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... in which David finally writes about camp.
Friday:
- got there after work and had no idea where to put my stuff down. Wandered around rather confusedly for a bit before biting the bullet and choosing a bed in the larger room as Hannah wasn't there yet and there was only space enough in the smaller room for one more person.
- someone said something and David Who's Always There wanted to put it up on facebook as the first SUMS Camp Quote. He borrowed my phone to do so (as it has Web capabilities) and added himself to my facebook account; you see, it automatically logged him in as me, and as he'd been trying to find me on FB for some time, he took the liberty without asking me. Not impressed.
- started drinking with Marina and the others. I mention Marina because it was Marina and her friends that brought the main alcohol; everyone else had flocked to them and had begun drinking their alcohol. When we (that is Paul, Minna, Kenny, Roman, and Marina, who invited me) decided to leave the rest of the SUMSters to drink in solitude, we brought the alcohol with us - those who'd arrived late were much offended by the taking of the alcohol, and were still put out when we told them who had brought it all.
- musical goodness ensued with Kenny pulling out her iPod and playing a techno-opera piece like the Diva's in The Fifth Element over Minna's speakers. I think we listened to it about three or four times. Also the musical soundtrack of Sweeney Todd (as opposed to the musical movie soundtrack that I have). Such win. I've always been in with Marina, and Minna's quiet but she's so nice, it's just that the other three have always been a little intimidating. I think, however, that I am now in with them. (and I am)
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - People came and went from our little secluded party, and David Who's Always There was one such person. I noticed him staring at me. A lot. I was much freaked out. So I concocted a plan to tell Hannah about my plans to ask Zac out (a guy in our shared class who I sort of like but think is straight... potentially) in front of David Who's Always There, to make sure he knew I was interested in someone else.
- I asked Hannah if it was ok to tell her in front of David Who's Always There because I know she's not exactly comfortable about Things Gay (which is not something I blame her for) but as David Who's Always There was there (funnily enough), we diecided to talk about it outside. So we did, and spoke about other things. Then we were joined by Peter, and we went on a walk. Stayed up until 4am talking in the bitter cold, then decided to sleep despite not really being that tired. Long day ahead and all. <---- EDITED
Saturday:
- cold-shouldered David Who's Always There
- breakfast is boring and I burn only one side of both my slices of toast due to a retarded toaster.
- rehearsal from 10-1, in which I sit on the other side of the Basses, away from David Who's Always There. Of course, this is actually where I'm supposed to be sitting as I am a Second Bass. Notice David Who's Always There staring at me again every now and then.
- lunch finds the Group (Marina et al + me) trying to get away from everyone again. We don't much like the geries (the geriatrics; the older people), so we pick a quiet spot slightly away from them on a nicer patch of grass. Most of the non-geries follow, sadly, and our circle of six is forced to widen into a circle of about 18 or so. This really sucks because we were going to have a bitch and a gossip about everyone... well, a couple of people in particular; their presence greatly impedes this. However, not all the non-geries were unwelcome; in fact, all but... four*, I think, were more than welcome. I just like to exaggerate. (note: females of the blonde persuasion were very much in the Allowed. This means you! :) In fact, all the blondes were welcome.)
- rehearsal from 2-5, in which I again sit on the other side of the Basses. More staring ensues.
- 5pm rolls around and we have break for a couple hours. The Group cloisters itself away with the usual tides of people flowing in and out of the room. I eventually shower and get dressed for the SUPER portion of the SUMS SUPER CAMP. (Photos are on Facebook of me as Clark Kent Undressing Into Superman.)
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - As part of Fundraising, Kevin The Treasurer (one of the few people I have given a title to whom I actually LIKE) decides to partially disrobe and open his body up to art. For only a dollar, we are allowed to paint on his body using a squirty dye thing... can't remember what it's called, but it's brown. Hannah draws an eye on his front but it is small and wonky so draws a bigger better eye on his back. I attempt to fix the small eye and also draw a spider on his right shoulder blade, placing an S on its back in honour of Spiderman; I thought it appropriate for the night's theme. There are also a couple of things written, my favourite of which was "I like latin" on Kevin The Treasurer's belly. Teeheehee.
