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yah, she was being sarcastic. but lately Sherman and Dripping Springs kids have popped up outa nowhere. I've also seen a lot of screen names I recognize of Centennial kids, but most of the CHS kids don't post on here that have accounts.

http://gallery.mac.com/timlinley#100178&bgcolor=black that has pictures from the contest, if you're interested.

Darn! I didn't see that. haha My flip folder fell out of my uniform one time during my freshman year. Since then, I refused to bring my flip folder out for drill team stuff. I just try my best to memorize the music.

yay! no more boredom!

remember, it's the Centennial band director that controls the weather with his holy iPhone. yup. It was cool seeing other 4A band's our size. normally at contests, we are either greatly outnumbered, or are extremely large compared to the others. Very rarely are there other bands actually our size.

So is this not JUST a drumline contest, but an actual marching contest as well?

I really like band for quite a few reasons, like the music, the friends etc. and also the fact that there is no math involved in it.

yah sorry. I noticed that when I got to the parade and saw FHS and WHS there.

wait, both wakeland and frisco are going... but the city of frisco has a parade today. So will we not be seeing those bands there?

hahaha, I like that statement. I also must say, the cat running back field was very entertaining. Sorry Dripping Springs if the crowd's obsession with the cat kinda threw off your finals performance...

OUr guard is planning on going next year. when they do, look out. Brian Greenleaf is our guard director, and for you guard junkies, you know that he consecutively had world championship winter guards.

his user name makes me think he went to Hebron... but I could be wrong.

so we continued the tradition of losing our homecoming game. =[ we finished the season 1-9. wow.

Love Enigma Variations. and I also liked their uniforms... random bit of info, but I really did. lol.

wait, did I hear arcade?!?! YAY!

yah, sorry got a little carried away. anyways, who enjoyed standing in that INSANELY long line for merchandise? I missed the entire last block of bands because of it and had to run to our seats just to hear finals announcement.

haha, I'd have adopted you! unless you wanna be adopted right now! even though marching season is basically over and I may not get a chance to see you now. =[

when the clarinet player told me she met you I was like "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME AND GET ME AND TELL ME WHERE SHE WAS?!?!!" her response: "well, I didn't know where you were..." my response: "uhm... I have a cell phone for a reason..."

well part of the fact that they keep it the same would obviously be the recognition. When they march out w/ the same drum major walk/salute and opening set for 4 years in a row and like always 90% of their show is triangular, you KNOW which band you're about to see, and you know the reputation that the band has.

It's like "Southwest Emblem" or something like that. LYDIA! I had the clarinet player you talked to during finals come up to me and tell me about how she met you! I WAS SOOOO MAD! I was about to actually run off the bus to the Sherman buses to try to find you, but I woulda gotten in trouble. =[ Sorry. =[ But I did call you like 3 times while we were there!

yup. I hope our band begins to work on that aspect more and more, because I feel that we generally have the marching down (despite what the judges said). Sadly, I won't be around to see it happen.

yah, we were sitting right by Connally in the stands. They kinda stood there for a second or two... yah they cheered when they heard their name, but after all the results were called, you could see a few of them had a giant question mark over their heads. I didn't even understand him when he started calling out numerous times for the Friendswood band's drum majors. It wasn't until one of our drum majors told me what the situation was that I understood it.

well, I understand that. But of those 120 kids we have it breaks down to us only having about 80 or so winds. Of those 80 kids, about 30 of them don't play at all (and we actually have 3 kids marching on instruments they don't even play... I know only three people shouldn't make that big of a difference, but if we could have had them playing, our mellos and sousaphones would have been much more audible), so there's about 50 or fewer at times of us trying to make the same level of sound that Poteet has. I think that in a few year the 30 kids who weren't playing this year will be carrying the band nicely (because they were generally the underclassmen). So yes, numbers and age is a big deal for us I think.

point taken. I think the best way to handle that though would to be realign (again!!). They should attempt to relieve some of the overwhelmed areas (like B and D) and spread the playing field out a little more evenly for everybody.

they actually weren't THAT bad. If you hadn't told me, I probably wouldn't have thought they made a two. their show though really bothered me in the fact that about 96% of the music was either a synthesizer or drumline. There was very little wind playing. It sounded cool though, but I didn't see the drill because we were right after them in prelims.