1 My, oh my!
2 They’re decorating the gym for BATTLE, which is the FANTASTICS of the Chill. This is actually coming to you LIVE.
3 I’ve been in the gym for a few hours.
4 The students are having a go at it. Their theme for all the calsses is The Seven Deadly Sins.
5 Each class is a different Sin, so it’s borderline saintly.
6 Naturally I can’t root for one team over another.
7 The Freshmen have adopted Pride as their theme, but the Sophomores are doing Envy, the Juniors, Wrath, and the Seniors, Greed.
8 The Freshmen have a story of a friend who becomes famous and leaves is forced to leave his friends behind.. The Sophomores are Captain Cosmic, a spoof on comic book heroes, one of whom gets the crook, the media attention, the girl and the glamour, while his sidekick, Galactic Boy never gets recognized, even when he has defeated an enemy on his own.
9 Envy.
10 The Juniors are doing a murder/revenge thing that is amazing to watch. As they put it in their program, “Our story begins with the powerful and mysterious Agent 09, a young girl sent on a mission to detain corrupt and ruthless crime boss, Mr. Capone. However, Agent 09 carries a more sinister grudge against Capone, since he is the man responsible for the death of her sister.”
11 Wrath.
12 And the Seniors are doing…
12 Pirates!
13 It’s been a lot of fun so far. I’m taking a break from it all and chillin’ in my office listening. to a hip-hop group called The Four Elements throwing down and gettin’ wid da mix.
14 Or something like that.
15 Anyway, these guys can flow, and they’re performing LIVE at lunch tomorrow.
16 Remember this is coming to all of you LIVE from the Chill-on-the Hill, and it will switch in just a moment.
17 (A moment passes.)
18 I find myself removed from all the crazy decorations, paint, dancing and just plain excitement to the comfort of my office up on the Hill. I was told around an hour ago that I need to make 850 programs, three pages, two-sided by the night’s end.
19 So as of this second, the copy machine she issa cooperating.
20 If I know copy machines, she no-uh gonna make it.
21 But it’s around 7:30 p.m. and I started this DN at 5.
22 And it’s quiet. I’m hoping it can run all this by around 8:15 because Nhat and Sunshine would like to get into the TOOOOOONDRA and go for some good ol’ Vietnamese Pho.
23 So I’m just tacking away, enjoying every moment of the students’ wild enthusiasm, just remembering those glory days of Pirates and other Short Works.
24 Ironically, the page that says “GREED” has a complete black background. Anyone who knows copy machines has a good idea what THAT means.
25 Toner issues.
26 But that’s what we important sorts need to deal with on the night before the biggest event of the year, barring graduation.
27 I’m loving it.
28 It’s calm right now.
29 (Time passes.)
30 I’m home now. It’s 1:35 a.m. and I just watched Ringo Starr really do a terrible job on Craig Ferguson but nobody cared because it was, well, Ringo.
31 The prediction about toner issues came to pass earlier. The copy machine just suddenly had toner issues, clicked off dead and never came
back.
32 Nhat called, and Jose, Peter, Sunshine and Nhat wanted to meet with me for Pho. I closed the gym somewhere around 10:30 and got to the place around 11.
33 The gym looked awesome.
34 I met those guys and we had some great laughs about old times, and now I’m home.
35 It’s 1:45 and I’m exhausted, but I had a fun night with those guys, who were as hilarious as ever.
36 So that’s it. We have Battle tonight and then I’m off for a good week.
37 See ya again.
38 Peace.
1 My, oh my!
