3 days until Christmas!

I'm so excited. But not as excited as I feel I should be.Why is this? Is it because I'm getting older? I hope not; my friend has a theory that excitement about Christmas decreases with age, and by the time we are 25 we won't feel a thing. However, after discussing this with her, we came to the conclusion that excitement about Christmas must be inversely propotional to physical growth, and therefore the decrease in said excitement will cease at the age of 18. This way, we retain some excitement towards the Christmas holidays no matter our age. That's something. 
Another theory of mine is that we have a resurgance of Christmas excitement when we have young kids of our own. I'll get back to you on that one in about 20 years time.
Anyway. It's the Christmas holidays and that means no more mocks! Now we only have the real thing to worry about.
Still, I'm not about to let GCSEs ruin my Christmas. I'm supposed to be doing a french writing assessment and a music composition over the holidays, but I highly doubt that's going to happen. I'm being realisitic here -  how can they expect us to work when we are surrounded by chocolates, presents and good telly?
Speaking of good telly, the Christmas edition of the Radio Times is out! That's two weeks of TV all rolled into one, incredibly heavy, magazine. It makes me so happy just to look at it. I haven't even read it properly yet. But I have picked out some things I am DEFINATELY going to watch, no matter how much work there is to be done. The Doctor Who special is top of the list, of course, closely followed by the remake of Upstairs Downstairs and Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. There's a lot more but I can't be bothered to write them all down. 
On a slight tangent, Spirited Away was on yesterday, which is one of my favourite films. It was on BBC 2, which was even better considering it wasn't interrupted by ad breaks every 5 minutes.
I'm going to go now and see if I can find any more presents with my name on and guess what they are. Maybe that will make me feel more Christmassy. If all else fails, I have The Grinch on dvd.

Ugh.

Ugh.
Mocks.


They're finally here, after weeks of dread and fear.
Ooh, that rhymes!


Yes. Mocks are here. They officially started on Monday. So far we've done just over half of the 12 exams we have to do. Which is great, if you're a glass-half-full sort of person, which I'm not. Especially not when mocks are involved. 

 So I spent all week sitting in a sports hall in sub-zero temperatures filling out answers to questions I didn't completely understand, and now all I can do is hope and pray for that little "A" printed on a piece of paper. It's a crazy system. What's more, I'm sure that the invigilator with the glasses has got it out for me - I see him muttering to the other invigilators, pointing at me, judging me when I ask for more paper.  

 And to top it all off, I'm losing my voice, just in time for a drama assessment. 


In other news, I finally have an advent calendar, which I'm very pleased about. However, I was a bit disappointed to discover that it didn't have a square for Christmas day. I don't know if this is just me being greedy, but I feel a bit cheated...

 I mentioned in my last post that a particular purple hat is making a comeback this winter, to the annoyance of some of my friends. I have worn it constantly for the past few days, and although it is not quite accepted yet the disapproving comments seem to have stopped. I feel we are making progress here. They'll miss it when winter ends. You mark my words.

You know, I'm having an internal debate as to whether this has actually is purple after all. It's sort of an  unidentifiable grey colour which doesn't seem to fit into any category, so I just assumed it must be purple and stuck by this decision. I'll get back to you on this one. This is a matter that requires careful consideration. 

I have a song going round and round my head at the moment. It's a lovely piano piece called "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" composed by Michael Nyman for the film "The Piano". I have the sheet music and hope to learn to play it when I have the time. Occasionally it gets mixed in with "Lights" by Ellie Goulding and some of the pieces I am studying for GCSE music with interesting consequences. My head really is a jumble at the moment. I'm going to get some sleep.


...Or maybe I'll just stay up until the early hours of the morning cramming last-minute revision into any available hour I can find. I'll see how it goes. 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

We had the first real snowfall of the season today, but unfortunately we still had to go to school. Snow at school is rubbish - it's all gritty and a bit brown and patchy and half of it has melted by break time. A few of my friends went to the park during lunch to experience proper snow, and came back with most of it in their shoes. I didn't join them; I stayed behind with the wonderful Rebecca, who, like me, is just getting over a cold and doesn't want to risk it getting any worse.
The chilly weather has allowed me to bring all my winter attire out from the back of the wardrobe. I trudged to school today in big green wellies and a stripy scarf, and I even wore my purple hat, which received mixed receptions from my friends. I plan on wearing it all the time - even indoors - until they are forced to accept it for what it is. This isn't just a purple hat - it is a mark of my  INDEPENDENCE!
Perhaps that's taking it a little too far, but I take my winter wear very seriously. I've been told that my coat makes me look "like a bodyguard" on more than one occasion, which I'm not so sure is a compliment. Not that I'm particularly fussed over said coat - I'm not too keen on it myself anyway and the buttons keep falling off. If anything was said about my purple hat, however, I don't know what I'd do. I'm very, very attached to that hat. There's a wonderful story behind it, actually...
December has started, and I don't have an advent calendar. I do have this week's Radio Times though, which  includes a preview of the TV programs that will be aired over Christmas. The most exciting of which is, of course, the Doctor Who special, which has Dumbledore in it! I can't wait!
In other news, I'm getting rather bored of this background, which is a shame seeing as I spent so long trying to get it there in the first place. Maybe I'll change it, but not now. I'm busy "working".
The mocks are getting closer, and still I have done nothing to prepare. I'm supposed to be revising now. Why am I not revising now? I'm going to go and revise now.


There's no way I'm going to revise now. I'll probably just open another game of spider solitaire.