last game of the season things:
i walked over to The Corner bc annabeth, stamy, and matt were there among others and.
“don’t fist weed man” —stamy
i immediately walked away again. what the fuck stamy
the Band Amoeba
basically a few kids were in a circleand they kept gathering people into the Amoeba by collectively advancing toward them and opening the circle to absorb them, then closing it again. it was so fucking funny
max wasnt there again. hes in seattle. hannah said their cousin there made him go on a seven mile hike lmao
on the bus i sat with dylan and we were like entirely surrounded by color guard o ops
it was fine tho
the game we were going to was literally like almost an hour away through like forests and even a little farmland which was wild
literally
once we got there we were trapped in the back bc we were two seats behind fucking eric and mattias and they were wrestling in the bus and shit AGAIN.
dylan managed to get us to the front tho. bless up dylan
we heckled maya for “does baked mean high???” and she just yelled “THAT WAS A WEEK AGO” lmao
hannah asked me if i wanted to go to a gearworks guard thing where they teach u How To Do Guard Shit its in the summer and Hoo Boy i wanna go! it sounds so fuckin cool yeeeee
the other band had a bigger drumline than we do, which is not much when u consider that we Do Not Have a drumline. like we have the equipment just. not enough people according to daryl
they had a quad, two snares, and three bass drums. one of them was TINY
while the other band was playing the national anthem, a bunch of what i thought were drunk adults were singing along. nope turns out it was our goddamn student section. i hate my school
luckily though they were on the other side of the field.
actually it was really nice bc we were in the backfield bleachers and then on the other side of the space in front of where this building was there was the bleachers where the other band was. they were SO CLOSE it was AMAZING
there was this one flute in the front that kept dancing it was so lit
me and this one clarinet i think kept waving back and forth at each other it was awesome
idk what they thought of us tho bc like, we tried to start the wave (only a couple kids in their band would do it), and then we did the band dance like from an outside perspective it’s very weird and like a cult. like theres just a couple people at the front doing a little dance and everyones doing it back at them
actually i sorta do know what they thought of us bc we played our parade tune and somebody in the other band looked over at us and did the “so so” thing where u have ur hand parallel w the ground and then you turn it back and forth
at one point while percussion were doing a cadence alex just started playing the “when mom isnt home” song
we got to do The Loud Thing with percussion TWICE and the first time Literally no one realized they were supposed to play except me so for like A Whole Couple Seconds it was just One flute, playing the highest C u can on a c flute (aka like, 6 ledger lines above the staff) and then Everyone joined in it was WILD
before halftime while we were going down the steps to go warm up i like fell on the last couple steps
but like. i was COMPLETELY FINE. like it was the softest fall ive ever seen. like it probably LOOKED bad bc mendelson and rachel (who were behind me) asked if i was ok (AND I WAS), but it just. WASNT.
like no one couldve caught me, bc i wouldve brought rachel down with me if she had tried and besides she was too far back anyway, and mendelson plays sousa, so HE couldn’t’ve. so like how
the only explanation is that it was a marching band ghost who didnt want me to damage my instrument. like. my feet fuckin FLOATED out from under me almost. and my flute barely jostled. thats the only way that couldve happened
there was a doggo. he was very good and he had a job. a police pupperino
the student section yelled shit like “THATS MY BAND” as we ran on and honestly YOU can shut the fuck up chad, im not a goddamn fool i KNOW you dont care i KNOW that
during our show i was worried that my pinky would freeze to the ♭E key. it happened to sam at the last practice and it was even colder at this game
apparently hannah’s been volunteering at the cavaliers since she was TEN
TEN YEARS O LD
for once the water was colder than my hands. which is saying a lot bc my hands were freezing
i kept dancing at the cadences, like i always do
so ellie, my section leader, who is graduating, decided that next year i am in charge of flute choreography
lit
one of the trombones (the one whose name idk, the blond one who always wears this one blue flannel) had to be told to take off his hat. why
the other bands seniors had FOOD to give to OUR SENIORS it was very nice of them
we did the “i believe that we will wong” thing again
to clarify bc i dont think ive ever talked about that on here theres this one kid in our band named will wong (both of which are common enough names that u will Never Find him) and its based of the “i believe that we will win” chant except u dont usually do the “i” i “i believe” i believe “i believe that we” i believe that we etc etc back and forth thing u just start yelling “I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WONG I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WONG I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WONG” over and over really fast its great
and lowkey a meme
i said to ellie that i thought that that was the best meme and she said she thought band bingo was the best and honestly im flattered
this was the first time i have Actually Cared about the Outcome of a Sportsball
the team we played was like, fourth in the fuckin state and we’re The Worst and for the first game they put the worst team (us) against the best and we ALMOST fuckin won it was insane
im glad it didnt go into overtime tho it was Cold rip
i lost my green screwdriver rip
the bus ride home was nice
(and cold)
the heater only came on in our bus when we were Actually At school
daryl said we could take home the boxes if we wanted so now i have a box. as in From Our Show.