The Legend of Peter the Positive and the Origin of ALA Power Cuts

Once upon a time, there was an isolated kingdom named “Swaniford”. And in that most diligent of lands, there lived a young population of diverse youth, who came from many distant nations. Granted, most of them were from Senegal, Nigeria, and Kenya, but indeed they were diverse. And in Swaniford, the young Swanifordians toiled all day, sweating their own caffeine-saturated blood over a variety of three letter acronyms: SRB, OID, CIE, CSP, SAT, and of course that most pervasive of abbreviations: TBA. It was rumored that the mighty founders worked with fiendishly complex combinations such as WDYDWYDWYDYDWYDDWDY, but reports were unconfirmed.

Yet because of their tireless work ethic, the scholars of Swaniford were not always cheerful, and in their times of need, they looked for a human of incredible bounciness, remarkable cooking skills, and immense disregard for humor boundaries. Thankfully, one such man existed, and his name was Peter the Positive. Peter the Positive lived in his den of joyfulness on the second level of the residential edifice, and almost all Swanifordian scholars visited him at one point or another to receive their dose of earsplitting sanity. Particularly the girls, because they lived on a fortuitous side of the building and could visit him after check-in, which was unfair. Anyway, Peter’s kindness was so overwhelming that the students were even able to overlook his kitchen, which was a borderline health hazard. Whenever the inhabitants of Swaniford were sad, they looked to Peter for guidance, and in that way, he kept happiness throughout the land.

Unfortunately, Peter the Positive could not continue so tirelessly forever, especially during that most hectic of times, the Christmas Holidays. He soon found it necessary to recharge periodically. So great were his energy needs that he drew his vitality not just from sleep and food, but also from his surroundings, and in particular the electrical sockets. Even today, you can always tell when Peter the Positive is in a state of deep-recuperation, for Swaniford is plunged into a period darkness. We mortals like to call these periods “power cuts”.



It seems that Mr. Peter is resting more and more these days.