Diploma exam happened. Definitely the worst music exam I’ve ever had. It wasn’t a total disaster, but was pretty disappointing. I now have 2–3 months to wait to find out if I passed. Not sure if I’ll retake if I failed.

I have written 16 Christmas cards so far this weekend. It seems like I’ve spent a vast amount of time on them, but actually a fair bit of time was taken up trying to find out where to send half of them, what with me being rather late in sending them and this being the first year I’ve tried to do this properly so didn’t have addresses for quite a few friends. In addition, I’ve been trying to write individual messages in each card, but frankly this is taking a long time and at this rate people would get the cards rather late in the 12 days, so I will probably stop trying to do this now. A final thought on card-sending: I have addressed 3 cards to “Mr & Mrs …”, with another couple still to be done. This seems terribly scary and grown-up.

Played a few Tom Lehrer songs at an informal concert last night, at my local church (where I used to be director of music). “The Vatican Rag” went down particularly well (the church is C of E), as did “I hold your hand in mine”. The others I sang were “The Elements” and “A Christmas Carol”. I think I will transcribe/learn “New Math” and “Lobachevsky” some time soon, although admittedly they are less appealing to a generalist audience. Also maybe “Oedipus Rex”.

I’m really looking forward to my week off work between Christmas and New Year. I shall try to catch up on sleep, and drink lots of port.

Right, back to the cards. Lots still to write. Next year I will start this earlier!

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