it's time to update on marching band finals
yes, i've come to be THAT desperate and bored.

western band association championships were last weekend. we left at 1:00 (YES!! NO 5-7TH PERIOD) for our hotel in fresno. i got pizza flavored pringles from my secret buddy, Hao. not that this was a surprise. i asked him if he was my secret buddy like 2 months ago and he told me. so much for a big secret buddy revelation thing. whatever.

half-watched clueless and the beginning of center stage on the bus. spent most of my time feeling jeaous of christiana and terrance, who were massaging each other, cuddling, and sucking on each other's fingers. (apparently someone told christiana that guys are turned on if you suck their fingers...) so i was sitting there going 'ahhh christiana i wish i were you!' while terrance was like 'c'mon jeff, do something!' that was about the first hour and a half or so. then i cuddled with jeff for the rest of the time. :0D jeff's arms/lap on a marching band bus is up there in my favorite places to be. *sigh* good times. we ummm...got some err...blackmail material. heheheh... didn't get any practicing for the barbara skit done, much to the worry of jeff. oh well.

got to the hotel, and after a long talk from mr. ferrucci telling us to be good and stuff, we got our room keys and changed into our swimsuits. we then complained about our bodies and stuff for about 10 minutes, then wandered the hotel looking for jeff and fellow clarinets to rehearse our senior skit for barbara. we found jeff and joseph and some people on the first floor and got together to rehearse a bit. we found a very loud, echoey place to practice, in the stairwell, and practiced sporadically, stopping when seniors had to go up/down the stairs. hao acted like a friggen 2 year old. we all got mad. fun fun fun. then we proceeded to stare at terrance in his swim trunks and wander around aimlessly for about half an hour. we didn't swim, and hardly got anything done. finally decided to go back to our room (ours being jessica, lisa, christiana, and i) and changed into better clothes for dinner. we probably talked with terrance, jeff, pavel, and ross's room on the phone. ate dinner. jessie uhler was there! yay! so she sat at our table and told us about college marching bands and their parties with sex dice and drunkenness. sounds...full of tradition. pretty cool, though. they learn a new half time show for every game. sheesh! ate pasta stuff and salad...flirted with terrance, who wasn't wearing a shirt. played footsie...talked...yeah. then met with the clarinets to reherse (again) our senior skit. rehearsed more and incorporated jessie in our skit. had to stop as a AAA marching band made their way through the hotel. practiced up until we had to leave for senior skits in another room. followed the masses and senior skits started.

everyone had really cute senior skits.

color guard: lots of stripping and singing. jokes about maureen's smelly feet and stripping. yeah...sort of hard to follow as the rest of the band didn't know the color guard's inside jokes.

low brass: jokes about laura's 'what's a landa?' question and a hilarious part where laura counted '1, 2, let's play zoo!' at the beginning of the show. lol.

trumpets: a somewhat random skit about brian being section leader for 3 years and competiting for authority. apparently they locked him in the bathroom backstage during a sectional. haha.

clarinets: our somewhat thrown-together-at-the-last-second skit about barbara through the years. getting in trouble sophmore year, cheerleading junior year, being late senior year. it was cute. people liked the 'don't worry, none of the rest of the clarinets know how to play, either' comment. haha. got barbara a cute princess soccer watch and thongs.

flutes: a cute movie about how laurel loved marching band so much that when she 'tripped over nothing' (lmao) and popped out her knee, she caused all of the other freak marching band incidents. done by an imovie. very cute. i espeically liked the voodoo with andreas. nice touch.

saxophones: a hannibal spoof that encorporated all the seniors, eventually ending with richard being the killer. i didn't really get it, seeing that i hadn't seen hannibal. creative, though.

drumline: a completely random skit, sounded like they were improving. funny stuff about slava's incomprehensable commands and shortness. funny stuff. magi stole the show. that dude is funny.

awards by the staff and tears from misty for the color guard. semi-touching. it would have been more effectual if the color guard actually WAS amazingly talented. awards from the staff were well chosen. (although none of the rookie awards were actually won by freshman...) and yeah.

