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It may have been a post online or it may have been a person saying it to me in real life, but it was a few yers ago that I witnessed someone express that people don't use the word bogus as much as they should. Maybe it's just because I say bogus a lot so the people I talk to started saying it more just from hearing me say it, but I think people are saying bogus more. I'm definitely hearing the word bogus more than I was a few years ago. I'm happy about it, many things are bogus.

This week has been especially bogus for me. Yesterday we had an assembly for electing the student council for next school year and hearing their speeches, like the president and secretary and stuff for every class, but most of the positions only have one person running so they aren't even giving an opportunity to vote for that position. Which makes sense I guess but if we can't even vote for them why have a whole hour long assembly listening to their speeches? Also they made all the seniors go to the assembly even though we won't be here next year so it doesn't apply to us, since we're graduating.

Speaking of graduation, my band director really wants us to play pomp and circumstance for the ceremony, as well as the recessional and some other stuff before the ceremony. She also wants the choir to sing some stuff. But shes gotten confirmation from the principal for all the things she wants to do except for pomp and circumstance. So yesterday during the assembly I saw the principal and I talked to her and tried to convince her to let the band play pomp and circumstance and she kept saying stuff like how last time it wasn't very good or how pomp and circumstance goes on for the longest or whatever and then eventually she just said that it was the graduation committee's decision. So after the assembly I went back to my band director and told her about it and she said that when she went to the graduation committee, they said she had to talk to the principal. So it's one of those situations, where everybody tells you to ask someone else but nobody takes the initiative to actually be the one in charge of it.

So essentially, if the music at the graduation ceremony ends up how it seems that the principal wants it to, all of the music will be performed live except for pomp and circumstance, which will be a mediocre recording played from a PA system that nobody really understands how to make sound good. My band director decided that since pomp and circumstance is the most important song, if they won't let the band play it, the band just won't be there at all. She also told us not to bother the principal, but that we could sort of nudge teachers on the graduation committee toward letting us play. She told us which teachers are on the graduation committee and I have a lot of them, so I'm gonna tell them about that throughout the day today. I'm hoping that the band ends up playing pomp and circumstance though, because I would prefer it so much over a recording.