through the door (brave).
And they're also really nice people!

So yes, my back up career plan is now sorted.

BUT our EEEEEEEEEEEVIL Maths teacher has set us about 772 MyMaths homeworks AND a past paper for this weekend. And Maths and I have never got on.
MyMaths is such a way out for the teacher though. Whereas I have to log on and plough my way through tasks (that are nothing like what I'm supposed to have learnt in the lessons) in order to reach a depressing percentage and little light at the end of it grading my 'success', all the teacher has to do is scan through a set of my results and tut tut at all my fails.
For me, it takes hours, for her, it takes seconds. I don't see the fairness in that.

Grr, MyMaths, such mean websites should not be allowed to hog internet space.

Oh my TODD, it's Friday night and I'm blogging about MATHS?! I need a life. Anyone got any recommendations (no word from you Ellingwoof, OR Ellen...)?

It's the best feeling ever when you find a random £5 note lying around your room :') Okay, so it's £5...but it's still cash :D

Had the job interview yesterday. The hotel is GORGEOUS, and I think the interview went alright, but they won't get back to us until next week as they're still interviewing people.
Oh well, fingers crossed...

Since I now have so much of it to do, I'll be off to continue some writing :)

And when the award-winning Lutterworth College production of 'Little Dorrit - The Musical' gets transferred to the West End and we start our quest for world domination, we shall all venture to the top of the Music Tower and say... 'Yep, this is where it ALLLL began....'

Erm, maybe we'd just say it in our heads though?

Or no, not at all.

I want to be a newspaper taxi driver.

Awwww, I'm in a warm, happy, content mood; I've just watched Father of the Bride for the 177th time, and it doesn't matter that it's old and INCREDIBLEY cheesy, it never fails to make me smile and feel all fuzzy inside :')

I am a hopeless romantic, after all.

Today I woke up and decided that I wanted to make the day productive instead of lying around in bed, so mother and I descended on my town of birth, Kettering. What a charming place...
Mehh, we went to Costa (where they basically threw one of their loyalty card things at us, fun times), and then I had THE most unsuccessful shopping trip of my life.
Part of the reason for our descent was to invest in something decent for me to wear to this whole interview thing on Thursday, but since I'm so incredibley indecisive anyway, and since mother and I NEVER agree on anything, it pretty much came to nothing.

OH WELL.

Then we ACTUALLY went to Specsavers in Harborough, and now I have an appointment in a few weeks to check out these strange eyes of mine, since nowadays I can see better without my specs, and I'm sure that can't be right.

We returned home, and I spent pretty much the rest of the afternoon being musical. I worked on a demo for Hayley and the band, and it's just over 5 minutes long, so it's the longest thing I've ever written. I then felt I should repay Ellingwoof for her musical donations and general amazingness in recent times, so I conjured up a little musical something for her too, which I think/hope she enjoyed ;)
My brother then told me he was making a podcast with his friend and they wanted theme music, so I went on Sibelius and came up with something completely operatic and stupid, which he found REALLY funny.

Makes a change, usually he'd just shout at me for being an idiot, but today he was actually willing to accept my odd self and my odd-er creations.

My memory stick is being IMPOSSIBLE, so I can't put the demo here and send it to you Hayley, this makes me sad.

I think Ellen is just about to explode because Juliette doesn't know who Dusty Springfield is. This is like Lord Oli and Rule the World ALLLLLL over again.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. OH LORDY. This means I have to be vaguely sociable again.

Ellen has virtual tears.

My head hurts.

You know when one of my blogs is about to finish, because I start spouting random quotes about whatever happens to flash up in my mind or whatever is happening in my vicinity.

Hmph, that was unusually short for a Saturday.

Guess what? Don't listen to Marina, I AM a robot.

Aw, I love Ireland :) Someone take me back!

Don't quite understand what happened to the last 5 days, once again I blinked and missed them it seems....

2 weeks today it's Easter! What a BEAUTIFUL thought :) For once I don't feel like I'm in such a dull place - I have a job interview next week, got some REALLY surprising exam results, I'm engaged, I have my first work-free weekend in a year, and Hallam is sending me the FULL conductor scores for The Last 5 Years, Wicked, West Side Story....

