Hey, is this me? Here?
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| Aggravated
Hello :D
Have been much absent due to copious amounts of homework, not the least of which this English oral which I have written but am terrified to the point of screaming that I haven't done it right.
MY NEW TIMETABLE IS NOT UP YET AND I AM ANNOYED.
Ok, so last night the guys were outside doing the bbq and me and Alice and mum and Jane were talking.. and we were talking about presents. And Jane's daughter Helen used to babysit us, right? And they're like these HUGE friends of the family and stuff (basically, here's me thinking I know everything about them) and then..
Jane: oh, the hardest person to buy for is Emma. I mean, I never know what to get for her..
Me: er... who's Emma.
Jane: Emma is Helen's partner, Victoria.
Me: oh. *pause* that Emma.
I MEAN COME ON! I'm sixteen years old - no one thought to tell me about this? Of course, me being blank as blank I showed no element of surprise, and Jane goes on to say.. 'oh, you just have to live with it because that's how it is...' and I'm sitting there thinking.. 'sheesh, poor Helen, imagine coming out to this woman.' I mean she's the nicest person I've ever met but she is a little, well, old fashioned. Even more than my parents.
Anyway apparently this Emma is hard to buy for because she's almost blind, so books and films and pictures are out, and if you get her anything that smells her extra-keen senses go kaflooey. Sometimes I want to whack the world.
The Abattoir is a poem that was written for the sole purpose of annoying the hell out of me and causing me to discover several disturbing pictures of slaughtered animals. Now I'm not an animal rights activist, but this was just gross. ALSO, after entering all my info onto the ppt presentation I decided to check the dos and don'ts list on the reference material.. and suddenly realised that of course I'm not going to be allowed to just read my presentation. So I cut the whole thing down to summary points and collected all the REAL info onto a word document preparing to print it and then I got this ominous email..
Some reminders: the oral is 5 - 7 minutes long. You may use palm cards. you do not have to use pp, but if you do, please send to me BEFORE the class in which you are presenting. ... there is good material both on line and in your text book to help you with the analysis of a poem and how to present that in the form of a commentary. Use the Vocab sheet to help you select the literary features that you want to comment on. You are asked to pay close attention to the language of the poem.
Hmmm, yeah. Don't have any of that stuff, I reckon. Especially since I still don't have a stupid text book. I really doubt I have over 5 mins of stuff and palm cards? My notes are three pages long! (So maybe it IS over 5 mins..)
UGH. COME ON, TIMETABLE. It's going to really hard going to class tomorrow if I don't know which one to go to.
Oh well.
| Aggravated
Hello :D
Have been much absent due to copious amounts of homework, not the least of which this English oral which I have written but am terrified to the point of screaming that I haven't done it right.
MY NEW TIMETABLE IS NOT UP YET AND I AM ANNOYED.
Ok, so last night the guys were outside doing the bbq and me and Alice and mum and Jane were talking.. and we were talking about presents. And Jane's daughter Helen used to babysit us, right? And they're like these HUGE friends of the family and stuff (basically, here's me thinking I know everything about them) and then..
Jane: oh, the hardest person to buy for is Emma. I mean, I never know what to get for her..
Me: er... who's Emma.
Jane: Emma is Helen's partner, Victoria.
Me: oh. *pause* that Emma.
I MEAN COME ON! I'm sixteen years old - no one thought to tell me about this? Of course, me being blank as blank I showed no element of surprise, and Jane goes on to say.. 'oh, you just have to live with it because that's how it is...' and I'm sitting there thinking.. 'sheesh, poor Helen, imagine coming out to this woman.' I mean she's the nicest person I've ever met but she is a little, well, old fashioned. Even more than my parents.
Anyway apparently this Emma is hard to buy for because she's almost blind, so books and films and pictures are out, and if you get her anything that smells her extra-keen senses go kaflooey. Sometimes I want to whack the world.
The Abattoir is a poem that was written for the sole purpose of annoying the hell out of me and causing me to discover several disturbing pictures of slaughtered animals. Now I'm not an animal rights activist, but this was just gross. ALSO, after entering all my info onto the ppt presentation I decided to check the dos and don'ts list on the reference material.. and suddenly realised that of course I'm not going to be allowed to just read my presentation. So I cut the whole thing down to summary points and collected all the REAL info onto a word document preparing to print it and then I got this ominous email..
Some reminders: the oral is 5 - 7 minutes long. You may use palm cards. you do not have to use pp, but if you do, please send to me BEFORE the class in which you are presenting. ... there is good material both on line and in your text book to help you with the analysis of a poem and how to present that in the form of a commentary. Use the Vocab sheet to help you select the literary features that you want to comment on. You are asked to pay close attention to the language of the poem.
Hmmm, yeah. Don't have any of that stuff, I reckon. Especially since I still don't have a stupid text book. I really doubt I have over 5 mins of stuff and palm cards? My notes are three pages long! (So maybe it IS over 5 mins..)
UGH. COME ON, TIMETABLE. It's going to really hard going to class tomorrow if I don't know which one to go to.
Oh well.