Butterflies
I do graphic design for Herriman City. Not a lot, just for a few summer events. I did the program for the Miss Herriman Scholarship Pageant, remember there is a scholarship in there.
Doing this program every year I am on the phone for a few hours discussing every word and semi-colon with the pageant directors. They take their job very seriously. I take my job very seriously also, I do not take their job seriously though. I can portray class and style, but for some reason I don’t think that pageants are the epitome for grace and elegance. The pageant directors will ask my opinions about things and I will make some joke about something, and they will not laugh. Then I remember that they take this stuff very seriously. They take their work to heart and they feel that they are helping raise the next mega starlets of the days to come. I guess I just don’t see it like that. I do see it as a fun night to watch young girls make fools of themselves, and I am always up for that.
There was the one girl who came out and you knew that she thought she was going to win. She was slinky and bouncy and I immediately wanted to hit her. For her amazing talent she portrayed her love for the last whatever years of cheerleading by doing a routine that she had choreographed. If I was a pre-pubescent boy, I am sure that I would have loved it. But I could hardly watch. And her evening dress looked like something a cheap Mexican prostitute would wear. Am I going to be sued for slander?
There was another girl who may have been good if she would have stopped jerking around stage like a robot with one of its spark plugs missing. Belly dancing is supposed to be graceful. Do not do it like Eurkel from Family Matters.
I was impressed by two girls. They had a quiet elegance about them. The were unobtrusive. They were girls that actually portrayed class and beauty. I am glad they won.
I was also impressed with the past Miss Herriman. She lost the pageant two times before she won it. I have seen her progress and grow into a very smart and intelligent woman. She started as a shy girl with no courage or faith in herself. She has turned into a woman with grace and elegance and I would not be surprised if she ends up doing great things.
I am not a believer in pageants. But this girl came out of her cocoon and decided to become someone beautiful. I think we all have that ability. It just took being paraded about for this girl to find herself.