Friday, October 22, 2004
Yay!
Second round of exams are over (Bacteriology, Parasitology, Pharmacology and Pathology) and Epidemiology midterm next week. I can;t believe we're already halfway through the semester. I don't know if I feel any smarter. . .
The Nerdiest Nerd of All:
The Band Nerd
Last weekend when I should have been studying the differences between alpha-1 blockers, I visited my alma mater's homecoming game to play in the Huskie Alumni Band. Not only am I a vet-student-always-talking-about-gross-parasites-at-the-dinner-table kind of nerd, I'm also a former band nerd!
And I was the only
drummer in the Alumni Band. The others weren't nerdy enough to come back.
There I am! In the yellow circle
I don't what that facial expression was all about. The cymbal player was from the class of 1968, and he and his wife travelled all the way from Arizona to come to the game.
We marched to the stadium with the rest of the marching band right through a bunch of drunk tailgaters, and on the way three drunk guys tried to give me beer. One guy put a full, closed, cold bottle of MGD on my drum and ran away. I had no pockets avaiable to put it in (the drum was in the way!) so I ended up giving it to some other drunk guy.
That drum major is having way too much fun.
The great think about being an alum is you don't have to wear the nerdy uniform and hat!
Notice how two band guys have to hold the conductor's podium so it doesn't fall over? That's how windy it was!
The crappy thing about being short is that no one can see you from the stands because the cymbal player or drum major is in the way. The great thing sbout being short is that everyone around you serves as a wind block--it was frickin' cold out there!
Since it was so cold I skipped the rest of the game and spent the the afternoon in DeKalb's one and only Irish Pub, O'Leary's. They even have a big plaster cow by the bar.
