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this one time, at band camp...

8-20-'xx: 3:16pm

i hate how i always think of the best thing to say hours after i needed to say it.

at the band-o-rama on thursday, i was talking to this girl from one of the other schools in the district. i already had a low level of respect for this school (they've shoed a low level of support for the other schools in the district and basically parade around like they're hot shit), so i was hoping that her attitude would possibly restore some of my faith in them. i overestimated her. first off, she tells me that my colourguard instructor...possibly one of the sweetest people i've ever met in my entire life...is a huge bitch. i was just dumbfounded...i didn't know how i could say anything without starting an argument (representing my school professionally is very important to me, and fighting is not very professional)..so i just kind of let my mouth drop open. i was like "what makes you say that?" i was already pissed off. she said that she knew someone who used to be in the guard...a certian person named amy...and the lightbulb switched on in my head. AHA! amy is one of only a few people i actually consider to be a bitch...i don't like to just throw that word around. amy wanted all of the glory without the work. she taked about people behind their backs while being perfectly sweet and innocent to their faces, gave people a hard time about their skill level in guardwork while her own skill lever was dwindling at the bottom, whined non-stop, spread rumors about other guard members...she was awful and she was the sole reason that i considered not re-joining guard many times. anyway...so not only did the fact that she was bad-mouthing kelly behind her back piss me off...but it pissed me off that this other girl who didn't even know kelly would bad mouth her just beause she "heard a few things." i just kind of expect people of her age to be a little more mature than that but...again, i guess i was expecting too much.

anyway, so i was already mad about that. and she kept going on about how she was probably even better at guardwork than our captian (which makes no fucking difference, larsen is a fantastic orchestra teacher and he couldn't play a string instrument to save his life), and i was like "well, did we look bad out there? honestly, did we?" and she gives me possibly the most condecending look on earth and says "well, all you guys are doing out there are just...angles...and to me, that's not what guard is all about. i mean, i know you have ron and all...but..." i was just positively steaming. you work your ass off for a week on stuff that's harder than practically anything you've done in your life, and here someone comes and tells you that it's a walk in the park. someone who's routine on the field, to be honest with you, was completely cryptic and confusing. she later said that they're "trying to do something different than everyone else"...and i give them credit for that, it IS different. but just becuase it's different doesn't mean it's entertaining in the least. they do interperative dance with expandable toy balls, then they twirl sabres...i have a lot of respect for sabres and rifles but it's like skat: if you cant do it right, don't even bother. and they were fainling miserably.

and i thought about what she said a lot...how "that just isn't what guard is about." i got interrupted before i could ask her...what is it all about, then? from what she had been saying, the impression she gave me is that guard is all about impressing judges with something that no one's ever done before. and it's an attitude like that that makes the real purpose of it get lost. that's when sneaky backhanded guard politics come into play, that's where people start trying to always one-up each other. have we forgotten what the real purpose of guard...and field marching band in general...is to entertain people? and not just people who know exactly what you're doing and how hard it is and can say "oooh...look at those three quarter spins...and ooh...they're doing that with the left hand" or things like that. most of the crowd, i'm sorry to announce, doesn't give a shit either way. they're there to be entertained. they don't care how different your show is...they want to see colours and lots of big movement. i know this because i have the ability to not only see a show from the point of view of someone somewhat experienced, but as a completely oblivious audience member as well. that cryptic artsy stuff...it may be impressive to judges, or whatever, but the audience...well, they're going to choose your performance as a good time to go get a hot dog before the game starts again.

she apologized later when jacque went up and confronted her about it (i didn't know she was going to do that. it made me look like the biggest wuss in the entire world), but you just got to think...what are the girls of that colourguard saying about us behind our backs? and on another side-note...i saw their guard work with flags yesterday...and holy lord. put them away. please.

anyway. so i think of all this stuff to say the day afterward, of course. life bites.

and besides that...band camp was, of course, interesting. RC dressed up as britney spears one day and table danced lip-synching to "baby one more time". i was extremely mad that i forgot my camera. we re-named trent "wipeout" because he's got his hair in a surfer flop, i hung with jacque a lot....etc. and the guard is doing AWESOME...i don't care what that girl said...we're going to kick some serious ass this year. i guess that mr haug said that i was the funnest on the field to watch, which is really cool because i felt like i bumbling idiot out there. like i was stumbling around drunk or something. i'm not a very good dancer.

and that's about it. now i am sitting downloading songs to put on my giant *nsync mix and drinking diet coke.

and if anyone reading this has ALL of the sailing remix...please please click on justin and send it to me, please!!!!!

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