Well here's the dealyo. I'm too chilled out to rant, to frustrated to to talk of happy things, and too hungry and tired to do anything else. Might I add I am also dehydrated, lazy, and have an overwhelming craving for pork (sorry vegetarians). This is a very rare and specific mood that I am in occasionally. So what am I going to talk about today? I don't even know myself. Lets find out, shaaaaal we?
So as I'm sitting here, thinking aimlessly on what to write... and I notice something sitting on my shelf. I'ts a project I made when I was a youngster.... two years ago. It just so happens to be one of those little cars that you make in a woods class, or shop. It took me forever to make, and I am indeed quite proud of it. It made me go on one of those memory fests you get every once in a while.... lead me to think of all of the projects and essays that I am proud of. I mean really? some of this stuff deserves museum status.... according to me.
So I've come up with an idea. The museum website. haha... kinda like facebook....(what isn't these days) you have an account, and you share all of those things your proud of in the back of your closet. You can write about it, take pictures of it, video... whatever. You could even sell stuff if you really wanted to. It would be HUGE. like awesomely huge. I'd call it..... www.TheAllMightyMasterEpicOnlineMuseumOfAnythingAndEverything.com..... or www.tammeomoaae.com for short or www.tamemoe.com.... or.....something better..... but you get the general idea. I like it personally.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
the GREATNESS of high school.
In the words of Ferris Bueller, high school is "A little childish and stupid". Now I'm going to add another word to that list. Childish, stupid, and a bit archaic.
Archaic, is actually a word that describes a period of time where ancient art was unrealistic, stiff, and looked like it had nothing to do with the actual thing. Now, I am relating this to high school; and you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
Lets think... Unrealistic. High school is nothing like the real world. If you get bad grades, there's always next term. If you fail at your job, well, you cant really try again can you.
Don't even get me started on grammar. When and where are you going to look at the news paper and think, 'oh, theres the adjective clause,' and, 'I like how they used that helping verb!' ......... no. Your most likely never going to say those things. Ever. EVER. Guess what my friend got told from her math professor uncle? When she was in Geometry, she was just slaving away at her math homework. Proofs to be exact. He walks in and says," hey whatcha workin' on?" and when he sees what she's been doing for the past hour, he says, "Proofs? those are worthless. You will never use those ever again in school, and we math people don't even use them." That my friends came from a math professor. Really? I went through half a term bleeding out my eyes because I was so tired of proofs, to find out that you never use them again? WOW. Nice going math teacher.
Now, you also get that whole lecture of, you need to learn how to learn! Well you know what? I want to learn how to learn, learning something thats actually useful. From a students perspective, I cant help but wonder how much trash they make us learn that we never actually use. Unrealistic.
Stiff.... Lets talk about those really super deep writing prompts you get. You know the ones about littering... and after school activities.... and school uniforms.... I think in my entire English experience, the only deep writing prompt I ever had was about the book I read over the summer. Other than that, every writing prompt is either, 'the principal at your school...' or 'some members of the PTA have decided...' It's just dry. and about nothing you care about. I get better writing prompts in History. Actually, the best writing prompts I've ever had have been in History. Write about your feelings on George Washington. After learning about him, I did write an essay on that. A stinking good one. I even got a smiley face from my teacher.
If your going to try to make high school kids write about something, make it not about school. Lets just venture away from the school building; because life, regardless of what teachers think, doesn't always happen in a classroom. Don't make things stiff and unimportant.
Can you see yet why I think school is getting a little fake? Your not going to be writing about school uniforms as a journalist. Ya. And no, I'm sorry math teacher. I really am taking this class to get through high school. I really don't want to be a math professor. Interior design does not involve trig. Art teacher, your still cool with me. History teacher, your still awesome. English, math, and science teachers, we need to talk.
Archaic, is actually a word that describes a period of time where ancient art was unrealistic, stiff, and looked like it had nothing to do with the actual thing. Now, I am relating this to high school; and you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
Lets think... Unrealistic. High school is nothing like the real world. If you get bad grades, there's always next term. If you fail at your job, well, you cant really try again can you.
Don't even get me started on grammar. When and where are you going to look at the news paper and think, 'oh, theres the adjective clause,' and, 'I like how they used that helping verb!' ......... no. Your most likely never going to say those things. Ever. EVER. Guess what my friend got told from her math professor uncle? When she was in Geometry, she was just slaving away at her math homework. Proofs to be exact. He walks in and says," hey whatcha workin' on?" and when he sees what she's been doing for the past hour, he says, "Proofs? those are worthless. You will never use those ever again in school, and we math people don't even use them." That my friends came from a math professor. Really? I went through half a term bleeding out my eyes because I was so tired of proofs, to find out that you never use them again? WOW. Nice going math teacher.
