#84: Dawn and the School Spirit War, part 3

[glitterberrys]

7-9 ahead. This book is insane. I love it.

Comments

[lionessvalenti]

Recap SJA for sure. :D

You know what I love about Alan Gray? You know he doesn't give a crap about school spirit, he's just taking the opportunity to be an ass. He was probably planning on lobbing Dawn with the water balloon before she even came in with the petition. I'm surprised Cokie Mason isn't being pointedly pro-School Spirit just because Dawn's so vocally against it.

Geez, how hard would it have been for the faculty to make an announcement saying that school spirit events are not mandatory, and students harassing each other for participating or not participating with be punished?

There are only half a dozen fat people in Stoneybrook. Everyone is supposed to be athletes or have speed-of-light metabolisms. I can't blame Dawn for not knowing to react when she sees one. We're alien creatures, you know.

[otter_pants]

I remember a kid in sixth grade launching forkfuls of tuna at the wall. That was the closest thing to a food fight I ever witnessed.

[fisher_queen]

Ah food fights. I was part of one once. That is, I grabbed my tray, put it over my head and ran towards the stairwell thingie in our cafeteria because there was no way I was getting covered in gravy for the rest of the school day. After this, the entire grade was punished by having assigned tables forever. I can't even remember how the hell they enforced this but it was a fairly small school in the middle of a cornfield, not apparently like SMS.

Also, Dress Like A Teacher Day makes me go wtf.

[frankdbunny]

Why must the small children make picket signs for every occasion?

Some of my favorite words:

anaphylaxis
apoplectic
syzygy
synesthesia
queue

I'll add more to list as I think of them :)

[kakeochi_umai]

I have fond memories of "syzygy" because when I was a kid I had one of those toy computers where you put in a word, press enter and give it to someone else to guess what you wrote, and if you get more than 10 letters wrong you lose, kind of like an electronic hangman. When my dad noticed that I always started with the vowels, he wrote "syzygy" to fuck with me. XD

I can't think of any other words I like in English at the moment, but my current favourite word in Japanese is "kyoudou unkou bin" (codeshare flight) because if you pronounce the "unkou" part wrong it becomes "shitshare flight". I also like the word "kouchi shuushoku" (grammatical term referring to clauses that start with "who" or "that" or "which", eg "Dawn is a girl who likes to squawk about things that really aren't that big a deal" or "Mary Anne has issues that she really should see a therapist about") because it reminds me of this one teacher I worked with who I liked.

[frankdbunny]

I always start with the vowels too. Syzygy would totally kill me.

[violetsare_blue]

"Syzygy" is the title of a very cool X-Files episode about two teenage girls who get telekinetic powers and go all Carrie on their town.

[carey_pontmercy]

My favorite words are "ostensibly", "loam", "anathema", and "cascade".