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U.P 500, Battle of the U.P. and other stories

So yeah I guess a lot has happened since I last updated on here.

School has been ok so far. I mean my classes are for the most part pretty boring. I guess you get out what you put in so I should probably start doing more of the readings and such. I went to the hockey games on Friday and Saturday nights. They were good games, we won both of them but at points during the game it looked like it was going to be too close for comfort. but it's all good because we clinched home ice for the ECAC playoffs!! HOOAH!

We finally held the U.P. 500 this year. We actually had to have the Juniors and Sophmores do it this time. Last year, the then Sophmores who are now Juniors, didn't have enough snow to make it happen so we had to put it off until this year. So when we got the 2 1/2 feet of snow or whatever it was, we had both classes run it one at a time. I even took a video of it which apparantly certain people in the chain of command don't like. I don't know why he's being such a douchebag but he is, but he's just going to have to deal with it because I'm not changing it. So be sure to check out the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ebNQ5P8vg

Also another huge, one-of-a-kind even took place here on campus. With the amount of snow we got people, mostly just the Cadets, decided it would be fun to build forts all around the U.P. Well after awhile a huge snowball fight was planned out and executed like clockwork. Again I was on hand to videotape the events. Another video receiving rave reviews from everyone except the chain of command. But yet again, I don't give a fuck about what they think. So here is the link to what has become known as "The Battle of the U.P." Also be sure to check out the pictures up on my facebook courtesy of Bombard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXR-vg1ik8E



So moving on from Norwich stuff...Brigs camp was postponed due to the fact that they were getting even more snow. So rather than only have half the Corps show up they decided to put it off until March 3-4. Which I guess it fine because I don't have drill that weekend or anything. I was kinda looking forward to going. I needed a little break from this place but oh well. I guess it'll have to wait until March.


I'm going to be trying to put this new daily schedule into place to see if it'll work with getting more schoolwork during the day and actually getting healthy meals in there somewhere. So hopefully this works out.

Tours and a general update

So my weekend totally sucks. My tours finally went through so now I am in the process of trying to work them off. For those of you don't know a tour is marching back and forth on the "tour strip" for an hour. I got six tours which means I have to walk back and forth with my rifle for 6 hours. I did 4 of them today and I have to do 2 more in the morning. The tours themselves aren't bad at all it's just that they start at 0730 and on the weekends :-\.

Last night we went to the Norwich hockey game against Williams College and we totally kicked their ass. After the first 4 goals they pulled their goalie and then we scored 3 more goals on their backup goalie. We ended up putting out third string goalie in, who is a freshmen in the Corps and we still got the shutout with a final score of 7-0. Tomorrow is the game against Middlebury which is being broadcast on ESPNU and we are going to that game too. Me and Ben are going down like an hour early to get good seats. I mean we already have tickets for the student section but that shit gets crazy when people start vyying for seats. Usually Middlebury is a really good team but this year they aren't doing too well so now instead of barely beating them we'll fucking crush them. After the game we'll probably end up at the Rustic for the celebration.

School has been going ok so far. Precalc is definitely kicking my ass and I need to go see someone who can help me catch up and stay there. The last thing I need to do at this point is to fail another class and be even further back from graduating. So hopefully I can turn that around.

I have drill this upcoming weekend. I have to teach a class on.....something....I don't remember exactly what but I think it's something to do with head wounds maybe.

Next weekend after that I have Drum Corps. I always look forward to camps. It's one of my few chances where I get to play with a bunch of great people, especially us contras :-P. I think I finally got that weird ass rhythm in Spain down. Now I just need to work on getting the fingerings correct lol. Hopefully for this ride I won't have to go through a fucking snowstorm and go 25 MPH on a major highway.


Well I'm sure there's more that I could put here but I need to go to bed because I need to get up in the morning.