I can hardly wait to see the Gospel Choir again in two weeks.

So another one of those famous MLK Day assemblies took place today. This year's edition was a cheap sequel of last year's; same speaker, same message, same songs. Oh, well. It was almost worth the shortened classes.
As soon as I walked into the auditorium, I heard Mr. White warning students about the dangers of electronic devices (I heard later that he and Mr. Hudson confiscated upwards of 25 of these dangerous mind-polluting items). Mr. White then pleaded with students to sit down, eventually growing very angry because he couldn't get everyone to sit down. Luckily, though, the state of anger is when Mr. White is at his best, grammatically speaking. "We have visitors that's in the audience and that's on stage!" he exclaimed.
He even threatened to dismiss the assembly at one point because students were becoming too unruly (or something like that; I was too busy being unruly to pay attention). Unfortunately, though, he decided that the show must go on.
Eventually, things calmed down; lucky for us, Mr. White still had an adrenaline rush, and continued speaking. "Thank you for all the people who are put on this show." Thank you, Mr. Principal, sir! I think!
We then got to the music portion of the program. The jazz band was excellent, with Tim van Riper and Jenny Herzog singing, both of whom sounded great (clearly the high point of the assembly). Then we got to the always-popular Gospel Choir. Um. . .well, at least they got to use the same songs as last year, so they didn't really mess up too much. . .
Then, of course, Mr. White told us that we deserved applause for how well we conducted ourselves during the assembly, apparently suffering from a disturbing case of amnesia. Someone should really check on him.
We then returned to our classes and, at least for me, third hour started. The announcements went on for a good ten minutes, and Mr. White decided that seven minutes was much too long for us to go without the soothing sound of his voice. He made an announcement having something to do with hats, I believe. . .just another one of his "Good morning, students, I just thought I'd tell you that the rules are, in fact, still in place" announcements. And then he reminded us how proud he was of all of us. I don't know about you, but it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.