Well, sadly, I had to miss school (AND 2 band rehearsals!!) because of a terrible curse of nature called bronchitis. The fact that I’m freezing while burning up, coughing pitifully, and have a splitting headache amounts to absolutely NOTHING seeing that I’m missing band!!! I’ve been lucky enough to have a clean bill of attendance so far this season (excluding one day for an ankle injury), but even knowing people have missed for a week or more doesn’t quite lift my spirits. ;-) If this shows you how ‘band-sick’ I am after missing just ONE day, my day feels empty without hearing the battery warm up before practice, not hearing a trumpet buzzing on a mouthpiece seems unnatural, I’m mad because I missed an opportunity to pass off benchmarks, and I’m even looking forward to running when I get back!!! Eery, isn’t it?! Looking on the bright side though… I had enough quality time to do absolutely nothing!! I ACTUALLY had time to read 409 marching band jokes… and what’s so funny is almost EVERY SINGLE ONE was freakishly true!!! (And what was funnier was watching me try to laugh while slurping chicken noodle soup!) :-) Well, with any luck at all, I’ll be up and running by tomorrow! And congrats to everyone on 3rd place at Westlake!! That was SO SO SO SO much fun!!! But then again, that’s a whole other blog. ;-) BYE!!!!!