Wow, he must really love me. (Evita moment, Ellingwoof)

This job interview is the news I'm most excited about :) They don't need me in the theatre part (sigh), but they've called me for interview next Thursday for a position in the ACTUAL hotel restaurant :O
POSH TIMES.

What else happened this week? Not a lot, I don't think. In Graphics we almost collapsed with laughter because poor ol' Lord Oli Abraham Emery thought Rule the World was by The Beatles....well, Abbi March Ellingwoof, Burty and myself almost didn't recover....

This links nicely to the next generic section of my Friday post: CHOIR TIMES.
I know every week I say 'ohh it was so bizarre we did this blah de blah insanity', but today it really WAS.
Mr Dr is SO stuck for repertoire, he chose this arrangement of Teddy Bear's Picnic where the basses (who always get the best lines!) get to go 'HAVE A BANANA'. Well, it's been quite a while since I last fell on the floor with amusement. Thanks for that, Ellingwoof...
As Ellen pointed out, the person who did the arrangement is ALSO alto-ist; what does everyone have against us?!?!?! Everyone always picks on the minorities.
In fact, Ellingwoof, Juliette (who stole the internet), Taz and I rewrote Man in the Mirror as our ARM (alto rights movement, led by Burty) anthem. I'd post the lyrics but Juliette has them...

So anyway, we're all singing this scary arrangement (marked 'mischieviously', no lie), and just to prove the scariness, Scott walked in halfway through and his face was an absolute picture at what he was hearing.
Mr Dr asked if we wanted to continue with it. No one wanted to. No surprise, really, I'll have nightmares...
Then we did Rule the World, where the altos get the melody of the chorus and frequent oo-ing. Flippin' heck.
I can't look at Ellingwoof at ALL when we do it.

Earlier I accidentally punched a wall (it was dark!) and now my hand REALLY hurts and it's all red and ouchful.
My Dad asked me what I was doing assaulting the walls of his house, and then said he blamed my friends for being such bad influences :')

I have The Beatles on. I've always appreciated them, but never really been a huge fan, until last weekend where my brother threw his entire collection at me so I could put them into iTunes. Some of their crazier stuff is GREAT :D

Join the All at Sea group on Facebook if you haven't already! 50 members in 24 hours, INSANE considering we haven't even done anything :)

This week, it's been exactly a year since Sweeeeeeeeeeney. Scary times.

But not as scary as that Teddy Bear's Picnic arrangement *shivers*....

High time we took a stand, shook up the views of the common man....

Just a quick, shameless plug for now...

A month or so back, the wonderful Hayley asked me if I would form a band with her, which sounded like a damn brilliant idea, so I did and we recruited the lovely Hannah (Skidmore) as our guitarist :)
A drummer, drummer/keyboarder and sort of other drummer later, we became the electro-acoustic Muse/Smiths inspired trio 'All at Sea'.
Hayley and I have already written some stuff and it's been GREAT fun, and now we're actually planning real-life gigs and other things that bands do...

All At Sea. Join our Facebook group so we can endlessly bother you about the amazing wonders we get up to (when we actually get round to doing anything).

Expect a proper post tomorrow, dear bloggers.

Put it in the wash. It'll be grand.

If I knew what was good for me, I'd be doing a spot of RE revision now.

But then again, if I knew what was good for me, I wouldn't be stuffing my unkept face with evil sugary/fatty items so much and I'd be down the gym thrice a week. I'd also blog a little more and wear my heart on my sleeve a little less.

I said thrice :')

In conclusion, I haven't the foggiest what is good for me since so many people spend their lives dictating to us what is, so I'll probably leave my spot of revision till the advert break in Friends or something while I wait.

