Pranks Anyway

For reasons that are clearly beyond my feeble brain, the school permits, almost sanctions, a senior prank day. It's always annoying, which is the point I suppose, but this year it was beyond annoying. I'm not a big fan of a "kitchen sink" approach to most anything, and pranks are no exception. Pick a theme and go with it, don't throw in every semi-funny idea that somebody comes up with. The unfunny stuff pretty much canceled out the clever parts.

It was also pi day, 3/14, so we had pie in math class today. It worked out very nicely, because we were talking about direct and inverse variation, and I could point out that there was an inverse relation between the number of students in a class and how much pie each one got, and nobody even groaned at me about it, maybe because they were too busy eating.

I just heard a Jonas Brothers song on the radio. Eeeew. I know that pop music is by definition emotionally manipulative crap, but please. You may be trying (really really really hard) to sound heartfelt, but you're a Disney boy band. Fortunately, it was followed by Low by that Florida guy. That song's almost as much fun as Rompe, which is saying a lot.

Those of you who know me are aware of my low opinion of the current popular music, and I don't want to go on about it too much, but here is my paraphrase version of every rap song

I am good-looking
You are good looking, especially your rear end
You dance
I am somewhere else watching you dance
I want to have sex with you
I know you really want to have sex with me too even though you aren't saying so
I really do like your rear end

Yawn.

Some other time I'll give my paraphrase of every Rihanna/Beyonce song, which along with rap constitutes 80% of what's on the radio.