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Can we appreciate how Duolingo made a webtoon called Duo Leveling

Today’s band drama:

It’s a little long and complicated but it’s quite a story 

So- the older news

The staff member for front ensemble (my section) isn’t gonna be here during band camp (yeah, the 12 hours of band every day, that part)

We didn’t have an instructor last year and it was bad. Being self taught wasn’t great. 

Because of this, last year’s section leader who was supposed to be my co-section leader for front ensemble and Percussion Captain quit cuz that was really hard on her last year and she didn’t want to deal with it again

Now, this kinda threw the whole structure into disarray. We figured it out, I’m the sole section leader of front now and Percussion Captain and it’s all good. 

Now, the new stuff

Yesterday she decided that she was rejoining actually and not quitting. Now, I didn’t mind, the more the merrier and she’s a good player that would benefit the group to have.

However, this morning she learned that she wouldn’t be section leader or marimba 1 (highest seat and hardest music) so she got really mad and left her class to go fight the band director about it. Naturally she didn’t win but I don’t know the details.

But like… what part of quitting do you think means you can randomly decide to come back last minute and be back as a leader? The entire point of leading is being dependable, what’s stopping you from changing your mind and quitting again? And what part of getting mad and confronting the director do you think is gonna help you, you’re not acting like a leader. 

She was talking about how nobody deserved it more or did more for the section then her, and that may be true for last year but this line is mostly new and she hasn’t done much for this new group. Besides, you lose your right to lead when you abandon a group. The people you lead give you the power to lead them, consent of the governed. If you cut those ties when you quit, your group loses faith in you. Plus the section has been used to me leading until now, in a style far different from hers, it just doesn’t work that way

Anyways, if any of y’all made it this far, have a fun fact

Parking spaces are usually 162 square feet

They do NOT feel that big

No I didn’t waste 10 minutes researching parking square sizes dw abt it 

Yall

WHEN DID IT BECOME 6 YEARS SINCE COVID STARTED

WHAT

Funny how guys tend to fake insult each other and girls tend to fake compliment each other

It’s cuz I’ve found girls tend to overthink (at least the ones I hang out with) and us guys tend to just skip thinking overall

For y’all that don’t associate with either I’ve no idea but it’s an interesting point to bring up

“I like fire

It’s warm, it’s pretty, and it hides the evidence”

Guys when did I miss an entire new generation of sharders what

Like I look at the people posting in all the threads and recognize so few

I’ve only been mostly inactive

Oh oh vie I lied I am able to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Wait guys how did it take me like a week to realize I won the day

Buuuuut we lost the game

Balance restored

How often do you stop and think about the wonder that life is?

Every small thing you do

Every breath is your body processing the raw elements around you, giving you another few moments of life

And yet it is rare to think of one’s breathing

Every conversation, a group of cells causing vibrations in the air that we interpret, learning and growing from

Or how you can feel emotion so clearly- anger, joy, passion, love, sorrow. Yet we feel this from just a few chemicals sending signals

And all this from a single cell, billions of years ago, doing whatever it takes to survive and endure, like a virus.

Funny how similar this is our defiance of oppression

For a will to live leads to the chance to live

Make use of every moment, every blessing in this wonderful world

For such is the beauty of nature

Hey y’all

It’s been a while

Almost 2 weeks

A LOT has happened

We don’t question how much sleep I’ve been getting but I’ll say it’s less than 60% of what I need in a week

Schoolwork is really cooking me up

 And my dumb self thought throwing pit band for the musical on top of it all would be a good idea

So now I’m sitting here trying to play a full percussion score (22 instruments) all on my own 

Oh and the first show is in less than a week 

Over spring break I had my indoor state championships

13/17

So

Better than I thought

it’s fine I’m almost straight A+ at the cost of my sanity

welcome to the education system

um

yeah I’m prob forgetting smth important

like how I forgot my Chromebook 2 days in a row now

oh the tally for days with enough sleep since school started is now at 40

16.666666% of the days I get my 8 hrs

 it’s fine trust

Just had Olive Garden for the first time

How have I been missing this my whole life

We had Ookla season now it’s Through the Living Season 

Weather is a crackhead smh

Tuesday: upper 70’s

Yesterday: 80’s with a tornado warning

Today: Snow

Maybe if we didn’t put so many chemicals in it it wouldn’t OD so often and end up like this

Guess who has carpet beetles again

Time for round two

Had a thought

Time passes

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

We sit here spending too much time online

Away from what matters

And we wonder where all the time went

Tik. Tok.

Drumline scares me

I walk in on a kid in drumline trying to microwave a different kid’s shoe

What even is drumline anymore

Well we got first place at our indoor drumline comp (And it’s the first comp)

Issue is I had to be in negative temperatures with wind gusts up to 44mph in a short sleeved shirt for a solid 10 mins it was so bad

But I didn’t die so it all works out in the end 

Guys I’ve started learning River Flows in You

About halfway through at tempo

It’s such a good song

If I had a nickel for every time a delivery truck got stuck in the snow on my street in the past 2 days, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Danger

Guys AI overview is a whole new level of wild

I looked up the name of a LITERAL ROCK that one of my characters on the shard GNAWS ON BECAUSE GE THINKS IT GIVES HIM PROPHECIES and it KNEW WHAT IT WAS

WHAT EVEN IS THIS WORLD ANYMORE

So anyways you know that funny moment when you think your history teacher didn’t cover the Iliad well enough (she didn’t even mention ODYSSEUS) so you uh

Get muted because you know too much

But still manage to go on a half an hour rant in the way home and then you say “so that was the first half. Next is the Odyssey”

Atp I’m not beating the allegations that I’m an ai half my grade is convinced already

Greetings

Woahhh just found out about a lovely stalking tool the little rewind button next to people’s names

You’d think I’d have figured that out by now but apparently not

I’m am the smartestest

Well well well look what we have here

As if a simple name change could hide your return

Mwah ha ha ha haaaaaa