Halftime is game time!!!

After surviving almost a month and a half of the 2008 OMB season, I think it's safe to say that this year is going A LOT better than last year.

Last year, I waited in a humongous line for an hour and a half, surrounded by people I barely knew, to get a random collection of ill-fitting, unisex uniform parts (ummm hello, I barely fit into short size female clothing. Men's small will not fit me. Neither will a medium). Then the full band met later that evening for the first in a series of long, tedious rehearsals that would test the patience and good mood of bandos and director alike. At the same time that I was learning how to march for the first time (my high school didn't have a marching band, so I was one of only a handful of people who joined the OMB completely green), read drill and memorize long passages of music within a matter of days, my instrument broke on the third day of camp, forcing me to rent a really crappy instrument from UO. Luckily, I only had to play that clarinet for a couple of months before Michael Banks put it out of its misery. Unfortunately, he did so by stepping on it at FOB minutes before we were supposed to perform. After all the stress that year brought me, I decided...to do it again this year.

This year is a lot better. We have new uniforms (check out the awesome pictures!) that look awesome and fit a lot better. I can actually march this year, which is a good thing because the drill likes to put my dot in the front A LOT. Our shows ROCK! So far my instrument has not broken, although FOB's next week...things can still happen. And I know a lot more people! Yay!