It's a very difficult thing to sing and dance at the same time. Show choir is not at all what you think of when you think of choir. It's a lot of energy.

They now have a completely different perspective of what is possible. Now that they have an understanding of what it takes to be the best, we set our sights on being more competitive at that level.

It was an eye-opening experience. This is the first national level competition [for us].

He's capable of putting up 20-25 on a given night. He waits his time and waits until it's needed. He's done it over and over again. When we need to make a play, he's there to save the day.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.

"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasses and one of them had a bullet hole through it like it was shattered, and he never got it fixed in the months that I went into this place.