Tomorrow, I am going to school at 4:30 am in order to meet fellow band geeks and dorchestrans for our glorious trip to the glorious city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. We leave at five o'clock for a long and sleepy bus ride up to the border, and then we'll take a ferry to Vancouver Island. There, we'll go to various places on our own and the orchestra will have two sit-down concerts, while the band marches on Monday in the Victoria Day Parade, while the orchestra catches candy.

We might very well go to the Royal London Wax Museum, with its demented gnomes and hall of torture.
We might go to the Awesome Royal British Columbia Museum, which is extremely Epic.

Anyway, while there, the orchestra is going to play:
Edward Scissorhands
Schindler's List
Hoe Down (Aaron Copland. w00t!! Solo for moi!)
Serenade for Strings in C major (Tchaikovsky)
Pirates of the Caribbean
An Irish Party in Third Class

On a somewhat unrelated note, I saw my first pseudoscorpions today! I had only seen these small arachnids in books and in documentaries, and I had always envisioned them as brownish white indoor and leaf litter creatures, but these were found on a railing while we were eating outside in the SUN (!), and they were black with an orange cross on their backs. These small arthropods, unlike true scorpions, lack a tail and instead deliver venom with their claws. The ones I saw were about 2mm long [link]