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Freakin' crazy week!

This seems so weird to be sitting a computer again. The last week (starting from tuesday) has been pretty fricken AWESOME!
To begin with was the hiking trip that scotty fudge and I went on, scaling the heights of Mt Feathertop. Hopefully fudge will make a post and upload the picture of scotty's frozen hair, that was fantastic.
It was a damn cool trip, weather was pretty good for the most part, except for thursday morning when it was foggy so we couldn't see anything from the summit, but it was awesome anyway. The wind blew like a gale and with wind chill the temperature must have been a reasonable amount below zero. As I said before scotty's hair froze up there, along with all the grass on the wind-swept side of the mountain (which had horizontal icicles frozen onto it).
Sausage rolls never taste so good as when you've hiked 40 or so k's and have been eating canned spaghetti and "velish!".
There were also petrol issues :p on the way home, but we're here aren't we?
Then on thursday I was up at uni working on my crazy design project. The little contraption is pretty much finished now, just have to get the program right. The circuitry all seems to be hooked up right and doing what the program is telling it to do, just have to get the timing right, and maybe make minor changes to the mechanical parts if it doesn't quite work right. Its pretty cool looking though, its a big lego contraption with conveyer belts and wooden arms and string and a big battery, a circuit board and wires sticking out all over the place. Highly professional. I think we've done well with it, I imagine we'll pass even if it crashes and burns just because it looks like a worthy effort. Though thats not going to happen!

Then on thursday evening I left for BAND CAMP!!!
I have to say, it was awesome fun. They're all great people and it was fun hanging out with a bunch of musicians for two days. Some of them are so good its not fair! The past president was there, at about 2 am he and a bunch of others were having a huge jam session in one of the rehearsal rooms (a big shed). Sure, individually their parts may not have been hugely hard but they were able to tell each other the key of something and then just play that song, it was highly impressive (They were mostly from MOJO, the jazz group, who are highly pro and good at improv and rocking out). I whipped out my electric viola and joined in a bit, but I couldn't really keep up. They knew the songs and had played them some time in the past I think and I have had only a tiny bit of experience with improv. My viola makes a fairly mean electric bass though.
I havn't had much sleep in the last few days actually, I think it's starting to get to me. The night before last at about 1am-2am a whole group of us string players jumped into the shed and had our own little jam session. We sounded pretty damn good too considering that we were all sight reading. We played a few classical things and also some celtic stuff, very epic sounding. I've never player with a group of string players who were so talented, so it's been nuts. Considering the turnout we had in the middle of the night I'll have to make sure I do a good job organising actual rehearsals for us. I think I have it under control.
We spent most of the days practicing in our various main groups, (the society has 3 main ensembles) which is part of why we were rocking out in the middle of the night. There was also drinking and other frivolity, so it was interesting. Wasn't as crazy with the drinking as an engineering function or something would be, but this was better I think. I didn't wake up with hangovers at least. I did learn an interesting card game which I shall have to show you all some time, its very cool.
It was fun too cause I got to know my fellow viola players pretty well, they're cool (there are 6 or so of us, its unnatural!) we had good fun. Of course I got to know other people in the society too but I wasn't sitting next to them for most of the day. Last night was theme night too, "black and white" was the theme. That wasn't adhered to very well for the most part but a few people had interesting costumes. Me, I had a black kung-fu sort of outfit on, was kind of fun to walk around in. The other one of note was Cat's outfit (viola player and commitee member in charge of social things, ie it was her effort that made the camp happen really) She had a white dress with black musical notes and an ALTO CLEF (Yeah thats right all you sissies who play with strange illogical clefs).
Ok, I'm a little disoriented for going back to uni tommorow. I feel like I havn't been there in so long. I know I have things due tommorow but I'm having diffuiculty remembering what. I know I've done them though.
I've never played music so much before, it was kind of nuts. I think I might be getting some of my skill back though.
There's just random music and crap all flying through my head now, its messed up!
ROCK ON!