Or stupid stupid stupid me for putting my choir into a competition.
We're not ready.
We sound bad.
We're going to come last.
Parents have to pay $10 to get in.
It's tonight.
According to a fruit cake, the world is ending tomorrow. Can it end today instead?
That tapping sound you hear is the sound of music teachers accross the city posting identical messages on their blogs. Ritual reasurance follows.
ReplyDelete1. Breathe deeply. Relax your shoulders. Hum a very peaceful tune to yourself - s l o w l y. Make yourself a nice cup of coffee. Or pay someone to make one for you.
2. You will probably be fine. You may not win but you probably won't come last and your kids will have a great time as will their parents.
3. If you do perform badly and come last this will not be what causes the end of the world.
4. Besides, the end of the world is not due until October and in the meantime you'll be raptured and all the Christians in your choir will be singing perfectly. Meanwhile the non-Christians will be too busy trying to work out where all the Christians have gone to worry about how the choir went.
I remember your type at Uni. Before exams. They'd run around crying saying they were going to fail.
ReplyDeleteSo annoying. If there'd been blogs back then they would have blogged it.
One of them ended up on the Deans List.
Hope it all goes very well!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with Al...tomorrow you'll be in here saying they won it.
Yeah. We didn't win.
ReplyDeletedid you come last?
ReplyDeletesecond last. and second.
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