Exams

So today we had the algebra and LA exams, and it was REALLY WEIRD, cuz like I was expecting the algebra exam to SUCK and the LA exam to be a total breeze, but nooooo. The algebra exam was easy, which was faboo. But the LA exam...

Well.

So all year we've been doing short stories and poems, right? And literary elements, and stuff. So Mr Sheep, my LA teacher, told us we were going to have to write 2 essays on the exam, and that's it. Which is, y'know, excellent, because I'm great at essay-writing, if I do say so myself. And I do. So last week, Mr Sheep was like "I'm gonna give you this essay thing to write to see if you need to study for the exam next week!"

So he gave us that. And we wrote our little essays. And it was pretty cool. I got a 100.

And then today, I went to the exam room and sat down and got out my paper and pencils and stuff, and Ms Harpen E passed out the exams, and I looked at the short story and poem, and the questions we were supposed to essay-ify, and...

I had nothing.

The short story was "The House on Mango Street," by, uh, I'm not sure. It's basically about a family who keeps having to move to crappy house after crappy house, and their family keeps getting bigger, and it kinda sucks all around for them. It's a good story, though. But the question I was supposed to answer in an essay was, "How does the point of view of the narrator relate to the theme of the story?"

The theme of the story, IMO, was that "If you can't be proud of it, it's not your HOME." But that has nothing to do with the narrator. The narrator was a genderless child of undetermined age.

You can see my problem.

So I tried to BS my way through an essay for a while, but I got about a paragraph in before I used up every single idea I had.

I took a look at the poem.

It was "The Bean-Eaters," by I forget. It was a three-stanza poem about a couple of old people sitting around eating beans and remembering things.

I was supposed to answer "How is the setting of the poem related to the theme of the poem?"

Well, the setting was a house. I think. Possibly. But that didn't have any effect on the theme of the poem- it might well have been an apartment. It didn't matter.

So I'm sitting there, and I have nothing to write, and 45 of the 90 minutes we're given are up. I have 45 minutes to write 2 essays without failing or breaking my soul. Neither of the essays are essays that I can write. This is my LA exam.

So.

I decided to do the unthinkable.

I wrote an essay as to why I could not write the other two essays.

It was about 5,000 times better than any essay I could have written on the given materials.

In the conclusion, I reminded Mr Sheep that I am an A+ student, and I never have problems with writing essays. I also said that I accept any grade he gives me, just so long as he understands why I wrote what I did, and I understand why he gave me the grade.

So yeah!

Holas Agains

I AM BACK.
Celebrations.
Illustrations to follow, at some point, probably.
:heart:
Imma go check all zee blog updates now

Bye Bye Civilization

See you on Wednesday. I'm off to East Jesus to do some marsh muckin'.

Fear Not, For I Have Returned!

Eh-hem.
Yeah I'm back!
:D
yay.

So for the past three days, I was at Camp Kanuga with the rest of my grade in a kind of three-day-long sleepaway field trip-slash-bonding ritual. Camp Kanuga is apparently some sort of Jesus camp, but (thankfully) there were no prayers before meals or any of that stuff. There was a giant white cross by the lake, though. :B

Anyway.

So for pretty much the entire trip, starting from the moment I sat down on the bus to go, I kept a kind of diary-like comic in my sketchbook. Here are the pages, with specific names blurred out.

From left to right and top to bottom:
6.48am first day.
[first part of page:]
E: COLD. me: CAFFEINE. we are still in the parking lot D: NOES
we're like here-ish [picture of bus 1 of 2]
ZOMBIE BUNNY OMFSM [says] "LETTUCE"
D: [says] "CAFFEEEEEEEEEIIIIINNNNNE~~~"
THIS IS THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE
ALSO THE BEIGNET SONG
[smilin stan imitation says] I am not smilin stan nope nope
[bunny says] GUHHHH TOO EARLY GUHHHH~~~!
[same bunny:] IT IS SO EARLY I HAVE BUNNY EARS
[same bunny:] HONESTLY WTF IS UP WITH THAT
[line]
7.06am 1st day
[spaceman says] WE HAVE MOVEMENT
[bus says] putt putt putt
[line]
7.21 1st day
[pink panther says] I AM NOT ZE FRANSH
THE PINK PANTHER
is creepy as fuck is drawn by unskilled anthro "artists" is most definitely NOT A PANTHER is ridiculous is a terrible knock-off of the first Pink Panther movie, "a shot in the dark" is on the bus TV & it is far too early for me to humor it :B
[steve martin says] i apologize for the existence of this terrible movie
[line]
9.06am 1st day
[lolface says] BLAR
[lolface also says] I AM TOO TIRED TO BE COHERENT
[lolface also says] BEANS
[pics of the two girls from the first parent trap movie]
WE ARE WATCHING THE FIRST PARENT TRAP MOVIE
THEY HAVE WEIRD HAIRCUTS
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE AWESOME DRESSES [pic of dress]
and bathing suits [pic of bathing suits]
[line]
NURR I AM NOT WEARING MY NECKLACE NURRR
I feel naked D:
[pick of pocketwatch necklace]
it works! :D
(from clockwork couture)

