I know, I know, terrible way to start an entry about the opening night of something like SING, but it's the mood at the moment.
The show itself went well. The acts though, they're just significantly less satisfying than the last two years. I mean, I saw all but 2 acts, and I didn't think that I saw 8 acts that were Pigskin material.
During our show I started hacking right before my solo, and sang the whole thing a little nastily. Luckily we wern't judged officially tonight, but we were judged by our peers...our peers being an amazingly large crowd of stuck-up sorwhores screaming for one another. *shudders* They really gave me the chills.
No really, I started my career at Baylor very open minded, but I very quickly became a sorority basher for obvious reasons (or rather, obvious to anyone familiar with the Baylor climate.) But I'd gotten over it through meeting some really awesome girls who happen to be sorority members. I now consider myself friends with at least one girl in each of the major sororities. And tonight I remembered why I hate most of their sisters. They're just so fake! Screaming encouragements to each other while whispering some of the most hateful things I've ever heard. Eck. I'd respect them 1000 times more if they'd just say, "Wow. That really blew." Or heck, kept their blabbing mouths shut for a while.
This is exacerbated by reading anon. posts on Baylorfans.com message boards. There are so many elitist ______ there who slam everyone's act but their own (thus, pretty easily identifying them.) There have been 5 or 6 (out of 500) objective posts which are respectible, but most is a flamefest, and a rather frustrating one at that. Goodness I hope we make pigskin, if only for being able to look at whatever untalented group of craptasticness we "steal a spot from" and offer them the same condolences that they'd offer to us.
I knwo, this entry is really bitter, I'm just tired of the drama. Grow up people, seriously. Rationality is the way to go, life is so much simpler that way. Don't fret about what your significant other is thinking about, accept the most simple explanation for their behavior, and work through it. Don't muse over things you can't control, it's wasted energy, pump it into things you can control!
Bagh, I sound like an 87 year old man just rambling at the kids. I'll sign off now. For those of you who would get all worried at an entry like this, don't. I'm a big boy.
~J