Now, you also get that whole lecture of, you need to learn how to learn! Well you know what? I want to learn how to learn, learning something thats actually useful. From a students perspective, I cant help but wonder how much trash they make us learn that we never actually use. Unrealistic.
Stiff.... Lets talk about those really super deep writing prompts you get. You know the ones about littering... and after school activities.... and school uniforms.... I think in my entire English experience, the only deep writing prompt I ever had was about the book I read over the summer. Other than that, every writing prompt is either, 'the principal at your school...' or 'some members of the PTA have decided...' It's just dry. and about nothing you care about. I get better writing prompts in History. Actually, the best writing prompts I've ever had have been in History. Write about your feelings on George Washington. After learning about him, I did write an essay on that. A stinking good one. I even got a smiley face from my teacher.
If your going to try to make high school kids write about something, make it not about school. Lets just venture away from the school building; because life, regardless of what teachers think, doesn't always happen in a classroom. Don't make things stiff and unimportant.
Can you see yet why I think school is getting a little fake? Your not going to be writing about school uniforms as a journalist. Ya. And no, I'm sorry math teacher. I really am taking this class to get through high school. I really don't want to be a math professor. Interior design does not involve trig. Art teacher, your still cool with me. History teacher, your still awesome. English, math, and science teachers, we need to talk.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
huh... huh.. awkward. Dance!
So it's been a week since i last posted, and I have nothing to feel sorry for. did you miss me? don't answer that.
So what I'm going to bring up today is something we all experience every day. Awkward situations with the public. Now, if your a bright and bubbly person who has excellent social skills, and your not afraid to just go up to people and say hi, I envy you. About a fourth of the pain in my life comes from awkward situations with people, and I'm sure the rest of us could agree... at least... I hope I'm not the only one... but I might be... thats awkward.....
WELL. Take for instance the classic elevator situation. you step on to the elevator with a stranger, and you both immediately go the the far corners of the elevator. What are you thinking to your self? please don't talk to me. please don't talk to me. crap. "Hey. ya. just going to the forth floor. cafeteria. Yup. Gotta get some food, you know how it is. Ah gotta go? Well see ya around. Whew. glad thats over with. Oh! please don't get on the elevator. no! wait... isn't she my brothers ex? double awkward. shoot me.
A cure for this disease of awkwardness we have brought upon society may be unattainable. Whatever happened to the good old days when it wasn't weird to talk to people? where no one had iPods to shove in their ears, or cell phones to pretend to text on? Personally, about 25% of the time my phone is out, I'm not doing anything with it.
But seriously. We need to come up with a solution. How about in every awkward situation, weather it be on a bus, elevator, hall way, or library, do a little dance. Don't think about it. Have fun. If they join in, all the better. Do your favorite dance. Robot it up! Who knows. Maybe some day in the future, this will cause a global dance party, which will cause important people to get really confused, which will cause everything to reverse, which will cause a turn around on world turmoil, which will cause world peace. Your welcome, planet earth.
So what I'm going to bring up today is something we all experience every day. Awkward situations with the public. Now, if your a bright and bubbly person who has excellent social skills, and your not afraid to just go up to people and say hi, I envy you. About a fourth of the pain in my life comes from awkward situations with people, and I'm sure the rest of us could agree... at least... I hope I'm not the only one... but I might be... thats awkward.....
WELL. Take for instance the classic elevator situation. you step on to the elevator with a stranger, and you both immediately go the the far corners of the elevator. What are you thinking to your self? please don't talk to me. please don't talk to me. crap. "Hey. ya. just going to the forth floor. cafeteria. Yup. Gotta get some food, you know how it is. Ah gotta go? Well see ya around. Whew. glad thats over with. Oh! please don't get on the elevator. no! wait... isn't she my brothers ex? double awkward. shoot me.
A cure for this disease of awkwardness we have brought upon society may be unattainable. Whatever happened to the good old days when it wasn't weird to talk to people? where no one had iPods to shove in their ears, or cell phones to pretend to text on? Personally, about 25% of the time my phone is out, I'm not doing anything with it.
But seriously. We need to come up with a solution. How about in every awkward situation, weather it be on a bus, elevator, hall way, or library, do a little dance. Don't think about it. Have fun. If they join in, all the better. Do your favorite dance. Robot it up! Who knows. Maybe some day in the future, this will cause a global dance party, which will cause important people to get really confused, which will cause everything to reverse, which will cause a turn around on world turmoil, which will cause world peace. Your welcome, planet earth.
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