senoritafish | trivia, trivia...

My project is having a staff meeting next week and since we have quite a few new people, we've all been asked to "put together a single paragraph about YOURSELF; your education, history with the Department, likes, dislikes, and something nobody else knows about you, sort of a "stump the band" trivia factoid...."

Something nobody knows about me....hmmm. Chances are, if you don't know it already, I probably don't want you to know. What to say, what to say?

Maybe this...

I played alto sax starting in fifth grade until through community college. At Orange Coast College, the band that played at all the football games etc. was called Band X: the World's Largest Non-Marching Marching Band. Our fearless leader like to say that we were the only marching band accepting disabled musicians because we were quite proud of Not Marching (we never had any, but we could have). At games we sort of danced onto the field at half-time (we had bumper stickers that said "Why march when you can boogie!") and in parades, we sat in folding chairs on the flat beds of two semis moving in parallel down the road. The two songs I most remember playing were "Birdland" and a medley of "Pinball Wizard/Evil Ways," which we'd start by the director yelling "Pinball Evil!!!" It was quite refreshing after four years of traditional marching band.

I always wanted to join the Marching Lumberjacks after I transferred to Humboldt State, which was similarly informal, but could never manage to fit them in. They had a reputation for being an excuse for rowdy drinking anyway.

I guess that's harmless.