Service First and Flash Videos-- Bother!
Sep. 3rd, 2005 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tabular_rasa| Your Blog Should Be Purple |
 You're an expressive, offbeat blogger who tends to write about anything and everything. You tend to set blogging trends, and you're the most likely to write your own meme or survey. You are a bit distant though. Your blog is all about you - not what anyone else has to say. |
| Your Band Name Is |
 The Heterophobic Fajitas |
| Your Fortune Is |
 Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands. |
Ew . . . lol . . .
| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
 Congratulations - you got 7 out of 10 correct! |
Well, I should hope so . . . but I would hazard a guess most actual citizens COULDN'T, lol . . .
| Your Outrageous Name Is |
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Whoa! How did they know???
| Your Mood Ring is Red |
 Energized Adventurous Ready to go |
Totally random . . .
 You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong. |
Your Rising Sign is Leo |
 You are confident, self-assured, and more than a little vain. And you have a flair for the dramatic - whether you're on stage or causing trouble. Your spirit can't stay in one place very long. You like to live in new places and travel the world. Cultured and sophisticated, you pride yourself on having good taste. You are an expert in art, music, food, and film. |
Maybe . . .
Today we did Service First-- we went to an *inner city* St. Louis school and did projects. Pssh, I can't believe these kids aren't priveleged-- or, at least, not when it comes to school. Okay, sure, their population is 90% minority and 95% on free/reduced lunch . . . but Roosevelt was an awful lot like that, too. Yet Roosevelt was nowhere near the quality of this school. It was really nice . . . very new (and not cheap, chinsy new, like the *new* Orchestra uniforms in 7th grade, and the *new* playground equipment they got in 6th grade at Roosevelt . . . ), very efficient and very clean-- and very well taken care of. There were murals (and we painted even more) and things-- it was just nice. Still-- it was fun, and, well, it's not like a richer school doesn't *deserve* service projects, pssh, lol . . .
Anyway, I was in a group that painted a mural on nutrition-- we painted the new Food Pyramid. We had the stairs and the new, crazy, arbitrarily-divided food groups, lol . . . and we painted it all very neatly. I got to paint the little dude climbing up the stairs, and everyone agreed mine was even better than the government-issued one on the picture, because mine was leaning forward, as if he were actually running-- really exercising. Everyone thought he looked really good ^_^ Then we wrote "Food Pyramid" in letters that were shaped like food-- a carrot on part of the F, two cherries on a stem for the O's, a green bean or pea pod for the stalk of the P, a banana as part of the Y, a piece of bread with the crust shape darker for the M (that was my idea ^_^), and a bottle of milk for the stalk of the last D. Everyone was really impressed-- and this is the thing that the kids are going to see every day . . . you know, the one thing they can stare at during that retarded *quiet time* ever school cafeteria insists on having just to exercise arbitrary authority, lol . . .
Another mural had subliminal messages in it-- they drew a Death Star in their solar system, made one of the stars a Jewish Star of David, and wrote all their names in the smeariness of the red and orange and yellow of the sun.
I kind of wanted to do a fish mural, too, but there wasn't time, lol . . . though I DID suggest to one of the groups to add a jellyfish, and they did . . .
I showed Lisa, Keith, Patricia, and Aniruddh a bunch of Flash videos the other day, like Bothering Snape (I and II), Snape's Too Sexy, We Like Tha Moon, Lobster Magnet, Stick Figure Romeo and Juliet (and, man, I actually got to see the whole thing at once, lol . . . because we actually have fast computers here!!! Lol . . . ), and The End of the World.
They all really liked Bothering Snape. Lisa and I walk around going "BOTHER!" all the time now, and Keith likes to just randomly say, "I am Snape, the Potions Master!"-- and we were rather hoping some kids would walk by (but, sadly, they weren't at school today, seeing as how it was a Saturday, lol . . . ) and he could say that at them.
Too bad Tiffany couldn't come . . . *sigh* . . .
Jessica, go be somebody in the von Brandt journal, lol . . .
