English is the Worst

Today in Writing 150 Madame discussed how her pet peeve is expectation in writing form. She spent the first ten minutes describing the well-known "five paragraph essay". While describing it she talked about all the reasons that demanding a certain structure is bad and wrong. From what I understand, her main frustration is that one is expected to write a paper with a broad general intro, three points of focused discussion, and a conclusion that brings all of the points to one solid idea.

Understandably this drives her mad. I mean, who in his/her right mind would want to read a logical, well-formatted, practiced style of writing?

"Don't worry about this. Just say what you want to say. I'm not going to make you do anything. The writing that you do that is un-form-like is likely to be your best work. Just make sure it's exactly the style that I would have written it in, and has all the points of the 'A' essay as prescribed by MLA." -Madame

Okay, so I may have gone freestyle on that last sentence. But for crying out loud. She drives me crazy. She thinks she's so "free-spirited" because she doesn't write her introduction first.

She has her own idea of exactly what each type of paper should look like. Just because it's not the structure that is seen in other English classes, she acts as though she is so overly "out of the box". She may be out of one box. But she's gladly hopped into a new box. And now she's trying to "cookie-cut" us into her shape. Even if she doesn't realize it. (She doesn't).

Oh my goodness now she's freaking bringing in Thoreau. "Non-conformity is the only way to become your own..."

Shoot me now.


-Sir Jacob van Heemskerck Duker DeBaltzo Esquire

RANT COMPLETE



PS: ~In a snarky voice~ "Oh, my teacher said this is the way that I need to do this, so this is the way I'm going to do it... You can't just do everything your expected to do." -Madame

Oh, dear... You have no idea of the irony or your statements.

RANT ACTUALLY COMPLETE

Go Luke

I knew that the brothers - particularly Max - would appreciate the quality vintage wardrobe selection that Luke and David Kemp made at Value World. Rest assured Sam that they resisted from shopping the underwear aisle...

Congrats to Luke on his 3rd Varsity Letter! Way to go Puker!

Facebook Status Pics

Here are my Facebook status posts for the past five months, I thought mom would enjoy

Pi Day for Soph

Picking up the Soph

I am picking up the Soph from track practice and while sitting here realized I have just listened to a Taylor Swift song and now Kelly Clarkson. I am catching my breath. Such a swaggalicious dad... They did play a Collective Soul song in between so I still feel manly. Here is the Soph!

Rambles of a sober BYU student

Welp Philly and I were driving the other day and we flipped on some Bob Marley music. It was at this point that we decided we would still be best friends even if we weren't members of the church, we'd just be potheads instead. I think the conversation got to the point of, "I'm pretty sure if the prophet ever announced that marijuana was ok I'd leave general conference and smoke a joint immediately." Talk about an uplifting conversation with Phil and Sam!
Going on to normal life...
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. I just thought you should know the theme of my past two months. I have been blessed with the opportunity to go to a comedy show every week since mid January. Currently jack and max are in a fight to the death to see who will come with me to the next comedy sensation this upcoming Wednesday. I'm pretty sure bribes will be a fair part of this.
In other need, I went to my first prep class for the internship this fall in Washington D.C. We have three classes to sort of yeah us how to act in D.C. By far the most important part of the two hour class was noticing that there are three beautiful daughters of our Heavenly Father joining me in D.C. There's about thirty people total so I have three months to be 1-15 guys out for the heart of at least one of these girls...let the games begin.
My roommates and I are starting a competition base off of a game Philly and I invented the other day. Good thing max doesn't read this because he's heard me describe the game like 5,000,000,971 times. As for jack, sorry, here's number 5,000,000,972. Anyways, the game is called shoot the gap. In shoot the gap, the goal is to awkwardly walk in between (through) people whilst on campus. The scoring system:
1 point: walk in between two people (the people are walking within two feet of each other)
2 points: walk in between two people walking very close to each other, but not holding hands or arm in arm.
4 points: walk in between people stopped who are talking to each other (the people are within two feet of each other)
7 points: walk in between two people who are walking and holding hands or arm in arm.
10 points: walk in between two people hugging or kissing.
Other than that life's good. Going to another comedy show tomorrow night.
I love you guys, here are the pictures for the week (my own and random ones I've found).

This just made me happy :):

I have no idea why, but this kid brings this empty pipe to school EVERY day. ?

Just Philly studying:

Random pictures that make me laugh:

Love, Sam

Mahalo Hawaii!

What an awesome trip we have had. It's been great to be able to stay in touch with each of you as we have been able to celebrate 25 extremely happy years of marriage - and look forward to the next 25+ . Right now we are sitting in the very chill Kona airport. It is open air and you walk out to the plane on the runway - none of the "tubes" - Kona is gorgeous, hot and tropical. Year round weather between 78-82 - ideal. Love you all and talk to you very soon. You are the greatest treasures we have collected over these 25 years of happiness. Love from Mom and Dad