Daily Scribe Wednesday, 9/24/2008 – Period 4
SCRIBE 9/24/08
Once again the putrid smell radiates off the walls of Mr. Eldridge’s room. Surprising it was worse today. If you happened to miss class, you were lucky. I was ready to keel over and choke to death. Btdubs, that was a hyperbole, or exaggeration, I just used; thanks Andrew for presenting that fabulous trope to us. Any who, Hayley was gracious enough to inform the class of an ice cream social held at the Cold Stones in Los Al (by 24 hour fitness) from 5-8 pm; it’s a fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation, so be there or be square. In class we did yet another imagery worksheet and learned some fascinating facts. Like, did you know that you have to sweat a fever out; Eldy told us that you have to take a nice warm shower, then jump into a pair of sweats, and then roll into bed. Also, Eldridge informed us that he sometimes sweats through all of his sheets, which is kind of like taking another nice warm shower. Ew.
Andrew presented his hyperbole trope, which then led to aunt and dog jokes. We went over Vowell’s “Shooting Dad” story and learned the secret to robbing a liquor store. Also, a certain S needs to pay attention and read more so E doesn’t flip a …. Mr. Eldridge then assigned questions for our groups involving Vowell’s story. And Olivia informed me that LilLo and her beau Sammy girl are now officially together. Plus, Clay Aiken escaped from being trapped in the closet, which was no surprise there. Hope no one was affended. You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Michelle Elias
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You did forget the epiphany of epiphanies, Michelle, with the “White Bread and Butter” group. From where I was, it looked like fireworks.
As for the smell, I think it might be in the trashcan near the door. Would any one know how to switch it out?
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I know I’m not in this period but I was looking at the blog but, Michelle, I thought the Gossip Girl reference was funny.
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It’s nice to know that my celebrity update of the day made it all the way to the blog
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hahah danielle i was JUST about to say that reminded me of gossip girl ><
i got to miss like 15 minutes of the putrid smell in the class today
Cold Stone [=
andd i like the name “Eldy” haha
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it smells in his room?
i dont even smell anything…
Anyways…
I went on e-How.com once again and theres “8 basic steps to cure the common cold”
Step 1: Give yourself time to get better. Take the day off! Rest and drink extra fluids to shorten the duration of a cold. (Terra Lynn,a great excuse to skip school for a while)
Other steps: pretty much basic knowledge(wash hands…. take medicine, etc). Oh but you should take lots of Vitamin C . And all the other steps dont give any excuses that you can use to your advantage to ditch school. That’s why step 1 is stated above.
Oh and while looking at my hyperbole paper, I realized that “yo mamma” jokes are a great example of insulting hyperbole used for humor to “emphasize what you want to emphasize”, in this case it would be how incredibly _______(negative adjective) your mother is.
aaand thats all… it should be enough
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Might this certain “S” and “E” happen to be Jeven Stones and Ent Breldridge? Just a guess.
By the way, I don’t smell whatever is eminating off of Mr. E’s walls.
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you spelled affended wrong. but then again i guess you weren’t exactly going for the english paper look.
Just something i noticed. =)
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Oh ya. Another thing that I remember hearing somewhere back in elementary school was that washing your hands with soap frequently might actually make you more susceptible to sickness. Because bacteria/viruses are constantly adapting to vaccinations, pills, and other such things, they eventually will be unaffected by the anti-bacterial soaps. then, by that time since you haven’t gotten sick for a while by those particular germs, you get OWNED. (your anti-bodies have all disappeared).
o ya also being in shape helps a lot
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In response to Ethan, according to Mr.E, the smell isn’t coming off of the walls, it’s coming from the trash can in his room. But I still don’t understand why it isn’t possible to just switch out the trash can for a new onee?
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Ed, here’s a great article that appeared in the New Yorker this summer about those super bacteria. Good if scary reading.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/11/080811fa_fact_groopman
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So about the ice cream social for make a wish. did anyone go and try the kids new flavor or what ?
and since mr. eldridge told terralynn all about how to get over a cold, hopefully she actually feels better now. & everyone can just use his method. just make sure to take a shower in the morning otherwise we’ll have the odd smell in his room plus the smell of whoever sweated through their cold.
and i love the gossip girl reference michelle. (:
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Ethan, yes you figured out the certain people that i was refering to. And Ed, i am sooooo sory dat i can no spel rite. I have had trouble with it ever since I was a child. Spelling tests were my enemy. OH, and Mr. Eldridge, I was thinking about putting in the bread and butter thing, but I didn’t want to make myself look more blonde than I already am -if you know what I mean.
