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Published: 2008-02-16 21:32:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1941; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 10
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So, I play trombone during marching season, except right now my f attachment trigger trombone is in the shop. D: so that means i have to use the school's old yamaha when we go to chicago. ):but anyways, back to topic, during marching season, we go to our little sections to warm up before halftime and the trombone section have our own little group. we're the only section that is like a family and it's just hilarious. ^^ so anywys, before every halftime we would always go this. some section would just pray and then spit on the ground (aka flutes) but who cares, the trombones are awesome.
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Hee; during band camp, everyone got the tans, and during afterschool practice they only got worse.. two weeks into band, me and four other freshie band members(and other non-band-people) had a pool party... it was like, WOW. Because we'd never been exposed band-tans... and I've never gotten a tan before band.
It's fun to compare band-tans, and their various shapes... but it isn't fun when your tan only covers half of your face... and people notice.
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lol. the flagettes have it worse in my opinion becuase they wear the skimpy clothing, then they heave a little tear drop opening thing on their chest so after band camp, it's like.. a random tan spot right there. lol. xD
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That is pretty bad, our poor guard girls had to wear these dresses that covered everything but their arms. All black and sparkly... eww.
But at band camp they pretty much had the same tans as everyone else... if any of them tanned, they stayed indoors most of the time learning their routines.
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lol. i remember at a band competition it was on the same say as homecoming so most of the people left after performing, but the peolpe who stayed had to suffer the horrid heat (i stayed) and my flagette friend was burning and her skin was peeling.. it was disgusting. ironically, at night when the awards are being handed out, it was freezing cold and the auxilaries were wishing they had a marching uniform. lol. poor them.
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I hate the heat at competitions.. we wear black shoes, so they attract the heat, we were facing towards the sun (and performing at 1 something), and our toes were little loaves of bread in our shoes by the time we got off of the competitions.
Guard always complains about the lack of sleeves. I have no pity.
I hate competitions in general... once I dropped my mouthpeice during a horn twirl... before we'd even started the first song... Games are fun though.
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awww.. i LOVE competitions. they're the most fun. that and district band and probably all state band which i am striving for next year.
yea. our shoes are old and black and i hate them. you can easily find photos of our uniforms on my dA, but even so, it gets pretty stuffy (the uniforms). However, it sorta helps in the cold.
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It's only cold when we don't want it to be, and it's hot the rest of the time.
And humid. Why does Mississippi have to be some humid?
My band locker was stuffed with trash today, isn't that fabulous? And whoever did it, spat on my case.
Glad to say I have a lock on it now.
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aww. we have cubbies and people woudl put their half finished lunch in mines. -.-''
and on the very top of the bubbies are decade old renaments of school lunch, bagels, and other yucky stuff. it's just gross.
yea. it's like that in georgia too. D:
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I didn't expect anything different, but it just ticks me off.
And I know it's a couple of the guard girls that use band as an excuse to skip class and hang out in the locker room.
Rargh.
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huh. if someone does that then our BD would throw a chair at them. then kick them out of marching band. forever. yep.
seriously, tell your parents to go to georgia. then you won't haev to deal with idiots like that. haha.most schools i've ever visited here have like a very rigorous band program though....
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Our director's methods of punishment are... mild to say the least. If he even tries to find out the culprit.
Our band program needs to get rigorous, in my opinion, we need a lot more practice than we get.
Not that I would want to do that practice (or be the one to ask for it), we just need it.
Georgia would be a cool.
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lol... i wonder what our band program would be like if our band director was nicer... that would be pretty weird now that i think about it...
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Our director isn't nice, he's lazy and unqualified.
But don't tell him I said that. Besides, our assistant directors are great.
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lol. we don't have assistant directors. he would ask his band buddies to come and give our band pointers and tutor us individually, but other than that, nope.
my BD is a genius director, but a horrible teacher. seriously.
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Our director saved the band program, but he just.... isn't as good as Mr. C or even Mrs. J. But if it weren't for him stepping in, then our program would had have to been cancelled.
He's a general music major, not band specifically, and he played trombone in highschool (which makes me distrust him. : P).
But he's really passive, and it's annoying.
Our assistants are cool. Mr. C, who covers A-band teachings most days, is really awesome, if he talks too much. Mrs. J is head of Color Guard and taught me in eight grade. She's really nice, if her conducting's a bit strange.
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lol. aww.
that would be cool to have assistant directors. haha.
we have assistant teachers in social studies classes, but not in band.
there should be AT's in band.
maybe that way we won't get yelled at by a bald man so often. hehe.
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We get yelled at anyways, even with the assistants, besides, one is always away with B-band, and Mrs. J's running around working on halftime, uniforms, competitions, and all that blah.
So Mr. C gets to direct us... and as I think I said, he's cool.
Why in the world would you need assistant teachers in Social Studies?
