Wow. After what has felt like eternity, the site is back up. I'll go into detail as to what exactly happened with my server these past two weeks in a later post because today is all about the Yearbook. First of all, I want to greet all the first time visitors as I planted the site's URL at least twice in the Yearbook, so hello! As many of you know, the school year is about to end. Every year about this time (actually, a week earlier than about this time) a special book comes out more special than any other book - that's aimed to you you Pegasus idiots - the Yearbook. Basically all year, a handful of students sit at their very small desks in 104 editing away pages upon pages of things they want to include in the Yearbook. After their sections are fully complete, they submit them to the editors; once the editors get a hold of the pages, all hell breaks loose and they erase practically everything and start over. Just kidding. Anyway, I was lucky enough to be one of those editors this year, alongside with Devon and Robyn. We worked all year to bring you what we think is the best Yearbook that our school has ever seen - and I'm not just saying that. It is a great book. This year, like last year, the whole Yearbook is in color except this year, the color is rotated 90 degrees. That means the Yearbook this year is landscape unlike usual books that go portrait. Who knows if it was done intentionally or not (I doubt it), but it fits perfectly with our theme, 007, as all James Bond films are shot in at least a 1.85:1 ratio, creating a rectangular shape. I think it fits perfectly, no pun intended. Other than that major change, we tried our hardest this year to keep every photo in proportion, to keep every page go to the edge, and to make the whole book just look extremely clean and easier to navigate through. We think we all did a great job. And as a side note to those kids in the Yearbook Staff, I would like to say on behalf of the editors that we thank you very, very much for working with us and dealing with us. If we ever were rude to you or made you feel sad, it was only either because we wanted to see you cry or because we just wanted the book to look great this year. You can pick either one.

Besides the visual look of the book, a few other things are different this year. I'm speaking about advertisements. I can't say this for a fact, but if my memory serves me correctly, there hasn't ever been any kinds of ads around campus promoting the Yearbook - and I'm happy to say that this year, on the 26th Edition, we had our very first promotions. While I'm sure many people overlooked our overused "The Book is Upon Us" slogan, we hope that it made everyone more aware of the Yearbooks' presence, or at least made you think someone was advertising some religious text. Whatever, haha. We had a total of five advertisements. Two main fliers, two mini-fliers, and one big banner. In case you weren't able to catch the ads, I decided to put up a few .PDFs for you guys to check out (just click on the image once you get to the page to access the .PDFs. Feel free to print them out and decorate your room). The first of the mini-fliers went out on Monday, June 4th, 2007 at around 11:30 AM - we distributed roughly 300 of them by stuffing them on/in cars and on/in lockers. All it said was "The Book is Upon Us", the first introduction to our slogan - a date was omitted; you can check it out here. The second of the mini-fliers went out the day after on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 a little earlier at around 11:00 AM - we used less paper and distributed roughly 100 of them only by stuffing them on cars. This mini-flier had the date "6.11.07" written backwards (which later turned out to be the wrong date) as a follow up to the original mini-flier which omitted the date; you can check it out here. On the same day, we posted our first main flier around school at the same time - around 20 fliers were put up over the campus and they said "The Book is Upon Us" with the date "6.11.07" at the bottom written by Devon; you can check it out here - this is the original flier with the date digitally placed at the bottom, this version did not go out as we were not sure on the date. Those were the only ads of the week. Yet for this week, yesterday, Monday, June 11th, 2007 at around 7:00 AM we put up our huge banner "The Book is Upon Us" cut out of yellow paper and duct taped onto the Auditorium wall. We prepared the letters on Thursday, June 7th, 2007; you can check it out at the index of the site here - but if you can't see it in real life, you're just dumb. Also yesterday, our second main flier, and our last flier, was posted around school, 15 of them, at around 11:30 AM and explained the price of the Yearbook as well as offered little tabs to rip off to bring to the Student Store for a FREE discount. About an hour after they went up, to our delight at least 10% of the tabs were taken off; you can check it out here.

That is the gist of what the differences are in this year's Yearbook. I did not do it justice as I have not looked at it yet (they are supposed to come in at around 10:00 AM today, Insha Allah - the truck somehow broke down in Arizona during shipment) and I have not seen a page of the Yearbook since late April. So you best buy your Yearbook before they sell out to check out how amazing it actually is this year. I for one will come to school today to get mine, but I will be extremely nervous - I have this strange fear that the printers messed up the cover and the Yearbook will be horrible, but that's just my phobia. The graphic to the left is the cover. For those of you new visitors, that are still reading this for some reason, I now invite you to roam around the site to see what I have - you got some videos to choose from, some games, some photos from me (and by 'some', I mean hardly any; I need to seriously work on that section), and some photos from Imadul, ThaDogg. So go look. As for everyone else, I plan to write up what the hell went on these past two weeks in another post. Just breathe a sigh of relief that we're all back to normal. Oh, and if you haven't noticed, the font up top has changed. It's now Eras Medium ITC instead of Tahoma. You like? Comments work. Happy Birthday, Gina! Take care everyone. see u.