I was waiting all night to get the Met Life order and seeding, it happened around 4:30am. I expected our performance at MetLife to be around 7pm but was thrilled that we were on closer to awards, performing at 9:30pm. I was wired and up for the day. Then I went ahead and put up the leadership team as well just so that we wouldn't lose the rehearsal tonight with everyone flipping out and getting nervous. When I put up the schedule I deliberately took the link off the top menu to see how long it would take for someone to figure it out. Since we are all geniuses (I include myself) here at Roslyn I figured, by 2nd period, Symphonic Band, people would have figured out how to find it, either by googling roslyn band leaders 2014, or going through the back door to the site map. I thought that it was pretty obvious, since the leadership team was omitted from the top menu. Then came Symphonic Band 2nd, nobody knew. I was shocked. Then onto Wind Ensemble 4th period, nobody figured it out. Wow. I walked through the halls to see if anyone got it, nobody smiling, coming up to me, nothing, just the regular "hi". Then finally, at 1:15, between 7th and 8th period, a bunch of people ran to me in the hall in front of the guidance department and told me that everyone knew their leadership positions. Finally.
So now we all know. I will make the link available in the top menu right now. I will still announce it tonight, without all the suspense or the drama. I will announce it to celebrate all the new positions. Yes, I created some new ones, we had some great guard people who scored in the top 20 and I needed to find places for them and by the way, I think that a Colorguard President and CEO are brilliant additions to the Colorguard here at Roslyn. In addition, I was excited to be able to not only get the top 20 positions but went down to 32, that was totally a surprise for me when I went to double check if all the top 20 were in.
I am sorry we do not have 107 positions for everyone in the band but for now, giving 31% of the band members positions is about as high as we can go.
Congrats to everyone who got something and to everyone else, keep on working to get those points and practice!
