Didn't mean to leave you guys hanging there last Thursday. I really didn't mean it.
Totally was intending to post Monday night for the weekend (since it was a three-day weekend here for Memorial Day). I woke up Monday morning was unable to get Internet on my computer, even though we could get Internet on every other device in my house...except my computer. Of course.
So that's why I haven't been posting. I didn't have a meltdown this time. Well, my Internet had a meltdown...
Anyway...This week's been uber busy. It's Pops week. Pops week equals panic week.
Pops is kind of our biggest concert of the year. It's like three hours long. We play all of our songs that we did for our big music conference as well as a few new ones (actually, most of Wind Ensemble's songs are new). Wind Ensemble alone has like 40 minutes of music. And that doesn't include Concert Band's music. Or the awards. Or recognition of seniors. Or announcing the new drum major and field marshall for next year. Or funny awards. Or dessert afterwards. It's gonna be a long day...
And it's weird...to think that all of my work in band and music over the past three years is about to come to an end tomorrow night, when we finish the night with the song that won us $10,000 this January. There will be people there tomorrow, in the band, that I've been playing with for the past six years...and I'll probably never play with ever again. One of which is my best friend, and we've sat next to each other for the past six years, and tomorrow is our last concert together. I'm just going to be a puddle tomorrow night...
Not to mention...I'm trying to comprehend to journey I've been on these past three years, not just this past year. It's crazy, unfathomable. Any music experience that I have in college will never be like this, I won't have the experiences that I've had in high school. I won't get to experience it with these people ever again.
And I think that's going to be the hardest part...because, as a man whom I consider a great mentor and friend once said...it's not always about the music; it's the about friendships, the heart, the memories that are made with these people...the good, the bad, the ugly...It's the people that make this band what it is. And I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Days 'til graduation: 6
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