> > Hm... well a B isn't TOO bad, is it? but speech on Monday is no good.... well, good luck... I have a 10-page paper due tuesday.... I'm kinda screwed on that.

> For me it is. Well, if I try my best, it's not bad, but my parents get very upset if I don't get all A's. I got two B's on my progress report a while ago and they weren't very happy about that.

I used to have to do lots of "oral presentations" in high school. I would spend hours preparing for them sometimes; other times I wouldn't have that kind of time and I'd just wing it. Sometimes, the ones where I winged it turned out better than the ones I prepared for. You never know. (It only works if you know the subject matter, of course).

With respect to ten-page papers -- the longest paper I ever got in high school was something like 4,500 words, and it took the teacher more than a month to mark a class set of those. I have no idea how a teacher could mark a class set of 10 page papers on a regular basis unless he or she isn't going to look at it closely (in that case, just write down whatever comes into your head until you get ten pages and hand that in).

On the other hand, I used to write ten-page essays for History class. Those would be around /two/ thousand words, but written as fast as I possibly could, in class, with large, scrawly writing, double-spaced, on fool's cap paper. We were given exactly 70 minutes to compose those essays -- that's one page every seven minutes!

I'm glad I'm not in high school anymore.

Oh, and with respect to marks -- the important thing is whether or not you understand the subject matter. If you understand it, then you're getting value out of your education; furthermore, you'll do well in university. In the long run, if you know your stuff and you get your degree, nobody will remember how you did in high school.

> > > LOL...but anywho, the main thing I need is a non-material thing, which I'm not revealing here...*heh heh*

> > I know what it is! I know what it is! And I sincerely hope you get it!!!!

> You know what it is? Did I tell you or do you just...KNOW? *eerie music* (Well, I suppose it IS kinda obvious.)

Um. Rule Six only applies to jokes, right? Darn, darn, darn.

> Who is OneStaple? I don't like hunting, either. Being out in the rain and cold...sleeping outside in a tent...getting your food stolen by evil raccoons with beady little eyes...no fun.

I never tried hunting. I like camping. Only whenever I go camping, I tend to get sick. I don't like that part.

> *gasp* It's AMAZING! LOL. I can't believe you don't like 80's music. *acting stupid now* The music of the 90's DIMS in comparison to the marvelous wonders of the 80's. "Video Killed the Radio Star," "Karma Chameleon," "Tainted Love," "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," "Jessie's Girl," "Our House," "Walk Like an Egyptian," "Walking On Sunshine," "The Power of Love," "Heaven is a Place on Earth," "The Safety Dance," the list goes on. Quality stuff...that's what I'm talkin' about! WAHOO! LOL.

Hey, I think I've actually heard of most of those!

I think, though, that good music has nothing to do with /when/ it was produced. Rather, in every decade, there is /some/ music that is excellent. The excellent music is the stuff that people keep; everything else gets forgotten. So when we remember music from a long time ago, we only remember the good stuff. That's why when we think of classical music we think of Bach and Mozart and the other "great" composers rather than the mediocre composers who must have existed but whose music wasn't good enough to remember.

Similarily, in the 80s, there must have been a lot of bad music, but we don't keep it. The 80s music that continues to be reproduced and that people remember is only the /best/ of the 80s music. So in effect, when you compare this to the 90s, you are comparing the /best/ 80s music to /average/ 90s music. Of /course/ 90s music seems worse -- but the few excellent songs that come out of this decade will be the ones people remember in, say, 2010, and by that point, they'll be looking back and saying "wow, they had good music back then! The music we have now sucks in comparison!" As far as I can tell, it always happens that way.

On the other hand, I don't know enough about music to really substantiate that argument.

> > gah. Maybe one, maybe the other. Personally, I think it means that they just don't care. Or maybe not.... depends on the person, depends on the situation.... people can be stupid about stuff like that. But I'm sorry you got your feelings hurt =( *HUG!*

I don't /think/ I would smile at someone if they told me I hurt their feelings. But then again, I don't know what I /would/ do. I'm stupid about stuff like that.

> ~Den-"I still need to study chemistry...DOH!"Kara

-SB

PS: With respect to my "no luck" post -- I actually made at least /six/ errors in that half hour. The fifth was saying that I only made four errors (when in fact I had made five at that point). The sixth was in my chemistry post, but it's pretty obvious -- I'll let you figure out what it was!