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[I am a bit of a push-over]
And everyone who knows how I am in real life, even a little bit, is going "NO REALLY?"
It's actually a bit on the hilarious side how much of a push-over I can be, especially when you think about how stubborn I am as well. They SOUND like traits that contradict each other, but let me illustrate my life like this:
You know when you've got, like a plastic toy animal, and when you push it over, its legs stick out comedicly while it lays on the ground, not changing its shape, but just laying there? That's kind of like me. You can push me over really easily, but I'll lay there on the ground, staying by my opinion, not really doing anything, just saying "You shouldn't do that."
So I'm kind of like that.
[How is this relevant you may ask?]
Well, I'm trying to be less of a push over. I like that people think I'm a nice person, and really, I AM a nice person, but being a nice person doesn't mean I have to lay down and let people kick me. I sort of have already taken the first steps against this, but I don't think any of you will really notice it, since it doesn't effect you guys.
I'm trying to stop talking to the people who habitually kick me around. It's not as easy as I thought it would be because I really, at heart, want to be friends with these people, but I'm starting to see I can't. So yeah, making some changes... Now if only I could teach myself to not kick MYSELF around, I'd be golden.
[Knitting related accidents]
Actually, this is probably one of the funniest things that has happened to me while knitting.
I was working on a pair of gloves that I was planning to give ~sorjei for Christmas, and I put on one of the gloves to shape/finish it. Unfortunately, after I finished sewing up the sides... I couldn't get it off! I pretty much had sewn the glove onto my hand (not literally, but you get the idea), and so I was stuck wearing one purple glove for a couple hours. I ended up knitting a second one just so I wouldn't look stupid with just one glove on lol.
Finally managed to get it off/stretch it out enough so it can come on and off, but I'll have to start back on the drawing board for Sorjei's gloves.... I have the smallest hands of almost everyone I know, and if they are too small for me, they are too small for ANYONE. Ah well. Maybe I'll work on gloves for someone else today... I'm tired of looking at purple at the moment.
[Uuuuh, not really pleased atm]
Just got a paper back from a teacher that really irritates me. She gave me a C+ on my paper, which it's not the grade that bothers me, but the things she marked me down on... Like "not using MLA style". I used MLA style. I only write in MLA style. When people tell me I'm not using MLA style, I get really really confused, because I did! Also, I hate that she marked me off for not capitalizing a quote in the middle in the sentence.
Sorry Professor, but in MLA style, if you're quoting material in the middle of the sentence, you don't capitalize it. So I say UGH to you.
Also, I hate it when a paper which would be an A in another class gets a poor grade in another class. Not to say a C+ is a poor grade, but it's certainly not what I wanted to get. I put a lot of time and effort into this paper, and get a C+, but my Milton essay which I bullshitted at the last second (and it's a more difficult class), I got an A.
It's frustrating, because this teacher is not a native English speaker, so it's fair to say she is MORE familiar with the rules of the English language then I am... but that makes her sort-of an unfair grader, because she's not going to read it the same way that a native English speaker would (does that make sense?). She's hyper-sensitive to mistakes, and will be more critical about them (if all the "grammar" corrections on my paper are any indication). Oh well, at least I know which class I need to study my ass off on for the final!
[Ah well, life goes on]
Maybe I'd do better in this class if she didn't spend all of the class period telling personal anecdotes Then I wouldn't be online.
I don't particularly like this class, but I "had" to take it, so there you go. This will probably be my worst grade in an English class ever.....
FFFFFFF
She just had to nerve to say "It's YOUR language, you are supposed to know the rules and conventions of it. It's not my fault you don't know it" to the class.
That's a TERRIBLE thing to say. If anything that my teaching classes have taught me, it's that the English language is so complex that native speakers cannot be expected to be able to explain it without instruction. In fact, native speakers know far less about their language then people who learn it as a secondary language. It's actually rude and insulting to tell an English speaker that they are not familiar with their own language... all speakers of English are aware of the rules of their language, they just might not be able to explain it.
[Okay, NOW I'm over it]
Sorry, it's just a real pet-peeve of mine. I've become really aware of the politics of language recently, and it's sort of a slap in the face for a secondary-language speaker to say something like that to me. I'm sure she didn't mean it that way, but still.
Be sensitive about language guys. Choose words wisely.
[Question of the week!]
Well, we're on the language subject, so I might as well go ahead and ask... I know everyone talking to me speaks/types in English, but does anyone speak any other languages? What languages have you studied, if you don't speak one?
Me, I was in Spanish classes since I was in 1st grade, but I never managed to learn anything beyond the days of the week, basic colors, the numbers up to thirty-nine, and the words for various school supplies. Also, the words for "duck", "sandwich", "stop sign" and "follow me" (okay, those are all from my infamous Spanish video ¿Dondé esta Mi-chan?... those are also the only words my friends know). So I really only speak English XD
Well, that's all I've got. Might paint today, might knit... don't really know lol.
Later days, you guys. Later days.

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