Busy/Lazy

I love the irony in the fact that life can be so busy that I become unbelievably lazy. And in the course of that, I was too lazy to write about how busy I was. So here's what happened the last 2 weeks:

May 1-5: The week of freaking out about the IB Math SL exam and the band concert coming up. I was at school around 7 every morning (except for Thursday) for either Jazz Band or Math review. Not exactly the way I wanted to start my days. Everything else was pretty much the same. Benson was a little bit on the edge more than usual, which is directly linked to the fact the last band concert was coming up.

On Sunday, May 6th, I had one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. I was stuck helping the preschoolers during church. They are demons!! They run into the wall for fun!! That would be why I never want to have kids.

May 7th- Got there early for Jazz Band. Spent the day freaking out about the Math SL exam that I took in the afternoon. Out of the 15 problems, I could only do 5 full problems. I got parts of the others. Then I went to a clarinet lesson. I had to eat my dinner (Subway) on the car ride back. Then I got to school aroun 6:30 and my mom brought me my clothes to change for the concert. The concert went well. During the last concert band piece (Pirates of the Caribbean), the members of Jazz Band were hanging out in the hallway. Gronski and Goben started having a sword fight with their folders. Marty grabbed Ashley and almost squeezed her to death. It was great. Then I managed to survive the terrible experience of having to do an improv solo on the alto sax. And stand up. After that the wind ensemble went. I had a coughing fit at the beginning of October, so there was a bit of silence when Kristina had to take a breath and it was only the first clarinets playing (and one of them was dying from lack of oxygen). After 2 different pieces where I had solos, Benson forgot to have me stand up. He also forgot some other people, but this was the second concert in a row that he's forgotten me. Eleanor and I went and yelled at him afterwards. "This is the second concert in a row you've forgotten me!" "You want to go for three?"

The next morning we had to be at school at 7:15 for the second part of the Math SL exam. Which I bombed. We got back around the beginning of 4th period. Sarah F and I went to the bandroom and ended up helping Chris L and Benson sort through all the music and put it away. He had found random pieces of music in the office (from when Borsz was still there)- Scenes from The Louve and Campbell River Sketches. Weird.

This week has taken forever. We've been getting the SL kids ready for their exam in IB Music. We've been doing nothing in Spanish/Math. Caulfield has us doing busy work in English. Hurd is going on rants in HOA (nothing new there). Gym class stinks. And we've gotten into parade season in Band. The drumline is having trouble keeping the tempo. The low brass is dragging. (Chris has been out for IB exams). I'm tending to lost my voice after yelling the whole period. And people do not know how to get into rows of 5. Ah yes. Parade season @ EHS. I will say that I was very impressed that our band could actually memorize the music in 3 days and not sound terrible. Can't wait to see what happens when we take it outside. Minus the whole thing with me trying to walk backwards and not run into the color guard. I'm probably going to end up taking someone out by accident.

Tomorrow is the prom. I'm going to be soooo glad when all the prom drama is over!!!