Please, WASTE MY TIME!

Orchestra rehearsal is every Monday and Wednesday night from 6:45-9:45. I like playing in orchestra; I have nothing against the rehearsals. But. This week the conductor is out of town. So, on Monday night we had sectionals, where we rehearse in small groups without a conductor. (In sections, get it?) Last week, Mr. Conductor had told me that he didn't see any reason for a Wednesday rehearsal because having someone else come to lead the rehearsal would be more detrimental than helpful a week before the concert.

Great, so I start thinking I have Wednesday night off. I get excited; I'll get to go to the running club's Wednesday night run. It's a hilly 7.5m course, and I always feel like I've gotten an awesome workout afterwards. So, this morning, I taught spinning class, lifted some weights, and then ran 5.5m. I was thinking that another 7.5m tonight would be perfect because on Sunday I'm going to run a half marathon, and it would be good to get that distance in over the course of one day early in the week. I'd still have plenty of time to recover and it would help my race on Sunday.

[Side note: I'm not expecting anything amazing from this race. My PR (1:47) seems completely unattainable to me right now and I don't know how I ran that fast. I'm only hoping to break 2 hours.]

So, I get to school this morning and what do I find out? They've decided to 'run' the piece quickly tonight. In other words, rehearsal won't last very long (maybe 30-45 minutes), but it's just enough time to ruin any chance of getting to go to the run. Again, I have nothing against rehearsing, but this is only rehearsal for the sake of keeping us busy. I HATE BUSY WORK. They want us to be in rehearsal because a rehearsal is scheduled, and that's the only reason. We're not going to get anything done; we'll screw around for a while and then the assistant conductor will let us go, thinking we're going to be thankful for getting out early. HA!

I'm debating going to the gym after I do finally get released to run some more tonight on the treadmill (I'm not stupid enough to run alone in the dark), just so I won't feel like my evening went to hell. We'll see. I do have a paper to write; I'm supposed to be writing it now. I'm so sick of writing papers. I have 2 papers a week to write and it's getting old. 11 weeks left until Christmas break. 22 papers. But, I'm actually learning from my classes, so I won't complain about them.

I WILL, HOWEVER, COMPLAIN ABOUT THE STUPIDITY OF MAKING US REHEARSE TONIGHT. BIG. FAT. WASTE. OF. TIME. I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it if they would just give us some freaking advance notice. There is no reason why they couldn't tell us what was going to happen today at Monday's rehearsal.

Oh yeah, there IS a reason...it's that THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR SHIT TOGETHER. Thanks, administration. Thanks, non-existent orchestra managers. I really wanted to have my evening wasted. I appreciate your thought and concern for everyone involved. Really. Thank you.