5 posts tagged “school”
Ever get away with saying somebody else did it?
note to readers: gross-out warning. do not read if eating. or drinking.
ok, so i don't know if this counts, but well, you'll see.
hehehehe i remember once in fourth grade (that means 20 years ago!) in the middle of class i totally farted super-duper loud. and long. ok, it was like a trumpet. (not kidding, cross my heart!)
[omg i'm totally going to bust out laughing but i'm working in the library...eeek! ok, so umm, i'm not working, i'm totally procrastinating until a meeting i have in 20 minutes.]
i'm SURE i turned bright red as everyone cracked up and turned around to look at me (i was maybe 2/3 of the way back), but all i did was point to the girl next to me! HAHAHAHAHAHA it was so long ago and i only remember bits and pieces of it, but i think she denied it and denied it and the teacher at this time told us all to simmer down and get back to reading (or whatever it was). luckily there was no fallout (of any kind). phew!!!
i would just like to make a public apology to glenda [EDIT: full name removed to protect the innocent since uhh, the public apology was actually read...]! omg i'm so sorry i did that. can you believe i still remember to this day? :S ack!
What's something that you're really proud of, which most people in your life don't know about?
Submitted by CosmicBabe.
this will sound really dumb, but i knew how to spell "balloon" in kindergarten and no one else (or so i will believe) did. miss jones asked the class if anyone knew how to spell it, and someone spelled it wrong, then i answered correctly. yay me! ok, so that's like the silliest thing to be proud of, but for some reason it sticks out in my mind.
hmm i almost erased the above and tried to think of something new, but you know, i am proud of myself for that, so i'm going to leave it in. i think i really remember it (i mean, it was what, over 20 years ago) because for the longest time i thought i was a complete outsider at that school, so i always thought that spelling "balloon" was my "in". (which, of course, probably isn't true at all.)
ok, and the thing is, i just realized now that almost everyone there was brand new, since it was kindergarten, so they probably all felt the same way (i.e., out of place, scared, etc.). (granted, there was a preschool there so maybe some of the kids knew each other from then, but i dunno.) in any case, i managed to do just fine in elementary school.
although you know what else i remember and am completely ashamed about? i remember a french test in maybe the first or second grade where i could NOT remember how to spell "oui" and the concept of spelling french like it sounds was totally foreign (no pun intended) to me (although for english, phonics made perfect sense since that's how we learned it back then [hukt on foniks wurks fur me]). so i wrote "qui". ACK!!!! *cry* i'm still traumatized by that to this day!
well, it's almost 9:30 in the morning and i've been awake since 6:55, no thanks to my body thinking it's midnight when it's time to get up. i can feel my brain only halfway functioning, and i still have to muster up enough intelligence to go to the e-plus store to get a new SIM card (assuming i'd have to speak in german; there's one guy there who i know speaks english).
yeah, i lost my phone at the frankfurt airport on the trip out to california. bah! that's the 2nd time i lost my phone (the first being in morocco over the summer). bah. i just hope no one charged up a sh!tload of calls before i was able to cancel the service during my layover in london (a span of maybe 2 hours). my morocco ordeal cost me over $160 because someone made a ton of calls in the 5-6 hour period between when i lost the phone and when i realized it was gone and canceled the SIM card.
so i'm projecting this will cost me at least $50--the €20 fee for canceling a card, €15 or so to get a new one, and £5 for wi-fi access at heathrow to access the e-plus site to cancel the card. hopefully that'll be it.
*cry*
anyways, as i know from experience, this jet lag thing will last 4-5 days (it takes me a while to come around), and then i'll be OK. hopefully all will be well tomorrow and thursday during my presentation--i certainly don't want to fall asleep talking about converting discourse representation structures to first order logic... *snore*
as an aside: a nice quick read at http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/ -- the writer decides to spend no more than $30 on food for a whole month. quite interesting, although i wish he would have posted exactly what he ate each day.
while i appreciate M's gesture to D, i cannot help but be ever-so-slightly repulsed perhaps it is due to the oddly-shaped lips. or i assume it's a puckered-up set of lips and not a dove.
i have the craziest friends. they are constantly on the hunt for men even though one of them has a boyfriend and the other is in a new (but very very complicated, much too much to explain here) long-distance relationship. anyways, my neighbor next door is a really cool (and definitely not bad looking) australian guy, and if he were gay (speaking of gay, i was informed that doogie came out of the closet) and i were single, i'd totally ask him out.
anyhoo, D and G met him last week when they came over to carve pumpkins and tonight they concocted this crazy idea to get his attention. suffice it to say it involves a post-it note on his door and a new email address. i vowed not to be part of it but i ended up donating a post-it note and gmail invite to the cause:
