A New Beggining

It's a new year here at Green Acres High and that means a new batch of freshman that need our warm, attentive, guiding hands in order to ease their transition into high school.  I am calling on my fellow seniors along with the Green Acres High juniors and sophomores to be a little extra polite to this year's freshman class.  After all, high school can be a scary place.

Just like every year at Green Acres High, Principal Michaels got the first day started off with a bang; and by that, I of course mean the annual Pep Rally.  Last year's student council President Harriet Lawler began the event.  Perfect, beautiful Harriet.  Her long, blonde hair blowing from a breeze that came from an undetermined source.  Harriet said that she would, once again be running for student council President and hoped for some friendly competition as opposed to last year when she ran unopposed, at least after her running mate Larry Floyd mysteriously disappeared.  Harriet received a standing ovation and there was not a dry eye in the house.  She then introduced Principal Michaels who kept his speech short and sweet.  He spoke in a calm monotone with no discernable expression on his face, "I am timeless.  I am literally a place without time.  You are so far beneath me you cannot even fathom it.  I am a broken clock-tower and you are the ants that circle below."  He then walked away from the podium which ended the rally.

In other news, Tuesday was bring your pet to school day for Mrs. Clayton's freshman algebra class.  I could not tell you what bringing dozens of animals to school grounds has to do with algebra, but we just have to have faith in the almighty Principal Michaels.  Most of the pets were nothing special.  Not to say that they were not particularly attractive or kind, they just did not do much to stand out from the crowd.  There were several dogs, a few cats, and even a bird or two.  By far the most interesting pet cropped up in Mrs. Clayton's sixteenth period class.  Jennifer Martinez stood proudly in front of the class holding a small bird cage.  Inside the cage was a being unlike any other; and really how do you describe something unlike anything else?  It was constantly moving, but when I say that I do not mean it moved around the cage.  It stayed in one spot but twisted and writhed and never held one shape for more than a moment.  Being a senior, I was not in the classroom at the time and am only describing what I have heard through second-hand reports.  Some students describe the creature as black while others say it is not black but without color and light and shade entirely.  Almost like a living black hole.  If it is living at all.  It was named Fluffy.  More on these stories as they develop...