April Fools' Day is probably the second-most underrated holiday behind Presidents' Day. It's a great time of the year when you can lie and be deceitful, and people won't hold a grudge against you for quite as long for really getting the best of them.

This April Fools' Day was particularly fruitful. Let me preface this by telling you that along with my duties here at WSAZ, I'm also a senior at Marshall University. I'm currently taking an English class, and it just so happened that I had a poem due on April 1st. Well, I thought it would be a good gag to turn in lyrics to the classic Sting tune "Fields of Gold" instead of original work of my own.

The professor returned the poem back to me during our next class meeting with a grade of B + and no comments about plagiarism. I guess he's not much of a music buff. I was tempted to tell him it was only a joke, but I figured the grade would really help my average.

I also got my grandma pretty good. She's quite proud of me for working here at WSAZ, but she's always bugging me, asking me when I'm going to replace Tim Irr, so on April Fool's Day I called her and told her Tim was on vacation and that I'd be filling in for him on the 11 o'clock newscast. I was so giddy that night, wishing I could see the look on her face when she saw that Tim was anchoring after all!

I called her the next day to ask her what she thought, but she told me she thought I did a great job. She's getting pretty old. I don't think her mind functions very well these days.

I have to confess that I was the victim of a good prank too. Somebody managed to get into my bank account and take all my money. I haven't figured out who the prankster is yet, but you really have to give them credit for doing something new and innovative. I think it might have been a Mexican, because I accidentally left my debit card in Mexico a while back.

Well, that about sums up all the tomfoolery and ballyhoo from my April Fool's Day '08. I'd love to hear stories from you, the reader, on how your day went.