You know you're a band geek when.....

1.  You start having dreams about band.

2.  You dream about your band director yelling at you because you fell asleep on the field.

3.  you aren't scared to say you are a band geek.

4.  you become a section leader.

5.  you spend all of your spare time in the ensemble room at school.

6.  you realize that over half of your friends are in band.

7.  you start to mark time in the hallway.

8.  you use the word "band" in nearly every sentence.

9.  you start humming the songs and don't realize it until a friend tells you what you are doing.

10.  you are bothered when you aren't in step with someone when you are walking down the hallway with them. 

11.  you enjoy band camp.

12.  you look forward to going to band every day after school.

13.  you tell everyone that you are in the band.

14.  you talk to your band director like he's your best friend.

15.  You stay in step with every song that you hear during the school day. 

16.  Your boyfriend/ girlfriend is in the band, and they play the same instrument as you do.

17.  you begin to enjoy band.

18.  you don't feel ashamed to be in band.

19.  you can't wait to get a solo.

20.  you can't wait until band season comes again so you can fail all your classes and tell your teachers that you didn't have time to study.

21.  you can't wait until the football games every friday.

22.  you can't go out on the weekends when a non-band friend asks you to because you are involved with band.

23.  you go to concerts to get extra credit in concert band.

24.  you try out for jazz band.  And when you don't make it, you try out for the next best thing, Lab band.

25.  you think it's fun to stay after school on a friday and hang out with band people until the football game.

26.  you carry your hatbox around school all day to show everyone that you are in band.

27.  kids start laughing at you every time you say the word, "band."

28.  band becomes your whole social life.

29.  you begin to participate in all the band events.

30.  you get mad when you get a lower score than Red Lion.

31.  you take an eight to five step without yardlines.

32.  you start to secretly like basics.

33.  you attend leadership conferences.

34.  the jokes you tell involve band practice, instruments, or marching.

35.  you have fun at the band competitions.

36.  you laugh histerically in the middle of a pep rally because the person next to you wacked someone in the head with their instrument while attempting a four count turn. 

37.  over half the people on your buddy list are band friends.

38.  you label your buddy list as "band geeks."

39.  you want to play the same instrument as your brother/sister.

40.  you can't wait to be in high school just so you can be in the band.

41.  you can't wait until every person in all of your classes knows that you are in band.

42.  your brother introduces you to all of his band friends and that makes you want to be in band even more!  (this only happened once, when i was in middle school....) 

43.  you go into gym class and don't have sneakers.  So, you run to the ensemble room and get your BAND shoes and wear them for gym class.

44.  you use the ensemble room as your locker.

45.  you become a quartermaster.

46.  you want to try out for drum major.

47.  you forget to take off your kazoo and walk around the school with it on becuase one of your friends dares you to.

48.  you march your heart out at a performance.

49.  you dance in the stands with your uniform on.

50.  you sing to super band.

51.  you go to the BAND halloween party.

52.  you do your homework in the ensemble room before school.

53.  you join concert band.

54.  you know you are a band geek.

55.  you know you are short and can't make the sets, so you practice taking big steps at home.

56.  you download the songs you perform and listen to them all the time.

57.  you squeeze toothpaste in the hallway(if you know what i mean, you are a true band geek). 

58.  if you can relate to almost everything on this list.

59.  if you aren't in color guard and you are thinking about trying out for indoor colorguard. 

60.  when you talk about the color of your kazoo during band practice.

61.  you wear the new band shirt to a birthday party.   (And then you change into anoter shirt, also a band shirt, because you don't want to get the new one dirty from shaving cream battles)

62.  you have a birthday party and almost everyone at the party is in band.

63.  you get lots of candy grams from people at competitions.

64.  you decide that a football game is more important than trick-or-treating.

65.  you decide you are going to make band tee-shirts that have different sayings and such on them and wear them during championships week.

66.  you take a pair of pants and put the last year's band show on them and wear them during band camp.

67.  you are silent during the silet rehersals.

68.  when you actually look into the headlights at band practice (those of you who know what i mean, you are a true band geek).

69.  All of your friends are in band.

70.  you sit with only band kids at lunch

71.  you make lists for other people on telling them ways that you can annoy them.

72.  you talk about band practices that you had the day before.

73.  you have two boom-boxes on one bus.

74.  you have lots of fun in band.

75.  you start to understand Mr. Powers.

76.  you engage in silent practices.

77.  all of your best experiences happen on the band bus.

78.   you start to realize your whole life revolves around band.

79.  your friend finds out your locker combination and stick balloons in it with signs saying how much she loves band.

80.  a friend makes you paper puzzle and you decide to hang it in your locker.

81.  the lists that a friend makes for you about band are hanging in your locker.

82.  you chant steak after every practice.

83.  you want to earn steak squad.

