you can call me captain...

Captain from Castille, that is. It is the first song in Tiger Band's first show this season, and Dr. Spede has assigned me to conduct it. I am SO excited. It is a huge step up from the EWF Mega Mix I had last year. It is a really intense song. The marking at the beginning of the piece says "Menacing!" (yes, with the exclamation mark), so you know it's an exciting piece. Our other pieces are Los Suertos de los Tantos and the ever popular, Malaguena. This show is really going to be great. I just know it. It's got me so pumped about the upcoming season.

I'm listening to it right now and trying to memorize it by rote like I do best. Ironically enough, it seems like it is going to be a pretty big challenge. Last year when we got El Toro Caliente, I listened to it non-stop and knew it like the back of my hand... and it wasn't even my show! It seemed a lot easier to remember than this one. There are several different motives in this one, as El Toro wasn't so diverse. I have already listened to this at least about 30 times today and I am still struggling singing along with it. I'm motivated though.

Since it's my last year but only my second year as drum major, I really want to do my absolute best. Last year was definitely a learning experience. I will take all the things I learned and try to use them to be a phenomenal drum major. The main thing I plan on doing is just getting into the music and really feeling it. Kate always suggests writing a story about the song one is conducting. So, tonight in Short Bus Stories, I plan on writing about the Captain from Castille. It should be interesting... along with that, I need to update delightful* and put "Sigma Nu" (or "Sigma NO" as Jessica says) into dumb pe0ple AGAIN. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me...

But before I go, I must mention something that has bothered me ALL DAY TODAY. Y'all are going to think that this is ridiculous, but the series finale of Roseanne (I told you that you'd think it was ridiculous)... it apparently aired on Nick at Nite on Sunday. I can't believe how much I have fallen in love with the trashy midwestern family, the Conners. Well, Jessica was telling me about the final episode and about at the end they reveal that the entire show has been a story that the main character, Roseanne, is writing about her family. The story is only BASED on her family though, because unlike the show, in her real life, Dan died from his heart attack, Darlene ended up with Mark, Becky ended up with David, Jackie was gay, and her mother was straight. It really made me kind of upset! I know... how could finding out that something was made up upset me when in reality the WHOLE show, even the Roseanne who was writing the book, was made up? Well, it just goes to show you how people's emotions and thoughts are influenced in such a simple way. I never admitted to being such a Roseanne freak, but once I realized that the entire show was a story inside of a story, I felt a little hurt and disappointed... the people I had come to love and enjoy on the show really didn't exist in that capacity... even in TV life... the WHOLE thing was a big farce. Honestly though, I have to give it to Roseanne, who directed, produced, starred in, and wrote for the show... it was quite clever what they did. I REALLY want to see the final episode now and hear and see for myself. The whole thing reminds me of my writing a little bit. Even when I get to the end of delightful* (whenever that may be), none of it will have really happened... BUT, there are people who read it and enjoy it a lot. If I can make the finale as interesting and even disappointing as Roseanne, then I will feel like an extremely accomplished writer.