Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Confudgerum

I apologize for not writing as frequently as I used to. It seems back then I had more to say or had to use more words to say it. It is quite a sad thing when I actually have to do work for my classes. Overwork is not the only reason for lack of material. At first I blamed Bruce and the administration for all the school's problems. Now I blame them also for the lack of interesting school issues and events to write about. I have not seen Bruce speak once this year. The few words I do hear uttered from his mouth in his whale-like voice are "Where's your ID sir?" His once youthful energy, and more so, youthful ignorance led to all kinds of hilarious happenings. This has all been replaced with such emptiness, such despair. Perhaps the higher administration has drugged him sufficiently so that he may never embarrass himself again. (If Ritalin could only get the test scores of lower-income and minority students up...) Other reasons include that there has only been about 0.1 fights this year, and .03 of that was a time that this girl pulled out my weave and shit got real, and that less than half of us remember the way school used to be.

So, basically all I'm saying here is that I have nothing to say. I am going to see Bruce this weekend however, but not the one who barely exists in our school anymore; rather, the one who sings songs about Tom Joad.

ps: If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them.

pps: but then again, you could just write whatever it was that you wanted written.

ppps: ... and while you were at it you could write a few college application essays for me.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe,

You could write about how Williamsport is in correctional phase two. If the school doesn't start meeting requirements of the state (or at least improving), the state comes in and starts firing people right and left, changing everything around... I can understand Bruce's broken spirit. A) he was mocked at graduation (CHEESE??!?) and B) He has FAILED at getting the school to improve....