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Amusing story of the day.
Jan. 10th, 2005 08:00 pmI was on the bus home from school today, and listening with 1/5 an ear to the conversation behind me (it was loud and I'm nosy, okay?). One girl was knitting, somehow, on the bus, or looking at her knitting, anyway. Her friend said, "Wow, that's really good. I don't know how you can have the patience to do that. I don't even have the patience to sit on the bus." KnitterGirl replied, "No, it's really relaxing, actually. A lot of the football players do it."
You can give us a football team, but we're still a town full of wussy liberals. With football players who knit.
And you thought the gender revolution was dead.
In other news, OMG I hate my classmates! Honors English here, and there are people who a)seem not to know that a NEWS ARTICLE goes in the past tense, and b)can't even stick to the present!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
limyaael, I have never appreciated you more. Future copy editor that I am, I went around critiquing the facts, grammar, etc. of the articles. (Teacher: You're not making criticisms, you're taking notes to help you. Me, internal: I know this better than they do, and can write better to boot. Not that that's hard.) In this I was assisted by a fellow-classmate who also enjoyed sarcasm.
Notes for My Class:
One uses the past tense for past events. That is why we call it the 'past'. This means that news articles are almost all in the past. The state at the time of writing goes in the present, and predictions go in the future. That is not hard.
Further, this is a newspaper, not a psychic network. You do not use internal thoughts, feelings, or reactions outside of direct quotes. One does not begin a news story with a statement of Telemakhos' emotions and internal struggle. It is internal; you, an outside source, do not know about it.
Further further, please choose either Latin or Greek names and stick with them. Either C's or K's, but not both.
Finally, unless Gollum is reporting, there are no such things as 'Kyclopses'. Thank you.
On the upside, a certain geeky someone of my acquaintance wrote an ad for Demodokos the Self-Insert...in Greek. With a translation, but in Greek. Squee!
Writing bad poetry to show teacher. Poor woman; I was nasty and asked her what the point of the fatuous (I used the word) log questions were. She didn't deserve it, but I wish there was a way to convince her that, if it is truly for me, then it can be scrapped, as a)I do not want it, b)I do not need it, c)I'll just be sarcastic, d)You do not read it, and e)I can write more interesting things about the book if you want.
Ja, matta!
You can give us a football team, but we're still a town full of wussy liberals. With football players who knit.
And you thought the gender revolution was dead.
In other news, OMG I hate my classmates! Honors English here, and there are people who a)seem not to know that a NEWS ARTICLE goes in the past tense, and b)can't even stick to the present!
limyaael, I have never appreciated you more. Future copy editor that I am, I went around critiquing the facts, grammar, etc. of the articles. (Teacher: You're not making criticisms, you're taking notes to help you. Me, internal: I know this better than they do, and can write better to boot. Not that that's hard.) In this I was assisted by a fellow-classmate who also enjoyed sarcasm.Notes for My Class:
One uses the past tense for past events. That is why we call it the 'past'. This means that news articles are almost all in the past. The state at the time of writing goes in the present, and predictions go in the future. That is not hard.
Further, this is a newspaper, not a psychic network. You do not use internal thoughts, feelings, or reactions outside of direct quotes. One does not begin a news story with a statement of Telemakhos' emotions and internal struggle. It is internal; you, an outside source, do not know about it.
Further further, please choose either Latin or Greek names and stick with them. Either C's or K's, but not both.
Finally, unless Gollum is reporting, there are no such things as 'Kyclopses'. Thank you.
On the upside, a certain geeky someone of my acquaintance wrote an ad for Demodokos the Self-Insert...in Greek. With a translation, but in Greek. Squee!
Writing bad poetry to show teacher. Poor woman; I was nasty and asked her what the point of the fatuous (I used the word) log questions were. She didn't deserve it, but I wish there was a way to convince her that, if it is truly for me, then it can be scrapped, as a)I do not want it, b)I do not need it, c)I'll just be sarcastic, d)You do not read it, and e)I can write more interesting things about the book if you want.
Ja, matta!
