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The show must go on!

I finished my AP Lang. syllabus and submitted it to College Board for approval... in looking at it today, I think I missed a part. Oh, well. Even though the deadline is June 1st, apparently it's not a hard and fast date. All that has been said is that if it's not submitted before that date, it won't be printed in some special book they're putting out for colleges. My question is how important is that really? For example, NYU got 75,000+ applications last year... are they really going to check this book? I can see a computer program that checks it for the admissions person, but who knows when that will be available.

Anyways, it's done (for now)!

The fundraiser show is going to be interesting to say the least. Over half of the girls may or may not have dropped out. Four have actually told me personally... the others just avoid me and I really can't be bothered to track them down. If that's how they want to be remembered, I say "whatever." Anyways, we still have a good core that will hopefully make it to next week for the show and I added an improve game, so I'm hoping that will lengthen the show and give the audience some participation. Please, pray it will go off successfully.

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