i can SMELL the freedom, and its Downy fresh.

So schools almost done for this year, and besides it being mildly stressful, its been a helluva good week. Mostly involving band stories.

Monday was the Jacksons point concert, and it was alot more fun than usual. First of all, we had to chill in the school for an hour or two cus my dad was in a meeting and we could not be driven to the J-point. On the way there, i slept, anaita slept, and kalie and caleb bickered. we then went to subway as usual, and on to the conference centre. we then frolicked until the concert, which was pretty good. Eric played Blackbird, and we all got shivers. it was amazing. mr. hipperson got the good kind of ice cream for us, and then it was time to go home. we had a hard time deciding the cars, so we all just piled into marlatt's car and locked him out, having a fiesta honking on the horn, so he got into the car with my dad and started driving away. It was HILARIOUS. they obviously came back, and caleb, doug and i went in my car. that was where the real fun started. Caleb and doug decided to put the windows down and yell SUBWAY and various other things (mostly subway) out the window at everyone who passed by. once we got to a 2 lane highway, every time we passed each other (which we made sure was often...) caleb would practically get half his torso out of the car and yell SUBWAYYYYY at the other car. then both of them decided to put their heads out the window and act like dogs... until the climax when we stopped at a fresh red light and Caleb jumped out of the car and ran to the other car (3 or 4 cars back, mind you) and began beating on their windows and yelling Subway!!! it was sooo hilarious. best j-point gig ever.

Tuesday was the pops concert, where we played less than spectacular, as claire and i spent half the time cracking up over practicly nothing. we went to DQ afterwards, as did half the band. spent the next hours learning some rather explicit stories of honour band...

Wed was the duchess gig, and mr caswell was in quite the mood after school, so i offered to go over to the duchess to help set up there too, and that made him happier. Then Doug, John, Cat and i stayed for dinner, on Mr. Caswell's tab. SWEET. to quote doug "now what's the most expensive thing on the menu??" or john "i'd like everything on the menu on a sandwich covered in gravy" it was FUNNY. those guys crack me up.

The gig afterwards was GREAT. Monday morning was ON FIRE. probably the best we've played most of our songs, and i was still ripping Cs and Ds in the last song. pretty amazing. The solo hat was great too (ie the "cop"/sheriff hat from my world history presentation), and third stream rocked. Good fun good fun.

Fri night i watched rent, and i was pleasantly surprised. it was really my type of movie. i enjoyed the songs, and the plot was confusing, but good. REBECCA CAME ON FRI!!!

Saturday was the Markham Music Festival (previously known as the markham village festival), and i was there bright and early to play my concert at 10-12. the concert went well, we played 3 for the show(my solo piece), and i spent half the time holding my stand with my good foot, and resting all my weight on my bad foot. Bad decision. mmm new mouthpiece.

after the concert, i walked around with Becca for a while, and then watched the Not Affiliated Gig. They were good as usual, then hung around with Cato, Eric, Amy and Lori until about 530 when i drove them back to my house, where the unofficial NA party was. It was basically doug pipher, amy, eric, carolyn, justin, mark, my parents and such. it was alot of fun. we taught cato to swim, and then had an over 3 hour coversation about all things musical. It was great. I totally revelled in the band geekyness. i was also asked to Join NA next year, which is REALLY exciting. OH GOD AM I EXCITED. then some ppl went home and we watched King Kong. which lead to the King Kong incident. LOL.

Sunday was homework and honourband filled.

today was good. practically no more school, then i'm off to the wilderness of Killarney, and Guiding Mosaic with the one and only Christina!!!

i like summer, all my friends come home. except katie and pauline who are both abandoning me for the wilds. Boo.