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iono. they do the teaching. -shrug-
I have AP and IB classes, so I would see the student teachers, but they don't teach my class. The teachers teach my class and the student teachers teach the honors and normal classes.
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Ah.
Teachers just teach their respective classes at our school, only the band and the sports guys get assistants unless they're training a student-teacher... that is just an oxymoron, I mean, honestly, but anyways...
I had to play someone else's trombone today... because mine's locked in my locker because someone took the key to the lock (and my lipgloss, and two of my keychains) from my backpack.
It was SO old... I mean, ew.
The slide was crap, and it took so much air to play.
Blegh.
But I named it Jimmy Blessing the Hobo.
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wonderful name. lol.
i took home the school baritone today and played it for the first time and it is amazing. lol. i love it. it's honestly easier to play than the trombone. haha. i am probably marching baritone next year. haha. (it's lighter 
much lighter than my f attachment trombone...
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It seemed fitting, being that the inside was so coroded that it felt like I was blowing crap through it not air.
But I finally got my trombone back from its locker cage. I could play today, and not Jimmy!
Baritone does seem a lot easier, but the guy whos trombone I borrowed plays Baritone full-time and he's like, some sort of band-genius (he's a freshman and in the Lion's Band), so it's not like I'm going to go out for baritone anytime soon.
I would hate to march with a F-attachment trombone, I mean, I don't own one, but I'd utterly hate it. They're really heavy.
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lol. it seriously is heavy. for the last two years I'm the only one that marched with an f attachment and my arm is ready to fall out after every halftime. all the other boners would somehow simultaneously break their trigger and have to play the normal ones during marching season, yet miraculously, have it fixed so they can play it during concert season...
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Our band lets us play peashooters during the marching season, so we dont' have to miraculously break ours, they'd rather have us break our peashooters during marching than f-attachments.
Besides, we still haven't rebounded from Katrina, so I can't borrow a trigger b/c we don't have them in school-owned varieties, nor will my parents buy me one unless I earn a fifth of it, they wouldn't even get me a peashooter of my own.
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awww. our brass section finds ways to entertain outselves in the stand. Such as twisting the waterbottles until it shoots the cap off at an unsuspecting auxilary.
yea, it's the same although georgia isn't hit by it. we've got many kartina refugees (in fact one of my best friends is a katrina kid) and so taxes are rising to help accomodate those people.
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The trumpets here do the same thing, except the fire at the flutes or me. The trombones content themselves by making jokes at my expense or of some sick-minded variety. I /thy/ to watch the game and figure out its rules (I fail) but I have to constantly remind them that they're horrible people and they are the reason teenagers have such a bad reputation.
Are you blaming us for taxes? Hmm?
Naw, jokin', I was a refugee in northern MS for a while myself, but now I'm back down here (Oh Joy).
Today I went on an English feildtrip!
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hecks yea, i'm blaming y'll.
d'you reckon i be joking?
lol. jk.
lol. well, after a year or two, you learn the rules and once you do, it's actually really intersting. haha.
and yea, they can be mean like that. mainly becuase you're a freshmen and all,
but i'm sure that you'll be so much of a better upperclassmen than them, eh? haha.
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Are you making fun of me?
I usually don't have a heavy southern accent.
No one at all with help me learn the rules, I'll just sit around confused forever, I'd imagine.
People are mean like that, and heck yes, I'll be a better upperclassman, because I'll be surrounded by my section (and the rest of the brass), so I'll seem better by comparison. And because I'm nice sometimes.
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notice the "sometimes". hehe.
and i learned it by watching and analyzing and it seems to me like you're smart, so you can probably figure it out if you buckle down and try a bit.
and nah. i don't have an accent, strangely. although some people say i sound like i'm from ny when i've never been there my entire life. and it's really funny when i try a southern accent. i can never manage.
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It's true, sometimes I'm a major witch.
Depends on the day.
And I'll imagine I can manage... but sports go way over my head.
Well, I have the strangest accent ever. Part northerner, part southerner, part valley girl, and part scott.
I don't know where the scottish part comes in, but all the other peices are from places I've lived.
I love watching people try out southern accents.
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lol. same here.
haha. i've lived in the south all my life, yet i don't have a southern accent. people make fun of me because i don't have one. hehe.
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I'm really trying not to be so.. witchy right now, because I'm running for class vice-president, but it's not working so well, especially with all the stress from band and my advanced classes pilin' it on. And I have to bring up two B's to A's, but there's the rest of the quarter to do that.
And then there's the projects I'm supposed to be doing...
I don't make fun of people's accents (or lack) because I get dogged enough about mine.
Now I have laundry to do.
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lol. good luck about that! and hope you get it. are you trying to be valedictorian while you're at it?
me, i'm too lazy to run for an office like that. even in band, if i can help it, i wouldn't be an officer period. but it looks like i'll probably be a band captian next year.. -.-
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Valedictorian or Salutatorian would be great, but I don't know, I'll just be glad to make all A's. I'm a major dork when it comes to grades, and I like to be perfect when it comes to them. So, yeah.
