Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Modern-day shit sticks

Today was kinda L.O.N.G.
It was nuts. First period went by kinda fast. Belton wasn't there *sad emoticon* but we had Tyler (Nelson)'s Mom. She's cool. We re-worked problems that we got wrong on that test that I failed Tuesday. You remember how I said I failed? Yeah..There were 20 problems and I got 6 right. Figures.
We laughed and talked, and made a BUNCH of noise.
English was absolutely one of the longest hours and a half that I have ever sat through, this is including a few assemblies and half of Mrs. Carson's class.
We were going over our Direct and Indirect Object sheets that we had had for homework. Painless, you might say, but NO! Ridolfi just loves to get up infront of the class and preach the importance of this. I'm sorry other Betty, I will never need to explain to someone the difference between a Direct OR Indirect object, and I'll also never have to explain to someone the difference between Direct/Indirect Objects and Predicate Nouns and Predicate Objects. BUT, for argument sake, I WILL explain the difference between the two.
Direct tells the actual object: I bake cake.
I - Subject
bake - verb
cake - Direct object.
But, in the sentence, "I bake John cookies"
I - Subject
bake - verb
cookies - Direct Object
John - INDIRECT object, because it tells for WHOM I bake the cookies.
Now, the difference between the D/ID Object and Predicate Nouns and Adjectives is that in a sentence, if the verb is a "linking verb", you don't have D/ID Objects.
In this sentence, Lauren is a student
Lauren - Subject
is - verb (LINKING)
student - Predicate Noun
It's not a direct object, because "is" is a linking verb.
And in this sentence, Lauren is an excellent student
Lauren - Subject
is - verb (LINKING)
student - Predicate Noun
excellent - Predicate Adjective (Because, what is an adjective? A descriptive word...Excellent DESCRIBES student)

I hope the above grammar lesson clears up some stuff for people. It's not hard. You just have to picture Mrs. R standing up at the front of the class, preaching from her podium.
After our 45 minute lesson on D/ID Objects (for the THIRD time), we began to diagram sentences.
I remember doing this stuff in Mrs. Carson's class. It's not too hard, normally.
But Mrs. Ridolfi gave us four examples of sentences and told us how to do it.
I shit you not people, one of these sentences was more complicated than a math problem. I mean, it might as well have been an effing complex fraction problem. It was HUGE. It was hard.
Juniors, pay attention to Mrs. Carson when she teaches this shit, I GUARANTEE you'll see it again.
There is one thing that gets me about Mrs. Ridolfi.
We finished up diagramming sentences with about 10 minutes left of class. Most teachers, after Boreing their students to DEATH, would let their rotting class begin to recover and pack our crap up for the last 10 minutes, OR let us get started on homework. No. Mrs. R ALWAYS has something for us to "work on" for the next day.
Today, this was our packets of work from the book. She confussled us all when she broke us into groups and then she assigned us all questions that tomorrow, we will "teach to the class" in an "exciting but intelligent way"...WTF? Half of the people in that class don't know what "intelligent" means...And I'm pretty sure they don't know how to teach smart shit to thier peers.
Mrs. Carson's class was cake compared to Mrs. Ridolfi's class. If I had my choice, Mrs. Carson would have been my English teacher all through school. Wanna know why? She never makes us do anything, she always let us go outside to read on pretty days, and she loved to let us read alone AKA "talking to our friends about the 'book'". That class was bomb-ass. Juniors, beware. Of the Betty.
After second period, I was completely tired. It was hard to walk up the hall back to CIVILIZATION (we're in the Junior High) for World History.
World History, Mac moved the desks and assigned seats. This is good and bad. Good because I'm across the room from Corey Scarce and bad because 1) Corey can still see me 2) I'm not close to Mac's desk anymore. Darn it. It was fun sitting over there and talking to him after I was done with work.
In WH, we took notes, took a current events quiz, and then we did presentations of civilizations we made like a week ago. Not hard, only Corey had been in my group, so he stood by me and kept asking me about my "date" with Mikel the other day, and then he asked if WE should go to lunch one day. I WANTED to say "AbsoLUTELY no fucking way to fucktard", I SAID "Um..NO!". Then he was looking at my locket, asking what was in it, an excuse to look down my shirt, I'm not a dumbfuck, but he is.
Ugh.
After third, I was SOOO hungry, and I KNEW that the pretzels in my bag just weren't gonna cut it today. So, I sprinted down to lunch and signed myself out. I went to Sonic. It was good. I felt bad because I didn't tell Ash and everyone where I was going, but I was STARVING and figured that they wouldn't be too worried about me. Besides, I came back like 10 minutes early to talk to them.
Journalism.
Holy Cow.
Dr. Tim Farley (our new superintendent) came to our journalism class to speak with us about our issues with the new policy.
For once, I am glad I was around Alex.
Alex Tilley just hammered him with questions.
Now that I have met, and talked to Dr. Farley, I know that he is the dickhead everyone thinks he is.
Alex was drilling him with questions, and they were GREAT questions he really voiced concerns, but Farley would tip-toe around everything. This annoyed the shizzel fizzel out of me. If you SAY your going to tell the truth, say it you idiot. Don't stand up there and prance around the truth.
As I was watching Farley stand infront of our class, I realized that he reminded me of Ben Stiller. He looks like Ben, only with a gay mustache. He wasn't funny like Stiller though. And the man that bears the same name, Chris Farley, is a god compared to this Farley.
So overall, I was not impressed with Farley. He's arrogant and needs to shave.
He also needs to get rid of the Sponge Bob keychain thingy that he has...and he said WE act elementary.

That is all for now, should the above post have been boring...go to http://www.collegehumor.com and read some funny stuff...

ALSO: I love how BLOGspot's spellchecker doesn't recognize "blog" as a word...

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