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Ichabod!

2002-10-10 9:13 a.m.

i feel like i accomplished a lot yesterday, strangely enough. lunch with dave and elise, actually comprehending modern physics, getting a new id card, working on thermal before band and actually getting most of it done. i made my own lip balm in my SPARE TIME before band. the show is really coming along for band. then tds was cool, actually turned into some discussion on whether physics and theology can/should be reconciled. then i got to teach dan to play clarinet. then i somehow got back to nieuwland where i checked my answers for thermal and basically goofed off. then came home, had a nice chat with amanda, and went to bed with the electric kool aid acid test.

and i remember how much i hate writing documentary like entries where i simply list what ive done. but fear not,i really do have some thoughts. and i think that yesterday merited a list, since i felt like i got so much done.

so band. yeah. this week isnt so bad, but i just feel like theyve been pushing us to work so hard this year. yeah, the music and the drill has been harder. but im also realizing that i cant just sit back and follow the leader in the formation anymore..cause im one of the leaders. being on the outside of my rank and sometimes not having the rank leader around and goodness being a center guide at the fifty and OH MY GOD being a right guide for march out block when we go from eights to fours is a lot more pressure than i was used to last year as a technical "first year marcher." yeah yeah, im sure someone out there is like what the hell is she freaking out about? right guide on march out, thats not hard! ok, so admittedly its not that difficult to keep a two step spacing from the row in front of you. but when we are continually having problems with guiding...i feel like its alot. and in halftime formations, when youre center guide and the rest of the line WONT GUIDE TO YOU? argh! plus i really do have to dress the forms more, and tell other people if theyre out of the form. i have more to worry about than my own two little feet.

and oh yeah, i finally left a note for whomever was stealing my charts. i think it worked.

i dont know if i really like my new id card. the old one broke at band practice, we turned around to trot and my card was in my front pocket. snapped in four pieces. my new picture isnt any better than the old one, and maybe even worse. it looks not bad if you hold it far away, but who does that when theyre looking at and ID card? and man, it was so difficult when i didnt have my card they almost make you feel like youre not a real student if your cardless for a day. i tried to get in the dhall and they bitched me out, and now that everyone with a card can get into the dorms before parietals, they regard you with suspicion if you need to be let in. it was liike feeling legitimate again once i got the new card.

ok, this is long enough, too long. and i need to go shower or something.