It’s while on one of these one evening that she’s startled by an explosion from the school, followed by the fiery plummet of one of the maintenance crew from an upstairs window. She’s not a total rule follower though, often indulging in sneaky smoke breaks with contraband confiscated from said students. So despite seeming an unlikely candidate for nunhood, Holiday is indeed devoted, both to Christ and to her kids. I was a fuckup about most things, but when it came to commitment, I was all in, like a python eating a goat, sinew and toenails and skeleton and all. I offered my students the only thing that mattered in life–honesty–and I’d serve it the way I meted out revenge, ice cold. Holiday is the music teacher, and one who brooks no nonsense from her charges, as she harbors the following philosophy: Sister Augustine is their Mother Superior and the principal of Saint Sebastian’s, the private Catholic school where they all teach. Though the sisters are part of a progressive, teaching Order, applicants are few and far between, such that the only other nuns there besides Holiday are the aged Sisters Augustine, Therese and Honor. Not that those ranks are exactly flourishing nowadays.
When the Sisters of the Sublime Blood finally agreed to take her in, Holiday was more than thrilled to move away from her Brooklyn home in order to join their ranks in New Orleans. Queer, with bleached hair and tattoos over most of her body – not to mention topless photos from her days in a punk rock band easily accessible on the Internet – her desire to take holy orders was a tough sell to nearly every convent in America. Sister Holiday is no one’s idea of the perfect nun.
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