I've been stressed. Mainly focusing on not making the freshman sopranos in my choir class...disappear. Really. The teacher leaves to take some kids to Allstate choir and band and tells us to split into sections and work on our music. Luckily, we have three pianos/keyboards, so that isn't a problem. The freakin' KIDS are the problem.
Our section leader was one of the few that went to Allstate. It technically goes by seniority. Even though I've been in the choir longer than anybody else in the class, she's the choir President, so she gets the spot. I have no problems with that. None at all. So, I had to take over for the section. But the only other mature soprano was out sick the first day. So I was by myself with the morons.
First off, I can't play the piano really well. I can read the music and pick out the notes on the piano, but that's the best I can do. So, I reluctantly asked one of the freshman to do it. She's always playing the piano during our free time and she told me she could read music. That lying little piece of...
Turns out she can't read music to save her life. We started with one of our African pieces, Bonse Aba. I had literally only sung the song once, the day before during class. I couldn't even get the words down yet. I kept saying banana. They had managed pretty well the day before, so I saw no problem.
Wrong. Naturally, we started with the first page. The guys start the song, so we were kind of SOL there. But once we started singing, I noticed they weren't singing it right. They were supposed to stay on the note for maybe six syllables and then go up to another note and do the same. They were going all over the place. I recognized it as page 8. So I told them. They said that was how our teacher taught them. Being apparently the only person in the section who knows how to sight read, told the girl assigned to piano duty, to pick out the notes. That's when I found out she CAN'T read music to save her life. She gave up and started playing 'Reflection' from Mulan. The sub and I shared a look that said "someone's going to die soon."
Then I told her to play the song we're supposed to be singing and ANOTHER freshman told me to shut up, since the guys weren't doing their music either. The sub got...mad. Worse than mad, but I'm trying to watch my language. So we all regrouped and the 'wannabe sopranos' got a kick to their egos when an alto who is AMAZING at piano, caught them in their lies. The sub then said that we were going to be more productive tomorrow and that if they didn't listen to me, they were in trouble.
The other sane soprano came back the next day. I thought I'd be happy. But she apparently has a superiority complex and thought she was in charge because I was playing piano. The freshman were, again, disprespectful, so I snapped. I told them to shut up, do what they were told, and show some respect. One of the dumber ones told me that I was the one being rude. Let's say the sub has really good timing. He heard and let her have it. He is by far my favorite substitute teacher ever.
During those horrible two days, I found out that the other sections have a high opinion of me. That was surprising. Really, I did not expect that at all. It made the rest of my day a little less annoying.
So, about this sub that I befriended, he is awesome. We were outside during early bird working on rifle (color guard). There was a really nice car in the parking lot that we didn't want to kill. Mainly because the license plate said "I'm Dave."
Seriously. That was it. Then the sub comes outside saying he needs to get something out of the trunk. We just looked at him like, "You, sir, are simply too amazing to have this job."
But still, I think he wanted to kill those freshman as much as I did.
Now, other than horrible school stress, I've been trying to catch up on an anime that I'd almost forgotten about.
IT'S STILL GOING!!!!
As of today (4-21-12) there are 652 episodes (the most recent one airing today) and 16 movies (the most recent one airing on 4-14-12).
Most of the time, I get annoyed when anime shows run this long. Bleach is one of them. To me, it just lost it's spark. Same with Naruto. Case Closed, however, is as epic as when it started!).
Now, since I stopped watching it a few years ago, I am trying desperately to catch up. But I WILL write again!...Eventually!!!!
