tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post1612032214961590759..comments2023-10-12T07:19:02.703-04:00Comments on Read. Write. Ramble.: A Recap of November (Rachel)Read. Write. Ramble.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06616556766420174306noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post-41293635450968423902012-12-02T12:07:43.807-05:002012-12-02T12:07:43.807-05:00Hahahaha "THE GUEST REVIEW" *cue dramati...Hahahaha "THE GUEST REVIEW" *cue dramatic music* No worries, I get that NaNo makes it impossible to do normal people things. I gave up in, like, a week. So, um: CONGRATS ON WINNING! I hope you bought the t-shirt.<br /><br />Oh, and chill about the whole future thing. I'm seventeen and I still haven't decided what the heck I'm doing with my life. My teachers hate me. But at least I have an A+ in English (muahahahahahahahaha)<br />Bibliophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13786401581914613429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post-9334260461704042522012-12-02T10:36:20.127-05:002012-12-02T10:36:20.127-05:00Oh my gosh I was laughing so hard at this. I total...Oh my gosh I was laughing so hard at this. I totally understand the whole writing thing I really just want to throw my novel onto a flash drive, hide the drive in a box and tell someone to bury it so I never see it again, but then of course I would have any proof of my novel now would I? And the school stuff. YES. AGREED. AHH. *hides* oh and the driving. I totally get the whole "I prefer to sit in the passenger seat" thing. I seriously do. So much. I think we're putting up our xmas tree today! *excitement* okay. Awesome post. I wrote something like this but it wasn't nearly as fun. I love the pictures and everything!! Hopefully we'll still be doing some twittering or whatever now that NaNos over! Great post!!<br />~ErikaErikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947796915947591345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post-2181428327406052172012-12-02T06:50:20.679-05:002012-12-02T06:50:20.679-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bibliophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13786401581914613429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post-37917261126848300842012-12-01T16:12:06.100-05:002012-12-01T16:12:06.100-05:00Hahahahaha thank you for all of this!
1) AWESOME ...Hahahahaha thank you for all of this! <br />1) AWESOME about the hole in my brain thing. Lol. And yeah, I got my permit as soon as I was old enough to and I'll be taking the test for my license on my birthday next year, so I'm set. :D<br />2) I'm pretty sure my teacher is convinced I have become A Delinquent. I was a great student when I had him last year, but I came back with purple hair this year and missed the one assignment and he's like "OH NO WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU THERE IS NO HOPE ANYMORE" which is a bit annoying, but whatever. <br />3) Actually, yeah, Megan and I are in the process of setting up a book club at school right now. So hopefully that will work out and my guidance counselor will be all "YAY A COLLEGE WILL ACTUALLY ACCEPT YOU NOW" and it will be wonderful. :)<br />4) I've seen the Maggie Stiefvater video floating around, but my computer won't play it for some reason! *sighs*<br />But yeah, this whole "worrying about the future" thing is irritating. I think I'm just going to go eat ice cream and read some books and not think about it for a while. Hahahaha.<br />Thanks again. :D<br />-RachelRead. Write. Ramble.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06616556766420174306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760921411111270612.post-74209908978675331962012-12-01T15:36:52.075-05:002012-12-01T15:36:52.075-05:00First of all, congrats on finishing NaNo! Definit...First of all, congrats on finishing NaNo! Definitely keep writing until you're done!<br /><br />Second of all (I have a whole list, ok, I'm sorry) OMG if I was your English teacher I would totally be going home at night banging my head against the wall. I mean, as someone who hated assigned summer reading and frequently threw her books across the room, I totally get you. But as an English teacher--ack! It makes us bonkers when smart awesome readers don't get good grades in our classes. But hopefully from here on out your grade will be fine. (Did you tell your English teacher you wrote 50,000 words this month?) <br /><br />Third of all: get your driver's license. Do it now. ASAP. Otherwise, you will be like me: a 27-year-old with a learner's permit. It is the subject of much mirth and teasing whenever I need to pull out my ID. It's way less scary to learn to drive at your age--what I learned in my adolescent psych class that I had to take to be a teacher is that you have what we would scientifically call a BIG HOLE IN YOUR BRAIN right now. It's the part that will eventually process possible consequences. It's why teenagers sometimes make bad choices but also why it's a lot less intimidating to learn to drive when you're 16 than as an adult. (It is so scary now, OMG.)<br /><br />Annnnnnnd fourth of all: college apps were the most stressful part of my life, hands down, including my first year of teaching where my students spent the entire YEAR acting horrible so that I would not come back the next year. (It didn't work. I came back. They mysteriously decided I was cool and from then on I loved my job. But they actually told me in the fall of my second year that they had deliberately tried to get me to quit. Sigh.) In retrospect, that was probably silly. I did get into my first choice school, but I had friends who went to private school, state school, community college, big schools, little schools, no schools at all, whatever whatever...and they all, for the most part, figured it out and are now productive happy-ish citizens. I'm pretty sure I would have had a similarly excellent life if I went to the SUNY school that my mom worked at (which, at the time, seemed like The End Of The World.) So, I mean, keep your grades up, for sure, but DO NOT FREAK OUT. Maggie Stiefvater just posted an excellent video on this like yesterday; I highly recommend that you take a look at it. (And re: extra-curriculars--can you guys start a book club? A blogging club? A writers' group? It could be at your school or in your community somewhere (library?). Or could you look into maybe doing some kind of reading/writing program with younger kids, if your school is really a cruddy wasteland? I had some students ask me to do a book club with them over email all summer, which we did, and they all have things like "Virtual Book Club President" on their applications now. Plus, this blog counts, I think. Like, you should definitely list it on apps.)<br /><br />ANYWAY, it's not like you asked for any of this, so sorry to hijack your comments section with a post of my own. But it will be ok. (I mean, for Pete's sake, do your English homework, but I don't think one D, a lack of clubs, and uncertainty about your future will End Civilization As We Know It or anything.)Mrs. Silversteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15081113623522933830noreply@blogger.com