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Well Sunday was my last night with Yulia because she was leaving on Monday. So I took her out to dinner, we saw a movie, and then went to Chilli's for some drinks, it was a great day. We talked awhile and got to know each other some more. I'm going to miss her but at least I'm going down for her graduation so that'll be fun.

Other than that things up here have been pretty boring. It's the same old shit just a different day.

I do have drum corps this weekend so that's going to be a nice break from this place. Although I don't have my music memorized just yet but I think I got most of it.


Oh I guess one big thing is that I've decided I want to stay in Vermont and move here. Since I don't really have any friends left in NJ I might as well not go back. At least here I have my unit of whom I'm pretty close with them all.

Annual Training and Skiing

So my Spring Break was taken up by Annual Training for the Army National Guard. It was so much fun. We went around to a bunch of high schools and performed concerts and workshops. But it obviously wasn't the concerts or workshops that made it fun. It was all the bus rides to places and the partying at night. I mean if it wasn't for A.T. I wouldn't have my girlfriend right now. But we would hang out at McKee's and play some pool, drink, and just have a great time. In fact one of those nights, Buzz Night, I won free lift passes to Smuggs.

Well Buzz Night is when the radio station 99.9 The Buzz comes to the bar and has all these things to do, like any typical rock station would do at a bar. Well we played Boner Bingo and I won and that's how I got the tickets. So I asked Yulia to come with me since we both had never gone skiing before and I thought it would be fun. We both had a lot of fun and didn't make fools of ourselves that much :-P

Update before bed..

Well for some reason I'm extremely tired tonight. Maybe it was the lack of sleep from the weekend or something I don't know.

So this past weekend was a Brigs camp. We had a nice turnout considering it was a rescheduled camp. We worked on Sparkling Diamonds (parade tune) for the parade that I wont be there for. The rest of the time was spent memorizing Spanish Fantasy and First Time Ever and trying to work out the one part in Spain. John and Jason weren't there this weekend so I didn't have anyone to get drunk with, which I guess is good and bad lol. I need to start paying my tuition so I can bring home a contra and practice. I'm getting the fingers and rythms down but I don't have the pitches in my head which makes memorizing pretty difficult.

But I guess the biggest news was my check from the VA that I got today. It was for over $1600 which is back pay from I guess around October/November time period. This is awesome because now I can pay off my credit card and pay the rest of my Brigs tuition before I spend all of the money lol. The rest I need to put somewhere where I won't spend it.

This weekend and all of next week is Drill/AT for the Guard. We're doing a concert tour to a bunch of high schools in Vermont and doing a bunch of clinics with them. Hopefully it's not like last time where there is a lot of down time doing nothing all day. Don't get me wrong I love doing nothing but this was just a ridiculous amount of time last year lol. We have this convoy training thing on the 17 which is a Saturday and right after we get out of that I need to haul ass out to Syracuse for the Brigs camp. I'm missing the parade but I think I'll live :-P.

Other than that nothing really exciting has been going on. Norwich is still as boring as ever but everyone is looking forward to Spring Break this coming week, which I obviously don't have yet again this year thanks to the National Guard.


Well that's it for now....