Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The story of how Dave and I survived the Board Meeting So Dave was putting together a presentation for Dr.Milton and the district. I helped set up a couple interviews to go in the video. Dave invited me to the Board meeting to see how the video turned out. Unfortunately the presentation was at the end of the board meeting and it was uper boring. A little bit into the meeting Dave asked to see the notebook i had been doodling in, and we started to write stuff down, we were passing the note back and forth and it resulted in this:
Tips to survive a Board Meeting
1. Have support (Friends)
2. Have support (Chair)
3. Realize you are in danger
All counts of death by boredom have occurred at these types of meetings
4. Prevent my 2 bosses (Each who can easily see me right now) from seeing me pass notes.
5. Cheez-its
6. Find something more entertaining to do like
Counting the tiles
7.Pretend the board drama is caused by soap opera motives
8. Between notepassing, look at board with blank stare, as if deeply paying attention and acting like you have a vested interest in the ongoing conversation
9.Film Club is SOOO much better
10. Hog your friend's notebook. She has comics to read anyway.
At this point we were making excuses to pass the notebook back and forth "Inconspiciosly" like saying "Here is the report you wanted." and "Could i take a look at the notes your taking of the meeting?" While I was waiting for the notebook, i was reading one of my favorite graphic novels Scott Pilgrim and Dave being jealous of the generation gap began to make fun of it.
11. Realize the second closest board member to us is in the same boat as us
12. Realize your friend read her new edition of SCOTT PILGRIM 5 times the first day she got it and is just looking at the pictures
13. Those are not pictures, they barely even pass as "drawings"
14. When does the drink cart come around?
15. Also i like icecream
16. Question why the list seems to be having a conversation within itself
17. The drawings depict emotion perfectly through even its simplest doodles
18.I enjoy movies
19. "Doodles" is a strech
20. The superintendent motioned to me a second ago, pointing out the fact I'm wearing at suit. He seemed surprised
(Yes he was wearing a suit, it was funny and weird. He said he wanted to be professional but totaly blew that out the window with all the giggling, teasing and notepassing he was doing. Dr. Milton also found it necessary to point the suit out to the whole board meeting, Haha.)
21. There's not even any color in your "picture" book, or holographs
23. There was a shortage of #22's, we appologize
24. Protect your "awesomeness" because there have been many cases in which it was lost in the eyes of their support (friends)
22. We found the 22's
37. Numbers are out of control
972. Hey, I really want that black&white movie to get made. Think that can happen? What can i do to help?
2. Cheez-its
22. Im trying to get in touch with the actress, but i need an actor
22. Dates
22. Cheez-its are naaaaaaasty
22. Its 8pm...and im at a board meeting, and im under 30, this isnt right...
22. There is never enough old business
21.5. Cheez-its aren't that bad, they do not, though, have nearly as much cheese as your "picture" book
22.5. I think i need to film like 200 scenes for Partly Cloudy
23.5. The chick sitting next to me, on my right, is having issues with her legs. Please to sit still
22.1. Let's talk about the calendar. Or new business.
22. If i get people together, we could film not this sat, but next
22. Stop dragging on Scott Pilgrim! Your just jealous of his awesomeness cause you lost yours in the "old news"
22. I fidget cause my feet fall asleep
(At this point, Dave takes my book and starts to mock read it, making snide sounds and laughing at it.0
22. Conor is on my&Scott's side
22. Future conversation
Dr.M~ Dave, what were you doing durring the meeting?
Dave~ Uhhh
Dr.M~ It looked like you were reading, what novel?
Dave~ Uh, Graphic?
Dr.M~ And why?
Dave~ To mock a student?
Dr.M~ FIRED!
*Dave took the the notebook from me and started drawing something, and covering it up so i couldn't see. At this point we are extremely giggly. Dave was chuckling to himself and finished the picture, the board room got eerily quiet and this appeared in my site...


.....*We both burst into laughter, but it is quickly muffled by Dave closing his arms around his head so his bosses don't see him and me hiding my face against the wall, and i only caught a glimpse of it. I refused to look at it for ten minutes cause i couldnt contain my giggling and Dave was so gonna get fired.
I looked at it again and asked what I was doing in the last panel
"You are flying through the air in a ninja stance at the Board members."
"....am i in a jumpsuit?"
"Of corse."
We still couldn't look at each-other without laughing when the presentation started.
It went really well and afterward we snuck out. We got in the car after being quiet for like half an hour and burst into a fit of laughter making non-coherent sentences. We laughed them cause we knew exactly what event we were referring to.

We said happy birthday to Dave's mom, I read the owners manual, Got icecream, failed to convinced the servers we were father and daughter, laughed and got a brain freeze.

We figure we are weird people for having more fun at a board meeting then alot of things we had been to lately.
Moral of the story~Allison is not allowed to come to anymore Board Meetings with Dave

Bottom line:
#22. Do not laugh