The Most Recent Noise (X-Posted from OD)
I despise band. Or maybe it's just Mr. Jackson who drives me toward musical insanity. Actually, yeah, that's what it is.
Tonite was our Thursday rehearsal, from 6-8. However, I was there at 4pm to work with Mr. Campo (the cool jazz band director) on some jazz improvisation with two other interested people. It was pretty interesting, although rather confusing and frustrating. There just seems to be so much out there to learn.
Well, of course, we worked on Malaga for another two hours. The song pretty much sucks, from what I can tell. What really pissed me off though, was when Mr. Jackson took out the only decent part of the song (the ending) and put in a new part that he'd composed. It seems rather cheesy, actually, and the only part that was interesting is now just there to take up space on a sheet of tree. Dammit! I was so annoyed, and when I mentioned it to him, his response was, "Lila Lila Lila, all you do is complain." Yeah, I guess that's why he didn't make me drum major either and Xavier got it. Xavier doesn't complain or give his opinions. Xavier does whatever the heck Mr. Jackson wants at all times. Xavier acts like an angel in his presence, yet is a complete demon behind Jackson's back.
Band has become such a major hypocrisy. It's sad, too, because that's never what it used to be with Mr. Shane and Campo together. Now that Jackson is in the picture, things are just entirely different. And that's not the good kind of different either. And I still cannot face the fact that I am not drum major, nor am I band captain. Three years of sacrifices to get the same position as last year - sax section leader. I get more angry about it, by the day. It almost makes me wish I'd gone to another school, in some instances. Which is ridiculous. Anyhow, guess I have to just try to make the best of a very pathetic situation - just give my job my all and have a shitload of fun, regardless of what happens with the band program as a whole.
AP scores have arrived. I am somewhat pleased, yet somehow, still displeased. I expected to pass both the US History, and the Language/Comp. Exam. I thought I'd get a four on both, or a five on the on the Language and a four on the History. I had the most terrible US History teacher - she was a bitch, period. A bitch who didn't know how to teach, was partially deaf and completely senial. Oh well. I ended up getting a three on her AP test, and a four on the Language test. I had a wonderful AP Language and Comp. teacher, so I'd expected to do extremely well on it. I just wish I'd gotten a five on the Language, or a four on the History. Oh well, I passed both - which is okay, considering the fact that I felt as though I retained next to none of the material that the history bitch tried to cover. I think the tests/scoring are rather subjective anyhow. I passed them though. So, in that way, I guess I'm pleased. Just wish I'd done better. It was my first attempts at AP though -- next year is sure to result in more applaudable scores.
On to Physics. I thought I was doing really and truly terrible. However, the teacher passed individual grade reports out to everyone yesterday, and I've got a 90% in there, which is a high 'B'. 94% is an 'A,' so I've got to continue to work at it. I'm not quitting tomorrow, to say the least. I'll give it some more time.
The teacher did something terribly mean today, though. In short, he made this big deal about taking us on a field trip, and later he told us that it was to go skydiving. He printed up field trip permission/info forms, said he'd gotten approval from the school board to do it. We would jump and calculate our velocity using a hand-held speedometer (guess this was the "educational" portion).
Now, thankfully, I knew he was full of it from the start. However, several people did not. They became really excited about going, jumping around and talking rapidly with short, pointed statements.
Then, of course, he told everyone at the end of the day, that it was just a big joke. It was really sad to see some of the people in there, just absolutely devastated. They *really* had wanted to go, and thought that he wasn't at all joking. I was rather pissed, to say the least. I'm just very thankful that I didn't fall for it, or I would've done something really off of the wall. I mean, supposedly, skydiving is supposed to be one of those "once in a lifetime" things, and it's a pretty big deal. I just thought it was really a terrible thing to do to a bunch of high school kids.
Oh well, that's about all I have to say for now. Yeah, band, AP scores and Physics. Out of the three, the AP scores are certainly the easiest to deal with at this point in time. Band is falling to shit and Physics is the most terrible subject I've encountered in HS (other than US History, of course).
