I'm going insane.
 

A poster on Eugene O'Neill due in a week. Plenty of time. Vocabulary quiz on Friday. Gotta remember to look at those words. Almost done with AP Chemistry homework. The teacher won't give me a damn due date though, other than 'early next week.' Terminé mi tarea de español. Need to think of a topic for Speech/Debate. Is pornography too 'out there'? Done with the math homework, but I have a quiz tomorrow. That shit'll be easy. And AP US! Fucking AP US history. I have...I have...done my ID list, chapter 4 ID list isn't up yet. I need to read 10 pages of my text book tonight...And I think...that's it. For now.

Fuck.

At least I got the computer back.

*hug*

i think you need that.

I do. :(

But! No, not "but" but, "But!" There is a certain amount of strange happiness that is derived from being on the verge of some sort of melt down when you have lots of friends who are all at the same spot with you, waiting to help each other should another's head explode.

well don't die

I won't. I think I'm making it sound worse than it is. I'm getting by just fine. It is just so much more time consuming. I'm not used to it at all. My first two years of high school were so easy. I got easy teachers that would give hardly any homework. But now I have lots of homework from every class everyday. It is just overwhelming. I'll get used to it though.

And before !@#$% comes in to tell me to have a social life too, does studying at Denny's with friends at 3 AM count? And I'm going to hang out with a friend tomorrow. I will make socializing somewhat of a priority.

*hug* *kiss, kiss*

what the fuck is a "vocabulary" quiz? do people need those? (looks around the board). oh yes, of course!



i never experienced that in highschool, but i did in college. oh what fun! of course on weekends we would get plastered and forget our sorrows.

btw, when your head is about to explode, do something physical. i had this buddy who owned a ping pong table and we used to study for university exams together--this sounds dorky, and it probably is, but playing ping-pong while fielding random test questions at each other relieved a lot of stress. you can also try the peripathetic approach. (you think "peripathetic" will go on your vocabulary quiz?)


ha! studying at 3am is how i hooked up with my first "serious" girlfriend. good times!

You poor slob.
Goddamn, I love being a grownup.

I think the Cops are going to be over your house pretty soon.

No, they won't. The shadow gov't gave our house immunity.

Well whatever you do, do not step outside your home.

You are going to love College.

Vocab quizzes are a joke. A few words: Disconcert, Scourge, Grandiose, Assuage, SLEAZY, Debase, Heinous, Megalomania.

The only thing is, that the quizzes are cumulative, so I have to remember all the ones we learn throughout the year. It'll still be a breeze.

(In best Andy Griffith, South Carolina drawl) My, my, I do declare. With them kinds of fancy words on the tip of your tongue, you are going to sound like a right-fine book-learned fella.

That needed rep.

c'mon in, the water's fine.

That's what you think.

My friends giggled when I told them I was reading The Iceman CUMeth.

In Iowa, instead of 7-11, they have Kum & Go. Seriously.

Now THAT is giggle worthy.

In L.A. they have whorehouses.

This one time, in the grocery store, I tried to tell the butcher I wanted the chops called "American Cuts," only it came out as "American Cunts." I was embarrassed.

At your old age, you should not be embarrassed.

Jane Schaffer. Have you people heard this crap? We have to start writing nice little "Jane Schaffer" paragraphs for all subjects, math and science included. It is beyond idiotic. My math teacher had the sense to throw the Jane Schaffer poster away.

No who is she? I would google, but that is too much effort.

True. In those situations, I just try to thing of what Larry David would do. In fact, I'm making a bracelet marked "WWLDD" to help guide me in my times of need.

The person who came up with this writing structure, format, program, whatever that is supposed to help.

A Schaffer paragraph goes something like this.

T (Topic Sentence)
CD (Concrete Detail)
CM (Commentary)
CD
CM
SC (Concluding Sentence)

But it has spread like a cancer beyond English to all subjects, and all the teachers are required to have some Jane Schaffer program training. She is the Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter character) of the real world.

Oh that is what we did in English class.

Them English teachers doesn't know nothing.

Yeah, and that is where it belongs. In an English class. We shouldn't have to write paragraphs explaining how to factor cubic equations, or how silver nitrate reacts with copper. At least not in that formal format.

That would drive me nuts.

My Speech/debate coach (my English teacher last year) is cool. He got his copy of Inland Empire and Catching the Big Fish signed by David Lynch. He's just about the only person in that whole school of 3,700 kids that I can talk to about anything interesting.

Write a letter to the school board. Only make sure you follow the Schaffer format.

In college you are going to write essays, for History, Science, and so many other classes. Better get used to it.

There is a color code for teaching it. I think most of the teachers don't like doing it, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Well, no shit. I do that now. But we write little paragraphs that ultimately don't help anyone understand anything any better than without it. Pretty much all essays are in the Jane Schaffer format, but now it isn't just essays. It is specific little assignments specifically to practice the format.

God, that kind of bullshit just makes me want to rebel. I'd write an a letter-perfect paper following the format, then I'd cut it into strips and randomnly paste it back together, then turn that in and tell the teacher you're using the Schaffer-Burroughs format.

They just want to see how well you follow directions. Like, anyone who who would ever become a decent writer wouldn't delete this garbage from their brain.

btw, all this school crap you're worried about, it may seem bad and stressful and scary. Trust me, it could be much, much worse.