Today was the concert for the All-City Band. It was boring yet fun at the same time. The only reason it was fun was because I got to talk to my friends and other people that I didn't know. All in all, the concert went pretty well. No mess-ups or things like that.

Not much to talk about. I don't have a lot of homework this weekend which is good.

Oh, I just realized something. I had a dream with Lain in it. It was kinda stupid. All I remember is me passing him in the hallway and I said "hey" and then he said something, but I couldn't quite make out what it was. I didn't think much of it since he's talked to me before. It all goes back to that Dr.Seuss quote I posted earlier. Anyway, I could milk some meaning out of this little segment of a dream, but I won't. At least not right now.

Lain is one of those people who I call "drifters". Basically, drifters, in a social setting, don't really stay with one group of people and talk with them at one time. They usually drift about and talk to different people. This quality can reflect something good and something not good about you. On one hand, it could mean that you're a social butterfly and has many friends, or, on the other hand, it could mean that you don't really have (or haven't really found) your close-knit group of friends that you have. Unfortunately, it's most likely the latter for Lain. During band class today we had no teacher for about half of the period since the band directors, a couple of horn players, and the whole color guard went to a middle school to do some recruiting. Because of that, everyone basically did whatever they wanted. I listened to Anathallo and slept on a stand for about half of the period. In the middle of the period the people came back from recruiting. One of the people that returned was an officer from Thai Club and asked me about the luncheon tickets and stuff like that. Lain was with her also. I didn't even notice until like a minute into our conversation. I looked over to him, made eye contact, and thought to myself "kay...." I was a little caught off guard by it. I was kinda expecting him not go near me or anything like that. I won't delve on this too much, but I'm thinking that this is a sign of good things to come. Although, I'm still kinda caught in between trying to talk to him so that we can still have some friendship between us or, to take it easy on the talking to him so that he doesn't think I'm still trying to get him as a boyfriend. Any suggestions? I'm kinda tired of sending him Facebook messages (and I told him I'd stop) so that option is gone.  Maybe leaving something in his instrument case would work. Or maybe nothing at all.

There was an All-City Band rehearsal today. It was pretty boring. This band is way worse than the All-Region one so we spent a long time warming up and working on little mistakes repeatedly in the songs that we're going to play. I guess that's ok though since this All-City Band thing is supposed to be a learning experience. An experience to offer some of the better players in the district to play with people on their level (or in some cases people better than they are). It's not really much of an experience when you already play with pretty decent players in your school band already. I swear, All-City was just like being in my school's band class except with way more people and for a way longer period of time.

Today was the All-City Band Auditions. They were boring and interesting at the same time. Having to listen to 30-40 flutes play the same thing over and over again isn't exactly my idea of fun. I got a bit of homework done in the process though. That's pretty much it. In the end I got 5th chair in the band. I'm pretty content with my results, but I wanted to beat this girl and she got 4th chair so that kinda surprised me. The seating for All-City also decides the chair order for our school's band. I might challenge her for her chair which would mean I would be 2nd chair instead of 3rd (if I beat her). I might not do it anyway since I'm sure the first three flutes play the first part anyway.

Something interesting to point out, I saw Lain's mom helping out with last-minute preparations for the auditions. She was a room monitor as well. It wasn't really too odd seeing her for some reason. Although, I had the feeling that she knew that I like her son. I don't know why either. She never really gave me odd looks when I was around all of the other parent volunteers doing odd jobs. She's an adult though and adults don't really do that. *shrugs* It wouldn't really matter if she knew anyway. Also, if y'all are wondering, Lain didn't show up. I was thinking his mom would drag him to help out also since most parents in the band parent organization do that as well, but that didn't happen. I'm guessing he had to watch his 3 little sisters since his father doesn't live with him. (A little side story here, Lain is a bastard basically (i think...), his mom had him with this man, but when she was pregnant with Lain he left her to raise Lain on her own. I'm thinking she got a husband and had his three younger sisters with him, but I'm not too sure about that. I'll have to ask him.)

After All-City, a couple of friends and I went to the movies and saw First Sunday. It was a pretty good movie. It was a little inspirational also. I never expected that since I thought of it as a simple comedy and nothing else.

Ok, so remember in my last entry how I said there's a back story to the relationship between Lain and Crystal? Well, yea, I'm going to explain all of this now.

So, a year ago, Crystal liked this guy named Matt. But, she didn't tell me until about a month ago. I dunno why though. I guess for some reason she didn't want me to know. Wait...I think it was Tina that told me. Anyway, that's irrelevant. Wow, I'm not doing a goo job explaining this. There are AIM logs though so I don't have to worry.


Basically, I'm thinking that since Lain looks like Matt (or she thinks they look alike) so she's making an unconscious connection from Matt to Lain. So her past love (or fondness now) of Matt is transferring to Lain simply because they look similar. It doesn't matter to me at all though. In fact, this is kinda working to my advantage since, because Crystal is a really close friend of mine, she can get Lain to hang out with is sometimes. It will be awesome.

I have All-City Band Auditions tomorrow. It's no big deal. It'll be fun seeing my friends from other schools. Also, it'll bring some organization into the band since this is our chair test of sorts. Also, something to point out I guess. I don't think Lain is going to All-City. I saw his tenor sax in his locker after school after I was done helping out setting up the rooms. I never expected him to go away. Unless he has a sax at home he can practice on... *shrugs*. There's also a planned movie event after the auditions. According to Facebook, he might be going so we'll have to wait and see. It doesn't really matter to me as much if I see him now since I know now that everything is fine and dandy between us.