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so i'm about to just give up on the entire band and not give a shit anymore this year. that's saying a LOT, because, i know i'm a nerd, but i'm section leader and i really love marching band. but i just can't take any more of these people's stupidity. this is the largest freshman class we've had in a while, so about half of my trumpet section are freshmen and none of them are good. not only marching, that is a bit more understandable, but none of them can play as well as any freshman should be able to. that's not me being hard on them, i know what its like to suck, i was awful when i was a freshman. they just don't understand anything, i've heard from the majority of them that they don't like band, and they won't listen when someone tells them anything to help them.

then, we got our show shirts today, because our first performance at a game is tomorrow night and we are required to wear the show shirts under our uniforms. the show is called "order & chaos" this year, and has the potential to be decent, but i'll get back to that later. the color guard flags are going to be purple, red, and silver- i like that a lot. so, we get our shirts, and they're purple with a ying-yang design and other designs with arrows and stuff in that color scheme on the back of it with the name of the show. they're pretty cool actually, compared to a lot of the other marching band shirts i've had to wear. however, these guys..who sadly happen to be all in my section, or at least in the brass..see them and immediately say they're gay. i fucking hate that. i normally like these kids too, or most of them, but that's ridiculous. i had to sit around and hear them saying how "fucking queer" they were, how others would think we're "stillwater band queers", that we'd be "ass-raped", and stupid things like "do we have to wear it?", "i don't want to", and "i'm changing out of it before school". i'm so pissed at them. i'm god damn offended. my uncle, who is one of the nicest people in the world, and several of my best friends are gay, and i love them all to death. i'm so beyond pissed right now..i can't even think straight..

this is one of the worst years ever, i'd say its worse than "obsession", my freshman year show, and that was fucking AWFUL. i'm about to give up trying to help anyone and trying to motivate anyone to get things done when no one fucking ever listens. really sucks that i'm the only senior trumpet, and this year has gone to shit from the beginning. i miss 2 years ago, i miss andrew, who was like trumpet god. whatever, maybe i expect too much, but they should know by now how things work. i give up.

I'm sorry to hear about it.
I personally think that the shirts sounds pretty cool and I would wear them
It's not your fault the other members have no enthusiasm for what they are doing, they sound spoilt and rather bratty, there's not much you can do either so I would just leave them be and let the carry on. At least the band has one dedicated member!

Michael~