Sunday, November 27, 2011

Evaluating my writing......

Do you enjoy the works I have put together here on Heresy and Good Fortune?  Do you enjoy any of the other 8 blogs that are attached? 
I do not think that today I am a helter skelter criminal of the pen.  I do not think I ever really was such a creepy and withdrawn writer in any sense.
I was reading an article about Kurt Vonnegut today and I was forced to recall my senior high school year term paper.  I was in an AP english class and I had to read a book and write an indepth analysis of the details and conflicts in the writing. 
I chose Mother Night. 
I must admit that I had many things going on in that day including an after school job that took 20 hours or so a week as well as homework from I think a total of 5 AP classes.   Not an easy load I think.

I was up all night the very last night I had time to work on the Term Paper. I was scheduled to go by bus to Washington D.C. the following morning for a Close Up Program.   I was excited, yet I had absouletely a must to get this term paper done.

I wrote all night, at least 4-5 hours of writing.
I admit that it was not the exact dissertation of true scholarly quality that deserves a place in the Smithsonian, but I do recall making several valid arguments and writing the details of dissertation that corresponded.
I got the paper back.  A "D minus".  I was never so humiliated in all of my high school times by a classroom assignment.
A D minus!  I mean, that basically says "I wanted to fail you but I had mercy on your suffering and very unwarranted soul!".

I mean what did I do that was so horrible. 
Given it was an AP course, I did get at least a C 2.0 Credit that quarter.
But still, how horrible.
I guess I can not think that today I am writing at a C level; at least G-d let it be that that is not so!

But of course, that is for the record books today.

So I am one of those aggressive self calculating souls that likes to find true justice and order in my experiences.
I looked up a charity today, now almost 22 years later and I made a donation of 18 dollars (chai) to the benefits of a Universities Development fund. 

So be it.  If there is justice up above, let it be for the cause that your author has the foundation of a D minus grade on his AP english term paper when he likely deserved maybe a B.

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