The Game

I am so tired as I write this. I think that I was overtired last night and I couldn't sleep much. The day started off stupid, I tried to find somewhere I could eat, but none of the dining halls are open until 10am on the weekends. Rehearsal started at 10:30, so I decided to just have a sandwich from 7/11. Which are really good conincidently.

We have last minute fine tuning of the drill, and just running it to see if there are any problems when it goes from one end to the other. The pre game show is the same every time, which means that I now have it organised (thats right, I refuse to conform to the Z! No Z for me!) and I know where I have to go. They have put some new people in the pre game. There was a trombone player that was going to be in the show at the same time as me before the first show. I figured it out and stayed in, but he didn't continue with the rehearsals and is only now trying to learn it. I recognise (no Z! No!) the look of confusion and panic as everyone but you turns suddenly to walk the other way.

Going out on the field at the start of the show was so much easier now that I know what to expect. It is so exciting to be on the field with everyone cheering and chanting along with the school songs that we play. There are a lot of school songs and stuff for school spirit. They have the mascot, Cav Man. (short for Cavaliers). He looks like Zoro and rides a horse. We play to a certain point and then stop and wait. They have on the big screens a little movie with a cartoon Cav Man riding around the school on his horse and he defeats the evil other school mascot in a very dashing and heroic manner. Then a real guy on a horse rides out and waves a sword around and then the team come out on the field and we play the fight song and then run off the field.

The game itself is very boring next to Aussie Rules. The sport, like Rugby, is just a bunch of dead heads jumping on top of each other. They stand on the sidelines and grunt at eachother and abuse the team across the field. The band, standing up in the stands watched as a balloon with something tied on the end of it came floating over the top of the stadium and down toward the ground. It floated right down to the opposing team's area and the thing tied on the end hit one of the players square on the forehead. That will be laughed about for the rest of the year. He didn't even see it coming. Dead head.

The final score was Virginia 38, Duke 7. They were really bad. Even I could tell. They were lucky to score. After a whole day of standing up and marching we were all exhausted and couldn't wait to get home. Of course with my luck of the dining halls that day, it was closed before I could get there. I had to have pizza from the little store underneath. Pizza is just disappointing here. That's all I can say about it, Disappointing.

This morning has been better. Mark rang me, yay, before he headed off to work. It seems that I forget most of the things that I want to talk to him about when I hear his voice on the line. Its so nice to hear a familiar voice that I would rather just listen.

My neighbour Jessica came and knocked on my door as I was fainting with hunger and asked if I would like to go to Brekky with her, Yes! She is sitting over on the chairs behind me, (I'm in the library computer lab) pretending she doesn't know me so that she can get some reading done. I should go and do some practice, but today I think I will just rest and recover from the tiring day yesterday.