- Dinner is rather good, but too big a portion of vegetarian lasagna is dished out to me. Lots of jokes are dished out as well, some of them either crass, crude or purely disgusting, but most just lame. I do get told by Patrick, though, that he likes my costume. Yay.
- REVUE! The SUPER portion of the SUMS SUPER CAMP is upon us, and many are encostumed. There is Grammar Girl, and Super Keen, and Pollution Girl (which I really liked) from the Home-Made Superhero Kit. The Professional Superhero Kit lent us Sailor Mars (yay Hannah), The Bowler from Mystery Men (yay Marina), and Robin Hood... the female version (yay Minna), as well as quite a few others. Some really good performances, the highlight of which, for me, was Hannah's ukeleled "What a Wonderful World". Revue ends.
- a little drinking thanks to Bernie, but no dancing. A fire is, however, lit towards the back of the hall and people begin to congregate there.
- I have a talk to Patrick about David Who's Always There and my complete distaste of him... I think that's actually our first conversation... and then go off and confront him about his incursion. Things are sorted, but he remains Always There... ish. For a while at least.
- Patrick, Peter, David Who's Always There and I move in to a room together (am invited by Patrick, who was invited by Peter and DW'sAT). Patrick then steps on my foot while he is wearing shoes and I am not. We are outside the hall at the time, and as it hurts quite a bit, he suggests we go in and sit down, but I can't walk. I am once again exaggerating, but Patrick takes this as fact, and decides he has to carry me in. It is so sweet, but before we turn the corner and get inside I decide I can't let anyone else see this, so I make him put me down.
- I sit next to Isaac. I ask him what's wrong, as he appears contemplative and rather down. We then exchange a Deep and Meaningful conversation and get quite close. I hug him as I leave, and he notices.
- As I leave, Patrick is massaging DW'sAT, and offers me one. As I'm going back to the room, he offers one for when he gets back with the others. However, I fall asleep before they return and have been waiting for the massage ever since. It's been weeks :(
Sunday:
- will find it hard to wake up.
- will be disturbed by the fact that DW'sAT appears to be watching me from his bunk above and across from me, but am sure I will assume this is merely a paranoid delusion.
- breakfast will be skipped, as I won't be hungry. There will, however, be rumors of buttermilk pancakes and french toast. I will be envious of all others I assume to have partaken in this meal.
- rehearsal will be from 10-1 again
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - Isaac will decide, after the previous night's DnM, to move away from DW'sAT and sit next to me. Many hugs will ensue, as they will during the break between both myself and Isaac and myself and Patrick, but not myself and DW'sAT... never DW'sAT. Light chat will also ensue, and Isaac will be told off several times by Disgusting Andy, in whose blindspot I shall be sitting; he shall persist anyway, and I will be more than happy to chat back. DW'sAT will continue to stare at me throughout rehearsal.
- break and lunch will find people eating chocolate crackes, children of the Giant Crackle. I will be most ashamed to be a SUMSter when I find the Mother... or should I say Father Crackle. Anatomical jokes will ensue, and parsley (I think) will be used as an inappropriate garnish.
- I will then stay back and help pack Camp up with Hannah, before accompanying her to Engadine for shopping (I will require a bag and a card) and fooding (Hannah will require a drink and we will both require Baker's goods not available closer to home) purposes.
- I will then be home, and it will eventually be now.
I may keep updating this as I remember things, or as I am told. Will link back at such times, and remove old UPDATED TO INCLUDE signs. It'd just become confusing otherwise.
Also, on a completely unrelated note, I have a grammar question:
's if you own
s' if plural owns
... what about if one owns plural? 'ss? ''s? "they are the cat's", when referring to that which is owned by a group of cats, just doesn't look right to me :(
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* a couple, plus two separate males.
Friday:
- got there after work and had no idea where to put my stuff down. Wandered around rather confusedly for a bit before biting the bullet and choosing a bed in the larger room as Hannah wasn't there yet and there was only space enough in the smaller room for one more person.
