I wish everyone could see how insane of an activity drum corps is (at least the physical aspect of it). I’ll never understand how we could put ourselves through 9-9s on a daily basis for two months, in the most extreme weather conditions. How dumb are we for putting our bodies on the line like that? Lmao, jk.

I just played basketball for two hours and my body feels like hell, haha. I consider myself in shape right now, but dang, apparently not as much as when I was marching!

I’m trying to work on my game before Devs finish all days, that way I can hopefully ball with some of the guys at Scojo’s during a free day. Maybe this time around I’ll make a jumper in his face (or any shot for that matter), hahah. It was embarrassing how terrible I was in 2011. I remember a Pearl rep was at one of our all days and he was talking to me about the equipment. Scott walks up out of nowhere and makes a completely irrelevant comment about my lack of game. COME ON MAN haha.

I should really do some homework. Spring Break is basically done and I haven’t opened my book once.

This is my first full free July 4th in 3 years. First two years I spent half my day in Concord for that damn parade with the B corps. Last year I was in UTAH of all places lmao, with the A corps.

We had a free day last year on July 4th, and they had taken us to some huge recreational park to just kick it and watch the fireworks show that night. There was nothing there but flatland haha, but it did have a prehistoric museum, restaurants, and a movie theater, which is where I ended up with Adam and Chris. We watched Transformers that night.

Shit got pretty epic LOL. We were told to be back at our buses by 1030. It was like the last 5 minutes of the movie, I looked at my phone and it was 1028 O_O; I was like oh shit we needa be back there. I had no idea how many people from the corps were in the theater too, cause when we walked in the previews had already started. Anyways, I look back up and it was for real like a school of fish, I see the nearly everybody in the theater stand up at once and start dashing for the exit LOL. I get outside and EVERYONE is running back to the bus while hella fireworks are going off in the sky. It was at least a mile run back with hella screaming and bangs in the air.

You hadda to be there to understand, haha.