We spent our entire time at Student Council yesterday making the Valentines Grams and let me just tell you, these kids know how to decorate some paper hearts. We still have some to go, but between everyone’s study halls, we should be completely finished today.
So! Tell your students that starting tomorrow, at each lunch period there will be a table set up outside of the cafeteria that students can come purchase their grams, whether it be for their sweethearts, their besties, or hell, even their enemies, I don’t know. The basic grams will be $1, and the more elaborate ones will be $3. We will be collecting them throughout the rest of the week, Saturday night at the dance, and through lunch on Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, our “cupids” will be coming around and handing them out!
But of course, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t stoop to be so cheesy to allow my fellow teachers an opportunity to participate. Luckily for you guys, yours will be free because you’ll have to deal with the fact that I’ll be making these myself. My free period is 8th, so I only ask that you pay if you request that I make an actual fool of myself when delivering your grams. That’s a joke, I have too much pride for that. Rest assured that if you want to send yours anonymously, I will be sworn to secrecy. So, feel free to stop by my classroom, where you will find a Gram Box sitting just inside the door. Happy Love Hunting!
OOC: So what this means: if your muse wants to send a gram to someone, just submit to me the message, the sender and the receiver. If you want it to be sent anonymously, please specify that...Or obviously just send it in anonymously. I will be making them throughout the week, but they won’t be sent until Tuesday, February 14th, probably around mid-day, should my schedule allow. Any questions, feel free to message me!
Event Moodboard || Brody Weston || Valentine’s Day Dance
Clean Up Crew
Oh come on you guys-- this isn’t so bad. When we do clean-up for the parade route during marching season, the kids literally had a contest to see who could find the most used condoms. At least that’s not an issue here...I hope.
Located behind Dani’s left ear is a turquoise feather. She got it at 21, when she graduated with her Bachelor’s. A tie in to the tattoo she got for her mother.
2. Feather to birds w/ quote
Located on Dani’s left shoulder, is a feather turning into birds with the quote “Your wings were ready but my heart was not.” She got it, at 19, in memory of her mother.
3. Quote in shape of treble clef
Located on Dani’s right shoulder, is the quote “Music is what feelings sound like.” She got it at 24, when she graduated with her Master’s.
4. Drum and roses
Located on Dani’s right upper arm is a drum and roses. She got it at 23. It holds no “proper” significance, outside of drums being her passion.
5. Stitch and Pikachu
Located on Dani’s right thigh, is Stitch and Pikachu dressed in the other’s onesie. Dani got it at 27, with her pa. The two refuse to admit who is which character, but admit it doesn’t matter, because Dani truly is her father’s daughter.
6. Stars
Located on Dani’s left hip is three stars. Gotten on her 18th birthday, it is the first part of her friend tattoo with Jax.
7. Latin quote
Also located on Dani’s left hip is the Latin quote “per aspera ad astra” or “through hardships to the stars”. Gotten at 18, but on Jax’s 19th birthday, it is the second part of her friend tattoo with Jax.
Taylor Weston (29) -- brother-in-law -- bank manager (FC Coco Martin)
Brody has a lot of family. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins-- all scattered around the west coast, all just a quick plane trip away for reunions on an annual basis. But of course his immediate family is now all almost all immediately located within the Bay Area.
His maternal grandparents, Samuel and Doris Moreau, live in a nearby assisted living facility, where Doris helps the nursing staff care for an dementia-afflicted Sam. The old man is by far the most awesome old person Brody has every met, serving in the Navy in his youth before settling down with his grandmother, who was a nurse. However, the guy has the most spot-on gaydar ever, hinting that Brody may not be the only bisexual in the family. And even as his memory has begun going, he is still madly in love with his wife, constantly flirting with the “hot nurse” that comes by all the time and taking her out on dates to the gardens and cafeteria when they’re both feeling well enough.
His parents, Dale and Kim, live on a six-acre ranch house out in Petaluma, where at any given time you’ll find up to a half-dozen horses and more cats all over the property. Dale is fairly quiet by nature unless you hit on the right subject, but once you get him started he’s quite lively and prone to playing Devil’s Advocate just to keep the conversation interesting. While he never really understood Brody’s passion for dance or “the gay thing”, he’s been nothing but supportive of his son. It was always Kim though, that’s been Brody’s big cheerleader, taking him to lessons and performances and excited for everything in her kids’ lives. Brody feels like all of his good morals and strengths come from his parents.