Tonite was our Thursday rehearsal, from 6-8. However, I was there at 4pm to work with Mr. Campo (the cool jazz band director) on some jazz improvisation with two other interested people. It was pretty interesting, although rather confusing and frustrating. There just seems to be so much out there to learn.
Well, of course, we worked on Malaga for another two hours. The song pretty much sucks, from what I can tell. What really pissed me off though, was when Mr. Jackson took out the only decent part of the song (the ending) and put in a new part that he'd composed. It seems rather cheesy, actually, and the only part that was interesting is now just there to take up space on a sheet of tree. Dammit! I was so annoyed, and when I mentioned it to him, his response was, "Lila Lila Lila, all you do is complain." Yeah, I guess that's why he didn't make me drum major either and Xavier got it. Xavier doesn't complain or give his opinions. Xavier does whatever the heck Mr. Jackson wants at all times. Xavier acts like an angel in his presence, yet is a complete demon behind Jackson's back.
Band has become such a major hypocrisy. It's sad, too, because that's never what it used to be with Mr. Shane and Campo together. Now that Jackson is in the picture, things are just entirely different. And that's not the good kind of different either. And I still cannot face the fact that I am not drum major, nor am I band captain. Three years of sacrifices to get the same position as last year - sax section leader. I get more angry about it, by the day. It almost makes me wish I'd gone to another school, in some instances. Which is ridiculous. Anyhow, guess I have to just try to make the best of a very pathetic situation - just give my job my all and have a shitload of fun, regardless of what happens with the band program as a whole.
AP scores have arrived. I am somewhat pleased, yet somehow, still displeased. I expected to pass both the US History, and the Language/Comp. Exam. I thought I'd get a four on both, or a five on the on the Language and a four on the History. I had the most terrible US History teacher - she was a bitch, period. A bitch who didn't know how to teach, was partially deaf and completely senial. Oh well. I ended up getting a three on her AP test, and a four on the Language test. I had a wonderful AP Language and Comp. teacher, so I'd expected to do extremely well on it. I just wish I'd gotten a five on the Language, or a four on the History. Oh well, I passed both - which is okay, considering the fact that I felt as though I retained next to none of the material that the history bitch tried to cover. I think the tests/scoring are rather subjective anyhow. I passed them though. So, in that way, I guess I'm pleased. Just wish I'd done better. It was my first attempts at AP though -- next year is sure to result in more applaudable scores.
On to Physics. I thought I was doing really and truly terrible. However, the teacher passed individual grade reports out to everyone yesterday, and I've got a 90% in there, which is a high 'B'. 94% is an 'A,' so I've got to continue to work at it. I'm not quitting tomorrow, to say the least. I'll give it some more time.
The teacher did something terribly mean today, though. In short, he made this big deal about taking us on a field trip, and later he told us that it was to go skydiving. He printed up field trip permission/info forms, said he'd gotten approval from the school board to do it. We would jump and calculate our velocity using a hand-held speedometer (guess this was the "educational" portion).
Now, thankfully, I knew he was full of it from the start. However, several people did not. They became really excited about going, jumping around and talking rapidly with short, pointed statements.
Then, of course, he told everyone at the end of the day, that it was just a big joke. It was really sad to see some of the people in there, just absolutely devastated. They *really* had wanted to go, and thought that he wasn't at all joking. I was rather pissed, to say the least. I'm just very thankful that I didn't fall for it, or I would've done something really off of the wall. I mean, supposedly, skydiving is supposed to be one of those "once in a lifetime" things, and it's a pretty big deal. I just thought it was really a terrible thing to do to a bunch of high school kids.
Oh well, that's about all I have to say for now. Yeah, band, AP scores and Physics. Out of the three, the AP scores are certainly the easiest to deal with at this point in time. Band is falling to shit and Physics is the most terrible subject I've encountered in HS (other than US History, of course).