Flexion contracture

Ok so it's after 10AM and I'm blogging which means..... I'm not where I'm supposed to be; at the hospital. Shall I explain?

It's been a very long few weeks and I'm exhausted, but that's not it. It looks like we out to get some cussing from the consultants on the ward round this morning, but that's not it. I can barely move;...; BINGO!!!

Early Monday morning I was rudely awakened by a severe muscle contraction in my right calf. My right leg of its volition was twisting the rest of my body so awkwardly and painfully into a pretzel. I got up and worked it out. Early this morning my left leg followed suit. I am now hobbling around..... actually I was in bed afraid to move in any particular direction as both legs warned "seh feh!"

Standing on a 2 hr ward round and then 2 hrs in clinic in morn and then 3 hrs in afternoon don't sound like it going to work out. So I am being selective today. I'm always a threatener of school skulling not a true participant in the exercise............ at least not for my own reasons (sole beneficiary is me). So this experience is weird. Was gonna try and convince myself to skull Thursday but I have exam that day so it would be quite daft of me to do something like that.

Clique-ism in the band.

That's to be expected as sections spend a great deal of time with each other. It can be said to be forced as sections get blamed for mistakes, not individuals. The cellos have been called a clique and the basses a Garrison community. We resent that because we believe we are more like an organization (so is the mob). We may not know each other's business (like the seconds) but when we welcome you to the fold we taking care of you. Full bass priviledges. You hungry? We buy you food or share ours with you. We'll buy you liquor and share ours with you. One beer left? We'll call you to see how far away you are so we know whether to put your share in the fridge or leave it out. Either way you are getting some. We come in for section practice and work out our bugs. Any mistakes made in a song we deal with lovingly. We no bark afta no bass. Dat is hooliganism not bashmentism. Unification wi deal wid not divisim.

Yu skin haffi tick bad fi survive pon bass cause we will mix you up wid teasin; but mek a nex section try jump in pon it and we dun dem like rice....damn nufff!! A bass bring fan come a pan yaard and a bass bring fridge. We put up panny. We supply di liquor. We invent di drinks combo, we bring di vibe and hype, we keep it tight, we memba fi clean di pan yard come duty time an we no lef no food in deh fi dog puss roach lizard and ants come tek up!!

The fact of the matter is that we get along well together. We're all fairly busy and know that its counter-productive to come pan come malice anyone; worse in our own section whom we have to spend so much time with. So we strive to get along together as best as possible in the situation. A divided section cannot play together very well and for very long. We look around at each other and feel where the rest of the section is so that we are in synch as best as possible. Though each of us could shine as an individual player, we don't try to over-shadow the section. So some have to tone down and some have to step up. We develop healthy competition goals to help us to alwasy strive to do our best as a section. If it means we have to pick on the DTs or the DSs, it's just one of those things and we mean no harm. In all that we keep it real.

LADIES and GENTLEMEN.....INTRODUCING THE BASHMENTBASSES!!!!!!