Freaking Fridays

   Hey, all. I know I missed Friday, again. I don't know how this keeps happening-I guess I just get busy and it slips my mind. Promise I'll do better this week.
   So anyway, it has been a fairly normal past couple of days, as usual. Wednesday was the US History AP and...yeah, I already talked about that, so let's not revisit it.
   Thursday, I got out of school for a competition with my school's wind ensemble. We had prepared three pieces, and we took gold, which is just one rank below top, so we're all pretty excited about that. Things are starting to come together in marching band, and I've gathered some very fascinating information about this upcoming year that I won't share just yet. But let me just say, Mr. Bill has some really cool ideas, and I hope the other directors agree with him, because we could really have a shot at first place this year.
   While we're on the subject of marching band, I am still working on the euphonium, despite the fact that I probably won't be playing it next year, I will definitely be playing it in college, which seeing as I have to be good enough to compete with some really fabulous players.
   Agh. I just got in from mowing the lawn and my allergies are killing me. My eyes itch so bad I want to rip them out of my damn head. Also, I'm going to take a moment to say I find the show Two Broke Girls annoying.
   Moving on, I went on a little adventure Saturday, and let me say, it is quite the tale. Let's start from the beginning, shall we? I am in a youth orchestra. It's actually quite an impressive group-it's made up of the top players in the area. Well, we had a dress rehearsal for our concert Sunday on Saturday. I live about 30 minutes away, and it was at 12, but I had to go get my car looked at on my way so I left at 11. I ended up getting out of there fast, so I grabbed Subway and drove over. I got to the high school, only to find absolutely no one there. Then, to make matters worse, I got lost in the school. Yup. Finally I found a door that led outside. Now here's the thing about this school-they've got gates at every entrance and these ones just so happened to be locks. Now irritated, I tried to get back in only to find all the doors were locked. So-you guessed it-I had to jump the fence. With a violin. Yeah. Then I had to walk all the way back around the building to my car. So now I was a little pissed, but figured it must be at the West Middle School, which happens sometimes. So I set the GPS in my iPhone to take me there, seeing as I don't head that way much. No sooner did I get there, than I realized it had sent me to the East Middle School.  Pretty angry now, I told it to take me back to the high school because I thought maybe I could figure it out myself from there. Well, an hour later, my phone could not get me back there because of constructions and detours. Now more lost, I told it to take me home. Thirty minutes later I was calling my mom and she was telling me how to get home. So essentially, I was driving aimlessly for 2 hours. Did I mention my car has no AC? Oh I didn't? Well it doesn't, and I wasn't sure I was going to make it.
   In summation, the website was wrong and the dress rehearsal was before the concert Sunday. Wonderful.
   The concert was very good, at least. We played Rumanian Rhaphsody No. 1, which let me just say, is an insanely hard piece. We also played an excellent Mozart flute concerto among a bunch of other fantastic pieces. It was our last concert of the year, too, so no more driving 30 minutes every week for 3 hours of practice! Yay!
   That's about it. I've got robotics tomorrow-Nik and I are going to be working on the website. See you Wednesday!

Tacos,
Gladdstone

This is the Title of This Post

   Back again, I see?
   It is Wednesday night, and you know what that means-it's time for a new post. So let's jump right in, shall we?
   Today I had the absolute pleasure of taking the AP US History exam, and let me just say-fuck. Seriously, that was absolutely awful. I don't even know where to begin. 80 questions, 55 minutes followed by a DBQ and two regular essays in 2 hours. Not to mention I didn't know 90% of what was on that test. I'll be completely amazed if I passed, frankly. But, we won't know until July because who the hell knows.

My OTP. Seriously.

   To make matters worse, Netflix is not working for me and I am about to lose my cool here. I put up with so much from them, and they never deliver. I have never been happy with the service they provide, but they're (amazingly) the best. SO I guess I'll have to put up with it for the time being. I'm trying everything
because all I want is to rewatch the goddamn Office. It seems to be my wifi, but I can't figure out what's wrong because my iPad is connecting to everything else, just not Netflix. It's working fine on my computer, so I don't know what's up here. I'm really pissed off about it, though (in case you couldn't tell).
   Anyway, back to important-ish things. It's starting to look like I'm probably going to stick with my fluties for my senior year of marching band. I think I would just miss them too much to leave them.
   I'm just going to interrupt this moment to say Netflix is working on my iPad again. Yay.
   Back to the flute section. I really do love the section. They're so much fun, and I think I'd just be happier sticking with my guns. Not to mention the euphonium is a bit of a pain in the ass. I'll certainly work my way up to being fairly decent at it, because I'd really like to continue in a drum corp after high school. I think I love marching band too much to just let it fade away like that.
   That's just about it in my life. These APs have been taking up most of my time. Thankfully, they're finally over so I can get back to not beating useless information into my head.
   See you all Friday.

Tacos,
Gladdstone

That Damn Euphno-whatsit

   Here I am! I'm back! It's a Monday, and I could not be more pissed about that fact.
   Anyway, it didn't even occur to me until today that I didn't put up a post last Friday, so my apologies. I'll make it up to you somehow (no I won't).
   So let's talk about the last four days, or so. Lately it's seemed like everyone has something going on but me. Every time I talk to one of my friends they always say "you won't believe what I did yesterday/this weekend" and then they recount the epic tale while I sit there, reflecting on how I sat around doing nothing all weekend. The real trouble, though, is that I can't even make plans to go do something with anyone because everybody already has plans. It's enough to drive a person mad. You should see what I have to go through just to set up a night for my Dungeons and Dragons group-it's like pulling teeth. So-and-so has this, and she has that, and she won't come if she isn't going and by the time it's all done there's three people and we just end up sitting around playing video games because there aren't enough people to play a decent game.
   So I'm laying down the law, there. I'm requiring so much time ahead of time for a person to tell me they can't make it (as opposed to the night before) because I just can't play these games anymore. I understand plans can change, but this is a matter of they're just not bothering to find out if they're free or not until the time is essentially upon us. This is not just a problem for the rest of the group scheduling-wise, but I and other members will go out and buy snacks and the like so we have some munchies and drinks while we play and when people cancel last second, what are we supposed to do with all this crap? I like to think I have a pretty valid complaint here.
   I severely tempted to just step down and hand the DM mantle off to someone else, but I am 100% certain that if I did that, the group would never meet again. So as it is, I'm stuck if I want this to keep going, although God only knows how much longer I'll bother to keep this breathing. It might be time to pull the plug on this one, and that makes me kind of sad.
   On the marching field, I've continued trying my hardest to get the hang of this damn euphonium, and I'd like to think it's going fairly well. Fun fact: blogger does not recognize the word euphonium. Weird. It seems to upset some of the flute section that I may be leaving next year and it makes me sad. I remember all the weird times I've had in that section and, frankly, I don't know if I can actually bring myself to leave. I really do love them all. My fluties have a very special place in my heart in a way that I don't think a lot of people will understand. The band is very much my family, even though I don't necessarily talk to, or even know everyone, it's a place where everyone is accepted and everyone has their own little niche. Maybe I'm just nuts, but that's the way I've always seen the band. They're very much one big, dysfunctional family.
   I think that will do it for today. I've got work after school today, and then I have to go to a concert right after, so I'll throw this up when I get home for the sake of consistency. I'll see you all Wednesday.

Tacos,
Gladdstone