1st rehearsal
well tonight was the first rehearsal for the marching bands at school. it went from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and it went pretty well. i am now an official member of field band! oh boy you know what that means :D. of course...you guessed it... band camp! that begins on like august 9 and runs to the end of that week. that's 8:00 am to 4:00 pm of pure band goodness in a jar. it's gonna be tough but somehow i'm gonna manage to pull this off while still maintaining a 4.0 on the report card. whew! hard work, here we come.

i've been dogsitting the past few days for that lovely chocolate lab named jager who's just a great big bundle of energy. he's only like 4 years old anyways but he sure can pull me down the street! and it better be worth the $60 to pick up his poop with a plastic bag and stuff. ewwwww.

i've updated the main page! finally, geez. and i think i'll keep updating it every month so that everyone stays up to date. wait a second...everyone? who actually visits my site and cares? oh yeah that's right, just me. oh well. at least i can try to promote it now as much as possible. i'm gonna try to increase traffic levels. i had 35 people visit my webpage yesterday which is pretty good for me (the most being 345 people in one day!). hopefully more and more come. but i need to think of something interesting to actually make people want to visit. hmmmm.

in a few days, i leave for the beach. what a great time i'll hopefully have. i want to catch a large fish and take it to laura's house. and i hope the weather is alright down there for some good body boarding. maybe i'll get my nerve up to try surviving sometime. at least now i can swim well enough to do that. there's a ship wreck off of our beach so maybe i'll swim out to that but who knows what sort of marine wild life could be dwelling there. spooky stuff i bet. i need to burn a good cd for the trip being that we'll be on the road for 10 straight hours. oh boy what fun that will be...not. hopefully, we won't all drive each other crazy by the time we get there.

we leave on saturday probably around 7:30 am or earlier and we expect to arrive around maybe 5:00 pm or 6:00 pm that night. gosh it'll be a long haul. i pray that our van (with its failing transmission) can take that abuse. god only knows. this vacation will take up two of those band rehearsals but that shouldn't be a problem because the most important is the band camp which happens way after we come home. in fact, it's after old homeweek. and there's a big parade and pageants and all sorts of good old home cooking to celebrate the founding of this lovely little white bread, trailer trash, redkneck valley town we call greencastle. jesus christ, there's more culture on our tennis shoes here (haha). well anyways, i'll be in that parade so yeah.

boy this sure is a long message but i suppose i'll give you the scoop on what the entire field band thing is. you see, this year we'll be wearing army fatigues which mr. forney only does every 6 years. and the piece of music we'll be playing is called "miss saigon" (which i believe is a broadway musical) so everything, uniforms and all, go with the music. we played it earlier tonight at rehearsal for the first time and boy did it suck. royally. but there's always room to improve i mean who says that we should play it absolutely perfectly the first time? of course that's impossible. but it's quite an interesting piece and i bet it'll be even more interesting playing it while moving around in formation.

i think it's about time to cut it short since i'm getting carried away with this message. so keep checking up here in the next few days, i'll try to keep it up to date.

ziggy