Case 1: Dido. Her final speech to Aeneas is the most awesome thing in the entire epic. She basically calls him the son of a rock and a tigress, then orders him to go away, and says she hopes he drinks in his punishment on the sea. Then she declares that after she dies, she will always be there haunting him, and she'll make him pay, and that the rumor of his failure will reach her even in the depths of the Underworld. Very cool, and it's wonderfully easy Latin, too.

Case 2: my grade. Henry, Ally and I spent ninth period hanging long streamers in the entrance to the lounge, made of endless amounts of little 2-inch squares of wrapping paper samples left over from the Sally Foster fundraiser earlier in the year. For no reason at all other than that the area looked quite boring earlier, and now it looks cool. Yes. Stop staring at us like that. You can't deny it.

That is all you need to know.

~ ToM