I'll start by saying that this was the most fun I've had doing a task so far.


I started with a young man named Robert Serviss. At 17, this upstanding young gentleman has contributed just about nothing to society and I love him anyway - he's one of my closest friends and he's one of my bandmates. When senior portrait time rolled around, I stuffed a little photo of him and his million dollar smirk in my wallet.

Promptly, I forgot that this photo existed.

But I discovered it again for this task (a lovely piece of parallelism, which I found, well, lovely.) and decided to put it to good use. To add a little bit of mystery (and to cover up the print on the back that said "white's studios 2005") I marked a big X on the corner, crossed out his eyes, and wrote an ambiguous murder note on the back, reading "Yeah, I killed him. But I had to. If you knew the terrible things he did, you'd kill too. Forgive me, God."

Pleased with myself, I placed the photo in my wallet once again and formulated a plan for part 2 of the task.

I came to school the next day (today), with a camera, a photo of Robert, and sf0 on my brain.
My target: Mrs. Nicholson, the school's sole graphic design teacher, who I made sure has never taught Robert (or any of his older siblings), and happens to keep a bookcase in her room, in case a student actually decides to read for the daily "S.S.R" (sustained silent reading).

My task was made even more easy when I found that we had a substitute today; Mrs. Nicholson had no chance of seeing the scheme in action, and chances are, the book will not be picked up for a very long time.

The book I chose was "Secrets & Spies", a title I found very appropriate - I flipped to the middle, slyly took the glossy photo of Robert out of my wallet, slipped it in, closed the book, put it back on the shelf.

I left that shelf with an undeserved sense of accomplishment.
Amen.