Top 10 Reasons to Take AP English

10. Finding out that you really are a terrible writer



9.  Being able to watch the poor student Ms. Serensky picks to torment (for us it was Thomas)



8. Feeling ridiculously superior to any other students who aren't in AP English


7. Getting to go on one super exciting field trip a year



6. Eventually getting the confidence to say hi to Ms. Serensky instead of getting the feeling that you want to run and hide in a locker when she walks by



5. Being able to be the one with the heaviest work load at your commons table, meaning you would win your table's daily competition of "who's life sucks the most?"



4. Getting to read all the funniest/stupidest things Ms. Serensky's other students have said, and feel superior since you are on this packet of quotes, which in your mind is the, "winners list"



3. Getting that extra 1 point on your GPA for the extra 80 million hours of work you do as opposed to Honors English



2. Having the possibility of getting a sticker on an assignment

and

1. Being able to participate in the super competitive multiple choice game against people who would crush you in other academic subjects




WHOO AP ENGLISH

The Three Musketeers

Jack, Junior and Othello



Jack: "Charming day it has been" (10)

Othello: "She is false as water" (119)

Jack: "I have no doubt about that" (3)

Junior: "You know, I believe you mean that" (161)

Othello: "I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow" (114)

Jack: "How perfectly delightful!" (2)

Junior: "My whole life there never was a point to anything", not even how badly this chick is doing on her AP test

Othello: "why, how now, ho? From whence ariseth this?" (47)

Junior: Jack, Othello, "Why do you care at all about how this turns out?" (164)

Jack: "Because as far as she is concerned, we are engaged" (15)

Othello: "due to the gravity and stillness of [her] youth?" (47)

Jack: "I am afraid I really don't know" (14)

Junior: "Okay, this is going to stop. You're seeing a doctor" (271)

Penguins anyone?

Yesterday, the voice Junior hears in his head spoke to me and brainwashed me into believing that Everything Matters! was my favorite book we've read this year. This is how our conversation went.


Hello Katie. "Although to you we may seem quite knowledgable…we in fact know only one thing for certain, which is this:" your new favorite book from AP English 12 must be Everything Matters!, or else we will come find you, and destroy you. There, now that wasn't so hard was it? You may be wondering why this is now supposed to become your favorite book, and we have that answer for you. It is not because how great it is that it's insanely depressing, revolves around various types of mental illness, substance abuse and corrupt government projects, but for other reasons. Reasons being: You thought it was funny. Rodney yelling at his shrink? Funny. Junior being sarcastic? Funny. Us telling Junior our snide comments? Yes, we are very funny. Now, Katie before we show you more of why you love this book, walk to the tv please. Now, "the buttons. Make them snap. Control the image. The power is yours" (30)

…………………

What? of course you pushing the buttons has to do with why you like this book. Just do it.

………………….

Stop being difficult! We and Ms. Serensky are both "simultaneously disapointed".

…………………….

Why yes of course I am the voice…
I mean no, wait! Ah! Crap. Alright, I, Ms. Serensky am the voice Junior hears in his head. Do not ask me why I have been refering to myself as "we". "I do what I do to help you people" (Ms. S)

……………………….

Ok fine, I'll tell you specifics as to why you liked this book.

1. Pretty cover. You liked the stupid painthbrushy stroke things
2. You liked it because since it was published by Penguin books, there were little penguins hidden throughout the first few pages, like Currie wanted you to play I Spy with him
3. Silly numbers. You were intrigued by why they started with 97. But thats wierd. You're wierd.
4. Not many other people liked this book that much, so you liked it more. But you didn't understand why no one else really liked it. "But this becomes easier to understand when you consider, that you're eight times as smart, exponentially, as the smartest among [your classmates], and moreover, that they are keenly aware of this fact" (59).
5. I lied. You're not that smart. You just liked it because of the cover and penguins. Dumb.
…………………………..

Fine Katie! Leave! Go play with your stupid penguins!

A whole website devoted to dancing penguins!

www.angelfire.com/pe/penguindance/

My Top 10 Most Thrilling Moments of My Academic High School Career

10. My 10th most thrilling moment would have to be when I got first place in my Freshman Spanish class for making the best pinata. We were all asked to make different themed pinatas for our Spanish unit on Fiestas. My partner and I chose a beach theme. Instead of actually crafting something, we just covered an inner tube and a beach ball with paper mache, taking first prize. The teacher commented on our creativity and all I had to say was that, although I was one of the worst Spanish students in the class, "anything, anything, anything is possible" (302) (Everything Matters!)

