Well at MY school this year, yearbooks are all the rage. They were everywhere! They look AMAZING, ill admit; our yearbook staff did such a fantastic job of collaborating so many memories into one incredible, ginormous, hardcover book. It looks darn-near professional! However, there were several interesting flaws. For one, the background of the senior portraits are all the same color. Understandable. The juniors and below all got to choose their background color. Makes sense so far. But hold on - the senior portraits are the only ones in color! So what was the point of even letting the others CHOOSE if that color wasnt going to show?! lol The FCA page (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) had an even WORSE flaw; they mis-printed a bible-quote! They apparently put the word "not" in the wrong line, so it ended up REVERSING the original meaning and made it COMPLETELY blasphemous! It was something like "Thou shalt NOT follow in the steps of thy lord and savior, and allow thine own blind ambition to be your guide." Can you say "irony"? LMAO!! And, probably my personal favorite, some poor senior boy (we'll call him Robert Finney) was made victim to a crucial printing error. His original yearbook photo was badly pixelated (aka: looked really fuzzy), but instead of fixing the original portrait, the yearbook staff decided to reprint his original picture later in the book... under a different name!! So, basically, there was a blurry photo under the name Robbert Finney and a much better photo of the SAME guy two pages later under the name of something like Melvin Yaldrich! Not only is that outrageous enough but consider this: Who is the REAL Melvin Yaldrich? Where is HIS photo? Is it taking the place of someone ELSE'S name? And have all these people been informed of these mistakes, or are they still blindly searching for their names, only to find another student's picture?
Yet amongst all the typos and mistakes, an amazing thing happened: i became the spotlight of the drama page! *GASP!* i know! lol Its so crazy, the last thing i expected was to be plastered all over the drama club section. The biggest picture, dead center of the 2 page layout, was ME. An entire side column, complete with random little factoids about my performances, were all ME. Another picture, at the bottom, was ME. The main quote beside the drama club title, was about ME. The very first line of text, was a quote from ME. The ENTIRE first paragraph (out of two!) was all about ME!!
In my opinion, they went a little bit overboard. Not only am i not even CLOSE to the only person in drama club, but im not even this year's president! My friend Drew was prez for this year, and he was a senior, but they only gave him one tiny little pic; so they gave ME the spotlight HE deserved! I still cant even believe it, its not like im THAT amazing or anything; i havent won like a bajillion awards or enetered many contests; i always try my best, but as far as the statistics are concerned, i consider myself average. I thought for sure people would get jealous and resent me, which im sure maybe one or two people are doing, but everyone else seems genuinely cool with it. Mrs Grau joked around a little, dubbing it the "Christy Section", but that was about the extent of it. Even Drew didnt seem to mind, or at least he hid it well. I told him i felt so bad for him, and he just hugged me and said "Im in the yearbook 9 other times, you DESERVE the spotlight." What's gonna happen next year, i wonder, when i AM president? Will i get the spotlight again or does some other rising star? Either way, i dont know how it happened: Did the staff intentionally do that so other students could bask in the ephemeral beleive that they'd "made an impact" in their special group or club, or is someone in that journalism office my all-time biggest fan? ..or perhaps Drew's arch nemesis? I shall never know....
Stay Nifty! ;)
Christy
PS: more photos of me in the yearbook in the photos page
Yearbooks were great except for those flaws. I bet the FCA members were not happy about their flaw.
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