Tuesday, 11 November 2008

• Wow....

  It's been a long time since I've been on here, hasn't it? ^^' Even after I promised to post about Acquire the Fire (February), the St. Louis Lion Party (May), and I debated writing about my sister's wedding (August). Oops. ^^' Unfortunately, all those events are too far in the past for me to do them justice (well, I could still write about my sister's wedding, but I don't want to write completely in "my sister", "her then fiancee", and "my mom"s ;)), so I think I'm just going to do a rambling post. :P

  So, what have I been up to lately? Not much, honestly, aside from school. ^^' This year, I switched from regular English to AP English...biggest mistake ever. Even though regular English was too easy for me, AP was a mistake. First off, in regular English, they've spent the last few years reviewing things I knew by 6th or 7th grade as if it was brand new material, whereas there are some more advanced subjects (i.e. the difference between "who" and "whom", for cryin' out loud) that they have never touched on. I've self-taught myself more than I learned in that class, and that's just from learning Spanish. However, in AP, they expect you to already know how to read a difficult (*cough-Shakespeare-or-Postmodern-cough*) piece of literature and analyze it ON A COLLEGE LEVEL. ...Yeah, quite the jump. And since we never get any homework, our grade relies on projects we've been doing and tests...on said difficult-to-analyze books. Not to mention we only ever hear our teacher's perspective on it, since she's always completely right. Even when she says Lady Macbeth was justified in plotting King Duncan's murder because her society was so hard on women, and that "Enlightened" slavery was worse than regular slavery because it gave the slaves a false sense of hope. Um, WHAT?!?!? Oh, and let's not forget that we just read a book that would blow an NC-17-rated movie out of the water in terms of content, and I couldn't get out of it because I'm in a college class. Like I said, big mistake.

  But enough with my rant about the evils of my school. I did enough of those last year. ^^' In more current events, I've been working on my NaNoWriMo, Ditto Story segments, and, just today, I updated the Index. :D I hope someone gives me some feedback on it soon, though. :( I want to make sure my summaries are okay (since I am a horrible summarizer, in case my posts aren't any indication ;)), but no one in my family is willing to read them. :( Oh well.

  Okay, since I have to start getting ready for work in about 20 minutes (for some reason, I work 4 1/2 hour shifts four times a week rather than 3 1/2 hours three or four times a week now), I should wrap this up. Suffice it to say...yes, I am really still alive. :P ;)

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