sheer potentiality

My prediction for the Apple Cup was 24-21 Washington State. Instead, it was 29-26 Washington. The Huskies won the game in triple overtime by recovering a fumbled backward pass by Kegel.

That’s right. Kegel. Some junior who happens to be the backup quarterback. He was in because Jason Gesser, the finest quarterback the Washington State Cougars have ever had, was sacked and injured.

I’m not bitter about it. Just disapppointed. I really wanted to see WSU go to the Rose Bowl, but that won’t happen this year. The Huskies won fair and square. Though I am comforted by the thought that there was only one thing that allowed the Huskies to win, and that was the injury to Jason Gesser. WSU could have still won the game without him, but if Gesser was still in, the game would have been won by the Washington State Cougars. There is no doubt in my mind that that is what would have happened.

Oh well. There’s still the Green Bay Packers.

Okay, I’ll relate to you an experience I had today at school.

My current schedule looks like this:

1. German III-IV

2. AP Contemporary Issues

3. AP English

4. Honors Chemistry

5. Astronomy

6. Math Analysis

I want my schedule to look like this:

1. Math Analysis

2. AP Contemporary Issues

3. AP English

4. Honors Chemistry

5. Astronomy

6. German III-IV

Now you think it’d be a simple thing, right? Same courses, just two of them in a different order. Right? Right?

Wrong. Rat-Tail Wishik (my guidance counselor) informs me that if I want to change this now, and not in February, I have to get the OK of the principal. So I take my note down there, signed by both teachers involved. You’d think she’s nod and sign off. Right? Right?

Wrong! She tells me I have to get the green form from Rat-Tail Wishik. So I go back, and Rat-Tail Wishik says that I probably shouldn’t need it, but guess who’s in charge. Right, the principal. So the green form stands.

So now I have to get the signatures of both department chairpersons, one of my parents, Rat-Tail Wishik, and the principal. All these important procedures in place to make sure of what? What? That students don’t change from class to class frivolously.

But hey! I’m not changing my classes at all! No! Only what period I’m taking the classes I already have. Same teachers, same classes, just different periods.

So, yes. If I’m ever the principal of a high school, I’ll write a specific rule for this situation. And until then, I’ll vent on my blog about the administration.