My good friend Pam and I are… well, let’s just say we’re “special”. Sometimes I think that one of my greatest personal traits is the ability to make Pam laugh. School would just not be the same without my beautiful, musical, dark-humored friend.

Last week, Pam and I were assigned to be partners for a class project. Everyone was paired up and given a specific perm product to research and present. Rather than cranking out the usual posterboard full of terribly boring information, Pam and I decided to make a puppet show. We spent an afternoon at my house creating our puppets, one that represented each of us, one that bore a striking likeness to a certain outspoken classmate of ours, and one that looked like our instructor. We gave our presentation this morning, and it was a hit. I doubt anyone learned a thing about our perm product, but we got some laughs and fully entertained ourselves, which is really the only thing I can think of that matters.

Take a look; that’s me on the right: