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[rynne]

Dear self,

Don't go writing three page rebuttals to people on HP analysis Yahoo!Groups about why Remus isn't evil, especially when you've got the Caunterbury Tales prologue to memorize, in Middle English, before first period tomorrow.

It's really just a very stupid thing to do, and means you'll have to stay up late memorizing. Even if you can't see the point in doing so, especially in Middle English.

Also, don't spend the entire afternoon watching Kenshin and finishing half the Kyoto arc when you've got that selfsame memorizing to do.

Lots of smacks on the forehead,
Yourself

You know what's really very unobservant of me? Until I saw the kanji for Tokyo and Kyoto, I didn't realize that they were the same word, just flip-flopped. Somehow only seeing that the kanji were the same, but flip-flopped, made me realize that it was the same in English.

Silly me.

Still no word from Puget Sound. I will answer comments tomorrow, when I don't have Chaucer to memorize.

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Even if you can't see the point in doing so, especially in Middle English.

The point is that you'll be able to recite it drunk and therefore impress people who can't.

*speaks from experience, though I don't think I remember much of it anymore beyond "Whan that aprille with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote / And bathed every veyne in swich licour / Of which vertu engendered is the flour"*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. My teacher insists that randomly reciting it at people will get us boyfriends/girlfriends. He showed us "proof". Entirely amusing.

"Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth / Inspired hath in every hold and heeth / The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne / Hath in the Ram his half cours y-ronne"

...And so on. :p

[suyari.livejournal.com]

Ugh! I've always found that to be a horrible assignment! And I've had to do it twice!!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I feel for you. >.< Was bad enough doing it once!

[eumenides1.livejournal.com]

Don't go writing three page rebuttals to people on HP analysis Yahoo!Groups about why Remus isn't evil

Someone thnks Remus is evil?? That's just...bizarre.

And as a former English teacher, I say to your teacher, WTF?? There is NO educational value in forcing students to memorize the prologue in any way shape or form, particularly in Middle English. If I was trying to think of a way to make my students hate Chaucer, that would be top of my list.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Yesss, someone seriously thinks Remus is evil. >.< I don't want to argue anymore, because they're just too logical and making me consider it, and I don't want to! :p

Well. I don't hate Chaucer, but I don't see the point either. Especially since everyone in the class had to recite it. Two days of nothing but Chaucer recitations--the exact same thing thirty-three times. *shakes head* I don't see the point.

[eumenides1.livejournal.com]

My rather cynical guess would be that the point is to keep your teacher from having to actually do any work.

I used to love oral presentation days - you sit at your desk pretending to listen, marking down grocery lists, or playing tic-tac-toe with yourself while the students drone on.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Ehehehe. I thought of that, especially since he's nearly seventy and is going to retire after this year...:p

[lykaios.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what series you've been reading, but to me, and all right-thinking people, Remus Lupin is the epitome of evil. If you'll remember, on page 416 of OotP, line six, Harry sneezes and Remus does not say gesundheit. This reflects a certain apathy on Lupin's part, a callousness. In other words, his soul is dead.

So there you have it. Evil.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

*smacks self on forehead* What was I thinking? You're right, of course! I must go join the cave-dwellers in Zimbabwe and repent.

:p