I'm not sure I understand. I'm not sure it even matters.

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I really don't know how there can be so many good things and so many bad things happening at the same time. But since it's been a while since i updated i'll have to fill in some details. Last friday Jenn, Kristen, and I went to the chorale concert. I have to say that there has been significant improvement since last year. There are some people who need to be shot for the way they sing, but that's not really going to happen anytime soon. Some of the solos on the other hand were amazing. On a whole the concert was really good except for Doc's 20 min lecture explaining the all 7 movements of Bach's Cantata #150. I have never wanted to leave a vocal music performance until that. It was absolutely ridiculous. That was pretty much my friday, other than the concert i pretty much hung out with my floormates and then fell asleep watching Black Hawk Down at about 4 or 5. Saturday i decided that with a concert that night i should probably practice my music, so i spent about 40 mins in a practice room and nailed down my part in the verdi march for brass choir. Had dinner and then tuxed it up. I got to the music building right when i was supposed to be there, except that we didn't actually play until the first part of the second half of the concert. And there was only 5 of us who weren't in orchestra. Andrew went to watch the concert while Jesse, Brett, Amanda, and myself went stir crazy in the band room waiting for about 50 mins. Per usual when you get band people together for long periods of time memorized music comes out. There was several renditions of shows of both this year and previous years. Anyway we ended up out there and played the piece. It went really well and Micaela did an excellent job of conducting for her first time in front of an audience. After we were done, i headed back to my room and changed and preceded to spend another Valentine's / Saturday night alone. Which was fine because i really didn't feel like going anywhere or doing anything. Lindsay, Corie, Mark, and I watched Miss Congeniality until 2:30 and then I went back to my room and fell asleep listening to Hunt for Red October since i took my glasses off. Sunday morning i got up for brunch because my family was coming up to see the concert. And we had decided the night before that we didn't need to get there so early for the concert. This time instead of sitting around the band room, we decided to watch the concert. Wow! Awesome concert. Great work by the strings, but amazing stuff from the winds, especially oboes, bassoons, and french horns. The Brass Choir piece went even better sunday i thought and Micaela was 10 times more confident with her conducting and that really helped. I hope that we have either more Brass Choir or extra playing opportunities like brass choir because i really enjoy it. The nice thing about having family come up is being able to get real food. Applebee's in Mt. Pleasant this time. Plus i usually get to drive someones car at some point. This time it was grandma's car and her car is sweet. She doesn't have a typical grandmother car, no, she has a 2002 Silver Pontiac Grand Prix GT. And does that car fly. I ended up getting back later than i had planned so i was already later to GBM for PMA, but i figured that wasn't too bad, but i hadn't been able to print out our proposal for approval. When i tried to do that i discovered that the pen drive that i had gotten less than a week ago was dead. Just dead. No explaination. Completely dead. So i tried to see what i could do to fix it and recover my proposal but all i did was waste time until my Alternate Break meeting. This trip is going to be so much fun, i can't wait. After that i pretty much accomplished nothing as i have a tendency of doing over the weekends. Monday was the big day. PMA national exam. Have to get 100% to pass and tim is the frat nazi so everything had to be right. Brian, John, Cailaen, and I studied for about 90 mins in the afternoon before band. But we got in there and all passed the exam. I did it my first try, but a couple of the guys needed to go back and correct a few things they missed, but we all did it. In celebration we all put our shirts on and had pizza while we watched Caddyshack. Now that the exam is over, the fun stuff can begin. And that is the weekend in a nutshell.
But for every good thing that happened there at least one down side. I passed my exam but i lost my pin that morning. The concert was great but i didn't accomplish anything over the entire weekend. I think that i just want to go on break, go to south carolina and have some fun with a good group of people giving back to the community. Hmmm, i think this stuff all relates. I've always enjoyed community service and i'm always willing to help out people, which is probably why i always end up with so much extra stuff to do. I guess i just have this annoying habit of putting the needs of other people before my own. That's just a crazy thought; putting other people before myself. Well i think i can accept that. If only more people felt like that, maybe we could get somewhere in this world. Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.