Weekly News Archive

September 14 (’03) – September 20 (’03)

This Just In: School Found to be Irritating

Juniors.

Rachel’s got it right.

last year was comfort and networking and making tangles for a mess we knew we wouldn’t get around to disentwining until now.

now is consequence. now is my year of productive insomnia.

Student organizers came in, after their absence managed to prompt the grudging admittance that we actually liked the things. They’re stupid and ridiculously campy, but the damned things are an anchorpoint of charm in the washing sea of unpleasantries, and in all honesty, you really do forget things when you don’t write them down.

Pick up the suckers anytime this week at the theater steps. They’re handing them out like candy, but if you take more than one… actually, go ahead. What the hell are you going to do? Invest it?

Yellow this year, red last year, and before that, yellow again. This can only mean one thing: Next year, the organizers will be pink.

The back-cover quote is from the good Cesar Chavez:

“The end of all education should surely be service to others.”

To which I can only recommend that you find a permanent marker and add the missing word:

“The end of all education should surely be a service to others.”

Hear, hear!

What? Of course I’m busy.

If you’re planning to take the PSAT this year — sophomores and juniors, generally — you need to speak with Mr. Ward in H308, lunchtime or before school. October 13th is the deadline for the October 18th test; chat with Ward for details and bring $22 cash for the fee.

Just to keep you in the proverbial loop, the most immediate things on the agenda for the site are: (1) Updating the Contact page; (2) Adding a few Features that I’ve got floating around; and (3) Creating an automatically-updated section of the site wherein the daily bulletin will be posted as soon as it’s released. This last is a recent idea of mine, but something of a no-brainer; the bulletin is dull, but because it’s the only real means of official information dissemination, half of the news that gets to the front page of the site is leeched from there. Those bits of data do need to be on the site, since the actual paper bulletin can be very hard to track down, but for me to painstakingly extract the pieces I deem to be important is not a good solution.

So that will perhaps be done. Stand by.

In the beginning, Man stepped forth upon dry land, raised his heart toward the heavens and asked, “What am I?”

And God said, “Thou art a ninja.”

And the pirates, they killed him and they ate him.

Yargh.

— Brandon