Band Nerd

I am the first chair clarinet in my school band. We have a solo and ensamble event coming up on April 21 and I has 1 solo and 2 ensambles. It's a lot of fun but also a lot of work. I had a practice today and I have concluded that band nerds are by far the coolest people on the planet.
First we warmed up by playing a basic Space Oydessy 2001 type thing. Then we played March for Military Band by Beethoven and then The Death of Ase by Grieg and then I played my solo which is March by Bach.
For those of you who don't play an instrument, I highly suggest it. It's so much fun.

DFTBA
maggie

I'm a Try Hard and I'm Proud!

So I go to a public school where sports are generally taken more seriously over academics and whenever somebody gets a better grade, they are called a try-hard. I seem to get called this a lot because I give very elaborate presentations. I really don't like the term try-hard. I get that they might be upset that I received a better grade, but it still makes me a giant squid of anger when I am accused of being a try-hard.

I value academics. I'm not going to pretend that I don't. I like school and I like learning new things. I do like to call myself nerdy. But when I get called a try-hard in a negative light, it kind of brings my hopes down. There is a lot of potential in my generation. We have the technology to improve so many things. But if somebody is going to put down the people that are willing to work hard to improve things, it just makes me lose hope for humanity. Yeah, I know my thoughts are very drastic, but still you never know.

DFTBA

maggie