Sometimes I'm afraid this is it; what if we don't "grow up"?
English- I know, back story kills humor, but real briefly: there's this one kid in my class, Spencer, and I swear he's the spokes-child for creationism. If there's two things you know about Spencer, it's that he's salutatorian, and that he's die-hard religious.
Anyway, Mrs. S puts in this 90s PBS film for this half-assed assignment about recognizing what she calls "zingers," and the first thing the guy says is something like, "Humans have been around for 1 million years..."
And from the back of the class, "BS! I'm done with his."
The AP class just died.
Modern Film & Lit- Continued watching The Matrix. I know it's supposed to be like Whooo... imagine if the world you think you're living in was all a dream! Trippy, huh? but I'm just not getting into it.
I love how, nowadays, whenever I hear a weird name, I just think of Sarah Palin. It's like 'Tank'? Heh heh... Palin.
Newspaper- There's a staff meeting tonight, and Mr. N promises there's going to be a strong discussion about the new band seminar. Krystal agreed we should probably hold off interviewing Mr. H until tomorrow, then.
Both of us are putting it off, but I think for slightly different reasons. xD
The junior girl spent an entire 10 minutes just talking about how she got mad at her friend this morning for talking nonstop. I was so close to screaming CAN YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF RIGHT NOW? SHUT UPPP.
Lunch- Sometimes Abby can just be in such a horrible mood, and I can only be so patient for so long. I'm sorry, but I just want to yell at her sometimes. Just because she's pissed about something doesn't mean she has to drag me down, too.
Spencer came around with a few questions for his psych survey: life or choice?; for or against the death penalty?; evolution or creationism?
It rarely happens, but it's always so awkward when we get on topic of politics at the lunch table. I mean, it's just strange to find out how much you really disagree with your friends, but if you can make it out of a disagreement with no hard feelings, then I guess you shouldn't have much to worry about anyway. Thankfully, those guys are usually pretty accepting.
Anyway, what I was getting at was, after Spencer left we all pretty much guessed that the abortion and death penalty questions were there to see if anyone would "contradict" themselves. Technically, I guess I was one of those people. I said choice (duh), but last year, between The Green Mile and Mr. P, I was talked into being against the death penalty. We also guessed the evolution vs. creationism thing was in there just for his curiosity. I said evolution of course, but I was surprised at how many kids chose creationism.
And then I remembered reading recently that only 53% of Americans believe in evolution. Now that is bullshit.
Psychology- Today Mr. Bailey told us about how lame band kids are. Now, I'm aware I'm not a band kid anymore, but I still feel like a surrogate or something, so I was in that offended-but-not-really-taking-this-seriously-because-it's-Mr.-Bailey limbo.
This one senior girl, one of the "Brooke"s, came in at the start of class and asked Mr. Bailey if he'd be her teacher escort-type person during the crowning of the homecoming queen at Friday's game. Long story, but I'm sure I'll explain it better after the game. Anyway, he got flirting with her and saying maybe there'd be a ring instead or whatever, and I just thought Damn, I bet Mr. Bailey is the same asshole he was 25 years ago.
Mr. Bailey says he used to teach drivers ed for extra money. Dude, if I had had him for drivers ed. I would probably still be riding my bike everywhere.
Pre-Calc- Mr. T got frustrated with a math problem and decided to just stop doing it. It was great. "You know what? Now I'm frustrated. I--ok. Just forget it. We're moving on." The class was like What...? lol, ok
Mr. T said he's going to be gone on Wednesday, so he dumped a ton of homework on us because we won't actually have him as a teacher until Thursday. Not fair. D:
Spanish- According to this one kid's aunt who went to school with Mr. E, he was a total "burnout." He denies it, though. xD Sometimes I wonder which of my classmates will be teachers, and if I'd seriously want my kids under their direction.
We got talking about bad teachers, and Mr. E admitted he doesn't think Mr. Bailey knows what he's talking about. "All he does is lecture you guys on prostitution and sex." Spot-on.
