Band and stuff

Morning ladies,

I had a pretty eventful weekend. By that I mean that one thing happened and that thing was band.

The day of things happening was Saturday and things happened. First we all met outside our band room and traded small talk when we weren't stealthily trying to sneak out instruments and such (there was a first aid class in our band room). Second, we ran all of our stealthily gathered things up a huge flight of stairs to put then in a big sketchy white panel van. I was raining so we all looked even creepier shoving odd shaped boxes into the stalker van with our hoods up. After that we all ran to separate cars and drag raced (read: went the speed limit, silly law abiders) to an arena across town to play the national anthem for a women's hockey game.

Playing at the arena was actually epic because 1) we weren't actually freezing because it was a nice arena and 2) there was a super sweet echo which made us sound about three times as big.

After we played the anthem, which was a "big deal" because the mayor was there (the Mayor!), we packed up all our shit ASAP and shoved it all back into the stalker van before taking off at top speed (read: possibly 5km over the speed limit) to the exact place we'd just left (our own university gym).

My car was the best because 1) we had the leader of the band, 2) we were the car that picked up the pizza (free foooooods!) and 3) we were listening to Samuel L. Jackson telling us to "go the fuck to sleep". (That last is really funny when you've actually heard it.)

Back at the gym I found out what I'd begun to realize during the rest of this endeavor, that most of the band exec seem to operate on a level that rivals the theory of relativity Dawn's family has functioning. It was an exercise in frustration to get an answer out of anyone but eventually we sat in the stands and cheered while we gorged ourselves on pizza. I think I ate the equivalent of an entire pizza. I felt a tiny bit like I would explode with another bite and a tiny bit of "man, that was really freaking tasty!"

We generally had a grand old time doing band shenanigans and the DJ/announcer guy was really nice and stopped his music for us to play so yay!! (The guy at the hockey game we went to on Thursday was pissed at us for drowning out his Party Rock Anthem with our Old Time Rock and Roll. We don't like him.)

Eventually we all meandered home after a 5 min exec meeting I can't even remember and all was well went I woke up the next morning at 10:40. Then I panicked about life in general and tried to hide under my pillow.

Class is starting now so I must go. Much love ladies,

Dina