- someone said something and David Who's Always There wanted to put it up on facebook as the first SUMS Camp Quote. He borrowed my phone to do so (as it has Web capabilities) and added himself to my facebook account; you see, it automatically logged him in as me, and as he'd been trying to find me on FB for some time, he took the liberty without asking me. Not impressed.
- started drinking with Marina and the others. I mention Marina because it was Marina and her friends that brought the main alcohol; everyone else had flocked to them and had begun drinking their alcohol. When we (that is Paul, Minna, Kenny, Roman, and Marina, who invited me) decided to leave the rest of the SUMSters to drink in solitude, we brought the alcohol with us - those who'd arrived late were much offended by the taking of the alcohol, and were still put out when we told them who had brought it all.
- musical goodness ensued with Kenny pulling out her iPod and playing a techno-opera piece like the Diva's in The Fifth Element over Minna's speakers. I think we listened to it about three or four times. Also the musical soundtrack of Sweeney Todd (as opposed to the musical movie soundtrack that I have). Such win. I've always been in with Marina, and Minna's quiet but she's so nice, it's just that the other three have always been a little intimidating. I think, however, that I am now in with them. (and I am)
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - People came and went from our little secluded party, and David Who's Always There was one such person. I noticed him staring at me. A lot. I was much freaked out. So I concocted a plan to tell Hannah about my plans to ask Zac out (a guy in our shared class who I sort of like but think is straight... potentially) in front of David Who's Always There, to make sure he knew I was interested in someone else.
- I asked Hannah if it was ok to tell her in front of David Who's Always There because I know she's not exactly comfortable about Things Gay (which is not something I blame her for) but as David Who's Always There was there (funnily enough), we diecided to talk about it outside. So we did, and spoke about other things. Then we were joined by Peter, and we went on a walk. Stayed up until 4am talking in the bitter cold, then decided to sleep despite not really being that tired. Long day ahead and all. <---- EDITED
Saturday:
- cold-shouldered David Who's Always There
- breakfast is boring and I burn only one side of both my slices of toast due to a retarded toaster.
- rehearsal from 10-1, in which I sit on the other side of the Basses, away from David Who's Always There. Of course, this is actually where I'm supposed to be sitting as I am a Second Bass. Notice David Who's Always There staring at me again every now and then.
- lunch finds the Group (Marina et al + me) trying to get away from everyone again. We don't much like the geries (the geriatrics; the older people), so we pick a quiet spot slightly away from them on a nicer patch of grass. Most of the non-geries follow, sadly, and our circle of six is forced to widen into a circle of about 18 or so. This really sucks because we were going to have a bitch and a gossip about everyone... well, a couple of people in particular; their presence greatly impedes this. However, not all the non-geries were unwelcome; in fact, all but... four*, I think, were more than welcome. I just like to exaggerate. (note: females of the blonde persuasion were very much in the Allowed. This means you! :) In fact, all the blondes were welcome.)
- rehearsal from 2-5, in which I again sit on the other side of the Basses. More staring ensues.
- 5pm rolls around and we have break for a couple hours. The Group cloisters itself away with the usual tides of people flowing in and out of the room. I eventually shower and get dressed for the SUPER portion of the SUMS SUPER CAMP. (Photos are on Facebook of me as Clark Kent Undressing Into Superman.)
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - As part of Fundraising, Kevin The Treasurer (one of the few people I have given a title to whom I actually LIKE) decides to partially disrobe and open his body up to art. For only a dollar, we are allowed to paint on his body using a squirty dye thing... can't remember what it's called, but it's brown. Hannah draws an eye on his front but it is small and wonky so draws a bigger better eye on his back. I attempt to fix the small eye and also draw a spider on his right shoulder blade, placing an S on its back in honour of Spiderman; I thought it appropriate for the night's theme. There are also a couple of things written, my favourite of which was "I like latin" on Kevin The Treasurer's belly. Teeheehee.
- Dinner is rather good, but too big a portion of vegetarian lasagna is dished out to me. Lots of jokes are dished out as well, some of them either crass, crude or purely disgusting, but most just lame. I do get told by Patrick, though, that he likes my costume. Yay.
