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Monday, August 23, 2004
Soda versus Pop
The last post's reference belonged to an old advertisement that used to air for the Cartoon Network. It featured the Legion of Doom sitting around and arguing how they were going to defeat the Superfriends. Lex Luthor demanded that he receive a pair of pants first (he was in a speedo of some sort) and Solomon Grundy wanted pants, too. He already had pants, though, so there's some humor in that. Yeah.
Ben guessed it was from Justice League, which is somewhat of a correct answer. So Ben is currently the only person who has guessed a reference correctly. I'll come up with a scoreboard or something to put in the quiz results box once we have a good number of people who have guessed these references correctly. Also, I guess that is entirely dependent on the amount of posting I do, so let's get started, shall we?
I started "real school" again, and I think I might actually enjoy it this time around. My classes are English, Creative Writing, Newspaper Production, Newswriting and Computer Graphics. With the sole exception of my Newswriting class (It's a really basic newspaper class, and I know most, if not all of the stuff already) I'm very excited about them. Computer graphics will be especially interesting; I have been doing an awful lot of drawing lately and I'm hoping to learn how to dress up some of my comics on the computer; if nothing else it will teach me how to use Photoshop better, and that's something that will come in handy online, if nowhere else.
It's only been a few days, and I am having some issues with my classes already. First and foremost, the entire staff of the college newspaper has no idea what they are doing, in terms of producing something with a certain degree of quality. Although my high school newspaper wasn't perfect, it looks infinitely more professional than anything these people have managed to produce. The current Editor in Chief has no idea how to use Quark Express (which is the program we put together pages with,) on the first meeting I had to explain to him how to print. This sort of thing makes me very sad, and I have a feeling that by this time next year I'll have some sort of role on the editorial staff.
My Creative Writing assignments are also incredibly vague. I guess she is doing this to promote our creativity and see what we come up with, but most of us are struggling to figure out what the assignment is actually about. In our last assignment half of us turned in opinions pieces, and the other half turned in literary analysis’s (sp?). Creating boundaries for the assignment sparks more creativity for the students, especially when it gives them a clear idea on what sort of things it might be graded on. Oh well. I turn the work in, even if it bares no resemblance to her original idea for it, whatever that was.
But I’m thrilled to be back in school again. I can’t even begin to emphasize how much I enjoy the idea of being in school, regardless of whether or not I enjoy the classes themselves. Moving on…
…If I had a nickel for every time ColourDeaf didn’t post in “hero,” I’d have one nickel…
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