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Thursday, 6 October 2011 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseMy speech went well, which was great. I also had to do an in-class essay for English. We had two hours for one essay.
The last time I wrote essays in-class I had two hours for three essays. So that was different. I know my English teacher has different standards than my AP teachers did, so I'm a little worried about meeting them. I know I can write well; I don't want to make myself look bad.
I don't think I've actually talked about how I'm trying to invent a language for the skydancers in the Chasing A Starlight expanded universe but I totally am. It's a lot harder than you'd think. /: I have an alphabet and I know what the sounds sound like (although I need to chart the consonants so I can see exactly which sounds fall where) and I'm working out a few grammatical things, but I don't have actual words yet. (Actually that's a lie; I have a few words that are all related to the word 'skydancer'. So I have "sky" and "to dance" and "to fly" - which is literally "to sky-dance" - as well as "skydancer" and "skydancers", and from there I figured out the stress rule - everything's trochaic - as well as a few suffixes that mean different things; and in trying to sort out which letters fall where in a word or syllable I hammered out a few more suffixes.)
I've spent like four hours today just on Ladrinne (which should more properly be rendered "Ladrin" but I think Ladrinne looks nicer in English), it's crazy.
Additionally I continue to have... issues with my stats class. I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing, and I feel way way ahead of what's actually being taught. Like, I learned some stuff about the stats calculator - particularly the expression editor - because that's what the directions the teacher posted said to use, so I learned how to use it. But even my teacher doesn't seem to quite get how it works, so today I ended up explaining rather a few things about it.
And then he called me Alyson. (I suppose it could have been Allyson or Allison or Alison as well.) Now, it's not like there aren't cool Allisons in the world, but when I hear that name the first thing that comes to mind is this one girl who I absolutely loathe with every fibre of my being as she seems to have done her absolute best to make my childhood a living hell and I am still, after seven years, not over it. I'm fairly certain that she can be directly blamed for about half of my issues.
Now, I know that there's no way that my stats teacher could possibly have known that, but regardless, I was mightily offended. I didn't correct him because even when I do, teachers never ever ever seem to remember my name - but if he does it again, I'm definitely going to. I'm probably going to be rude about it but I totally don't even care. I know exactly one Alyson and I would love nothing more than to punch her, as hard as I can, right in the face; and so I absolutely do not want to be called by her name. He could have called me literally any other 'A' name and I would not have cared one bit, but he used Alyson. (I did mention how I have issues, right?)
(I actually don't possess much ill will toward him, although I made it clear on the evaluation that we had to fill out today - perfect timing, right? - that I don't think he knows whether he's teaching a lecture class or an online class, and that the result is rather a bit more confusing than it needs to be. That's really my only problem with him, though.)
Anyway, I just lent Hanekoma my copy of Goliath (his is missing thirty pages in the middle) and I told him I'd catch up on Doctor Who so we could talk about it Friday, so I've got no homework and four episodes of Doctor Who to watch.
The last time I wrote essays in-class I had two hours for three essays. So that was different. I know my English teacher has different standards than my AP teachers did, so I'm a little worried about meeting them. I know I can write well; I don't want to make myself look bad.
I don't think I've actually talked about how I'm trying to invent a language for the skydancers in the Chasing A Starlight expanded universe but I totally am. It's a lot harder than you'd think. /: I have an alphabet and I know what the sounds sound like (although I need to chart the consonants so I can see exactly which sounds fall where) and I'm working out a few grammatical things, but I don't have actual words yet. (Actually that's a lie; I have a few words that are all related to the word 'skydancer'. So I have "sky" and "to dance" and "to fly" - which is literally "to sky-dance" - as well as "skydancer" and "skydancers", and from there I figured out the stress rule - everything's trochaic - as well as a few suffixes that mean different things; and in trying to sort out which letters fall where in a word or syllable I hammered out a few more suffixes.)
I've spent like four hours today just on Ladrinne (which should more properly be rendered "Ladrin" but I think Ladrinne looks nicer in English), it's crazy.
Additionally I continue to have... issues with my stats class. I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing, and I feel way way ahead of what's actually being taught. Like, I learned some stuff about the stats calculator - particularly the expression editor - because that's what the directions the teacher posted said to use, so I learned how to use it. But even my teacher doesn't seem to quite get how it works, so today I ended up explaining rather a few things about it.
And then he called me Alyson. (I suppose it could have been Allyson or Allison or Alison as well.) Now, it's not like there aren't cool Allisons in the world, but when I hear that name the first thing that comes to mind is this one girl who I absolutely loathe with every fibre of my being as she seems to have done her absolute best to make my childhood a living hell and I am still, after seven years, not over it. I'm fairly certain that she can be directly blamed for about half of my issues.
Now, I know that there's no way that my stats teacher could possibly have known that, but regardless, I was mightily offended. I didn't correct him because even when I do, teachers never ever ever seem to remember my name - but if he does it again, I'm definitely going to. I'm probably going to be rude about it but I totally don't even care. I know exactly one Alyson and I would love nothing more than to punch her, as hard as I can, right in the face; and so I absolutely do not want to be called by her name. He could have called me literally any other 'A' name and I would not have cared one bit, but he used Alyson. (I did mention how I have issues, right?)
(I actually don't possess much ill will toward him, although I made it clear on the evaluation that we had to fill out today - perfect timing, right? - that I don't think he knows whether he's teaching a lecture class or an online class, and that the result is rather a bit more confusing than it needs to be. That's really my only problem with him, though.)
Anyway, I just lent Hanekoma my copy of Goliath (his is missing thirty pages in the middle) and I told him I'd catch up on Doctor Who so we could talk about it Friday, so I've got no homework and four episodes of Doctor Who to watch.