I have not been particularly prolific with the blogging because I am working on a top-secret Christmas gift that takes most of my computer’s resources. I’ll tell you about it after the 25th.
This has not stopped The Big M from being busy using his own computer’s resources, however, and tonight he discovered something alarming.
I’ll back up for a second. You may have noticed that this blog is more or less anonymous. I write that way because I like for Google searches to pop up information about me only from my professional career. I’ve been extremely glad that the Internet in its present form did not exist when I was in high school. God only knows what I would have put on there if it had. I said stupid enough things on the Prodigy forums that did exist at the time.
So what did The Big M discover? Apparently Google now has a way to search news archives. And my hometown newspaper has scanned articles from before the time of the Internet. From my high school days, to be precise.
I played basketball in high school. More accurately, I watched high school basketball from the comfort of a bench conveniently close to the sideline while wearing an itchy polyester uniform. I even lettered my junior year … because there were exactly five girls in my school who were decent at the sport and a sixth (me) who was willing to sub when needed (not frequently). So was this news article about my athletic glory?
Not exactly.
Perhaps it was about my glory as prom queen?
Wrong! I spent prom night in San Antonio partying with my friends.
My glory as valedictorian?
Nope. Just missed the top ten percent cut, actually. My class was full of crazy-smart academic types.
Tired of guessing yet?
It was about my glory days as a sp*mumble mumble*.
(speak up!)
I said, my glory days as a SPE*MUMBLE MUMBLE*!
(what?)
As a *cough* spelling *fake sneeze* champ!
(*facepalm*)
In honor of Google news, I present a new drawing:
Happy Thursday, everyone.
