Bratnatch (8:37:40 PM): hey

The Baroness83 (8:37:43 PM): hey

Bratnatch (8:37:57 PM): whatchoo been up to?

The Baroness83 (8:38:14 PM): nothing really, you?

Bratnatch (8:38:35 PM): got fired from the morning announcements

The Baroness83 (8:38:46 PM): what????????????

Bratnatch (8:38:57 PM): it's a crazy story

Bratnatch (8:39:00 PM): care to hear?

Bratnatch (8:39:02 PM): er, read?

The Baroness83 (8:39:08 PM): yes!

Bratnatch (8:39:46 PM): ok lol

Bratnatch (8:40:07 PM): well it's kinda been building for awhile, but it really started on thurs

The Baroness83 (8:40:19 PM): okay

Bratnatch (8:41:05 PM): i was especially chipper and, yes, obnoxious i will admit

Bratnatch (8:41:48 PM): and often i'm absolutely dripping with sarcasm, especially for the frickin words of wisdom

Bratnatch (8:42:29 PM): but anyway, on thurs i got at least one death threat every period b/c i was so very chipper, etc.

Bratnatch (8:42:50 PM): and the next morning [devil woman] pulled me aside b4 the announcements

Bratnatch (8:43:58 PM): and told me that apparently there existed this entire coalition of teachers who were threatening to take it to [mr. president, er, principal] and get me kicked off the air

Bratnatch (8:44:14 PM): sorry, brb

The Baroness83 (8:44:23 PM): k

Bratnatch (8:46:33 PM): back

Bratnatch (8:46:36 PM): so anyway

The Baroness83 (8:46:39 PM): k

Bratnatch (8:47:15 PM): so [d w] basically told me i was too perky in the mornings and that i needed to be normal and boring

Bratnatch (8:47:24 PM): yes, she actually said boring

The Baroness83 (8:47:30 PM): hmmm

Bratnatch (8:47:58 PM): she goes, "this is just a boring five minute show and you need to be boring" etc etc etc

The Baroness83 (8:48:07 PM): wow

Bratnatch (8:48:13 PM): so i said, ok

Bratnatch (8:48:17 PM): i won't be perky

Bratnatch (8:48:20 PM): and i wasn't

Bratnatch (8:48:35 PM): i read the entire announcements in a complete monotone

The Baroness83 (8:48:49 PM): so she fired you

Bratnatch (8:49:18 PM): not yet....

Bratnatch (8:49:42 PM): at the end i said "have a great day being beaten down by the man"

The Baroness83 (8:50:00 PM): dear god

Bratnatch (8:50:12 PM): lol and she was waiting for me after announcements

The Baroness83 (8:50:48 PM): dear lord

Bratnatch (8:50:58 PM): and she goes "you know i didn't mean that and you just have this bag of characters that you just pull out whenever you want and this was just another character of yours...

The Baroness83 (8:51:14 PM): oh...my...god

Bratnatch (8:52:16 PM): and i know you hold this deep seated resentment or disdain or whatever for your job or your boss or your peers but you just have to keep it to yourself...

Bratnatch (8:53:16 PM): and i know you're so creative and creativity creative creative blah blah blah

The Baroness83 (8:53:21 PM): wow

Bratnatch (8:53:36 PM): (which i took basically to mean "you're a freak and you need to be normal")

The Baroness83 (8:53:45 PM): hmmm

Bratnatch (8:54:03 PM): and she kept repeating that word, normal, normal normal normal mcnormal normal

The Baroness83 (8:54:31 PM): oh

The Baroness83 (8:54:32 PM): god

Bratnatch (8:54:34 PM): and how i need to be the REAL brittany, the one that is perfectly normal with perfect inflection of the voice

Bratnatch (8:54:37 PM): like [name omitted to protect the innocent]

Bratnatch (8:54:40 PM): [him] is god

The Baroness83 (8:54:51 PM): [he] is boring

Bratnatch (8:55:09 PM): and he is perfect and wonderful and did i hear his voice this morning? it was absolute and utter genius

Bratnatch (8:55:17 PM): perfection in it's highest form

The Baroness83 (8:55:38 PM): um

Bratnatch (8:55:53 PM): yes

The Baroness83 (8:56:03 PM): so...

