Happy Saint Patrick's Day! March 17th and I, unbeknownst to the 17th, have a love-hate relationship.
When we were younger, my older sister and I built leprechaun traps out of Lego blocks, the architectural design becoming increasingly elaborate as she and I got older. We always left an brimming cup of Lucky Charms perched inside the trap, inviting the leprechauns to dine. Every year when the morning of the 17th arrived, we made a beeline for the door and giggled in the cold as we observed the havoc "Lucky" had wreaked overnight. He always devoured the Lucky Charms and left a note with handwriting curiously reminiscent of my father's.
It was only later that I discovered that, for the majority of my childhood, my sister had long since discerned the truth of Lucky's origins and had been playing along the whole time! I sank into a violent despair, accompanied by all sorts of histrionic flourishes and embellishments.
None of this is particularly pertinent to the Spotted Volunteer Spotlight - except that from the looks of his profile picture, this week's featured volunteer, Jon Adams, has himself slipped into a violent despair - the violent despair commonly referred to as "death by endocrine system stealing." Mr. Adams also alludes in his profile to a Milton Berle fanclub, of which I would certainly be a member. Now there was a man who knew his flourishes and embellishments. Let's give Jon a rousing round of applause for his work on behalf of 826 - and perhaps let's make it rousing enough to wake him from his unfortunate stupor.
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