Also, wtf, Mr. E has this one really long Shakespeare quote memorized. The mark of the pretentious man, amirite? ;)
Anyway, Mrs. S puts in this 90s PBS film for this half-assed assignment about recognizing what she calls "zingers," and the first thing the guy says is something like, "Humans have been around for 1 million years..."
And from the back of the class, "BS! I'm done with his."
The AP class just died.
Modern Film & Lit- Continued watching The Matrix. I know it's supposed to be like Whooo... imagine if the world you think you're living in was all a dream! Trippy, huh? but I'm just not getting into it.
I love how, nowadays, whenever I hear a weird name, I just think of Sarah Palin. It's like 'Tank'? Heh heh... Palin.
Newspaper- There's a staff meeting tonight, and Mr. N promises there's going to be a strong discussion about the new band seminar. Krystal agreed we should probably hold off interviewing Mr. H until tomorrow, then.
Both of us are putting it off, but I think for slightly different reasons. xD
The junior girl spent an entire 10 minutes just talking about how she got mad at her friend this morning for talking nonstop. I was so close to screaming CAN YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF RIGHT NOW? SHUT UPPP.
Lunch- Sometimes Abby can just be in such a horrible mood, and I can only be so patient for so long. I'm sorry, but I just want to yell at her sometimes. Just because she's pissed about something doesn't mean she has to drag me down, too.
Spencer came around with a few questions for his psych survey: life or choice?; for or against the death penalty?; evolution or creationism?
It rarely happens, but it's always so awkward when we get on topic of politics at the lunch table. I mean, it's just strange to find out how much you really disagree with your friends, but if you can make it out of a disagreement with no hard feelings, then I guess you shouldn't have much to worry about anyway. Thankfully, those guys are usually pretty accepting.
Anyway, what I was getting at was, after Spencer left we all pretty much guessed that the abortion and death penalty questions were there to see if anyone would "contradict" themselves. Technically, I guess I was one of those people. I said choice (duh), but last year, between The Green Mile and Mr. P, I was talked into being against the death penalty. We also guessed the evolution vs. creationism thing was in there just for his curiosity. I said evolution of course, but I was surprised at how many kids chose creationism.
And then I remembered reading recently that only 53% of Americans believe in evolution. Now that is bullshit.
Psychology- Today Mr. Bailey told us about how lame band kids are. Now, I'm aware I'm not a band kid anymore, but I still feel like a surrogate or something, so I was in that offended-but-not-really-taking-this-seriously-because-it's-Mr.-Bailey limbo.
This one senior girl, one of the "Brooke"s, came in at the start of class and asked Mr. Bailey if he'd be her teacher escort-type person during the crowning of the homecoming queen at Friday's game. Long story, but I'm sure I'll explain it better after the game. Anyway, he got flirting with her and saying maybe there'd be a ring instead or whatever, and I just thought Damn, I bet Mr. Bailey is the same asshole he was 25 years ago.
Mr. Bailey says he used to teach drivers ed for extra money. Dude, if I had had him for drivers ed. I would probably still be riding my bike everywhere.
Pre-Calc- Mr. T got frustrated with a math problem and decided to just stop doing it. It was great. "You know what? Now I'm frustrated. I--ok. Just forget it. We're moving on." The class was like What...? lol, ok
Mr. T said he's going to be gone on Wednesday, so he dumped a ton of homework on us because we won't actually have him as a teacher until Thursday. Not fair. D:
Spanish- According to this one kid's aunt who went to school with Mr. E, he was a total "burnout." He denies it, though. xD Sometimes I wonder which of my classmates will be teachers, and if I'd seriously want my kids under their direction.
We got talking about bad teachers, and Mr. E admitted he doesn't think Mr. Bailey knows what he's talking about. "All he does is lecture you guys on prostitution and sex." Spot-on.
Also, wtf, Mr. E has this one really long Shakespeare quote memorized. The mark of the pretentious man, amirite? ;)