Memorial Weekend

This past weekend was so much fun. For starters, it was my first weekend without IB. Wow. I actually had free time, and I actually had to ponder what free time meant and what you were supposed to do with it. So I got to do a little of everything:

Friday I slept in and fulfilled my "lameness" quota for the weekend. In other words, I beat my friends Laura in the House trivia challenge by getting to 10,000 points before she did (it's been an ongoing battle). Pretty lame, but still gave me that feeling of accomplishment

I did other things are random times over the course of the weekend:

As I already posted, I finished reading one book and now I'm working on "The Rest Is Noise" By Alex Ross. It's basically a bunch of anecdotes about the development of music in the 20th century. So I consider it a pretty cool book.

I did a little more scrapbooking

I worked on editing the millions of band videos, and finally got a copy of some video from the Florida trip done (aka the section where Peter/Carole played twister in the hotel hallway without a mat)

I went to Church, which is fun because I get to hang out with my Church friends that I almost never see.

I didn't have youth orchestra (because it's over) and that was nice to have my Sunday afternoon

I went (Friday night) to see "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" since HC was playing piano, and I thought it was really funny. Of course, I kept critiquing it, and comparing the structure of the show to Les Mis ("there's dialogue?!" "I think I hear a vamp...and another....and another...")

Sunday night we had a fire and made s'mores, which means that summer is finally here! We also had some friends over which made it even more fun.

And Monday of course, was the first parade of the season. While the actual marching in the parade wasn't fun, getting to hang out with all the band people was so much. Plus we got to time how long it took Peter to get the ribbons out of his helmet (with help from Dan and Keaton's Mom). 5 minutes: Keister has got to work harder on his pranks. The performance itself was iffy, but that was to be expected

So yeah, it was a really fun weekend!!

Today everyone was complaining about how terrible we sounded yesterday and trying to figure out ways to fix it. Apparently it comes down to the drum majors and drumline. We moved the saxes back, but we're still having tempo issues because the drum majors (allegedly) aren't together. I have no clue what's going on, and at this point, I have no clue how to fix it if the drum majors are off. Which really annoys me.

Tomorrow the percussion ensemble is doing a performance someplace during the school day which gets us out of class, which means that its cool.

And the Band Banquet is this Thursday!!!!! I'm really excited, but also a bit sad that it's my final banquet : (

And for any Houghton EMW people reading this : WE'LL BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR!!!!!!