Here, Take This Lovely Flower

Last night I went to Hale's band concert with Ross. It was nothing short of torture. The songs could hardly be called music and so it was not exactly an enjoyable hour and a quarter, but not being able to make audible comments about it for fear of retaliation from the crowd, which had to have been composed of family members of the band because no one else would be stupid enough to go to that thing, was just as bad. What baffles me is why didn't she have them play stuff they could play instead of letting them play music that was obviously beyond them, some of which they couldn't play to speed and most of which was horribly out of tune. The 6th grade band, a type of band which is usually not the most fun thing to listen to, was worse than Au Gres's 5th grade band has ever been. They weren't playing right notes or remotely in tune or together or anything. And so I thought, 'it can only get better from here,' but then at the end of the 6th grade set, they played "Let's Go Blue" and totally ruined it. It was upsetting hearing what can be such a joyous and wonderous thing when played by the UM marching band murdered by smelly, ugly, sorry excuses for 6th grade band members. The rest of the concert wasn't much better though. There was a nice trumpet solo played by Ross's friend Beth, but then the flute duet left much to be desired. Oh, and there were only 14 people in the high school band.

My parents went to Standish and Pinconning this evening. How exciting. I gave them instructions to buy me stuff.

I get to enjoy a nice afternoon with my aunt Agnes tomorrow. Oh joy.

Ugh. I just found out who Au Gres High School's 2005 valedictorian is and it's not pleasant. Yuck.

Good news! I have listened to almost every song on my iTunes... all 471 songs, 1.2 days worth. Impressive, I know. Many I have listened to more than once. Plus, I shutdown and restarted my laptop and now it's better and not as annoying.

As I have nothing interesting to impart to all you lovely readers, I will now desist.