Bra Makers Fear Zero Gravity Will Put Them Out of Business

So, first week of camp done.

Way harder than I thought it would be and a huge thanks to those folks who helped me out, you know who you are.

Despite the fact that I was on the verge of tears at a few points, I did manage to catch quite a few good moments with my campers and even remember several amusing things that I'll relate presently.

One kid looked almost exactly like Gary Coleman, which was just too funny for words a lot of the time. I always wanted to try to get him to say something about Willis but I thought better of it.

We had this other kid whose parents literally had him on an assload of meds. I mean this kid was doped to the gills all day long and he'd maybe have 6 or 8 lucid moments each day. This made travel or anything that required focus or critical thinking fairly difficult. The upside was that the kid would do some truly bizarre shit. One day we got a trophy for having a fairly clean cabin. The trophy itself is a dustpan that has a piece of twine running through the top of it so the kids can wear it around their neck. Well one of the kids took it from the doped up kid. The doped up kid decides he wants it back, so he strolls over, puts his head into the same loop as the other kid's head is, and begins sprinting. The kid doesn't realize what's going on until he's being dragged behind the doped up kid with his glasses lying broken on the ground. Later on in the week someone stole a cup from the doped up kid at lunch... kid dives after the cup thief, onto the table, sending cups, plates and fruit cocktail EVERYWHERE. It was amazing.

At the beginning of the week I told my cabin group that if they behaved well (ahhh to be 9 years old and able to embrace the ambiguous once again) I'd have my head. The idea was to have a concrete reward for their good behavior and for me to get a free haircut. No prob, right? Well I talked to a lifeguard about it and she said she'd handle it. I head up there on the last night in front of all the kids to get it done and out she comes with clippers... no... not clippers... a pair of scissors and a ladies razor... yeah, those last two things. Pictures of this will likely be on facebook by tomorrow if they aren't already. Luckily I still have both my ears and I managed to clean up my head today so it looks alright.

New session starts Tuesday morning and our beginning of session meeting is tomorrow night at 6pm which puts me out of commission and contact with the outside world until the afternoon of July 3. I'll try to get a new post up in between now and then if I have some time during a night off but there's always the chance I may not have the time and also the likelihood that I'll be too busy over the 4th so it may be some time before I'm able to update again, but fear not, I'll return with more amusing stories.