I'm baaack

A bit early, to most people's surprise. Why? I was blowing up things in JSA at camp around 10pm, and just as a small explosion occured (they really overreacted, it was about equal to a bottle rocket popping noise), Nancy and Sharon (supreme lords of camp) appear from behind a tent. Commence apocalypse. Doom, death, destruction, my materials taken away, and by 9:00 this morning, I was gone, along with Garett. However, in the strangely backwards way of thinking that is Sharon, she said "Don't let this discourage you, and I'd be happy to hire you back on next year." But aside from the fact that I'm grounded till the weekend (oh noes! the horror! I now am forced to sit at home and play videogames. Oh, spare me! That, and the fact that I would have probably been gone till monday morning for teardown anyway, it's sort of a reprieve.

Good:

I'm not off sweating like crazy in the sun
I get off early
I'm not present for teardown
No more teaching (esp. that one kid in canoeing... grrr)
No more troop 12 (huzzah)
I'll actually probably end up in public earlier than I would if I had stayed
I can get hired next year with no real problems
I went out with a bang (literally)


Bad:
No end of year party (even though there probably wouldn't have been anything in JSA, which is really stupid, considering we haven't had a fire all year, I was the only one that really burned stuff)
No staff dinner/gift exchange
No more waterfront for the year (It was fun)
I miss like $50 of my last paycheck
Grounded for 5 days
Parents will use this as leverage to get me to do stuff (dammit)

And if anyone was wondering what the explosives were, it was chlorine tablets (the type for pool filters, this was the slow-reacting stuff, not the shock treatment, sadly) and brake fluid. Approximatley $3 at wal-mart. Oh yeah, and a plastic gatorade bottle. Basically it just heats up and ignites the brake fluid (if I had been using the powder pool treatment stuff, it would have been much more violent), but in this case, it took about 3 minutes to ignite. Hell, they used to use this stuff to light campfires in front of campers. It was truly an overreaction and I will show you what actually happens sometime if you want me to.