Chuck Taylors and The Pillows

Today will be good news day. I have a couple of things to tell you that made me very happy. First off, I received a letter for the promise scholarship yesterday. It is a scholarship set up by the West Virginia government that any high school senior with a gpa of 3.0 or above and at least a 21 on ACTs with a 19 in all the sub-scores would get their tuition paid for. Well, I have a 3.6 gpa and a 24 on my ACTs with a lowest score of 21, so I really qualified. That means that all I have need money for is room and board. Secondly, my school band(which includes me) received a rating of 1, the highest possible. We performed pieces with a difficulty of 5, one of the hardest out there. No other band performed two 5s, so we kinda scored the highest. To make us feel even better, our principal and vice principal walked into our band class today with a cake in hand. They told us how proud they were of us, and it made me feel really proud of myself. I know it was a group effort, but I really played a big part. I'm not trying to be conceded, but all my solos added together would probably be about the length of half of all of our music. I kinda carried us through half of it, not because I'm so great we had to get a 1, but because the baritone player would have to carry his or her band through the pieces. With that said, I also have a fun story. As stated previously, me and the rest of the high school band went to ratings yesterday. We ate at Wendy's in Chapmanville. If you remember, Wendy's is where I work. The Wendy's of Danville gets substitute managers from the Chapmanville Wendy's. I didn't think about this until I got off the bus and saw the vehicle of one of my past substitute managers. Nobody in band knew who I was talking about when I exclaimed, "Sherrie's here!" They thought I was really close to insane when I kept yelling, "Hey Sherrie," waving frantically to no avail. She was busy and was not paying any attention to me. When I get to the front of the line, she spotted me. We had a nice little conversation filled with "What've you been up to,"s and "Its been a while,"s. I'm glad I got to see her, she has always been my favorite manager, it was a lot to go through for a "hi" though. Later Days.