How was Class Lunch? Where in the Milky Way and Malteser did you guys go to? Did everyone manage to sit together (i.e. a large enough table/camping out underneath an escalator) or did you guys break up into little cliques? Why is a group of friends called a clique? Who came up with such a strange term for it? Technically, every word can be considered odd, but clique should be especially so. It makes such a click-y sound. Is it because the group of friends 'click' with each other, and they decided click wasn't sophisticated-looking enough (not enough to warrant italics anyway) so they decided on clique? Clique, clickity-clique. I've never liked words like that very much: clique, stomach, chaos. Why? Why the strange pronunciation? Why kay-aws and not well, chaos?
Okay, I'm not that distasteful towards words like those now, but when I was younger I used to find them mildly disturbing and annoying.
(They still are. But I suppose one has to accept the intricacies of English.)
Malteser: now there's a lovely sounding word. (Not really.)
I somewhat liked yet disliked Founder's Day this year. And it wasn't because we didn't have cupcakes. (I didn't like them last year, as pretty as they were.) The idea of roping the Guest of Honour in with the performance was brilliant but the GOH herself came up with it. And the general rest of the performance was a little blah. (I'm sorry! And I really shouldn't comment since I probably can't up with anything better anyway, but still.) I think there should be more performances.
AND WHY WASN'T DEDICATION SUNG? We never sing it anymore ): Dedication's pretty powerful as a song tied to our school. It never fails to stir up love and loyalty and violent passion in me, even more than the school song does currently because we sing the school song too often for that. Few more years down the road and I'm sure both will spark off that weepiness within me, but for now, the school song's not very helpful.
On a brighter note, I click on you with my mouse! Click clique click!
(I chose a white mouse. I seem to remember Algernon being soft and white. I liked Flowers for Algernon a lot.)
(I need to put my liberal use to parenthesis to a stop. But asides are such fun. I just used another pair of brackets for this paragraph. Drat.)
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