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It’s about that time. Tomorrow night aka Saturday night, at La Jolla High School (#werunlj), Bishop’s takes on Santa Fe Christian. The scouting report from head scout Balakay Dorvillier says, “They have one big dude but other than that they blow.” Come out to the game and get hyphy. The coaster will be rolling. Chad Raser is making his legendary comeback, and top recruit Chase Lauer is making his debut. It has been five weeks since the last home game, and I know y’all have been thirsty for some football. Be there because you’re my boy blue.
Shout Out
To Frank Sinatra, the greatest human to ever live and my #mancrushmondaythroughsunday.
Thanks Obama!
I have way too much homework and studying tonight. Thanks a lot Barack.
Poem of the Day
“Ozymandias” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
For added effect, listen to Bryan Cranston’s rendition of the poem on YouTube. Diehard Breaking Bad fans -- think about the connections this poem has to “Ozymandias,” the third to last episode of that amazing fifth season.
Senior Challenge
Don’t do anything this weekend. Unless, of course, you want to go to college. In that case, maybe you should spend a little time working on essays and such, but not too much!
Joke of the Day!
Cross Country.
Articles
Articles
An Arm and A Legacy
By: Dan Forssman (Man)
In the beginning of the year, all seniors were handed maroon folders filled with questions concerning our legacy. A couple of days ago, my advisor reminded us to complete the questions, which are months overdue. Because the folders are secretly packets in disguise, and nobody, especially not Mr. Pierce, likes packets, I probably won’t ever touch that maroon folder. However, I thought I would address the questions in the DU.
The initial prompt reads as follows: “You are beginning your senior year. When you leave Bishop’s in May, what do you want your legacy to be? What specific steps should you take to ensure that legacy?”
“I don’t know” would be my answer to both questions. At the end of year, we’ll think of some legacy to leave to the school, and it will probably be great. In the past, the seniors have left things like safe rides, and they have clearly had a positive impact on the community. But so far, I think we have far surpassed anything tangible that we could give to our school, without even thinking about our legacy.
We’ve installed an arcade basketball hoop in the rec room. We’ve broken two, and soon to be three, windows while using that hoop. We’ve pushed the speaker volume to the max, and we aren’t done yet. We’ve had ping pong matches so intense that the yells from the table far exceed Tripp’s ghetto music reverberating throughout the room. We’ve put a kiddy pool on the lawn and had a pool party on numerous occasions. We’ve mobbed field hockey, water polo, and volleyball games on the same day, in that same kiddy pool. We’ve played badminton on the quad… before noon. We’ve gone to the play. We’ve already booked our tickets in advance for the big PDG concert coming up. We’ve decorated the lawn Halloween style. We’ve played the ukulele at sunset, and not at sunset. We’ve emotionally scarred people who stepped on our lawn without permission. We’ve given up our sacred terrace for a better cause. We’ve spent more time sleeping in the rec room than doing anything in the library. We’ve never gone to a cross country meet, but that’s ok. We’ve had fun. And we’ve done it while keeping our grades up, working on college apps, and attending an incredibly challenging school.
We’ve made Bishop’s fun. And if that is all we leave this school with, I will be perfectly content. Right now, I don’t really care what our legacy is. I don’t even want to think about it. Because, at the end of the year, I know that we will have influenced every single student on this campus. We will have shown them how to enjoy themselves, how to live in the moment, and how to make the most out of this special experience. And that will be more than enough.
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