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About me

It is a cliché yet I will share - the first time you are in sync with the podium in front of you, it becomes the greatest day of your life. Never will those emotions be felt again.

My experience happened in 1986. It had only been a week since the astronauts had their "disaster" as it was called. I was ready for an argument and what better place than elementary school where kids are such babies to begin with?

I stood at that podium and orated as no one has orated in the history of Belmont Elementary School since. All the kids threw rocks at me as I took pleasure in recounting the death of those "space" people. Teachers cried and fell to the floor pleading for me to give mercy but I would not cease. I held onto the podium while it held back onto me as we let all the losers know how inferior they would always be to us. Elementary kids or dead astronauts - you were just stupid and would always be stupid.

For you never had a podium.