Ok, so my English teacher who I hate (yay for not many days of school left@@@) is probably going to prevent me from getting straight A’s at the end of the year? Why? She is having us do free writing, and sometimes writing with a very vague topic.

I will admit that I am terrible at just writing whatever comes to mind. Sometimes she doesn’t make you free write, and she gives you a topic. Unfortunately these topics are almost as vague as just telling us to free write. That’s not the bad part though. My English teacher is actually not paying any attention to the writing itself. I know for a fact that she only looks at the length of the writing. Watching her just look at the paper for an instant before immediately putting a “B” on it would make any readers of this blog know that as well. Not only that, but she doesn’t give people enough time to write. I also admit that I take a bit to come up with ideas, but it’s no coincidence that most of the class doesn’t end up with “9th grade writing” by the end of the too-short writing time. There is a girl in my class, and she is a brilliant writer. She has straight A’s, but her true talent is writing things. One advantage she has over me in “notebook writing” is that she can write a good amount on whatever boring, vague topic the teacher gives us. Today, we compared writing before turning it in. It was very well written (slightly longer than my paper too) and actually managed not to be a borefest like these writing exercises usually turn out to be. Both of us turned in our papers to the teacher’s desk (after waiting for approximately 5 minutes before she was done sitting there and ignoring us raising our hands, but that’s a whole new topic of irritation) and waited for her to read them. She literally took about 5 seconds to skim my paper (written on the topic “Doctor”, not one of the worst ones she’s ever had, I thought I did a fairly decent job on it too) before writing a big “B” on it. The teacher then picked up my classmate’s paper, might have spent 10 seconds looking it over, before putting another “B” on it.

If you are a teacher, please actually read the goddamn work we turn in. I realize you may feel like accepting utter shit because it’s longer, but if you want to do that, please at least give some decent writing credit.

In other news, I’m becoming a professional at air drumming.