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• 1988-08-31
Gender
• Female
Location
• the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie (we summer in Lothlorien)
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• 2004-04-11
Occupation
• Elven Warrior Princess (just like Sesshoumaru!)
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Achievements
• uh ... symphony band (which we didn't get into on talent, but the fact that we have a school-owned instrument large enough to kill the director with)
Anime Fan Since
• January 8th, 2003. I discovered Inuyasha that day.
Favorite Anime
• Witch Hunter Robin, Azumanga Daioh, Ayashi no Ceres, Alice 19th, Inuyasha, Dragon Knights, Clover, Fushigi Yugi, Cowboy Bebop, Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, .hack//SIGN, Yuyu Hakusho, Trigun, Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell
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• retaining my mental health, even while surrounded by people who tell me that, on personal experience, mental health is overrated
Hobbies
• band ( bassoon), reading, watching TV, doing homework with startling regularity
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• uh ... reading ... fast; watching TV, sightreading music, singing (sort of), near-complete social inadequecy




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Sunday, March 20, 2005

Wednesday, March 9, 2005: "Sorry about the 27 hour bus ride through hell, guys."
Got up at 4. Was at the school at 5. We were all hyped up on Tropicana fruit juices and PopTarts by 6, when we had to board the buses and depart for Indiana. Here is where we will explain what this is all about.

The Bands of America invites bands that audition to play at their National Concert Band Festival every year. Fifteen were picked this year, and our band was one. This means that we got to buz out to Indianapolis and play 40 minutes of IV, V, and VI level music. We get clinics, do master classes, hear other bands, the Indiana Symphony, then go home.

That day, we headed out. Of course, it had snowed after raining the night before, so no salt could be laid out, so the roads were horrible. At noon, we had only gotten from Massachusetts to the middle of Connecticut. We spent 2 hours behind a car fire in Connecticut, then managed to get to the middle of Pennsylvania by 4. At this point, we pulled over because one of buses had broken down.

Yes, folks, the 79 members of the band, our 10 chaperones, and our 4 bus drivers spent almost 4 hours in a Country Buffet in the middle of Pennsylvania.

Back on the road again, we watched movies till 10, when they made us try to go to sleep. It was a good trip till then, and we were all sitting there, listening to eachother fall asleep to light, Latin-flavored jazz, and we actually had an "infinite" moment, if you know what we mean.

Of course, it only lasted until we realized that we were incapable of sleeping on a coach bus.

And do you know when we finally got to Indianapolis, after only about 2 hours of scattered sleep to work off of, with a concert at 6 that night?

7:30 am. We'd managed to miss half of breakfast, and the airplane-transported Texans in the elevator as we worked our way up there to rest some before a very late breakfast laughed.
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