Saturday, October 14, 2006

Twenty is the number...
...of how cold it was last night and the winning score at the football game. Now, normally I don't care about football, but our team is now 7-1, and beat the undefeated Harvard Hornets team last night.

But gawd, it was cold.

There were some interesting things last night at the game, one of which involved a kid (sort of) getting arrested. Here we go:

1.) In the first quarter, our team got called out on something that just seemed utterly stupid. We (the drumline) have this little roll and chant for whenever it's first down. (*drum roll* "First down!") The bass line, however, did the roll and chanted out, "Bullshit!" at the call. xD

2.) Despite threats of not getting third quarter off due to kids in previous games not coming back in time, Struyk gave us the quarter off. I think he was happy with our playing of the three halftime songs (Free, Spinning Wheel, and Getaway/September). Either that, or we needed to get hot chocolate. >_>
When I found out, I hugged his foot, since he has this podium thing to stand on. X3

3.) The most interesting part of the evening:

So in the beginning of fourth quarter, this senior kid ("Kyle") pops up, and two of my senior friends said hello. Then he vanishes, like everybody else. >_>

A few minutes later, Aiyanna comes hopping down the bleachers, calling out for Struyk. He asks her what's up, and she tosses him a small rock (about the size of a spoon or so) saying that it hit her instrument, and also hit our friend Justin. Struyk looks at it and asks who threw it.
She points to Kyle, who is down on the ground talking to some kids.

A few seconds later, I turned my head around to talk to Struyk - and he wasn't there. So the drumline looks off to the ground, and there he is, dive-bombing for this kid and grabbing him in a headlock. He drags the kid behind the bleachers, where we can't see him.

For about ten minutes, there is no Struyk, so drum-major-Erin came down and filled in on bits. When he returns, there's a cop with him, who interviews Aiyanna on the incident. A second cop comes, and Justin is called down, to which the cop asks, "Would you like him arrested or dealt with through the school administration?"

Awkward.

Justin said the second option, since the administration would deal with it better. But man...what a fifteen minutes those were.

The band seems to receive this "hate service" every year. Last year, somebody chucked an open bottle of blue paint at the drumline, hitting the drums and splattering everywhere. There's still paint on the bleacher.

Why is it people are so stupid? You throw a rock at a completly metal instrument, an instrument meant for marching and is just a year old, and if you ruin it...there's $4,000 gone from your pocket. Luckily, the rock only caused a scratch...or so is the news right now. Had he hit and busted a sousaphone...$15,000.

Just keep that in mind, folks: Instruments are expensive. End of story.
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