On Snow Days

Where I live in Indiana has just been absolutely overwhelmed with snow as of late. We’ve missed more days in the past two months than all of the other years combined, which has messed up this year like no other. Now we’re stuck with a bunch of days that we have to make up and no more snow days. So, as a solution, this week we are stuck going to school for an extra hour.

Now, this isn’t necessarily the worst thing that could happen. A lot of my teachers are just as lazy (If not more so ) as I am, so in a few of my classes we are just watching movies and playing games with the extra time. But there are always the teachers who decide that we need to be very, very proactive with this time and try to teach us new things in the sad 15-minute period tacked on to the end of class. Squeezing two lessons into class on normal days didn’t work, but somehow teacher logic dictates that 15 minutes is exactly enough time to do this. Spoiler: It isn’t.

Another thing that is flawed about this is that lunch is pushed about an hour later. My regular lunch starts at 12:26. During this schedule, it doesn’t start until 1:28. So for a whole week, my entire routine is all junked up. At least some of my teachers are letting us bring snacks to eat! I doubt i’m really going to hate this week, but that’s what it feels like. And supposedly, the snow is coming back later this week. How ironic would it be if we had a snow day during our make-up week?

Go away polar vortex, no one wants you.

With Love, EG☂

Why do people on the Internet write so ‘poorly’?

so long as it's words

It’s been a year since I wrote one of these blog posts, which I know is appalling behaviour. But darling Kate recently posted some super interesting stuff about Old English, and that spurred/guilt-tripped me into writing something of my own.  Unsurprisingly, I don’t know anything about Old English, but do you know what I do know about? THE INTERNET.

Being a person who is On The Internet*, I’m amazingly fortunate to see language evolve before my eyes on a near-daily basis. When so much Internet communication is written/typed, it’s not surprising that different corners of the internet play with vocabulary, grammar and typology in order to carve out identities. Often, linguistic constraints caused by the technological corseting of computer programmes — like character limits, punctuation restrictions and the lack of intonation and other paralinguistic features that aid communication face-to-face — result in online communities developing linguistic quirks that go on…

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Well, Welcome.

This is certainly going to be an adventure. I hope so, at least. It may be better and clearer if I had a theme, but i’m too scattered of a person to have a blog that stays with one subject. So mine’ll just have to pander around and test they waters until it finds where it wants to stay. I’ve called my blog the starbound elephant because of a comment my friend Matt made (he wanted me to credit him, so here it is. Nice job, Matt) in Latin class the other day. I’m a junior in highschool, if you were wondering. That’s all for now.

With love, E