Starting off Multiple Choice High

I would have to say my all time favorite day of AP English 12 would have to have been winning the very first multiple choice game with a perfect score with Sarah Greenlaw, Lizzie Burl, and Nicola Zollinger. Though as with all the multiple choice games my favorite part was watching as each team "flew over the cuckoo's nest" as Ms. Serensky slowly introduced teams (285, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Until she finally reached ours and I put the rest of my team in an awkward position, which I do every time, by sitting there quiet and nonchalant, waiting for the game to start. As always the whole room threw me that little look, the one that says, "You are not nearly as slick or stealthy as you think," we know you care about this game (102, Everything Matters!). Then the game started, and as each question went by our table grew more and more excited as our possibly perfect game neared completion. The game alone seemed to drag on forever as we slowly, and agonizingly slow it was, went over each question. Finally, when that last answer was revealed and we learned we had achieved the impossible and earned a perfect score for the game, well I just could not understand how it was possible. I seriously questioned if I really deserved all those extra credit points, or if I had just been smart enough to pick a good team. To be honest, I think it was probably the second one, when you put me next to Sarah my strict analytical brain just does not do the trick in English. I often wonder if perhaps the following loses were our team's fault, or more mine for misleading the team at times, and I would have to admit that I do more than my fair share of that. I suppose these games have finally taught me, "the vital Importance of Being Earnest" with oneself (54). Somehow I doubt it.

This was the third hit on Google Images for "quiet and nonchalant," perhaps I should only add pictures of tiny dogs from now on...