Feature Article: Swan Song
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      Back in the beginning of the month, you may recall a News Boxer
about me writing for the school newspaper. The topic? Well, being the
iconoclast that I am, I can only claim proficiency in two subjects: the
ViewAskewniverse, and Anime. I call it iconoclasticism, some people call
it geeky, whatever.
     Anyway, that went off rather well. I wrote my article, typed in
changes made by the copy editors, and bang, that was done. BUT, they were
really short on staff that week, so they invited me to stay and have
complete control over my page. COMPLETE CONTROL. I chose what pictures to
use, where to place them, what the captions were, I even created the
banner picture myself (by splicing other pictures together, not by
drawing them myself). Alas, in the end, I had to cut some of my article
because it was too long, but you do what you have to...
     While I was there, the yearbook staff was also hard at work, making
sure our $60 yearbook would come out on time and look good. Course, they
wouldn't have been working so feverishly if they hadn't procrastinated...
Since I was there, I was called upon to save the yearbook several times.
Earlier, I had drawn a divider page for the faculty section (my own
homage to the X-Men), but when you stay in to the last moment, you get
the craziest jobs to do. I had to draw: a girl's-style lacrosse stick, a
caricature of the boy's spring track captain, several people in South
Park style, a thought bubble, and a fruitcake. It was really random.
     And that's when I figured, I will probably never work for a
Princeton High School thing again. It was kinda sad for me, like the last
day of some program. And it was. I'd been working on the school newspaper
for three years. and it was a goodbye. Ah, well.
     All good things...

News Boxers
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     - Been on spring break for the past week. But it's been really
rainy, so I haven't been able to do anything really exciting.
     - Working hard on the music video. Got about a minute done. only
4:46 to go...
     - Leaning towards JHU. It's far from where everyone else is going to
college, but it is a pretty good under grad school...
     - Okay, I'm leaving the U.S. on May 5th in the after noon, and I'll
be in Japan by May 13th, since that's the day of the wedding. So I'll
probably be in Japan like the 10th, the 11th? If there's anything you
want me to get any of you, let me know...
     - Got another ViewAskew shirt, but this one turned out to be a
rip-off! like $18 for a black T-shirt that only has RST Video in the
corner of the front. Urge to kill... rising...
     - Had a baby sitting gig on 04-20-2K for one of the weirdest kids
I've ever watched. He didn't want to play video games, he wanted to watch
ME play video games. So odd...
     - Today is my mother's birthday. Gave her a pot I made in crafts
class and wrote her a poem. She liked them both...

     Word to the wise, Public Radio can have some really cool stuff. I
was tuned in, trying to get a broadcast of Prairie Home Companion, and
they started talking about this commercial that's showing in Canada. So I
went to a web site, and I found a Quick Time movie of it and downloaded
it.
     It's absolutely hilarious. So here's what you do. Go to
     www.iam.ca/touts/rant.ghtml
     And then click "View the Rant" If you're a windows user, do a find
search for *.mov and then copy the Canadian movie into your hard drive if
you want to keep it.
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