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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.

Date: 2004-12-14 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2004-12-16 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2004-12-16 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2004-12-16 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rynne.livejournal.com
Ehehehe. I thought of that, especially since he's nearly seventy and is going to retire after this year...:p

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