9. The 9th greatest accomplishment was getting an A+ on an English essay I wrote on the book Twilight. It was two typed pages long, had 3 paragraphs and was probably one of the worst papers ever. Although, since I got the A, my classmates were "breaking out in peevish jealousies" (106), which was never any good. (Othello)

8. The next was aceing my Modern World History project, which was a video regarding the Russian Royal family the Romanovs. In my group, "All of [us] felt everything" (302). We were awarded candy, and many extra credit points for being the best in the class. It was wonderful. (Everything Matters!)

7. Not failing my first assignment in AP English 11. "When devils with the blackest sins put on" (52) thoughts of me failing my first English assignment, I backhanded them in the face with my 74%. Take that devils. (Othellos)

6. My first B on an assignment in AP English 11. "Well this is the last time I will ever do it," (29) was my original thought about getting a B, and I vowed only to get A's... but I was wrong. poop.

5. My first A on something in AP English. After I got my first A in AP english, I was ecstatic. I was "silent, relaxed and fully awake, a warm package of humanity" (302), seeing as that I had broken through the tantalizing barrier of getting an A on something in English. (Everything Matters!)

4. My first sticker on something in AP English. "I'm not telling you this to make you feel bad" (255), I'm just telling you this so that you know I get alot of stickers and you dont. nanna nanna boo boo!!! (Everything Matters!)

3. My first "great!" comment from Ms. Serensky on something in AP English, or in Ms. Serensky's words, somehting along the lines of, "that is satisfactory." (13) (IOBE)

2. My first A on a Poetry paper in AP English, my first thoughts were, "this is indeed a surprise" (26), but it was one of the best surprises I've ever had. (IOBE)


1. Beating the dream team in the multiple choice extra credit game. "For whiles these honest fools" (52) thought they were the best in the class, but I think not. beating them = BEST MOMENT EVER

Plumity Plum Plums

My favorite poem from this year was, "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams. I love this poem, mainly because I love plums. I do not like "harvesting fruit" (254) on my own, but I love fruit, particularly plums. Although this is a stupid reason to favor a poem to others, it still was my favorite for other reasons besides the inclusion of plums. I also like how short and to the point the poem is. I feel like the poem is not a short poem, but a fun-sized one, just like I consider myself. Since both me and the poem are fun sized, I identify with it, and like it even more. "But here's where it gets interesting" (218), I am not a Swiper like the popular fox on Dora the Explorer, so I do not like the poem because it advocates stealing. In Saudi Arabia they cut the hand off someone who steals from someone else for a punishment, so I'm surprised this person even had enough appendages to be able to write the poem (if they wrote it while in Saudi Arabia). "From your perspective, of course," (45) this poem may be construde as bad because of it's shortness and lack of verbage. But I only love it more because of this. I find that the shortened diction leaves more to be imagined. Perhaps the person who stole the plums from the icebox was an arabian thief, friends with Alladin, who galavanted through the markets, stopping at the booth of a Morraccan food vendor in his icebox in the middle of the night. I like thinking about this. Or perhaps, an Alien came down to earth for breakfast and stole the plums from the icebox of the President. Who knows! Thats why I love this poem.

The Exposure

Although many of my peers prefer the common multiple choice game at their favorite day in AP English 12, I prefer myself to be a bit more original. My favorite day in AP English, has been a compialation of any of the days where Ms. Serensky has harrassed or mocked any of my fellow students. I feel that the uncomfortable tension between Ms. Serensky and the person she mocks remains a great thing to observe as a bystander. One day in particular where I almost fell out of my chair from laughing so hard, was the day Jimmy tried to strip in front of Ms. Serensky. Some would have called Jimmy's behavior, "savage madness" (Othello, 84) but some people thought better of him, that it was just an accident. Now, "I'm usually not the smartest kid in the room, but even I could figure out something was wrong there" (Everything Matters! 44). We all laughed at Ms. Serensky's comments about Jimmy being the student who would be known forever as the student that had sexually harassed Ms. Serensky. That day, we had gone on with our discussion as usual, but we all could not stop looking from Jimmy to Ms. Serensky from time to time and breaking into giggles. Jimmy kept claiming it had been an accident and that he was sorry, but only received more and more comments from Ms. Serensky and the class. Ms. Serensky finally had to end the arguement with something along the lines of, "Well, I won't argue about the matter" (Importance of Being Earnest, 15). This day I remember I left the classroom with my cheeks achey from laughing and smiling so much, that is why its my favorite.

