Five hundred words for these is an absolutely fucking ridiculous request. I’m pretty positive you’ve gotten half of these just repeating themselves over and over again to fill that ungodly and insane request, just so you can skim it to get through all of them quickly. There is no doubt in my mind that every single honors english 10 B student would benefit from this being two hundred fifty words, two hundred words or really just any amount lower than five hundred. It’s absolutely ridiculous for a “blog style post” where you said it was the requirement to talk about a single thought. Just look at my first post here. It is quite literally five hundred words exactly and I hate working like this, just throwing out ideas and thoughts like this to meet a stupidly large word requirement does NOT help anyone. In fact, it probably hurts people in the long run. I (from a teacher’s perspective) would much rather receive a cohesive and concise two hundred fifty word paper than a jumble of repeated sentences and lots of bull shitting done to fill five hundred words worth of REQUIRED space to get to the same exact point in a much worse way.
But those are just my thoughts, I guess. Teach how you want, give assignments how you want, but this is just absolutely fucking ridiculous. There. I said it. It’s fucking ridiculous, that’s what it is, and that’s what I’m gonna call it. I could pretty much split this into two thursday night reflections, but that’s only because I’m talking about two different topics. So, if you see this part at the end, that means I came up with enough crap to pull this into a different thursday night reflection “blog” post. Think what you want about what I’m saying and how I’m saying it, but if this is supposed to be how I’M feeling and not some la-la land that I made up for the teacher to see my hard work, then this is going to get vulgar, very real and very depressing. However, I need to say something about this whole concept for an assignment. I think it’s very creative and let’s people express their likes, dislikes and thoughts. It’s absolutely a great outlet for students to do this, but it’s not terribly well set up. Giving kids this particular amount of freedom is too restrictive for your idea. A little less and there’s a clear, concise goal. A little more and we have the freedom to do whatever we please with this assignment, but this is one of my problems. It’s at the point where there isn’t enough to talk about when it comes to one topic and a five hundred word space to fill, but with two researched topics or thoughts about a couple weeks it becomes an entire essay. Nevertheless, you can take this how you want to. “I’m a bad student that’s just complaining”, “I’m just not smart enough to fill five hundred words”, “You’re too vulgar for school (even though this is supposed to be about thoughts and expressing yourself, which in some cases is being vulgar to get a point across)”, however you see it. But that’s from my perspective. Lately, being sick has been just absolutely terrible. There’s been so many things that i have not been able to do, including a fuck ton of assignments (I’m workin’ on it, Klak. Cut me a little slack man, my parents do the whole “Too sick to go to school, too sick to use any electronics for anything” thing, but they still expect me to be actively doing my work.), my job, my pets, my classes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So much has been piled onto me because my STUPID body decides to get sick in the middle of school. It’s been too much to handle, and 6 school days isn’t NEARLY enough to get all I missed done and over with. There are tests to make up, assignments to do, warm ups to catch up on, papers to write, books to read, words to learn, music to play, franchises to study, and even fundamental concepts of 4 out of my 5 classes that I straight up missed all because my body said “No, you don’t get to do this whole school thing anymore. We have a bad case of strep throat and extremely intense nausea now, deal with it ya twat.” In fact, I’m probably just going to postpone the Huckleberry Finn paper until Monday or Tuesday. Unless you want a jumbled mess with everything wrong and a frantically completed, terribly worded and half assed paper, I’m not going to do it and get it done Friday. It’s just too much to do and I panicked when I was talking with you about my grades. I was way too over ambitious and it just won’t be done sensibly if you make me turn it in to you monday for a decent grade. Anyways, I am just extremely flustered when it comes to literally anything related to school. Even trying to get this done, I feel like I’m milking all my thoughts about this week dry and that I will not be able to write a second thursday night reflection at all. Nothing is going good, as you can probably tell from how much I’m explaining my thoughts and actions over and about the whole “me being sick” thing. Mustering up thoughts is a difficult task for me, and I don’t think it will get any better for the remainder of this week. I can try to get papers done and study for the vocab unit 10 quiz and test, get other classwork done and prep myself to get a couple F’s due to a way too strict teacher (not naming them for privacy’s sake), but I’m kind of just spit balling here, getting all of my thoughts out onto a paper for you to read. I feel like there’s a ninety percent chance you either call bull shit on this, say that my language is “too vulgar and offensive for school” and call me over to talk to me, and/or just slap an F on this because this is only my thoughts about these weeks and me speaking my mind and not some shower thought coherently researched and put into a five hundred word paper for you. As another argument for this, why does this have to be five hundred words? Whatever, I’ll talk about that later, probably in a different one of these.
Lately I’ve just been in a tough spot in life. Family issues, late working nights at my job and around the house, tons of class and homework. You know, just things piling up that make it extremely difficult for me to function as a normal human being. However, this got me thinking about random things because I wanted to take my mind off of the glaring issues I was going through. Not getting into those, because they’re quite sensitive topics, but just saying why last week’s blog post wasn’t there. I know how all you readers hate it when I miss one, but I have a life too. I can’t just sit here making these all the time, and I have to come up with the idea for every single one of them. It’s harder than you think, you know. However, one of these thoughts particularly stuck out to me as a peculiar, yet exceedingly interesting topic. One that I had never really thought about before, and that I hadn’t ever taken into account. It seems like a very obscure topic, but it occurs every single day (so long as you are a pet owner). Take your nose. How do you go through the process of smelling things and identifying said smells? When you smell a certain thing, does it stick with you throughout every single time you smell that object, or does it change? We perceive things as their smells because of nerve receptors in our noses. Tiny little particles of whatever we’re smelling will get into our nostrils and connect to nerve receptors that act as a sort of taste bud for your nose. They’re different than our tongue’s taste buds, as some things may be totally opposite between the two of them. They can also be different within each other, with overloading them having different effects than your mouth’s taste buds. With your mouth, it’s just more of whatever you have. With your nose, however, overloading them can mean different receptors and therefore different smells. If it doesn’t change at all, then your brain might be converting certain similar smells into the same aroma you had the first time around. This is why too much of a very good smelling thing can be absolutely horrible (with things such as axe bombs, cut grass, coffee, et cetera et cetera.) This certainly isn’t the case with humans, though. Every single human smells different to us, whether it be objects they’ve been around or their own odors. Every dog, however, has the same aroma to them. Now, I have no idea why this is, as dogs are living beings and shouldn’t even be the same genetically, let alone smell the same. That arose a furiously burning question within me: how do dogs smell such things? Do they smell as we do, or do they have it flipped? Does every human smell the same and every dog smell different to them? What is going on inside their nostrils? Just a thought.
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