passed on the cake, drank water, and went back to our room.

the party was FAR from over. lisa and christiana danced around in their bra's for the guys. (our rooms were on opposite sides of the same floor, with gigantic windows facing each other...) so lisa and christiana did some stripping...lisa down to her underwear...yeah. lisa and i kissed for the guys...gave them a real show. haha. spent a few hours on the phone with jeff, terrance, ross, joseph, and all them. (there were 8 people in those two rooms bcause there were 4 to a room, and there's were connected. saw terrance in his boxers, and geoff clad in only a pillow. that was ummm...interesting. finally stopped talking with jeff on the phone and fell asleep around 1:30.

woke up at 6 to our alarm. (jessica had set it so that we would all have time to shower.) we were all showered and ready by like 7:00 and decided to wake up the boys. we didn't have to wake up until like 8 or something. haha. spent more time on the phone with jeff, who was extremely groggy. a highlight of our conversation:

jeff: i think i'm just going to stay in bed. if mr. ferrucci asks where i am, tell him i'm a bear...
joseph: in bed
pavel: rrrrawrrr
jeff:...and i'm hibernating.
me: ooookay....

haha.

stood around outside our room talking to people. suddenly jeff comes down our hall with his hair all messed up, belt half off, and shirt half tucked in. lol. he actually looked REALLY cute!! so yeah...we were all going to breakfast and he hadn't even showered. lol. patched up my relationship with sara, my lesbian lover, over breakfast. pancakes and stuff. yummers.

packed stuff and watched beetlejuice until we had to leave. got in the bus. sat next to sara. watched more of center stage as we drove to wherever we performed. held up tom's victoria's secret catalogue (given to him by christiana, his secret buddy) to block the sun...much to the delight of the rest of the bus. lol.

got out to freezing weather and warmed up. found a nice spot to warm up more and did our usual warm up stuff with florendo and stuff. good times.

got back WAY late for lunch and walked to the stadium to buy food. sandwich and water. quickly eaten because we got out so late. more talk with jessie and stuff.

changed into our uniforms in the freezing cold and warmed up more. then lots of crying for the senior recognition thing with corsages and our song. :0( very sad. sherry was going around sobbing and hugging all the band mom's. took SOO much to keep from crying. ugh. sadness.

one last warm up and then we marched to the gate. marched after valley christian (who went on to win the entire championships thing) and marched an okay show. drumbreak totally fell apart, but i had a blast. best time i've ever had in marching band, i think. marched a really good show, personally. it was awesome.

took pictures and ordered some. then we hung out for a while and talked with barbara about masturbation techniques. very interesting stuff. also learned how to fake an orgasm. such an educational day.

walked back to our busses and milled around for like half an hour. i played other people's instruments and talked. fun stuff. hugged john a lot. talked.

gathered around mr. ferrucci to hear that we had missed getting into the championship round by 2 bands, and that if we had been placed differently in order, we might have made it, but to have no regrets etc. i think most of us just wanted him to shut up becuase it was so freaking cold!!

changed out of our uniforms and ate pizza for dinner. mmmmm...nummy. got free hand warmer things and walked to the stands. the guys got in trouble for climbing up the stands from the side and yeah. made it to the stands like way early with no one out there but us. huddled around and tried not to freeze to death. watched a ton of other marching bands perform as we all slowly froze. exprerienced terrance's orgasmic hands on my knee as i made sex noises. it was fun. there was a lot of huddling under blankets and trying to keep warm and very little observing bands. it was just SOOO cold!!

left after awards and went back to the bus. half of the people hadn't even stayed for awards so we were like last on the bus. sat with sara because there wasn't enough room for jeff and i to sit together. :0( spent the entire busride being very uncomfortable and trying to fall asleep and wishing i was asleep in jeff's arms. very frustrating.

froze back at lahs and waited for my mom to show up. went home. slept.

there. finals. i did it! booyah!

btw, I'M GETTING A KITTEN TOMORROW!! AHHH!!!

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