So you think you can Dance?

[Conversation between Reggie and Ashima, set in front of a Joann Fabrics, then moves to the alley between Joann Fabrics and Subway, Ashima exits Joann Fabrics with two huge bags, and sees Reggie in his wheelchair on the sidewalk]

Reggie: Heyyyy Mamma, where you goin with them purrchases?

Ashima: [stuttering] I'm just going home sir.... excuse me. [reggie moves his wheelchair to block her way]

Reggie: Not so fast pretty lady, I heard you talkin allll about them banks while you was perusin' the fabrics...

Ashima: Oh why yes! I love talking about the banks! I know all about them.

Reggie: [laughing] Well, now that I got your attention, "forget about the banks. The Fox got a better idea" (107)

Ashima: Idea? Idea for what...?

Reggie: An idea for us to talk about. How bout we talk about George Michael?

Ashima: [gasping] What?! George Michael! He knows a special secret of mine! "he told you something you're not telling me. Tell me, what did he say?" (45)

[Reggie laughs and rolls his wheel chair farther away and turns to face her. He throws a bottle of whisky at her, which she catches]

Reggie: "Pour me a shot'a that Turkey" (108) then I'll tell ya, then I'm gonna get reeeeeal wierd with it

[Ashima pours the shot and hands it to him, then sets the bottle down. He rolls into the creepy alley next to subway, and she follows him. With his one arm, he begins to strike various dance poses]

Reggie: I was told.... that you think you can DAAAnce!

Ashima: Well..... I can dance. And very well. In India we are taught to dance well at a very early age.

Reggie: Ok then, I challenge you to a dance off!

Ashima: [looking at Reggie distastefully] "As long as there are ten finger and ten toe" (7) I will dance off with someone, but you only have five finger....

Reggie: You can't discriminate against me cuz I'm a triple amputee! "[I] aint like this deadbeat motherf***er out here" (109)

Ashima: Well, alright then.

[Ashima sets down her bags and begins to dance violently to the disco music now coming from the built in stereo in Reggie's wheelchair, Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees comes on, and Ashima stops, letting Reggie have his turn.]

Ashima: "go ahead and start" (148) mystery man, its your turn to dance. I thought you were gonna get wierd with it?

Reggie: I'm just waiting for our judge, Ms. Serenksy

[Ashima gasps with excitement. All of a sudden, the alley gets dark and a spotlight shines down from the rooftop. Ms. Serenksy, clad in all disco gear, and in roller blades, comes skating in, stopping dramatically in the middle]

Ms. Serenksy: I will not judge you here! It is no use, I am the best dancer of them all, and I could beat an Indian mother or a triple amputee any day! goodbye!

[Ms. Serenksy skates away, leaving Ashima and Reggie confused. They look at eachother, shrug, and walk/roll away to the song "I've Had the Time of my life" from dirty dancing playing in the background. They stop, turn to look at eachother and give wistful glances, then run/ roll towards eachother and embrace]

END

Clive, You Suck.

Throughout our discussions about the book Amsterdam, we often analyzed Clive and Vernon based on their actions in the section we read. During one section, the one where Clive is working on his symphony in the lake district and witnesses an attack from a rapist that the local police are trying to catch, but does nothing to stop it. Our class had a field day with this. Clive's attitude was that "his proper business in life was to work, to finish a symphony by finding its lyrical summit" (28). Our class verbally attacked Clive from almost every angle. Many thought he was a coward, many claimed he was too conceited to help someone else, and some even claimed that he was too crazy in his own dramatization of the events going on to acknowledge this as a real thing. Thomas however, said that "if you're welfare depended on you finishing the symphony, then I get it", acting as one of 2 or 3 people in the class who supported Clive. Ms. Serensky then said, "Oh, we ALL know that if Thomas had a multi-million dollar symphony on the tip of his tongue, theres no way he's helping anyone else". Clive's reasoning for not helping the woman being attacked was, "if he had approached the couple, a pivotal moment in his career would have been destroyed" (95). This made everyone attack him even more. This I believe, was Clive's worst day. Never have I seen so much anger, frustration and contempt shown towards just one action by one character. Clive also tried to self-justify his inaction by saying that "the melody could not have survived the psychic flurry" (95), which only ensued more hateful thoughts and strongly worded comments from Jackie and others of the quiet sort who all of a sudden became very passionate.

