The end-of year dance recital, the end-of-year gymnastics program, the end-of-year parent-student picnic, the end-of-year art class display, and numerous informal mother-daughter gatherings.
Tony Zamazal, who says he's been wearing women's clothing as often as he can in recent months, had hoped to make a formal debut in a dress, heels and a wig at Spring High School's end-of-year dance.
Lana finds a note in her locker from someone named George, asking her to the end-of-year formal dance.
What works on Love Island could be completely different outside of it, with tabloids, new fame and the mounting pressure of trying to book an end-of-year appearance on Dancing on Ice looming.
(Look at the Beatles, who are always somewhere in the cumulative Top Twenty at the end of the year). Dancing has become the audience's job, and Spears is facing off against stars who are as much actors and improvisers as they are interpreters of songs and of dance steps.
Sure, it might be a great dress for that end-of-the-year dance, but if it's 8 months away, buy a dress then, not now.
Watching MPs commit seppuku on their own tweets is like watching your headmaster do a fun dance at the end-of-year talent contest: horrible, unwatchable, a human car-crash buckling in upon itself; but also a brief glimpse at the monster within, a rhythmless reminder that we all live, we all die, we all have flaws and are human.
Late last year my wife and I sat in the audience waiting to see our daughter dance in her school's end-of-year concert.
If the piece had been conceived by my third grader's dance class and presented at the end-of-year school recital, my indulgent smile would have faded after five minutes.
On the 2004 end-of-year chart, the song ranked number twenty-six and topped the dance chart.
