Concert weekend! Woo!

Band concerts, while they *do* take up a lot of time, make my life happy. Last night W.E. did really well as a group...today, not quite as much, but I did better personally. And today I got to see Symphonic Band, and they were pretty darn good! =]
Last night was the WCCB Halloween party and it rocked. Sarah loaned me her quidditch robes that she made a while back and I stole a broom from Vollmer ground (since they lock our supply closets...) and she went as a Hogwarts student in her normal robes with her conducting baton as a wand and people kept telling the both of us we looked like Hermione. So I became action figure Hermione (complete with a broom from Barbie's supply closet) and she was academic Hermione and Sarah discovered that she could pop balloons with her baton so towards the end of the party Lourey recorded us having contests where we took turns throwing and popping the balloons and it was pretty much hilarious! We were doing that for around a half hour I think...eventually we ended up in the lobby instead of the band room and we took turns throwing the balloons and each other from the balcony. Best Halloween party ever! =]
Today has been OK so far...the band concert was good. But I have been rather homesick. I'm better now than I was earlier, but still...I haven't been home since the end of August and I won't be until Thanksgiving...even calling home every day, it's hard to be so far away for this long. As long as I have a car next year, I'm probably going to go home over fall break (I was considering just hanging around here to save even a little gas money as it's going to cost so much next year).
Sometimes I feel like I'm a bit of a doormat...like I should stick up for myself more...which I know in the past I really have been one huge doormat, I'm at least a little better about it now. I just wish I'd think of things to say when they happened instead of a half hour later. By that point it's normally all water under the bridge and I'm not brooding over trivial things.
I'm not looking forward to tomorrow at ALL. For IS 201 (a diversity gen ed requirement...yahoo) we're going to an Islamic center in Waterloo for a field trip. (class has been mercifully canceled on Tuesday! Yay!!!) But. Our prof is requiring all the females to wear head coverings. Because apparently we can't be respectful of them with our heads uncovered. The guys aren't being asked to do anything different at all...just us girls and when we were making that point in class the prof just got flustered and went on a huge rant about the different roles men in that culture have. Which they have different roles. That's a given. He was completely ignoring our point that we're the only ones being singled out because of something beyond our control when the entire point of that class is to get us to stop singling others out for things like race or gender and such. Oh and because I don't have anything to cover my head with (other than a hat, which is unacceptable) he's supplying the head covering (for the rest of the class, too). THAT'S exciting....I'll just be glad when the trip is over and done with. And the class.
My tattoo has finally entirely healed! YAY! I am so excited! Up until now the hearts have been peely and not really the right color...but they've darked up from a pink and non existent orange to their original bright red and bright orange. =D Happiness.
I think that's about all that's been going on as of late...I should do some homework before Desperate Housewives is on. I need to do laundry sometime, too.