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Back From Camp, Gone from Games (temporarily)

by scorched

So I've returned to band camp and it was pretty much horrible. I figured out a friend of mine is going out with the girl I like and have made very clear that I like and planned to ask out soon and that pissed me off, but no big deal because she's his first girlfriend and he has no idea what he's doing. I think they may have already broken up from what I've heard so no problem just pissed me off...

So I've returned to band camp and it was pretty much horrible.  I figured out a friend of mine is going out with the girl I like and have made very clear that I like and planned to ask out soon and that pissed me off, but no big deal because she's his first girlfriend and he has no idea what he's doing.  I think they may have already broken up from what I've heard so no problem just pissed me off.  Oh and something I forgot to mention where the camp was.  It was at JSU in Alabama.  They had decent rooms.  Occasionally good food, for the one time I had ice cream I threw up during sectionals.  Not in front of everyone though.  I just set down my instrument walked out, while receiving strange looks from my section and the instructor, and threw up in a toilet came back in and started playing again.  But I'll say again, camp sucked.  Go to sleep at 12am wake up 5:45am, Marching almost 10hrs a day, not including the 1-2 mile march to our field (aka parking lot) in 90+ degree weather, we even marched in rain and during a severe thunderstrom (at least until the sirens started going off).  Anyway I, and many others had many blisters all over our feet.  I was one of the ones who thought the band were crazy for complaing because I was a football player last year, starting nose guard, and I was sure what they were doing couldn't be as hard as what the football team was doing.  I was kind of right, but they were doing a hell of a lot more than I thought.  We accomplished a lot of our show, even though our director works extremely slow, we got through most of the 1st movement.  And today we performed what we know of the show in front of a crowd.

Anyway about temporarily quitting games.  The only reason is is that I have no time.  I really need to focus on other stuff at the moment so I'm going to have to stop gaming as much as usual for awhile.  I'll be back though.

- Scorched