Googlewhacking and singing

Since Saturday I've mainly been wrangling with blogger, trying to enable visitor commenting on my posts. The system that's installed at the moment is not working insofar as I can't see the 'comment' link at all on either IE6 or Opera - although I can at school, with IE5.5. I see someone's left me a comment though - someone else with IE5.5? On a similar note, you can now email me by clicking on my name at the bottom of each post.

For those who haven't heard of Googlewhacking, it is the seemingly pointless objective of typing two words into a Google search (no quote marks) and coming up with one single search result. Do not underestimate the awesome power of Googlewhacking - it's ridiculously addictive! Here's an Auto-whacker - it will check the results for you and also validate your words via Dictionary.com (did you know that 'xyzzy' is listed as a word?). My contributions - 'rabid quaggas', 'chromatinic psychokinetic', 'naiadales prognosis' and 'proton gnomons'.

No, I'm not telling you how long I spent finding those. :P

Last night was the second carol concert organised by our school (the first one was a bit earlier - on the 5th December). And because it's a girls' choir, there seems to be an assumption that all of us can do all the really high descants. I sing the bottom of four parts (2nd alto) and it's been years since I could sing anything above a top-of-the-stave E^b comfortably, let alone a high G! Result is that I have to mime to half of it, and just join in the bits that won't result in me squeaking foolishly and distracting people around me trying to sing. I wouldn't mind so much if we could just do some decent lower harmonies, I mean, that's why I chose to sing a lower part! I'd love to do the lower harmony for 'O little town of Bethlehem', or 'Silent Night', or 'Once in royal David's city'... I do like the high descants[1] - especially the one for Silent Night, which I haven't sung for... five years now - but I can't sing them!

My driving lesson today went better than last weekend's - I nailed the reverse-around-a-corner (and a curved corner at that!) manoeuvre twice in a row. Apart from the observation, that is. *cough* I'm still in a good mood though, because we broke up at lunchtime today :)

Only another 20 hours until the trailers preceding The Two Towers start in the cinema... (excited? me?)