Letter to The Unknown Entity

Dear scary unknown entity from Everything Matters!,

        Although you yourself are very creepy and intimidating since I found out  nothing about you, I fear there is something a lot more frightening then you and your unseen ways. This thing, is AP English 11, in the eyes of incoming sophomores. Your allusion to Junior's behavior, "like Mary Tyler Moore with a crack habit" (106) mimics the ferocity with which small scared students attack new English work. These children work so hard, only to have what they thought to be decent writing, transformed into a bright red scribbly mess. These students then convince themselves that it is not their fault, but that of the new scary teacher's that their writing is thought to be only worth the 50 red markings on it. Similar to how you think that you're "surprised...at how easily [Junior] can lie to himself", future AP English 12 students think the same thing of the new students who cry in the corner due to their bad grades.
     You, you entity you, also pose the question that all AP English 11 students ask themselves after every in class writing, after every SOAPSTone, and after every stressed over paper; "Does Anything I Do Matter?" (9). English students apply this question not to life, but however to the amount of work, time and effort they pour into their English class, only to receive more assignments indecipherable due to the amount of red or purple ink.
     Although I like you sense of humor, sir entity, I do not like you. You seem pompous and act like you are the best just because you know everything. I don't think so. I challenge you to embark on AP English 11... I would be surprised if you made it out alive.

No Thank You,

Katie Ciabotti

Participation Points

As the weeks go by, I find myself more and more confused while sitting in English class every day. Everyone knows about discussion participation points, but it seems that these points are becoming more and more elusive as the year progresses. For example, this week, I found myself talking an overly obnoxious amount of times, and still only received a 13/15 for my points. Now, given, this is a good score, but since alot of us have voiced concern over this issue, I felt that since I talk so much in class, I should be the one to talk about this issue.
                                              
  Ms. Serensky, please refresh us on the point system? There have been many rumors. I have heard that you only give a 1/4 point if you don't use a quote, and then I have heard that you take points away from someone if they say something dumb or if we cut off another person? Pleeeease Ms. Serensky, enlighten us!! I have no objection to your points system, but just am increasingly confused. I know that many of my classmates have said they would rather just write the one-page paper for missing class rather than coming to class, because the discussions can be so stressful.
    Also, how much is too much? Do you take points off if someone takes too much time away from other people to talk? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!! Ah! this is causing me alot of stress. I understand that adding a quote to your comment probably automatically gives you the full points, but got any other tips for us? Any ways to help us not attack eachother for that precious 20 seconds of speaking time each student covets on average 3-4 times a class period? Please help Ms. Serensky!

Sugar Rush

This past week, with the numerous poetry teachings, we were all given large quantities of candy, as a reward for doing what we normally do in English class, which is discuss. I find this very ironic. I think that all the students who used candy as a prize in their demonstrations, secretly were trying to convey a message to Ms. Serensky. Although Serensky's tactic of just intimidating looks, and the occasional nod that can make a students whole week, do work at aiding in class discussions, the candy could  be a more positive way to get kids to talk. I've decided to make pros and cons for giving out candy instead of discussion points.


PROS:
-its delicious
-its a little distraction, allowing your mind to take a short break to think about other ideas
-looking down and seeing a piece appear next to your arm is an excellent little surprise
-we would all have better grades if it was candy instead of points
-relieves stress

CONS
-rotting teeth
-not able to fit through the door
-eventually crashing every day and not being able to function?

In all, I believe the candy was a great enlightenment to our classes. Ms. Serensky, I would greatly salute you if you were to partake in candy giving. May I also suggest friday candy giving? It could make discussions much more interesting?

Haters gon win

Today, my team of me, Carley, Jackie and Jimmy defeated the self proclaimed "dream team" of Alex, John, Thomas and Sam in a poetry contest.

It was a ver fulfilling experience.

