The sheer logistics of the project defied belief, everything from safeguarding the recording equipment from a clubful of frenzied fans, to actually twisting a high enough-quality sound from the in-house PA.

Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.

'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.

Instead, figure out what you have to offer (Pokémon cards, a fake ID, boobs) and suggest to a classmate you become best study buddies 4evah!