Brody’s brothers are as distinct in personality as three strangers, but he loves them all like hell:
Mark, the “stick in the mud”: responsible and protective, calm and clear-headed, slow to anger and forward-thinking. Married to Sarah at twenty, Mark joined her family’s dairy ranch business, and they had Stephanie, Connor, and Jim.
Bob, the “fun one”: constantly chasing good times and the next thrill, spontaneous and teasing, but also easily the most likely to help his brothers with whatever antics or dream they’re chasing. He followed his passion and found a job at a Petaluma brewing company.
And Jeffy, the “cinnamon roll”: introverted and meticulous, reserved and sweet, the tag-along of his family and easily able to stir all of his brothers’ guard dog instincts. The Weston boys all looked out for each other, but God help you if you ever messed with Jeffy.
Which is exactly how the rift in the family became so enormous. During his last year at Sonoma State, Brody and Jeffy and Taylor (Jeff’s then-boyfriend) all got concert tickets in the city. However, when Jeff backed out last minute to study for an exam, he sent his brother and boyfriend ahead without him. Drunk and high off of the music, Brody was completely taken off guard when Taylor kissed him. To this day, while he knows he pushed him away the first time, he still takes full responsibility for the fact that the two of them ended up in the cab of his truck and him screwing the guy six ways until Sunday.
The next morning, both were hugely remorseful, with Brody insisting that it was easily the worst mistake of his life. Thought Taylor wanted to confess immediately, Brody was certain that their screw-up would destroy his baby brother, and if either of them loved Jeff half as much as they claimed, the best thing to do would be to just forget the night ever happened and never say a word.
The arrangement lasted one week before Taylor cracked and sobbingly confessed to Jeff. As predicted, the youngest Weston was crushed, breaking up with his boyfriend immediately and exposing Brody for his betrayal. To cement the damage, Mark and Bob both jumped their brother in the parking lot, sending him to the hospital with cracked ribs, a busted lip, split eyebrow, and many other bumps and bruises. To try to lessen the problems he’d created, Brody quickly and quietly finished his schooling before changing states, away from his family. And a few years ago, Jeff and Taylor reconciled and married, reenforcing the boy’s opinion that he did the right thing, as he was not only not invited to the wedding, but also missed the birth and growing up of his youngest nephew Jim. The only tie that still remains between Brody and his family is due to his mother’s stubborn persistence, as Kim for the last eight years has made a weekly-to-bimonthly phone call to keep up with her son, as well as sending holiday cards, in which she makes sure to include Brody. However, the boy is determined not to hurt any of the people he loves again, and so makes sure to keep her at arm’s length, even as he desperately yearns for the contact in the short conversations.
US History: How can one live in their country today without knowing the past that it carries? This course covers everything from Christopher Columbus’s first sight of the New World all the way until the end of the Second World War. Students are expected to come away with a clean understanding of the people, places, and events that led to not only the founding of this country, but molded it into what is seen today.
AP US History: The AP U.S. History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of American history from approximately 1491 to the present. The course has students investigate the content of U.S. history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides seven themes (American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and society) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places. [x]
Contemporary American History: This course is a more focused course, that analyzes the United States starting just after World War II and ending in the present. This class explores the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, The Hippie Movement, The Beatles, 9/11, and everything in between. The goal, like US History, is to provide a path for students to follow in understanding the modern United States as it currently stands.
Club Description
Student Government: These student elected ‘officials’ meet every week in order to organize and maintain student life throughout the school. Some of their responsibilities include organizing fund raisers and events, and in general keeping up student morale through the trying times of the school year.
Character Aesthetics | Madison McCarthy - Style Headcanon - In & Out of School
Madison wears very professional clothes during the school year ranging from skirts and dresses to the go to plaid and sweater depending on the weather. She wears minimal jewelry but when she does its usually a necklace or watch. During non school months in the summer she shows a lot more skin with short shorts, low cut tops and crop tops. She loves high waisted jeans and heels. You’ll always see her with a pair of sunglasses somewhere on her body on on top of her head if not wearing them.
