This week is Spirit Week at CVCA. As part of the festivities, students and faculty are encouraged to dress up for theme days. Monday was Caribbean Cruise day, where the seniors mostly got dressed up as pirates, presumably stressing the Caribbean part (Miss Claypool would be proud). I passed on that day.

Tuesday was Slumber Party Day, which the seniors again coordinated by dressing up as numbered sheep. My favorite was sheep 0 – he had a huge and complicated derivative (of the calculus kind) that equaled out to zero. Nicely done. I passed on this day as well, but Mer took advantage of the chance to be comfortable.

Today was Movie Day – you could dress up as a character from a film. I decided to do this one; I had been getting grief from students about not dressing up. I had to come up with a costume that required no spending of money, so I managed to cobble together a convincing Neo from the Matrix films (minus the huge boots, which I do not have). I did find out after school that I was not supposed to dress as anyone from a rated R film. Ooops. That’s what I get for not reading the memos more closely.

As part of Spirit Week, the senior girls take on the junior girls in the “Powder Puff” football game. Mer and I swung by for a few minutes tonight, and there is nothing powder puff about it! It was full 11-on-11 tackle football, without pads. Some of the hits out there were pretty hard! It was impressive, and fun.

The rest of the week is not too hard – tomorrow is Color Day, where each class wears a color (faculty can wear any class color, or wear the faculty color of red). I can handle that one. Friday is Spirit Day, where you wear a CVCA-colors shirt (blue and white). I will probably wear my Fools shirt – not blue, but at least it is an official CVCA shirt.

Spirit Week can be a bit nutty, but it seems fun. I am always impressed with costumes – there was a VERY convincing Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts wandering the halls today….