Kennel Slice-of-life

https://youtu.be/NJrAUuFZbn4
It felt a little weird to be asked to line up for wrist-bands. I thought that, since we were national champions we might let go of the juvenile queueing traditions and join the big boys with a more sensible system. But naw.
Maybe they make us wait in line so as to build anticipation, students talk to each other in line about sports or literally anything else, study, it's a kind of ritual rather than a security necessity. Anyway, I opted not to go for a wristband and am probably going to regret that for a minute.
Just a little planning and organizing would have gotten me and my friends much closer to Zag history, much deeper into the frenzy, so much more connected to the people around us, I feel like. Earplugs would have been nice, too, in hindsight.
Conformism is often spoken of as a failure to be individual and creative or worse a failure to be thoughtful. But it has been empirically proven that participation in activities in which the individual will is subsumed to the group effort increases feelings of belonging--and that might just be price of admission, ya know. I realize now it's a special kind of joy, a drug, watching sports--one I don't think I'll get quite as high off of ever again after this season is done.