Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Naleka Sayaloune

After each unveiling of Geek of the Week, Naleka Sayaloune (like something out of Where the Wild Things Are) stomps his terrible feet, and flexes his terrible muscles, and yells his terrible yell until I say “Enough” and tame him by staring into his crazed eyes without blinking once. Then he implores and bribes and cries and whimpers to be a Geek (kinda funny for a fella sporting such muscular girth). I heartily laugh and say someday...well someday is now. Naleka Sayaloune’s poetic caricatures, The Chadron Tales, produced such commanding and articulate measures, I as his instructor had no alternative but knight him with the esteemed honor. Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English Literature, would have wept with pride at Naleka’s use of enjambment, end stops, rhyme schemes, and iambic pentameter. Congrats Naleka Sayaloune...English Geek of the Week.