Weekday Sessions
'Allo. And now, for something completely different: (1) I officially completed part 1 of my college application for USC yesterday and sent it in. First and second choice majors? English and Music. (2) I cannot apply to Columbia at all, because they require all applicants to have taken 2 SAT subjects tests. *cough* I was going to take the English one, but never got around to it. Furthermore, I wouldn't have taken any other ones if I had gotten the chance anyway. SAD. (3) Maybe I'll apply to NY University instead. It's a fantastic school, and it IS in New York City. That's awesome. (4) I had a foot ball game on Wednesday evening. It was fun. Elizabeth, Kelsey, Charles, Erica and Kyle and I laughed our heads off, basically (instruments they play in the order that they were mentioned: Clarinet/bass clarinet, alto saxophone, [not in band, but plays the] alto saxophone, clarinet, and clarinet). WOW, it was fun. We marched back to the band room. (5) Yesterday and today make up UEA break. NO SCHOOL. *jumps up and down* (6) We had a marching band competition last Saturday, at which we took second place. It was pretty awesome. BUT, American Fork MB, our rival, took all the captions AND first place. Hm. It was a real coincidence that two of the people helping out with the competition were affiliated with American Fork in some way...THE COMPETITION WAS OBVIOUSLY FIXED. Everyone said it, and that it was even this way the last two years as well. Apparently, Davis NEVER takes first place at Mt. Timpanogos. (7) Marching band competition on Tuesday night at BYU. We took third place, which was completely OUT of line, because we did a LOT better than the band that took second. Anyway, we knew this for a fact. So, when Mr. Hendricks listened to one of the judges' tapes from the competition, he had a strong reason to believe that the judges had screwed up. At final closure, he played the tape for us. Instead of saying, "Hello, Davis", he said "Hello, Skyview"--the band that had received second place over us. Many positive comments followed, leading Hendricks to believe that our positive comments had gone to Skyview: we had actually received second place. We checked with the Skyview band director, and yes: her tape read "Hello, Davis". But get this (and this gets me angry--just a little bit...): we're going to keep the third place trophy. LAME. "Oh, we can't tell Skyview that they actually got third place. That would be such a letdown." WELL, TOO DAMN BAD. IF IT WERE MY DECISION, THEY WOULD KNOW. THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG AND THEY NEED TO FIX IT. American Fork took first place and all the captions. We got back at just past midnight and I slept in through first period the next morning. (8) One of our clarinetists is leaving us on Monday. That's his last day of band. It's really sad. Now, I have one fewer clarinet player to look after in my section. *is dejected* I want to bake him a gigantic chocolate good-bye cake or something, but we'll see how things go. (9) We go to Lagoon tonight for Frightmares! Lagoon is an amusement park, and Frightmares! is a special Halloween thing that they put on every year. I AM EXCITED. (10) Lots of homework to do. I want to keep my grades up. (11) I just found out that I get academic credit for going to the Davis MB. I found it on my schedule this last weekend. It was pretty scary: I saw two band teachers on the list. I have 9 classes. HA! (12) Actually, I think that's it...