Saturday morning. And it's 8 am.

I'm up this early because we have a mandatory band practice before the game. 800 high school band members are coming on the field with us at halftime to play two songs in some kind of recruitment thing - I don't know how inviting band kids helps the football team recruit, seriously, but they're here and we have to practice getting on the field with them.

A midday game really takes up your entire Saturday. For instance, today's game starts at 1. We have to meet for our pregame concert around 11:30. So even if we didn't have this practice I'd be sleeping until the band meets for the game. The game'll probably go to 5 o' clock, leaving six waking hours out of my Saturday free - and homework is very difficult to do after a game because everybody's exhausted and wants to go out to dinner which takes up the remainder of the evening.

However, I am optimistic about the upcoming week. I have a psychology test I only need 53% on to maintain my A, a Synth Lab quiz (which historically I've done very well on), and a Synth Lab lab practical which doesn't sound too hard --and that concludes Synth Lab!. I hate Synth Lab. That class is evil. I found out this last week that we have to have all our spectroscopy data tables in our notebook to get full credit - something that was never said in lab, is in none of our texts or online material, and was only in a single example the teacher put on the overhead the first week but didn't specifically mention. And if you don't do it, there goes 5% of your grade right there. It's as though the professor specifically didn't tell us because he wants to fail us. It's completely unfair.

Especially because we gather all our spectroscopy data outside of class - normally two days afterwards. And on the day of lab, the TAs sign your lab notebook, cross off any unused parts of the last page, and you have to turn in your carbon copies to make sure you don't cheat and add anything afterwards. So doesn't that imply you don't add anything afterwards? Like spectroscopy data tables?

So frustrating.

Argh, time for practice. Luckily it got moved to the practice field, which is fifteen minutes closer than the stadium.