In defense, John and Thomas resorted to repeating the phrase, "haters gonn hate". I disagree with this statement. I think a better quote would have been "Haters gonn win". Because we did. I accept that we are haters of the "dream team", and no offense to it's members, everyone just takes such pleasure in beating a team with so much cockiness/confidence. (no offense to dream team members!!)

I also felt very enthused that Ms. Serensky finally got the oppurtunity to beat Thomas in something. I was upset though that we did not get a exerpt from a journal entry of Thomas's, but Ms. Serensky's cackle and the adimate head shaking of the dream team was well worth it.

Alex Kreger's rap was very entertaining though. I feel that Kreggs Benedict would be an excellent rap name for him to start his hip hop career with.
(Alex in 5-10 years)


Well played, both teams!

Haters gon win.

6 words

OH WHY DO YOU TORTURE US?

The Best this Year

Every February, the Superbowl comes around. And during every superbowl, millions of people love watching the commercials. Since ad time sells at $100,000 a second, snack, beer and car companies break out their wittiest commercials to try and take the cake for the ultimate prize of "best superbowl commercial". In my opinion, commercials during this year's game overall, were a bust. Many were tired ads, or just movie trailers. Who wants to see movie trailers during the superbowl? No one. People want funny. I'll give you my 3 favorite... my least favorites aren't even worth mentioning.



The Best.

1. E-Trade Babies
  Although most superbowl commercial reviews found these ads tired and repetitive, I still found myself rolling about with laughter. A tiny baby putting his finger to the lips of an old Italian man, saying, "don't speak" is quite humorous, and also having the baby and a sneezing cat named Peppers together would also be a winner. These commercials are cute, witty, and appeal to all audiences. Well done E-trade.

http://multimedia.foxsports.com/m/video/36896987/e-trade-tailor.htm#q=e+trade+babies

http://multimedia.foxsports.com/m/video/36896992/e-trade-cat.htm#q=e+trade+babies
2. Camero Commercial
    This classic car commercial with a twist, consisted of two men's voices dictating what should happen in the commercial, while whatever they said appeared on the screen. They changed the person driving from a man, to a woman, to a blonde, to a red-head, then were in the desert, then were in the city, then dodging hay-bales. The banter going on between the two narrators and the ever changing scene on the screen made for a very entertaining commercial. The concept was dull, but the spin off was very original.

3. Pepsi-Max
     This commercial, started off with a shot of two people on a date. First, you hear a narration of the woman's thoughts, consisting of questions like, "I wonder if he wants kids? Will he go bald? What's his mother like?" etc, but then we get a narration of the guys thoughts and his is just a constant repeat of "I want to sleep with her" until a pepsi max is set down on the table, then he switches to repeating, "I want a pepsi max". It was witty, and humorous to watch with both boys and girls. It looked like a low budget commercial, but it was excecuted well.

For you three, nice job. But every other company out there, step it up. That was the Superbowl, not an episode of Golden Girls. I'm expecting alot better next time. I wonder who will take the cake next year?

Superbowl

This weekend is the weekend millions of football fans have been waiting for... the Superbowl. Normally, I watch the game at a party with friends, or out of the corner of my eye while trying to finish hw. This year, my interest in the game has changed. No longer am I interested in only the commercials, I'm interested in the outcome of the game as well. My beloved Packers are playing against the Steelers. Now, just from in Ms. Serensky's 3rd period class, I realize we have fans from both sides. Me and Sam are hardcore Packers fans, while Thomas is a Steelers fanatic. I had a dream the other night that all the Packer fans and all the Steelers fans in the school had a big brawl in the gym to see who was better. What if we did that in English class? What if it was a giant physical fight between those who were rooting for the Packers and those rooting for the steelers? I would love to see that. I wonder what role Ms. Serensky would take on. Referee perhaps? making sure all hits were legal? or maybe commentator? switching back and forth between comentating on the actual fight and dictating what Thomas would be writing in his journal at that exact moment in battle. Our English class is always so quiet and dignified, what would happen if we all just gave into our animal instincts one day and just brawled it out? That would be a sight to see. But either way, Thomas, a message from Sam and I... STEELERS ARE GOING DOWN

