Pointless Announcements

It's hard to sleep when someone is taking a drill to one of your teeth.


At least it still feels like that on the one they struggled to remove. The other three are barely sore. That last one is killing me.

 

I knew there were a lot of "in fact"s in this manuscript, but I think two of them in a relatively short sentence is the last straw.

And another thing: This author has one of the most annoying tics I've had to deal with. He has this habit (throughout) of making sentences with this sort of structure: If you have A, then you will want to B with that A. It's so common that it drives me nuts every time I come across it.

It would be like saying things like, "If you have grapes, you should eat those grapes."

...instead of, "If you have grapes, you should eat them."

And all the time.

 

Oh dear FSM, I have to go mark field writing assessments today. It's how the state tests new prompts for the assessment--they give them to a bunch of kids, and then trainee scorers such as myself get to mark them. YAY. There was only one piece in yesterday's training that got all 6s, the highest score.

 

Although I appreciate the very clear distinction between the process of writing versus the process of thinking and the process of speaking, I'm pretty sure I can tell by someone's writing when they are suffering from acute "anliterae": a condition marked by a deficiency of literature in the brain.

 

I have a streak that's either pessimistic or realistic. Or cynical? I don't know. I have this tendency to interpret all those motivational posters people make that get disemninated through Facebook. They're basically photos of animals, people doing certain things, etc., but sometimes they're just attractive text treatments. You know what they are. They're the motivational/inspirational posters of our time.

Anyway, sometimes I'll read one, where my immediate response is to accept that it's not even true.

For example, a recent one read, "Strong people don't put others down.... They lift them up." It's a nice sentiment, and you can read a lot into it. However, my response was, "Umm.... I'm pretty sure strong people put others down as well.... Like, a lot."

 

Ok, I lol'd.

 

Wait....wait....

Does this mean you've had the_jazz's penis in your mouth and it wasn't as bad as the nutrition bar?

Right on.

*high-fives the_jazz, hands him a Budweiser*