The Baroness83 (8:56:06 PM): tell me the rest

Bratnatch (8:56:18 PM): and i could feel my smile become more fake by the second

The Baroness83 (8:57:01 PM): wow

Bratnatch (8:57:06 PM): and i finally said "ok" and she got all pointy-fingered at me and said "there! that little girl voice! that's just another one of your characters!"

The Baroness83 (8:57:50 PM): wow

Bratnatch (8:57:55 PM): so i finally left and i couldn't get that frozen smile off my face until like 10 mins later b/c i might have killed her otherwise

Bratnatch (8:58:45 PM): so tuesday i read again and i was alright, fairly boring if you ask me, but at the end i said

The Baroness83 (8:59:01 PM): oh no

Bratnatch (8:59:13 PM): "conform today. be another cog in the machine of the system"

The Baroness83 (8:59:24 PM): jesus christ

Bratnatch (8:59:37 PM): and she was waiting for me again, and just said "you knew this was coming. this was your last day"

The Baroness83 (8:59:58 PM): tell me you told her to shove her last day where the sun don't shine

Bratnatch (9:00:53 PM): lol no i didn't... i did tell her in a very diplomatic way if i do say so myself that i was quite offended by "some things that were said" [in other words, i was frickin offended and quite appalled by her little patronizing speech the day before]

Bratnatch (9:01:26 PM): but apparently i'm just too unpredictable and can't keep my "political comments" to myself [because reminding people to think for themselves is a dangerous political statement... actually i take that back. it is. doesn't mean the modern teenager doesn't need to be reminded every once in awhile...]

The Baroness83 (9:01:40 PM): wow

The Baroness83 (9:01:43 PM): good times

The Baroness83 (9:01:46 PM): go brit!

Bratnatch (9:01:47 PM): yeah

Bratnatch (9:01:48 PM): lol

Bratnatch (9:02:12 PM): it's amazing the show of support i've gotten from not just the student body but a few teachers as well

The Baroness83 (9:02:30 PM): well, I think you should be commended

Bratnatch (9:02:37 PM): there was a petition started by some random person i don't even know to get me back

Bratnatch (9:02:44 PM): last i heard it had 76 signatures

Bratnatch (9:02:48 PM): well thank you

Bratnatch (9:02:56 PM): i appreciate the support

The Baroness83 (9:02:57 PM): my little revolutionary

Bratnatch (9:03:00 PM): lol

[slightly later in convo...]

The Baroness83 (9:06:33 PM): I always disliked [her that shall not be named]

Bratnatch (9:06:40 PM): lol me and you both

The Baroness83 (9:07:00 PM): but I remember that she had cancer and that made her mean, but still.

Bratnatch (9:07:31 PM): hm

Bratnatch (9:07:36 PM): never knew that

The Baroness83 (9:07:41 PM): yeah

Bratnatch (9:07:42 PM): still no real excuse

The Baroness83 (9:07:50 PM): nope

Bratnatch (9:08:13 PM): ::nods::

The Baroness83 (9:08:18 PM): haha

Bratnatch (9:09:24 PM): oh! just remembered.. arik is writing his final good humor on the morning announcements and delant� etc were going to have a picket line, but then that didn't happen.. but it's the thought that counts ;)

The Baroness83 (9:09:45 PM): hahahaha

The Baroness83 (9:09:48 PM): good times

Bratnatch (9:09:51 PM): quite

Bratnatch (9:10:03 PM): i just think it's hilarious that it's such a controversy

The Baroness83 (9:10:39 PM): when it really shouldn't be. It's so odd to be here, in a liberal arts college, where you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want and no one will say a word.

Bratnatch (9:10:56 PM): but see that's cool

The Baroness83 (9:11:10 PM): yeah it is

~~~~~

so yeah.

fight the power, don't let the man get you down and all that jazz

individualism is fun

~~~~~

quote of the day:

"well in tiananmen square they got shot, so i'd say you got off pretty easy"
- mr. a

also a quick thanks to all those ppl who hated me on the announcements but respect and even applaud my standing up to "the man" by not selling myself out ~~~~~

completely unrelated distasteful joke of the day:

what kind of wood doesn't float?

natalie wood!

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