February 28, 2008

Bullfights On!

Well, LOOK WHO'S BACK IN HIS RIGHTFUL SPOT! As I promised Ari, Mr. Mika will be keeping his lovely bull forever and ever, but not in the state you gave it to him. He was very insistent on finding a way to preserve it so that it would weather the years, providing a new story that transcended even his fabled "Stupid Stick." So he laminated it (for framing it would have taken some patience and skill, the first of which Mr. Mika was not prepared for in his excitable state) and taped it up on the wall, much to the surprise of poor Daisy, who currently occupies the Bullfight seat.

The Story Behind Bullfights (not in the epic poem form, for the frustration would cause me to slaughter nonexistent creatures) : I was enrolled in Sociology second semester, taught by Mr. Mika, during 2nd period. On Tuesdays and Fridays, since Tati had Poli Sci 2nd period, she joined me there, and on Fridays, since she had Math 151 2nd period, Arielle joined us to boot. I was promptly assigned the "lightswitch" seat, where I had to turn the lights on and off at the bequest of Mr. Mika during his various media presentations. One day he asked me to turn the lights off and I replied "Both lights?" However, like I usually do, I spoke all too fast, causing Mr. Mika to hear me ask him the random question "Bullfights?"
Well, that certainly gave everyone a big laugh, especially Ari and Tati. In fact, they found it so funny, that Arielle spent a rather industrious 20 minutes or so to construct a bull head on lined paper, measuring very carefully, so that the light switches would be the horns. Mr. Mika loved it, and in his care for it, he removed it over the summer, so that the children that borrowed his room during that time wouldn't damage it. As sure as Mr. Mika is amazing, he lost it. In my despair, I finally sent the light switch measurement for Arielle to construct a new one, and that is what you see.

With Love and Bullfights!
- Zachary

4 comments:

Arielle said...

AWESOME!

Though I think you mean "request" not "bequest". I don't think the two are interchangeable.

Zachary said...

bah!

You're probably right.
Although, I'm not going to change it, otherwise people reading your comment after reading the original post won't understand the mistake.

Arielle said...

What! That's the weakest reason not to change something.

Anyway, for the uninitiated, The Stupid Stick is this irregular, hockey-stick shaped piece of plywood that has all of the stupid things anyone has said in his classes. I don't know how long it has been around, nor have I gotten close enough to it to read some of the choice idiocy that is recorded on it.

Zachary said...

no...no, the weakest reason is being too lazy to change it.

Yes, I actually am that, but I managed to think up a conceivably "better" reason.