It's a Brand New Day

   Monday evening again, and here I am again. It's good to be back, like slipping back into a familiar coat.
   Friday was an interesting day. It appears I am now the Pam of the marching band ((go watch The Office if you don't understand, you uncultured swine). Not sure what I do, but whatever. Should be a good year nonetheless.
   Saturday was, as I'm sure you all know, Free Comic Book Day. For me, the day has become less about free stuff, and more about meeting new people. Nik, Nate, and I all went to the mall and enjoyed talking to some likeminded nerds. We even saw a couple cosplayers. Power Rangers. I stopped in the middle of the mall and saluted them exclaiming  "God bless America." because what else could you possibly do at a moment like that?
   Slightly less exciting than that was that I had to take the SAT first. Let me say, that was the most absurdly stressful thing I've ever done in my life. And I had to pay money for it.
   Don't get me wrong, it was incredibly easy (never even picked up a review book), but the time constraints were absolutely killer. The math portions were less difficult, and more time consuming. Sort of so that one brief mistake could cost you the time to do an entire question.
   Enough about that, though. Let's talk music! I haven't quite found the time to finish that violin cover of I Miss You yet, but let me tell you, words cannot describe how excited I am to finish and perform it. It's going to be so fantastic. The intricacies of the parts and the way they fit together are just so great.
   Speaking of which, Rivenburg (orchestra teacher) had a guest violinist in today. And not just any violinist, a rock violinist. Yeah. Think about that. Basically what he would do is he'd set his equipment to record from his acoustic/electric violin and then loop while he played the melody. It was all dne live, too which made it all the more impressive. He would lay down the bea, then base, some decoratives, and go to town. It was truly incredible. If you want to check him out (and I highly recommend you do), his name is Andrea di Cesare. He's an Italian violinist, and he didn't speak much English from what I could tell. It wasn't too bad though, I know enough Italian to get the gist of what he was trying to say. I must say, though, it really got me excited to try broadening my horizons with my instrument a bit.
   Speaking of broadening my horizons, tomorrow I'll be picking up a low brass instrument for the first time. For the marching band, or course, just like basically everything else I do. I love my fluties, but it looks like the low brass are going to need warm bodies, and Shannon and Megan have it all in good hands. I'm sure they'll get along fine (read: better) without me.
   That oughta do it for tonight. I'll see you all on Wednesday.

Tacos,
Gladdstone

Not DeLongest Post

   Here we are, the day of leadership auditions. As I type this, I sit in the band room waiting for my name to be called. They had us all fill out short little forms detailing what were auditioning for and of course, it took all of 15 seconds. Right now Kayla is in there, and I believe I'm next. Oh boy. Super nervous, but I think it's going to go well.
   I listened to a lot of I Fight Dragons today. God, I love that band. My favorite song by them has got to be The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth. Although Fight For You is a very close second.
   Whatever, I've liked alternative rock for all of two days and it's probably getting annoying so I'm just going to stop now.
   Well, looks like I'm up. I'll be right back...

   I think that went pretty well. I was shaking a little bit when I came out, but what else is new?
   It's actually been several hours since and I'm now home working on, guess what? A violin cover of Blink-182's song I Miss You, per the request of my friend Amanda.TECHNICALLY I should be working on the solo I'm supposed to be writing for music theory, but ehhhh.
   So like I said, I've now listened to the first 8 measures of I Miss You 15 times now, and I've almost got it all (I work pretty slowly).
   Previously, I tried to build a new shaman deck in Hearthstone although I'm not even level 10 with that class yet (yeah, I know. 100 gold for getting every class to ten. Blah, blah, blah, lazy) and it actually worked out better than I thought. I've only won a couple matches, but that's a couple more than I expected.
   I really enjoy the way the shaman plays, so we'll see how this goes once I've got all the basic cards to work with. This deck is sort of missing a couple big hitters.
   Anyway, that cover is calling my name again, so short post tonight.

Tacos,
Gladdstone