Interim task yesterday went better than expected. I felt completely spent when it was over… We had a couple of problems, but most of it went quite smoothly, and the tutors seemed to think I did well, in any case, cause they gave me a B13. I feel very relieved… If I make a high enough mark for the promo-pack and the actual performance in May I’ll be able to get a good over-all mark despite Steve Spencer’s poor opinion of me before Christmas.

So now I need to focus all my energy on the school performance we’re doing next week for Employability & Enterprise. We rehearsed today. Everybody Wants to be a Cat went well, and we got through Waterloo Sunset okay. Eliza’s singing Forget You and You’ve Got a Friend in Me. She had some trouble with the latter. We sat down after the rehearsal and I helped her figure it out. We also worked on harmonies for Everybody Wants to be a Cat. I think it’s gonna be okay. Still, we started rehearsing less than a week before the performance… Definitely too short a deadline. I just need to nail the lyrics for Waterloo Sunset, though, and I’ll be ready.

Woke up with the worst headache today… Not even my caffeinated paracetamols did any good. I’ve taken some ibuprofen and am feeling a bit better now, though. I’m getting hungry again now, but I don’t know what to eat… Don’t really have anything that doesn’t take too much effort to prepare.

Also, figured out today that the song Infra-Red by Placebo is recorded in a key that doesn’t exist. Literally, it’s recorded in a key just below D#-minor. At live-shows they play it in D-minor. I couldn’t understand why my playing along sounded so off-key at first, while I was trying to suss out the chords… I’ll be playing it in G-minor, so it doesn’t really matter, but my God, was it frustrating to try and figure out those chords! I can’t imagine what it must be like for someone with perfect pitch to listen to that thing… I’ll bet they did it just to annoy people!

I think I’ve decided to cover Charlie Big Potato by Skunk Anansie for my dissertation as well. I wanna try, anyways. We’ll see how it goes. If it turns out it’s too epic for us, I’ll give Brazen (Weep) a go instead. It might actually suit the set better… But Charlie Big Potato is just such an awesome track! So I’m gonna try, and if I’m lucky, it’ll work out.