Rise and Shine

Good morning Ravens,

it's Monday which marks the beginning of a new week. Your first week with me. I hope you can all find it in your hearts to welcome back our e-communication friends from Texas. It's been a long few weeks since they've walked the halls of ONW but I'm sure they'll adjust right away. Clap your hands for our STN winners as they lift their heads and walk tall with a pretty plaque on their back. Congratulations, friends. But of course I'm not here to talk people up because where's the fun in that?

They say don't mix business with pleasure but it doesn't seem like a certain someone, who happens to be returning today, took that to heart. After a bad break-up it's always nice to get away - until you have to come home. Some after school activity may just be throwing you both into a fun world of awkward moments and long silences. Perhaps you can use this opportunity to get closure. That is if you even show up. In other news, prepare yourselves for a week of Mr.Raven rehearsals. I have nothing but support for our participating Ravens, supposing the competition stays clean. But, why wouldn't it? There's nothing but respectable people on the roster.

I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that Prom is exactly 5 weeks away. Let's hope that ONW's many young lovers can stick it out until the end, but 5 weeks is an awful long time. In fact, it's exactly 840 hours which is plenty of time for some damsel in distress to be rescued by her prince charming - or for some match made in heaven to be stomped all over by the vicious hands of fate. Don't worry, I'll definitely be keeping you posted. Until then make sure you get all your dress shopping done. What an embarrassment to show up in the same dress you wore to homecoming, you can be sure that even if you're friends don't notice...I will.

Now I bring this to a close, so grab a cup of coffee and get those eyes wide open. As much as you all hate Mondays, I don't, and I'm looking forward to all the festivities that are yet to come.

Yours truly, O.A.