Dynamics

Yesterday, as I walked out of our 3rd period English class, I found myself saying hi to a few of my friends in Ms. Serensky's 4th period Words, Words, Words class. As I walked away, I found myself wondering, what's the dynamic like in that class? I've never seen Ms. Serensky have to truly discipline anyone for talking or disrupting the class in my English classes (with very smart and well reserved students), so how does she handle certain individuals the NEVER EVER would have been in her classroom if not for Words. Now, no offense to those people, for I like alot of them, but I'm interested to know how Ms. Serensky deals with them. PJ for example. When he laughs, the whole class laughs, stopping work. What is the solution? Does Serensky just use the "stare, eyebrow clinch and head tilt" technique to intimidate him back to silence? Or does she break out a whip and start making threats? or better yet, does she threaten her students that she will commence with a Thomas-esque "Dear Journal" session, but with the unruly students name opposed to Thomas's. Then I think, what's the atmosphere like? Is it intense, like how it is during an in class writing, or is the mood more jovial, along the lines of the mood of an extra credit game? I'm confused and intrigued to see how Ms. Serensky deals with students who are not physically inclined to do work, and allow 80% of their alotted homework time for the work of her class. Now, given that the expectations are obviously different, I would like to observe the different dynamics in the two types of classes. The next class Serensky should teach, Regular Freshman English. Now that, would be an interesting dynamic.

Bye Bye Blogging?

At this point of the year, I find myself worried. When the question was posed that we could either stop blogging, or continue, I came up with my true thoughts. I actully really liked blogging. I thought it was a much better and more interesting assignment than poetry papers, or other things we have done. I ecspecially liked it because it involved reading other classmates' work. In AP English we get very few oppurtunities to read the work of our peers, and through blogging, we got to do that. I learned alot about many of my classmates, just through creeping on their blogs. I also liked the topic range. I think that having the blog topics relate to AP English, keeps them semi-interesting for the rest of the class. If someone wrote about marshmallows, I probably wouldn't be too interested, but if someone wrote about marshmallows after we had talked about smores in class, then I would be much more likely to read it. The blogs seemed like a great form of expression, and a great way to expand our writing through creativity and impersonality that we never face inside the classroom. I definetly don't want to have to say bye bye to blogging. The only thing I would change, is that I would have both the blogs due on Sunday. Having the one due on Thursday was often hard to remember, and I think it would just be alot easier for the overall deadline to just be Sunday. But other than that, I thought the blogs were great!

Pictures

Recently, I discovered that I was behind the quota for the number of pictures needed throughout our blogs, and that my massive amounts of fattening food pictures from a previous blog don't fit the criteria. So, without futher adue, I give you..... First Semester of AP English 12 2010 in Pictures

First up is this scandalous picture of Othello. Othello took up alot of our time in class, and this picture is almost too inappropriate for this blog, and makes me feel a little uncomfortable, so thats why I chose it.

Next is this gem. Although this boy is asian, he represents an awkward situation had by Jimmy and Ms. Serensky. Jimmy was taking off his sweatshirt, and in effect took off his t-shirt to reveal his bare chest to a very flustered ms. Serensky. Needless to say, it was grand.

Ahahahahaaa. This represents how many times we talked about how many kids in the school are intimidated and scared by Ms. Serensky because they have not had her as a teacher. And I think this picture is funny.

This represents how long our first data sheets were, and how some people were having contests to see whose could be the longest. TYPICAL.

This is just a little add in for Ms. Serensky. You're welcome!!!

To Blog or not to Blog?

At the end of last week, Ms. Serensky passed around a sheet of paper asking whether or not we enjoyed the blogging assignment, if we wanted to continue it, and what we would like to blog about in the future, given that we continue with the blogs. I found that I answered that I liked using the blogs, and thought that we should continue with them just like we're doing now.

 I think it's very interesting to not only see other people's writing style and personality through the personal blog entries, but I think it's also interesting to see the topics that people choose. Whether people are talking about dreams, drawings they made, things we did in class, or stalking people that are somewhat related to whatever book we're reading, it's very cool to see the writing of another classmate so uncensored. I think we should keep doing blogs just like we have been doing.

The only request I would have is that we have them both due by Sunday, as opposed to Thursday and Sunday. For the blogs due on Thursdays I always forgot. I knew about Sunday, but Thursday was inconvienent and hard to remember.

Fat Pill?

