Good Ideas - Volume 1

So, I like to start new features in my blog all the time. This one is called 'good ideas' where I will post fun, positive, spontaneous ideas that I think are.... good.

The Twister Binder

I think that my amazing graphic design skills say it all. Do you have an old twister board lying around? Poke a hole in a binder, shove the board into the plastic covering, insert spinny-thing and.... Voila! You have a twister binder. When faced with a dull moment (such as an awkward silence) simply spin the spinner and whatever color it lands on, everyone around you has to touch something that color! INSTANT FUN!!!

DJ Roomba

This one comes to us from an awesomely funny TV show, Parks and Recreation. Also pretty simple: put an iHome on a roomba and then it's like a robot cleans your house for you while blasting out the jams of the Black Eyed Peas. If I had roomba or an iHome, I would totally do this. I think it could catch on...

If we didn't have this committe, we couldn't come up with good ideas like Jim's.

Charles Miner: What is a two way petting zoo?

Jim: You pet the animals, they pet you back.

Micheal Scott: It's a great idea.

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So, some quick thoughts on texting. I'm going to: (1) try to be brief, (2) try to make sense, and (3) try to provoke some serious itrospection and such.

Does texting make you feel more connected to people?

Have you ever considered how your relationships are different with or without texting?
-- How deep, interesting, fun they are/were?

When was the last time you spent an evening with someone? Just one person?
When there are five people eating together and someone is texting someone who is 200 miles away, is that person more connected or less?

I think that it is important for people to be connected to each other, yeah, but it is also important for people to be alone sometimes.
Balance? Contrast?


I'll maybe go more into detail about this l8r. (: I know that this philosophy pretty much works for me. I forget my phone in different places all the time. Sometimes, it's nice. (My phone also has a pretty sweet 'hackey sack' function, but that's another story.) I'm interested to know your thoughts. I'll go into detail,I guess, in the comments.

A note to Juniors....

So, for starters, I'd like to say that I really should (and probably will) repost this blog next year sometime. I (Drew Harper) want to talk to you (my fellow Juniors) about drama next year.

I suppose I will try and cut to the main point and that is *drumroll* that this year's play (Once Upon a Mattress) was extrordinarily awesome. Everything came together (a lot quicker than last year), everyone did their best, sets were awesome, music was awesome, leads were awesome, understudies were awesome, everyone else was awesome. It wasn't perfect, but it was awesome.

I think that, next year, it will be hard to beat this year's play. But I want to try. I want us all to put our best out there and throw just a little effort into it.

One of the things Mr. Lynch told us about why he thought this year's was so good was that there was virtually no drama over who-got-what-part. The seniors supported each other... and I thought the casting was great. We need to eliminate casting drama next year. This will help everything go a lot smoother.

Lastly, senior leadership does not and never has meant "yell at kids that are talking". We all know how annoying this is. I think that it is awesome for an underclassmen to pay $5o to be in play,hardly ever get to be on stage, and still put up with the rediculous, time-consuming practices. When there is tons of dead space in practices because things haven't been planned well, I don't think it is appropriate to yell at people. That is not leadership. Lead by example. Be quiet when you need to be and calmly tell people to be quiet when they need to be. Yelling wastes more time and causes more drama.

So yeah, those are my thoughts. Next year will rock.