Play.

I sit inside a dark class, along with oh, 8 or so students. A remix is playing loudly on the speakers. At this point in the long evening, most of the students have drifted into the half-sleep, half-wake phase of existence, while just a few of them continue to play virtual soccer. And it is 5:03, and I am still awake.

More-or-less, I have been awake since this time yesterday.

The cause? A LAN Party. This is a baffling event wherein you bring game systems and computers and everyone sits together and plays game literally all night long. We are raising a small amount of money to cover travel costs for debate tournaments of future, and I am the debate coach, and I am chaperoning.

I remember when T came to me initially with the idea and suggested it. I thought, I can say yes, and this will probably never happen. Yes, I then said hesitantly. From now until forever, I will remember, when T has an idea, it will become a reality, no matter how many people have to be persuaded to get involved. She is an unstoppable force.

The exhaustion aside, I have had a ton of fun tonight.
In addition to random conversations about eating gross things, disturbing/funny cat situations, and life-in-general, I learned how to play Call of Duty (I'm not very good at it) and Just Dance 2, which is that awesome game for Wii that somehow senses where your controller is, and you have to dance what you see.

It was so fun. I wanted to dance all night.
Watching everyone play is so fun, too.
So yeah, I may have lost an entire night's worth of sleep,
and yeah, my flu may never go away,
but this was a worthwhile cause,
and a worthwhile bunch of students,
and this even serves as a persuasive technique to get parents to find more efficient fundraising techniques!