- REVUE! The SUPER portion of the SUMS SUPER CAMP is upon us, and many are encostumed. There is Grammar Girl, and Super Keen, and Pollution Girl (which I really liked) from the Home-Made Superhero Kit. The Professional Superhero Kit lent us Sailor Mars (yay Hannah), The Bowler from Mystery Men (yay Marina), and Robin Hood... the female version (yay Minna), as well as quite a few others. Some really good performances, the highlight of which, for me, was Hannah's ukeleled "What a Wonderful World". Revue ends.
- a little drinking thanks to Bernie, but no dancing. A fire is, however, lit towards the back of the hall and people begin to congregate there.
- I have a talk to Patrick about David Who's Always There and my complete distaste of him... I think that's actually our first conversation... and then go off and confront him about his incursion. Things are sorted, but he remains Always There... ish. For a while at least.
- Patrick, Peter, David Who's Always There and I move in to a room together (am invited by Patrick, who was invited by Peter and DW'sAT). Patrick then steps on my foot while he is wearing shoes and I am not. We are outside the hall at the time, and as it hurts quite a bit, he suggests we go in and sit down, but I can't walk. I am once again exaggerating, but Patrick takes this as fact, and decides he has to carry me in. It is so sweet, but before we turn the corner and get inside I decide I can't let anyone else see this, so I make him put me down.
- I sit next to Isaac. I ask him what's wrong, as he appears contemplative and rather down. We then exchange a Deep and Meaningful conversation and get quite close. I hug him as I leave, and he notices.
- As I leave, Patrick is massaging DW'sAT, and offers me one. As I'm going back to the room, he offers one for when he gets back with the others. However, I fall asleep before they return and have been waiting for the massage ever since. It's been weeks :(
Sunday:
- will find it hard to wake up.
- will be disturbed by the fact that DW'sAT appears to be watching me from his bunk above and across from me, but am sure I will assume this is merely a paranoid delusion.
- breakfast will be skipped, as I won't be hungry. There will, however, be rumors of buttermilk pancakes and french toast. I will be envious of all others I assume to have partaken in this meal.
- rehearsal will be from 10-1 again
EDITED TO INCLUDE: - Isaac will decide, after the previous night's DnM, to move away from DW'sAT and sit next to me. Many hugs will ensue, as they will during the break between both myself and Isaac and myself and Patrick, but not myself and DW'sAT... never DW'sAT. Light chat will also ensue, and Isaac will be told off several times by Disgusting Andy, in whose blindspot I shall be sitting; he shall persist anyway, and I will be more than happy to chat back. DW'sAT will continue to stare at me throughout rehearsal.
- break and lunch will find people eating chocolate crackes, children of the Giant Crackle. I will be most ashamed to be a SUMSter when I find the Mother... or should I say Father Crackle. Anatomical jokes will ensue, and parsley (I think) will be used as an inappropriate garnish.
- I will then stay back and help pack Camp up with Hannah, before accompanying her to Engadine for shopping (I will require a bag and a card) and fooding (Hannah will require a drink and we will both require Baker's goods not available closer to home) purposes.
- I will then be home, and it will eventually be now.
I may keep updating this as I remember things, or as I am told. Will link back at such times, and remove old UPDATED TO INCLUDE signs. It'd just become confusing otherwise.
's if you own
s' if plural owns
... what about if one owns plural? 'ss? ''s? "they are the cat's", when referring to that which is owned by a group of cats, just doesn't look right to me :(
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* a couple, plus two separate males.
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I just checked my how-to-write-a-decent-essay book that was the ENGL1000 textbook for last year, and they don't know, which makes three of us I suppose.
Now I think about it, I can't think of too many instances where an apostrophe would be used to indicate a group's possession of things - and all the examples I've been trying to think up involve the thing being owned by a collective noun (excuse my ineptness with grammar terminology, I've only studied Japanese grammar!) which doesn't involve s's because you can just say "the group's".
Aargh.
