There weren't nearly enough completions of this task, so I prevailed upon our gracious admin overlords to unretire it.

Darkaardvark:

There's a tradition- I'm not sure if it's purely an American thing, or if it's pretty universal- of the Senior Prank. One last hurrah, a way to stick it to school administration and break some rules. Well, a Senior Prank wasn't practical for me, for a few reasons:

1. Far too many security cameras to count, watching every square foot of the school.

2. It's surprisingly hard to come up with an idea that's both funny but not an inside joke, doesn't cause permanent damage, but is actually worthwhile.


For those and other reasons, a Senior Prank was out of the picture. But hell, I said to myself, why not a Senior Praxis. That seemed like a much better idea. Yes.

So, during the last week of school, Rao and I decided to play hooky and go task. That task will be submitted soon. Consider this a teaser.

A brief pause to discuss the wording of this task. "Forging documents will almost certainly be necessary." I never really figured out what this meant. Are you supposed to forge the documents that prove that you played hooky? Because that'd be cheating. Or are you supposed to forge documents that get you out of school or work? Because, frankly, I'd consider that cheating, too. I can get off school excused easily enough. I figured taking the unexcused absense took a little more drive.



Exactly what we did on our day off will come in the next praxis, but I've included some photos. Perhaps you can puzzle out, or at least narrow down, or location. Suffice it to say that we traveled a non-zero distance. We did, indeed, spend most of our day of tasking.



And frankly, it was worth it. No worrying about getting busted by the school (okay, so we were violating school rules, but that's just a technicality. How else were supposed to complete the task?), no working under cover of night, no silly immature pranks. Just an awesome day of tasking. I highly advise it for anyone still in some form of schooling. Nothing would make me happier than to see a Senior Praxis day become a tradition among students who play sf0. Except, maybe, if they did it at the end of every year.

Now, proof of playing hooky! The video is a start-- I'm assuming that someone with technological prowess can check the date/time on it and confirm that it is, in fact, during school hours.



This screenshot of my online attendance record is further proof- though it's not perfect. The day I skipped was a 'finals day' (though I didn't skip any real exams- stay in school, kids!) and so the first two blocks were stretched out over the day. It shows that I was absent-unknown from 1st block, and no record of absence for second block. Well, I was definitely gone second block, but apparently my teacher didn't take attendance. As for why it isn't counted as an unexcused absence, just 'unknown', I don't know. Maybe I should have tried harder. I guess I would have had to have called into the class and said, "Hey, I'm skipping your class today. I have no excuse."

Anyways, hopefully that proves that I really did play hooky. There was also an automated phone-call, which I tried to keep pressing 'repeat' on while I ran to get batteries for my camera to record the audio, but hung up on me. Automated jerk.