BRAINWASH

andrea just made me remember our grade six science fair project that just sums up the best parts of my tweens. the premise was that we were going to record the effects of music on the miiiind - it was called "BRAINWASH" (as in "carwash" but instead of cars its 11 year old brains and instead of soap its cds through headphones out of the boombox in my bedroom.)

we slacked off until the last minute and never ended up actually doing any of it, and made a bunch of kids in our class lie that they were participants in our research project. we wrote a completely made-up report, claiming we had recorded heart rate, temperature, BRAINWAVES, everything. with medical equipment we somehow had lying around. like tiny idiot doctors. we even put down what we thought would be "believable" results, like heart rate of 12 bpm or something.

the best part is that our project revolved around the effects of...L7! a totally made up science fair project about how we had discovered the groundbreaking scientific link between "mr. integrity" and the brainwaves, heart rates, and MINDS of 11 year olds.

seeing as we were tiny idiot geniuses, our project ended up going to provincials, where we sat in a gym full of chinese mensa kids doing biochemistry and physics. we explained our medical research to the various judges that probably assumed our project was an elaborate joke so smart that it landed us in provincials.


and then, in grade nine, we took the exact same project, dusted it off, and entered it in our high school science fair. this time it involved people also having to blow up balloons. holy shit.

if the stars align, it is still in our highschool, which happens to be a block away from where i live. we just need to track it down...so we can both have end of term projects this semester.

12:02amAndrea

i need to figure this out

i just called daniel

he mentioned something about us making people blow up balloons

????
12:03amHannah

that sounds vaguely familiar
12:06amAndrea

i know fuck

im going through my hotmail account