Speaking of aargh a) do you know the name of the non-geriatric blond bass guy that's kind of, um, solid and stocky-looking? I keep having conversations with him and it's gotten to the point where it'd be really embarrassing to ask his name because I've known him for most of semester. And b) ABC Classic FM was playing excerpts from the Requiem this morning and I was trying to sing along, and it didn't take long for me to realise that I was VERY off-key. At least no one else heard me!
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Seeing as everyone I spoke to outside SUMS said it was a smash, I don't think it would have mattered too much even if you were off-key (which I highly doubt you were - I'm pretty sure I would have heard it from someone if you had been; you know how bitchy/gossipy SUMSters can be).
How do you think last night went?
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Speaking of off-key, the girl behind me was about a semitone off, and she was really loud about it as well, which put a lot of us off. Also, she kept poking me in the back of my head with her folder. *mutters*
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Who was that? I'm not really sure where you ended up exactly, apart from two rows infront and to the left. And speaking of head-poking, Dominic kept his poking into my head just about the entire night. Everytime I tried to gently push him off, it'd disappear for a second and then come back as annoying as ever. I started to wonder if maybe he didn't realise; I know that if I had noticed my folder poking into Lauren's head I would have been trying to get it off asap.
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Probably he didn't notice - if he had the A4 photocopy of the Handel and the Requiem, it would've been around the same size as his folder, and he'd have been looking at the music, not the folder behind it.
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Hmm, this is possible. But you still haven't told me who was behind you.
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You should never have more than one apostrophe, because in a situation like this the cats are plural and the apostrophe comes AFTER the s.
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I think it was meant to be asking about a single entity owning lots of things, which would just be "cat's". Except that I wanted to know if there was any way to distinguish between "the cat's (thing)" and "the cat's (things)" without the added clarification of (thing/s). Or something like that?
Also, I have jsut realised I need to add something to Sunday's list. Whoops.
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Thank you, Miss Amy!
:)
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ps- concert= awesome.
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Why didn't you tell meeeee?!?! I could have said hi and signed an autograph and hugged you!
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B and I sat up the back and craned our necks to see you and Kylee, in a manner bizzarely reminiscent of over-proud parents.
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Did you happen to notice how hard I was finding it to turn the pages of my score? Or my random little laughter while we were sitting down when Isaac decided to poke me in the back? Or my not-so-happy face at the end when things started to fall apart? :P
I still wish I'd been able to see you guys there. You and I still have to get together, you know.
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No, we couldn't see more than the top of your head.
B says he adored Motzart's Requiem.
I didn't notice things falling apart, because I have no musical taste.
OMG A WHOLE SEMESTER HAS GONE BY AND IHAVEN"T SEEN YOU WHY DID YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?
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Then let us pretend none such falling happened. :D
I can understand that. The Req certainly seems like his sort of thing. :)
Dang. Were you in one of the centre isles, or were you off to the side facing in? Other friends who attended were stuck behind a pillar, and my parents had their view of me obstructed by the conductor; that gives you the best view of all the people I knew there.
I figured as much, I just thought you might be kind enough to play along and pretend you liked me just a little... :'(
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Yes, it was all perfect.
We were a couple of rows behind a pillar- could see you fine, had to crane a little to see Kylee, and lost track of her completely in the second half. We thought she might've fallen into the bass tuba, but turns out there's no such thing as a bass tuba.
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That's the problem with going off stage; it's hard to come back to the exact same spot. And yeah, tubas are bass enough :P I'm not even sure there was anything that big or bass-like on our end of the orchestra to fall into... except the cello, and sane people are far more likely to willing become part of the wood than accidentally fall in through the tiny little slits. I know I would.
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I've no idea why I forgot to tell you I was coming. I just did :(
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and I meant to say that your image of lil' Kylee is too cute, despite the obvious implications. I half wish I'd fallen into a bass tuba. :P
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*sniggers* I have this image of you... lounging in a bass tuba. Hands behind your head, ankles crossed, whistling the Requiem.
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I SEE IT! I SEE IT! :D It looks very comfortable in there. But I can't whistle. :(
What would B and yourself be doing, I wonder?
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