I'm Back!
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For all of those who missed me, I'm back from music camp. 
Here are a few things that I learned:
1) How to trill a throat-tone A up a whole step on clarinet without being a virtuoso player -- just use the top side key for the right hand index finger.
2) No matter how much you try to deny it, a trumpet will always be louder than a clarinet (I'm still in denial).
3) If you have an umbrella, use it.
4) The stairs really do go up to the top floor of the dorm building. oO
5) Only sleep through breakfast if you're prepared to eat a lot at lunch.
6) Make sure to get to the dining hall for lunch at the most strategic time possible, preferably 30 seconds before the mobs of people from the other non-music camps get there so that you can rub it in their faces that you won't have to stand around waiting for half an hour because they seem to be trying to savor the precious moment of filling their plate with food. (Some of the girls going to ballet camp didn't seem to be able to complete this process in any kind of timely fashion; that, or the concept of scooping food onto one's own plate with a giant spoon was too foreign to them.)
7) If you time yourself as only taking five minutes to walk quickly from one building to another, then it will naturally take you ten minutes to cover that same distance when you're walking twice as fast so as to not miss a meal.
8) Buy a wooden clarinet.
9) Follow the steps outlined in #8 even if you don't play clarinet.
10) Count your rests!
Yep, I learned a lot. 
It was a good time, though. I met lots of people, got ten times better on trumpet, blew off memorizing some of my marching music for next year, and continued to fail to be able write something for my band.
And now I'm back. 
Onuki, over and out once again
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