Erm, today is Monday blah blah, PE and trampolining (HAHAHA, the Tramp Factor) blah blah, French blehhh, Music practical *sound of a record scratching to a halt*

I have to just pause here to say that the cover of Ob La Di Ob La Da (by The Beatles, PLEASE say you know what we mean?!?!?!) that Ellen and I did was actually incredible. Me attempting guitar, Ellen on lyrics. We even started to get Ellingwoof on mouth percussion.
Yep, we're going to be the new Youtube sensation...eventually...
And Ellingwoof, I've just put I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing on :') (I'm in a soppy, romantic slush mood).
Imagine there is a large paragraph here ranting about how crazy it is that no one seems to know Ob La Di Ob La Da and how disgusting it is that the BBC put it at the top of their worst songs list. PAH. I'm not feeling up for a rant right now. For once.

So yeah, lunch was interesting, our 'secret society' meeting followed by an impromptu performance by Scott and myself of our duet :)
But kids, seriously, the finest advice this Taylor will ever give you is to download sheet music legally and IN THE CORRECT KEY THE FIRST TIME ROUND. I learnt this the hard way, and now have to bash my way through 7 sharps every time. It's painful.
Bring on that backing track.

I have a stonking cold (again), so I'm sitting here in my crazy slipper socks (complete with pom poms) and in my comfy, warm, straight-off-the-radiator music hoodie :) Then I'll pig out a little later in time for Friends and Glee (EEK), that'll cheer me up :)

This was an odd post (well, they all are), but the lack of posting made me feel strangely guilty. I don't know it was possible to feel so emotionally attached to a website.

EDIT: Burty has in fact corrected me by saying that it wasn't actually the BBC who put the song at the top, it was a poll. That doesn't make it any better, but pah, sorry BBC people.

We are both one tree.

Dearest Ellingwoof gave me the new Marina and the Diamonds album, and it's SOO good! I was really surprised, I didn't think I'd like it that much, but it's so fresh and different, it just makes me go EEEEK :D

What's this?! A whole week without posting?! Outrageous.

Quick blast through the week then...
Had the De Mont 'gig' on Sunday with the crazed choir lot ;) Twas a really fun day, actually :) My personal highlight was when we all performed Man in the Mirror in the middle of the Garden Suite and we got strange looks from the other choirs :')
THEY'RE JUST JEALOUS OF THE AWESOMENESS.
HAHAHA, we even filmed our first music videos on Tuesday (thanks for that, Mr Dr). Okay, so they weren't quite as exciting or memorable as, I dunno, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video, and the dance wasn't quite Single Ladies, but that won't be the point when we next appear on MTV...
Now we're all planning an excursion to Pizza Hut during Easter I think, which would be amazing. I still vote that we order everything musically. They wouldn't be expecting that.
I wonder how long we'll manage to stay in the restaurant before we get kicked out?

So the week went by, there's nothing THAT interesting to mention. I'll refrain from mentioning how Nick and I built a makeshift practice room at the top of the Music tower and wrote Nobody Likes Bertha, because it'll get stuck in my head again. I remember we burnt soil in Biology and it stank, and I had some audition thing on Tuesday? Aha, that was fun, had a good ol' catch up with my favourite fellow bedgar (yes, BEDGAR) Miss Orton, before ending up outside Dance with Scott, Stephen, Ailish and Sarah Who. Talk about odd. BUT, if like me you're poor and can't get down to see the real Avenue Q, just get Stephen and Scott to perform extracts for you. It's far better.
I then ended up outside with Fiona/God eating Kit Kats, bless her. Should've got some Interpretive Physics Dancing done really.
Yeah, that Tuesday evening was probably the most interesting escapade of the week.
Hmmm, what else happened?
Had some interesting musical lunchtimes with Laura (who I love more than you do Ellingwoof HAHA ;)) :D Then Graphics is always rather bizarre...Ellingwoof and I found ourselves becoming Autism Experts...
I could also tell you how I wrote a song at 6:30am, or how Stephen was mean enough to leave Hayley and I standing outside in the cold (literally) on chippy Thursday of all days ;) Haha, bless your heart and soul you Leach :)

I seem to be the only person who thinks this week has gone by really quickly. Everyone is moaning it's gone so slowwwwwww.

Ohhh, before we know it, it'll be Easter :) CHOCOLATE! :D :D :D