Wow. Has it really been a month and a day since I last blogged? Time sure flies when you aren't doing anything all that interesting.

This morning on the way to work I was greeted by the sight of trees filled with toilet paper, which can only mean one thing: Homecoming. Tonight is my local high school's Homecoming game, so last night the streets were filled with giddy high school seniors decorating the town and high school. I haven't driven around yet to see how much of the town was done, but from what I've heard this year's seniors were pretty ambitious.

Homecomings here are very different from my high school's Homecomings. Growing up in the middle of nowhere meant that there wasn't that much to do on the weekends, so we had to save minor acts of vandalism for other occasions. I must admit that while I find some of the things they do bizarre, the kids around here are pretty inventive. My first year here the seniors placed a large inflatable dinosaur on top of the high school's roof, in addition to filling the lawn with assorted old furniture and toilets. That's right. Toilets. Now who has a toilet just lying around waiting to be chucked onto the high school's lawn? I can't even imagine the resources these kids must have access to in order to pull some of this stuff off. If my friends or I would have had access to these things as kids we could have pulled off some seriously wild stunts.

I think I have prank envy.

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