A much-needed day of Matt

STUDIO 48 – Today has been a longtime in the making. Today I have achieved nothing of measurable accomplishment.

To set up this completely useless day, let me start by telling of my fairly useful week. Keith, Rusty, and I took Ro-bear out for his 21st birthday on Wednesday evening. His celebration was much tamer than mine, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. To each his own. I have come to the realization that I am the biggest partier, drinker, liberal, and playboy in our apartment. The crazy thing is, I don’t really party or drink, I am staunchly conservative and I have only been out with four different girls this school year. The point of all this is to show HOW conservative our apartment is. After a nice dinner, we all returned back to Studio 48 where I watched the UGA-Kentucky game, Keith returned to his studies, Rusty went to check on K-diddle who has the flu and won’t take it easy or rest. Robert and Ally went into his room... etc.

Thursday was a LONG day. I went to all of my classes, got back here around 3:30, changed into some nice clothes for my concert, and then went to our last tune-up/rehearsal. I came back to the Studio to grab something to eat and get my jersey for the basketball game and then went over to Hodgson a little early to make sure I was really well-tuned. This turned out to be a good move because I got to spent a few minutes talking with some of the guys from the section that I don’t normally get to talk to outside of Redcoat stuff. I really need to work on keeping up relationships with the guys (and gals) in the off season because that can only help promote unity within the section next fall. I’ll work on it.
Perhaps the most interesting highlight on the concert was the fact that Cale and I wore the exact same outfit: all black with a red tie. Sam, Ryan, and Kyle gave me a lot of crap and told me that only gay people wear all black which is obviously not true since I was wearing black and I believe that my record is one of staunch, unblemished heterosexuality. Not only that, but I got more compliments from women about my attire than I have in quite some time. I’m not gonna lie, that was nice.
The concert itself went about as well as could be expected. To be honest, this is my first experience with an un-auditioned concert ensemble at UGA and it is better than I thought it would be. The horns and trumpets were weak as expected and the tubas had a few intonation issues, but the biggest concern of the evening was the music selection. Maybe it will improve before our next concert.
As soon as I cleared the stage, I was stripping down in the parking lot and throwing on my basketball band stuff. Normally, I wouldn’t have been in such a rush, but this was the Tennessee game. The Lady Dawgs played pretty well for about 35 minutes but forgot the last five. “It’s Pat” Summit had her way with coach Landers AGAIN and I left Stegeman with a sour taste in my mouth. I think that Landers is the second best coach in the SEC, but he’s not even close to moving into first because he can’t get the big win. Frustrating!

Friday was a normal day except that I had a professor cancel a class and not notify anyone except by WebCT-mail at 2:13 Friday morning. I’m an easygoing individual except when I get up early for no reason. The rest of the day was uneventful. I played ultimate at the intramural fields and then went to Foley Field for opening day with Rusty. The Dawgs won a close one.

Wow, sorry. I kinda got on a rambling-role there for a minute. Today has been a lazy day. I have watched some college basketball, some USA hockey, and a movie all while trying to get motivated to start a history paper. Not too much luck there. I am now on my way out to find some food, and then back over to Stegeman to watch a men’s basketball game that will have no effect on the outcome of our season. Our men’s team is like that president that is in the last two months of office. The constituents have already voted on his replacement. He is, in essence, a lame-duck. So goes the story of men’s basketball at UGA.

Have a good weekend everyone.........