The Projector Prob-- oh! Oh! OH! Awwww, it missed

As of this year, almost every classroom except Mr. Giromini's has a SMARTboard installed. They also have projectors mounted in the ceiling. As you may know, when a projector is left on and not touched for a while, it changes to its equivalent of a screen saver, which is almost always a logo bouncing around the screen and changing colors. It might look something like this (well the 'bouncing around the screen' part anyway):




For some reason, this absolutely fascinates us IA students. Apparently, there is an episode of House in which the characters watch it for an insanely long time, waiting for it to hit the corner. I don't watch House, so I really have no idea. I do, however, do exactly the same thing. In English class a while ago the screen came on, and I found myself, inevitably, waiting for it to hit the corner. The interesting thing is that one by one, you could sense the attention of the students slipping away. Mrs. Saxsma was talking about something fairly important, (which, for some unknown reason, I cannot seem to remember...) but most of the class had stopped listening and instead devoted their entire attention to the logo, moving tantalizingly around the screen and coming ever so close to the corner but never quite reaching it. I had thought that this fascination was an oddity of mine, but as time passed, students could be seen one by one falling out of the real world and joining all the others moving their heads around and around in a diamond-shaped pattern. After a short time there was hardly a single student still paying attention to what Mrs. Saxsma was saying, only a sea of eyes and heads all following the logo around the screen. I can only imagine how it looked to her, and after a while she realized something was wrong. Just as she was commenting on how the atmosphere in the room seemed somehow off, it came close to hitting the corner. In unison, the class's expectant cries ("oh! Oh! OH!") filled the room, and as one the disappointment was felt and vocalized in groans of frustration. Mrs. Saxsma presently realized what was wrong, reached up, and switched off the projector to protests from the more engrossed students. Then someone had to explain to her and the few students who had escaped the entrancement what had been happening in the last several minutes. I find it very amusing, and I think that this event captures the essence of Only At IA. And the word for this in English is (oh I so love going all Sheikh Darwish on you) "Typical" and it is spelled
t-y-p-i-c-a-l.