should i be embarassed by this?

Day 10: A photo of me taken over ten years ago



Okay, so, compromise time. Any photos of me that are 10+ years old are on actually film photo prints, at my 'rents' house. They don't have a scanner anymore, because the one they did have was actually mine, which they got as a birthday gift for me a few years back. I do not have any really old photos of me on my laptop, or on my photobucket. This is the oldest photo I have access to, and it's about 5 years old. It was taken in historic Williamsburg, VA, on a trip I took in 8th grade. You can see some blonde in my hair - that's because the previous year, I bleached my hair and dyed it pink (it was supposed to be red, but the dye was terrible). This was when I first started cutting my hair short, which I did to try and get rid of the blonde after the red faded and my roots started to show. I kept going back to that short style until really recently, and I'll explain that in tomorrow's post.

Also, the stocks were just supposed to be a quick photo-op; the friends that were with me also got photos in them. However, I was in them the longest, because my friends couldn't figure out how to work my camera.

less ragey then icon would have you believe, really

So I came across this article earlier today. Okay, it has a sensationalist title, but it does have good points. I definitely agree that something is going on with how English is being taught right now in the US (and I guess Canada, too). I was a student aid for a math teacher during a free space in my schedule back in my sophomore year of high school. I graded a lot of papers for the teacher, and I noticed this sort of thing a lot. On tests, when faced with a problem they didn't understand, many kids would write 'IDK' instead of 'I don't know'. Text speak was sprinkled all over papers, and I saw a lot of people replace 'to' and 'too' with '2' and 'for' with '4'. Both of my English teachers had to go over the difference between their/there/they're - in high school.

Now, some of you may know that I'm going to school to be an English teacher at the high school level. Honestly? It was because I noticed this sort of thing that I decided I wanted to teach.