Stupid Wasted Day

Time is precious to me - as it is to us all - and I'm sure you can understand the frustration of having a perfectly good day ruined by something stupid. This something stupid was an all day band day, which under normal circumstances I would have been happy to partake in but this was just plain dumb. Our local band had invited a band from across the pond to come over and put on a combined concert which was suppose to be pretty cool but it isn't really that cool when the audience is about a quarter of the size of the band. It's especially a pain in the ass when key members are not there - say, those that had been instrumental (no pun intended) in organizing the whole thing and coincidentally were suppose to the advertising that turned out to suck a lot! It was pretty horrid. The president of the band wanted us to be there at 9:45 am... we weren't rehearsing until 11:30 so we weren't sure why this was her plan. Thankfully the director chimed in and asked why so early? We didn't have to be there until 10:45 to set up and even at that we sat around for about 45 minutes before we actually began to rehearse! We didn't get out of there until 6:00! ACK!

Only good thing - I met up with someone I'd met this summer. We never thought we were going to see each other again so that was pretty cool. We were in summer classes together but he wasn't in the Master's program, he was just there in the class. We got to hang out and catch up so that was pretty sweet. Awesome trombonist and a tonne of fun! I'll see him again when we take out band to their town. That will be nice!

There is a large number of us - I suppose you could call us the music snobs of the band - who are getting really bored with what we're playing, or not playing as the case may be. We've had the same music for way too long and it's just not getting better. *sigh* I'll have to make a decision about that next year - to continue or not. Right now it's mostly the social aspect that keeps us going. Lord knows it's not a challenge anymore, except on my patience.