Here It Comes....

School. Yea. My most favoritest. Nah, it should be okay. Part of me is pretty excited for school to start again, to be able to see everyone again and all that, but I also kinda wanted to have a summer this year. I think I've only had three or four days so far that really count as summer days. The rest I've been working or at band or off doing something else. It's been fun, don't get me wrong, but I miss the days when summer was full of nothing to do but lay around and be lazy.

This school year should be good. I have some pretty intense classes (AP Gov, mostly) but also some pretty fun classes that I've wanted to take for quite some time. I don't know whether I'm excited or maybe not so much for Encore to start too. It's really fun to be able to make things work and to sound good, but I don't really like working it over, and over, and over, and over again. If people could just get it right the first few times, then it would all be okay. But, I guess that they don't have band experience, where you're expected to get things right after one or two runs. It's really helped me to be able to quickly memorize things.

Plus, I get to be a Senior now. It's been a long time coming, and I'm fairly excited, to say the least. I've been excited to graduate for a few years now, but at the same time, I'm kind of afraid. After I graduate, I have to work hardcore all summer, and then I'm off on my mission. As excited as I am to go out and serve a mission, it still scares me. I don't feel ready to teach people the gospel. I mean, some of the people I'll probably be teaching will have been searching their entire lives for the truth, and it'll be up to me, just a boy, to bring it to them. It's a rather intimidating idea, if I do say so myself. But back to being a senior. I've decided not to deal in lasts, especially with band, until later. I mean, I've been through my last band camp, my last first rehearsal, my last parades, etc, but I don't really want to start thinking about all that. It would probably just detract from my ability to get as much done as I could. It'll hit me pretty hard late in the season, I'm sure of it.

Wow, I still can't get over the fact that school starts on Thursday. I kinda want to take the week off of work. I mean, I know I should work and earn more money, but I want to have a little while to call my own and to have a bit of summer. I guess I should make that call sometime in the near future, as I should let Kevin know tonight whether or not I'll be working tomorrow.

Well, I'm off to try and take a nap, or at least lay down for a while! I could use the rest.

Birthdays, Band Camps, and Blistering Hot Days...

It must be August again! My favorite month... sometimes. Parts of it really are fun, but others aren't quite as much.

I love working with the band, and just joining together and striving for a common goal of bettering ourselves as individuals and as a group. It's such a thrill that I even love running single sets over and over until we get it down.

I don't love the ten thousand degree weather quite as much. I swear, the sun somehow knows when I am going to be outside during the summer, and decides to crank it up at least 25 degrees or so, just because. What a jerk... but it is nice to get ridiculously tan... ;-)

I enjoy my birthday. I mean, who doesn't? It's been really weird this year, because my birthday is on a Sunday, which means it's not over band camp. That's kinda become a staple for me the last three years, my birthday always just happens during band camp. It's kinda fun, to be able to do something you love on your birthday, but it's also kinda nice to be able to really celebrate a birthday on the actual birth date.

Well, I'm going to have to leave this post kind of short, because I haven't even started packing for band camp yet, and we're leaving really early tomorrow morning, and we still have to do the family birthday stuff around here.

So... I'm off to band camp! Bye!