I'm lazy too, but sophomore class officers are in charge of homecoming, and I cannot have another craptastic homecoming, so I'm taking over (I hope)... and part of that means making campaign posters, which I'm supposed to be doin' right now.
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hehe. i'm just lucky that i'm in teh top 50 for my class. haha. why? because math is my worst subject and i am just plain lazy.
and homecoming.. i never went to any of the dances, i could honestly care less, but i know for sure next year i'll probably be in prom committee even though i never went to a high school dance before. so good luck and if you make it, tell me all about it.
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I'm 33 in my class, because they didn't factor in my advanced classes. If they did, I'd be a lot further up.
And math stinks, expecially the geometry honors I took this year, which I passed with a low B. : C.
And I'll be sure to tell everyone about it if I win, there'll be no escaping it.
I love dances... because my freinds try to dance and I'm like WTF? And it's sooooo funny.
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lol. i don't know my exact placement, but iono.
and i got a 84 in geometry.. actually, i'm pretty proud of myself. that's a lot higher than what i usually get in math. i got a 77 in algebra II and i was estatic because i failed every single on of the tests becuase i always got 50's and 40's.
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I only remember because it made me angry.
I'm much better in Algebra, everything fits in its own little formula... but geometry... it's like nothing has any order anymore and you've only go to remember little theorums and postulates to muck your way through.
I cannot wait until Algebra II, comparted to Honors Geometry, it'll be fun.
I passed with an 85 or something.
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...
me and math aren't friends. seriously.
and i suppose it is true. if you're good at algebra, then you suck at eometry and vice versa. funny thing is, neither of it aplies to me. instead, i'm better at trig and basica calculus. haha.
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Haven't tried trig or calculus. I'll get to it eventually ( : 0 ).
Math doesn't interest me at all. Science is my subject. Human Geographies and Histories coming in a close second.
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hehe. ^^
i'll probably end up majoring in neuroscience and if the school has it, neropsychology. :]
because i'm such a dork like that. hehe.
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I haven't the slightest idea what field I'm going into.
But pirate historian, criminologist, or taboo sociologist would be interesting.
Right now Forensic Anthropologist sort of sounds good.
Neropsychology? Could you give me an explanation?
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it's the study of psychology, but focuses more on what parts of the brain causes what and how that affect a person's behavior. Yep.
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Thank you, now I know.
Sounds interesting.
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^^ No problem.
And it sorta is intersting. Except all my friends think that it basically means I want to be a psychologist even though they aren't really the same and they all come to me with their problems.. -sigh-
oh well.
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Eh, I went through a psychology stint, and the same thing happened.
Then my friends got into the habit, and so did I, then I lost those friends, but I still handed out advice, now the new friends are getting in the habit. : [. Now I'm just a all-you-can-say-until-she-drops-dead kinda person when it comes to sad or mad-rants.
Especially for my best friend, Raych.
And studying the human being and how it works has always fascinated me, human nature, sociology, psychology, anatomy, cell-structure... pretty much all of that stuff are just major awesome things.
But physics and some chemistry are so dull, I mean, I still pay attention and rock at the subjects when they're tossed into the curriculum, but it's not enjoyable.
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totally agree. my best advice i ever give anyone is this "Whatever you do, do NOT ever ask me for advice"
and I'm taking physics. It's fun because i've got an awesome teacher, but the subject itself isn't. And although I get along pretty well with the Chem teach, I won't ever take his class. and what ever you do, do NOT take AP Chem. The failing rate of that is the highest failing rate out of all AP classes EVER. So Don't Take It. And It's insanely hard. Yep. That's my crucial bit and only worthwhile piece of advice and probably my last. haha.
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Heh, I won't turn my friends away when they need advice, even if it's absurd for them to be asking.
I haven't had a bf since the beginning of this year, and Raych is constantly begging for guy advice. What's with that?
If I take a class, it'll be the most advanced, and I'll need Chem no matter what, so despite your warning, I'll prolly be taking AP Chem.
Physics and me are like oil and water.
Atoms and laws are dull. : (.
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ok, don't say i didn't warn you.
just take normal chem first, and test the waters.
and heh. that's really weird. i don't get along well with my ex's much. well, except my first. we still joke around and stuff.
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I would never say you didn't warn me.
I'll see about it, I dont' have to worry until Junior year anyways, because I'm takin' biology honors and the prerequisite course.
It's strange to no end.
My ex is in my section... it was awkward when I almost broke up with him in the set.
I have no idea why I went out with him he is such a honking pig that I just could die listening to him sometimes.
And then other times he's my friend and okay.
He gets confused.
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hehe. alright.
luckily, none of my ex's are in band. the most recent one used to play trombone too, but he quit when he got to high school. i'm not complaining seeing as i don't talk to him anymore.
the other's really fun to talk to. he's a senior now, so i'll be pretty sad to see him go.
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