MY HANDWRITING SUCKS CUZ WE'RE MOVING ON A BUMPY ROAD D:



10.11am 1st day
[me] WAAA~~~! I see mountains!
[pic of E] is actually sleeping :B
[line]
10.21am 1st day
I WANT UR TOES [said the horse pic] ATTACK OF THE MANIC VAMPIRE HORSE THING
"you'll want to look THIS gift in the mouth!"
[me] I have no freakin' idea but i apologize
[line]
[me] ho ho ho
[random person 1] <3
[random person 2] oh you're so good!
vanity is mah worstestest sin _{it's fun though~~}
[line]
10.53am 1st day
[E's cellphone says 'e's bf'] blah. blah. so i herd u're in a cabin w/ A
[I am looking over e's shoulder]
[pic]
[me] WHYYYYYYYYYY~~~! my kingdom for a cabin change!
[link]
11.26am 1st day
TODDLERS CAN'T PLAY BLACKJACK
[toddler 1] 5 + 7 is 21 right?
[toddler 2] no silly it's 13
[line]
11.26am 1st day
NOTE: CAKES DU JOUR
[link]
11.30am 1st day
SOOO MANY CHUUUURRRRCHESSS
my very atheism is threatened! D:
[line]
11.35 or so a.m. 1st
ALMOST THERE
[line]
ROCK CLIMBING :la:
[line]
BLUHHHH HOT & SWEATY BLUHHH



7.06pm 1st day
[fork says] poke poke
food here is CRAP
[D: says] noes
[line]
7.30 1st day
H
E
LF (lolface)
[link]
7.39 1st day
I can see 3 girls in front of us. They're all wearing white tees with COLORED sports bras.
WHYYYYY
[line]
8.12am 2nd day
[me] WHAT WHAT WHAT
I DO NOT CARE IF MY GROWTH IS STUNTED! I NEED MY CAFFEINE! D:
[sign says "18 or older for coffee :D")
[line]
uh like 8.45 or so- 2nd day
[paper says "OFF TO HI-ROPES- BRB! -the management"]
[line]
12.17 2nd day
BACK
[me] NOOOO~~
I climbed the ladder(s)...
and then back down :B
[e says] WHEE~~
E seemed to like it though
[line]
12.24 or so
I TOOK A STALKER PIC OF E'S EAR
lol
[line]
12.26 or so
[mosquito says] AI KEEL U NAO
[line]
12.30 or so
SPIDERMAN IS A SEXY BEAST XD
[line]
1.35 2nd day
APPARENTLY E & H & I LOOK LIKE CRACKHEADS :B
[line]
like 2 or w/e :B 2nd day
[me] AWE
[h] AWE
(that stuff is pre-wrap)
[line]
[me] NOM
OMG I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID ABOUT THE FOOD



[e and h] GUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH
E & H have been spinning in circles for the past 4 minutes
:D
[me] facepalm
[line]
[pics]
[line]
[me] LURK LURK LURK
[E, H, and C] YAAAAAAAAAA!!!
E, H, C & I WENT TO THE LAAAAAKE~~!
oh yeah and also D
[line]
BAI BAI UNTIL THE BUS
[line]
BACK
[line]
12.30 or so 3rd day
oh gawd this is gonna be hard to describe
basically the portraits are labeled, the first one is P, the second one is El, the 3rd one is P, the fourth one is D. the text says:
All these 3 days, I was at a table of 7- me, P, El, P, D, R, and A (last 2 not pictured)
El & P were being general asshats to P, despite the "no"s. Today we had stuff w/ soy sauce & had some left over. When El turned away, I gestured to D to pour soy sauce in El's OPEN water bottle. He did. XD
WIN!
El: 0
Me: 1
[line]
12.30 or so 3rd day
[me with compass] uhhhhh~~~
orienteering sux0rs D:
[line]
[first person is labeled ZERO, second is STANLEY]
we are watching "holes." I am reminded of how ridiculously cute the 2 guys are XD

NO GOOD DIRTY ROTTEN PIG-STEALIN' GRANDFATHER
[yes that should be great-great-grandfather, but w/e]
[line]


THE END!

So yeah. I apologize if most of that didn't make sense.
:B
BUT YEAH THAT IS WHERE I WAS
MOUNTAINS ARE PURDY :B