S.O.S.

Wow, it must be that time for the update! Jeeze, it’s been a while.

Aaaaaanyway, let me begin…

Band Camp started this week at Norwich, and might I say, I’m not very pleased with my section. I have a child who has form of extreme ADHD, and another who just thinks that her shit doesn’t stink. Seriously.

I like teaching because the less I know about my kids, the better. The less I know, the more unbiased I can be about their background or their demeanor. The kid with the form of ADHD has told me he takes countless pills, that his mom beats people up (who ironically runs a hospital…?), and that he has a lot of angst and rage. Of course, that makes me feel great. The way it seems is that he doesn’t really have a great respect for women. I don’t know much about his mother, but it really seems that way. There are three instructors who run the pit, one is a man, and the other two are women, including me. Most of the time, the man is never there, and every time I teach, or this other woman teaches, we get treated like crap.

Then there’s another who is an upcoming senior who has been in the band since her seventh grade year who just has an awful demeanor. She orders around other people, when there is no section leader for that purpose. She also tries to worry about things she shouldn’t worry about, like where the pit cart is… I had the drill sheet, I told her where it was about 500 times, yet still has to ask EVERYBODY. Ehh…

Also, at ensemble on the last day of band camp this week, I noticed she didn’t have her music out while we were playing. If she lacks a lot of basic rhythms and such, I KNOW she didn’t have her music memorized. So, she gave me excuse she had it memorized, so, I personally brought over her stands and put her music on it. She put it on the ground, and then told me she didn’t have time to set it up. I never like to include drum corps in to marching band rehearsals because it’s not drum corps, nor should it be run that way, but I just couldn’t help saying that people in corps bring their music to every rehearsal even if they have it memorized, and they look at it. After I got a dirty look and her saying, “I quit, I quit, I quit because of you!”. I just kind of stood there and thought that she wouldn’t because that’s all she really has.

There’s another week of band camp coming up on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with another evening practice on Thursday. And the Brigs show this weekend is in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ick.

On another note, there’s been a kitten hanging around the house lately. A few days ago, we saw its mother limping, and injured, and when we tried to help the poor thing, it limped away, and as far as we know because we’ve only seen the kitten these last few days, I think we can assume that the mother has passed on, the poor thing. We’ve been leaving out food and water for the poor little fluff ball, and there are signs it has been eating it. Also, the new band director at Norwich is a good friend of ours who just moved in to an apartment and is looking for some companionship with a kitty or two. So, we’re getting an inconspicuous trap from the local humane society and we’re going to take it there to get it screened and checked. Hopefully, it’ll be eligible for adoption because that fluff ball is too cute not to have a loving home.

Oh, and Jon DID check my pockets after we left the humane society to check for cats I may have taken… heehee.

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Land of Confusion.

Well, I’m back from New York, and I’m rather unsatisfied with the pictures I took. Mainly because good photographs take multiple shots and time to get them right. But because we were on the move, I couldn’t really get the shots or results I wanted. But the trip was really nice and the sights were wonderful. The Yankees won (like I care) and Mamma Mia! was FANTASTIC! I was kind of biased by it before because I’m really not an ABBA fan, but was a great performance, and I’m considering and contemplating on seeing the movie.

In other words, this weekend is the Brigs home-show in Waterloo. Why Waterloo? I have absolutely no idea, because we’ve only practiced there once and we technically don’t have a “home” location. Unless you count APW, but who the hell would come to that show?Especially since APW doesn’t have night lights, unless we did a show in the parkinglot and put everyone on the roof.

On another note, my brother killed my car. He kind of has a history of that… and I’m pissed, but I’m holding it in well. I mean, I’ve only had the thing for like, three weeks, he comes home and kills it. I told him he couldn’t use it because I know his car history, but he gave me a sob story and I let him use it. Look what happened to that. Gah.

Also, I’m still short of about a grand for a new computer. I could get a MacBook with what I have, but I really want the MacBookPro. Like, badly. Because my mom needs the desktop at home in case something goes wrong with her laptop, and it’s technically my brothers, but I think he might be selling his new computer to pay for damage on my car, and he needs something, especially since it’s technically his. And it’s required that I have a computer of my own because libraries close, and there are campus emergencies where I might not have access to one. And I don’t want to pay to fix my old Dell laptop because if I have to replace my hard drive, battery, or charger one more time… I might kill something.

Jon’s mom offered that she loan me a grand to pay for it, but I already feel really bad because she’s done so much for me already. Like take me to New York, pay for countless dinners out, driven me wherever I needed to go, and now she wants to pay for my room at DCA, even though I can pay for it. I don’t really understand. I try to pay for my own things, but she never really lets me, and I always feel really bad. And if I would even consider letting her give me a load, I have no clue how I would pay her back.

In other words, this news is good for my best friend: I’M COMING HOME NEXT WEEKEND FROM FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL SUNDAY! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Anyways, gotta run!

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