84.  you like going to the football games to play the music in the stands.

85.  you don't care if people make fun of you because you are in band.

86.  you talk to your other band geek friends on how you like to be considered a band geek.

87.  you make faces of clowns in your leftover chocolate mousse pudding.  For those of you who understand this, may God saves us all......

88.  you get in a shaving cream battle and there is enough shaving cream on your shirt to draw pictures of clowns.

89.  you make fun of people who aren't in band.

90.  you find yourself singing Karn Evil #9 everywhere you go.

91.  you hum yourself to sleep with band music.

92.  you talk about band 24/7.

93.  you watch the movie Chicago and know which songs you play in concert band and your friend makes fun of you when you start to sing to the songs.

94.  everyone in a buddy chat happens to be band people and you don't realize it right away.

95.  you talk about how much you are going to miss band.

96.  how much you are going to miss all of your senior friends in band next year.

97.  you tell your senior friends they could never be replaced by anyone else.

98.  you try to fit 5 band geeks in a 3 person tent....those of you who understand this are true band geeks.

99.  you bring a notebook to a sleepover to write down stuff about band geeks.

100.  you eat  7 bags of cotton candy at Open Gym and don't get sick.

101.  you sit in a bathroom stahl and talk about band geek things. 

102.  you write a paper on band geeks.

103.  you associate the movie "Finding Nemo" with "Faces of a Clown" field show because it has a clown fish in it. 

104.  you find time to cry on the band bus because your day completely stinks.

105.  you go to the band open gym and you get willed the trumpe section next year if you don't become a drum major.

106.  you will stuff to other people when you are a senior.

107.  you have a freshman band buddy.

108.  you join a chat room named "band geeks"

109.  everyone in the chatroom is bnd geeks.

110.  you go to Friendly's in your band pants.

111.  you go to Friendly's in your band pants with other band geeks.

112.  while you are at friendly's in your band pants and w/ other band geeks, you tell your waitress you are band geek.  She responds by saying all of her friends are band geeks, but she isn't.

113.  you see other band geeks when you go to Friendly's.

114.  you get a balloon when you go to friendly's and draw a picture of a clown on it.

115.  you draw a picture of a clown on a napkin and ask to hang it up somewhere in Friendly's.  Surprisingly, the waitress lets you.

116.  you try to order clown ice cream(those of you who understand this are true band geeks).

117.  you go to a birthday party, and everyone there is in band.

118.  you talk about being a band geek at the party.

119.  you can't find your gloves so you take yourband gloves out of the drawer and wear them somewhere.

120.  you hear the song Pagliacci on a tv commercial and start humming along w/ the song.

121.  you play old band songs at a birthday party.

122.  you get willed things from seniors at the fun night.

123.  you can't wait until you are a senior so you can will things to underclassmen.

124.  you somehow relate breakfast foods to clowns.

124.  you try out for jazz band.

125.  you make it into jazz band and get really excited.

126.  you go to the band banquet

127.  you take lots of pictures.

128.  you cry because all of your senior friends are leaving you.

129.  you won the centerpiece on the table.

130.  you get mad when you don't earn steak squad.

131.  you take lots of pictures of the band.

132.  you put a picture of yourself in your funny halloween outfit and give it to the drum major to put it on the band video.

133.  you jump from table to table at the banquet.

134.  you get tons of pictures at the banquet.

135.  you get sad when you realize you have one more year of band left.

136.  you want to study music when you get out of high school.

137.   your pj's consist of a band shirt and band shorts.

138. you go iceskating with band kids.

139.  you wear band socks when you go ice skating.

140.  you try to wear your band gloves, but when you brought two right handed gloves and can't wear them, you are upset.

141.  you sleep over at te main drum major's house.

142.  you hang out with other band geeks for 5 hours.

143.  you watch Finding Nemo and talk about how it relates to "Faces of a Clown" Field show.

144.  you talk about your band geek list and how many things you have on it with another band geek and see what else you can add to the list.

145.  you want to become a drum major next year.

146.  you are already practicing your directing so when tryouts come in the spring, you will be prepared.

147.  you tell the current drum majors to put in a good word for you to be a drum major next year.

148.  you watch band videos from previous years.

149.  you get out of school for a jazz band gig.

150.  you wear a suit to dress like everyone else in the band.

151.  you know that before you even perform you are going to be lousy because you haven't practiced enough.

152.  you make a band geek list.

153.  you update the band geek list nearly every day.

154.  you have done everything on this list or can somehow relate to it.

155.  you are a band geek.

156.  you are in Marching band.

157.  you wish marching band was all year round.

158.  you are thinking that Drum Corp would be interesting....

159.  you start to make fun of people who aren't in band.

160.  you begin to play your instrument at home.

161.  you start to PRACTICE!