The New Jerusalem

I was the single most annoying person at my high school. Now I've always been annoying, I was the kind of child who kept insisting the third grade class play should be long days journey into night. I refused to use contractions. I used to pray every night that god would make me british so i could be that much more sophisticated. And I'm still pretty annoying, but I think, in ways, at 16 I was in the full flower of my annoyingness, there's just something about the Future Business Leaders of America and excessive use of words I learned from SAT prep lists which came together to make me exactly the kind of dick who helped ruin high school for everyone else.