Today in class, Haley mentioned how her family calls pop tarts "fat pills" because they are so high in fat. This caused me to think of the website thisiswhyyourefat.com, and also imagine what a fat pill could possibly be. So, I did some research. I visited the site, (whose slogan is: "where dreams become heart attacks") and started scrolling through some of the pictures they had. Up first on the list of vomit inducing items they had featured on their website were a grilled cheese birthday cake, birthday cake french toast, a donut and pulled pork sandwich, and a poptart ice cream sandwich. I wanted to stop looking at all the pictures, but I just couldn't. It was repulsive, but also addictive. I went to the next page. I threw up. First, there was the Philly taco (a philly cheesesteak sandwich wrapped in a piece of cheese pizza), bacon spam footballs (spam stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon and then deep fried), chocolate covered bacon with sprinkles (self-explanatory) and my personal most disgusting and gut wrenching favorite: Deep Fried Recees cups wrapped in bacon. Are you kidding me people? Honestly, do people eat this stuff?! No wonder America is so obese... its because people sit around all day and eat chips with Whopper dip (3 whoppers with extra maynoasie and ketchup pureed) and eat anything they can get their hands on and then wrap it in bacon, deep fry it, then dip it in chocolate. Come on people. This is disgusting. I may vomit just thinking about this. These things are the real life "fat pills". Pop tarts seem like next to veggies in healthiness when compared to this stuff. Yuck. (Every item I have mentioned, there is a picture on thisiswhyyourefat.com)

Whopper Dip

Recees cups wrapped in bacon the deep fried

Bacon Bouquet

Corn Dogs dipped in chocolate and sprinkles

Riblets wrapped in bacon, stuffed with stuffing inside of a chicken wrapped in bacon, then stuffed into a duck with more stuffing, then wrapped in bacon, then stuffed with more  stufing into a turkey, with more added bacon, and then slow cooked for 7 hours

A Few Fellow Students at a Basketball Game

Tonight, there was a big basketball game against our obvious arch-rival, Kenston. While at the game, I noticed that several of my fellow AP English classmates were in attendance. They were Kelly, Jillian, Alex K. and Hurtuk. Also there were John, Sam and Joseph, but since they were on the basketball team, I didn't observe them. So while watching the game, I decided to observe my four classmates outside of their natural element of AP English. I felt like I was a photographer in the jungle, stalking rare animals ouside of their natural habitat. First off, we have Kelly. Upon arriving, Kelly made her first of two AP English references during the game. It was, "Ciabotti! Guess what?!" to which I responded, of course, "what?!" and her excited response was, " I finished my data sheet!!" The first thing she said was in regards to an AP English paper, and nothing about saying hello, or addressing the intensity of the game. Her next reference came as the clock for the game came down to 1.5 seconds, and we were down by two. "Oh boy, I'm more stressed right now than I was for English. Wow!" Outside of her natural element of English class, Kelly was quite interested in bringing up English topics, and cheering quite loudly for Joseph Sitzwol. Romance brewing? Who knows. Maybe I'll find out after further research. Then there was Jillian. Oh Jillian. When not being the little lovable awkward turtle that she is, Kelly and I discussed ways that she was awkward. How she appearently screamed while watching "Shutter Island" today, when the part wasn't even scary, or her voice cracking cheers for John or Sam, and we even discussed the possibility of getting a large group of people to all blog about her awkwardness. With the additional observation of Jillian's lovable awkwardness climbing exponentially from what Ive heard of her English classroom, to out in the real world, our AP English references for the night (from 7:30 to 9:00 roughly) added up to a total of 6. Then we spotted Kreger. Perching across the gym, not in the student section, but leaning against the doorway to the Kenston side of the gym, laughing to himself about something. A reference to English was made at his awkward standing alone ness, but I am failing to remember what it was. A few minutes later, out popped Hurtuk, right next to Kreger. Hurtuk's situation was the same as Alex's... except... he had a yo-yo.... and he wasn't even playing with it. He was just letting it hang there. Still attached to his finger, stretched out all the way.... just.... hanging there. To break his concentration of letting the yo yo just hang there, Kelly decided to text him, "Sick Yo Yo". While commenting on Kreger and Hurtuk's sketchiness, I'd say out English references came out to around 10. In an hour and a half. Wow. I'm glad we were all at a basketball game, and still could not put AP English out of our minds.