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Aug. 23rd, 2005 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordFirst day of band camp! It was overall good, but parts of it were absolutely awful.
Well, most of the day was good. It started off all right. It was nice seeing all my friends again, even though I've seen some of them recently. It felt a little like last year at some points, with me just tagging along and being all quiet and in the background and feeling awkward, but it actually did get better. After about an hour, we went down the field to stretch and stuff. This was the really awful part. After stretching, Zi (our drum major) was all "Ok, now let's take a lap around the field!" Uh. No. I do not run. I'm a really good swimmer, and I'm pretty good at some other sports, but guh. I cannot run. I wanted to run all the way around the field, though, no stopping to walk, because... I felt pathetic being all... blah and running. I mean, I'm actually a decent runner as long as it's a short distance, but I fail at long runs. I have no endurance. So I started out way too fast and then by the end I was still jogging, and yeah, that was great, but I started feeling nauseous. I thought it'd get better, 'cause that's usually just how I feel after I run long distances, but then I started getting like... even sweatier and feeling really dizzy and shit. So finally I just told Mr. Austerman I felt sick and asked if I could go to the bathroom and he said yeah. My stomach started hurting, too. So I went to the bathroom, and that helped a little, and then I just kind of squatted in the bathroom with my head near the toilet just in case I threw up and I spent like half an hour sitting there. Finally my stomach started hurting (felt worse than cramps. gah. I can't remember feeling that horrible before) and I left and got a water bottle from the vending machine because I was really thirsty and my water bottle was back at the field, and then I went back. Jackie (she's flute section leader) was helping some freshman who wasn't getting the hang of the commands and had me be an example and stuff, and that was good because it was like... less work than going back to the block and it helped me review the commands and all myself.
So yeah, that was the really shitty part. But I felt better after that. If we do the running every day, I'm going way slower. Fuck feeling pathetic. I'd rather feel like a loser for jogging and walking than feeling like shit for half an hour.
At lunch I drove me, Jackie, Richard, and Emma to the UCI marketplace and we had lunch. Then I drove us back and we had the music part. Eh, the music is all right, but I prefer last year's, and I still prefer freshman year's to last year's.
After it was over, my mom walked down to the school (since she let me have the car so I could drive to lunch, and we live about a 10-15 min walk from school, and yeah) to help out with the uniforms and I went to Albertsons to do shopping my mom needed to do, because that was the deal I made to be able to use the car. Then it was like 3:30, and my mom wouldn't be done till 4, so I called and asked if I could go to Target and get a CD that came out today. She said yes, so I drove down to Target and got the new Jack's Mannequin CD, Everything in Transit. I saw the Hot Hot Heat CD that came out a few months ago that I've been meaning to get forever right next to it, so I ended up buying that too. Then, home.
So yeah, it was a pretty good day, except for the part where I got sick. Tomorrow we're starting on the drill, which should be more fun than basics. Let's hope I don't feel as horrible tomorrow as I did today after running around the field.
Well, most of the day was good. It started off all right. It was nice seeing all my friends again, even though I've seen some of them recently. It felt a little like last year at some points, with me just tagging along and being all quiet and in the background and feeling awkward, but it actually did get better. After about an hour, we went down the field to stretch and stuff. This was the really awful part. After stretching, Zi (our drum major) was all "Ok, now let's take a lap around the field!" Uh. No. I do not run. I'm a really good swimmer, and I'm pretty good at some other sports, but guh. I cannot run. I wanted to run all the way around the field, though, no stopping to walk, because... I felt pathetic being all... blah and running. I mean, I'm actually a decent runner as long as it's a short distance, but I fail at long runs. I have no endurance. So I started out way too fast and then by the end I was still jogging, and yeah, that was great, but I started feeling nauseous. I thought it'd get better, 'cause that's usually just how I feel after I run long distances, but then I started getting like... even sweatier and feeling really dizzy and shit. So finally I just told Mr. Austerman I felt sick and asked if I could go to the bathroom and he said yeah. My stomach started hurting, too. So I went to the bathroom, and that helped a little, and then I just kind of squatted in the bathroom with my head near the toilet just in case I threw up and I spent like half an hour sitting there. Finally my stomach started hurting (felt worse than cramps. gah. I can't remember feeling that horrible before) and I left and got a water bottle from the vending machine because I was really thirsty and my water bottle was back at the field, and then I went back. Jackie (she's flute section leader) was helping some freshman who wasn't getting the hang of the commands and had me be an example and stuff, and that was good because it was like... less work than going back to the block and it helped me review the commands and all myself.
So yeah, that was the really shitty part. But I felt better after that. If we do the running every day, I'm going way slower. Fuck feeling pathetic. I'd rather feel like a loser for jogging and walking than feeling like shit for half an hour.
At lunch I drove me, Jackie, Richard, and Emma to the UCI marketplace and we had lunch. Then I drove us back and we had the music part. Eh, the music is all right, but I prefer last year's, and I still prefer freshman year's to last year's.
After it was over, my mom walked down to the school (since she let me have the car so I could drive to lunch, and we live about a 10-15 min walk from school, and yeah) to help out with the uniforms and I went to Albertsons to do shopping my mom needed to do, because that was the deal I made to be able to use the car. Then it was like 3:30, and my mom wouldn't be done till 4, so I called and asked if I could go to Target and get a CD that came out today. She said yes, so I drove down to Target and got the new Jack's Mannequin CD, Everything in Transit. I saw the Hot Hot Heat CD that came out a few months ago that I've been meaning to get forever right next to it, so I ended up buying that too. Then, home.
So yeah, it was a pretty good day, except for the part where I got sick. Tomorrow we're starting on the drill, which should be more fun than basics. Let's hope I don't feel as horrible tomorrow as I did today after running around the field.
