So I was sick for a few days and when I came back I found that Allison's face had mutated into that of a hideous monster and that Brandon had turned into a jalepeño person. And here begins the legend of the hydra.
The assignment was to create a piece of art with the entire table collaborating, so everyone knew beforehand that this project's outcome would not have a coherent aspect of any kind. We expected it to be the kind of art that if it was found one thousand years in the future by archaeologists it would generate confusion about the way citizens of this era perceived the world. The archaeologists may have previously theorized that during the information age, knowledge, literacy and intelligence in general was prevalent in the developed world, but this mysterious piece of art would throw that theory into question. When I arrived at art class after my brief plague I saw that everybody had drawn characetures of each other in the form of disembodied heads. I watched as my peers held their own disembodied head (or embodied Jalapeño thing, as the case may be) and wondered what to do with them. To me, the solution was obvious; attach each head to the neck of a hydra. The overall consensus of the group was that it was an okay idea that they would probably go along with because no other ideas presented themselves. I drew the body of the hydra for a while but then Allison got upset because she is an expert of hydra anatomy and I was offending her by not drawing everything properly. After a brief squabble we compromised that I shall continue drawing and that she would be the consultant of all things hyrdanatomical. Shortly afterwards she drew a giraffe neck onto the hydra. This was followed by each contributor drawing their own neck; Ottoli's neck was a snake, which coupled with the disgusted expression on her cartoon's face formed the perfect Slytherin section of the hydra. Charlie's neck became a sort of doctor Suess style furry thing with an intermittent smiley face. Jacob's neck was a tower with arrows and Rapunzel dropping a cereal box or something. I feel like there is a story here that I'm not quite appreciating enough but I'll blame that on my phone's photo quality. Nathan's neck was actually drawn by Brandon (who does not have a neck of his own to fill in, poor lad) because Nathan was probably off frolicking in a meadow somewhere, but was not it the art room. And last but not least, my neck, naturally, was a pineapple. After Jacob finished coloring in the background we proclaimed our masterpiece complete. After some internal strife and a lot of procrastinating, our teamwork finally payed off. Good job, wonderpets!
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