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Mr. Eldridge, I actually analyzed that superbug article for my summer assignment. I don’t think the solution is to convince the government of the importance of research (if, in fact, that is what he is suggesting by so casually and objectively telling us that the “government is acutely aware of the severity of the problem”), but to convince the PEOPLE of the importance of research. I haven’t seen anything like this; I hadn’t even heard of a “superbug” before reading the article. The key is to reach people like me who don’t care, who will in turn protest or riot or something crazy. Am I suggesting that a highly undercover team infect 1 in 5 Americans with a superbug? – no (though our government doesn’t exactly have a clean track record with this: http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm).
But I pose the question: why the heck do people not know if it’s so important? Shrug on the superbug.
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As crazy as it is, i actually do feel better. Weird, eh? Now im not sure if i really did sweat the fever away or if its just the placebo effect making me believe i subjected myself to that extreme discomfort to become cold-free…how sadistic would that be…but whatever the case, i’m just glad to be over the aches and sore throat and sniffles. So i was talking to mr. eldridge and we discussed that you should always drink lots of fluids, but more so if you do have a cold. Thennn if you decide to induce a fever, you actually will sweat and as elysha mentioned before, you should do us all a favor and shower before coming to school.
Random side note: Does anyone remember that germ movie we had to watch in elementary school where a sick girl sneezes on her hand and touches the door nob and then touches a donut…but has a brain lapse and decides she doesn’t want THAT donut so she picks up a new one (smothering everything she touches in fresh layer of germs). Then some random new guy decides to come along and touch the infected door nob and eat the infected donut that the inconsiderate sick girl previously contaminated. Then he gets sick. ooOOoo annd to top it all off, you see in the background, the whole time, the germs multiplying sing da-dite, da-dite, da-dite, da-dite and so on?
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Well, about ten minutes ago I remembered that we have to leave comments (thanks to tristan calling me) and I’m ahead of the deadline by about and hour and a half so it’s all good.
I really have to say that I have never noticed this smell that everyone is whining about and now I’m afraid I’m losing my sense of smell or “olfactory” sense. (Yay! I used vocabulary above the third grade.)
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hello everyone…
or i would have completely forgotten about the blog! I even wrote a reminder on my hand!….which of course rubbed off the minute i washed my hands. I love Michelle’s idea of gossip girl. EVERY teenage girl in the world (hyperbole?) watches that show. And thank you for mentioning the Coldstone fundraiser. It happened to be very successful. hope everyones weekend is thrilling. mine will be lousy, considering i’m INCREDIBLY sick 
dumb germs. oh, and mr. e, i don’t think your room smells that bad, just not good.
Lucky i decided to log on to my computer and set up my aeries account
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Whoa, Jordan, I also read that superbug article for my summer assignment. And to answer your question (why aren’t people aware of the dangers of the superbugs), i think it is because doctors have no real cure for getting rid of the superbugs, so they would rather not frighten the public. Then again, cancer doesn’t have a cure either, so actually i don’t have an answer for you.
Oh yeah, and i have another question. Ed previously said on this blog that being in shape helps prevent sickness, but me, wang, and sean arakawa were discussing the other day that, during cross country (when we’re in the best shape), we cannot get rid of a sickness until the end of the season if we acquire one during the season. This may be indirectly related to less sleep during the season, but sean arakawa gets plenty of sleep because he took slacker classes this year, so that cannot be the reason. If anyone can find information as to why exercise may allow sickness to continue, please post it.
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I may have the answer, Keith.
Tera-Lynne mentioned that when germs multiply, they sing. So when people go exercise, the music from their iPods encourages the germs to go on Broadway. Thus, the sickness continues.
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Hahaha thanks Jordan. Everything makes perfect sense now.
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keith, i love you
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melanie, no one likes you.
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haha i know right?!!
shay would know…mers the only person that still likes me
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Tis very true, the cross country sniffles never go away until the season ends. I think one theory is that you’re exerting your body so hard and you’re so fatigued that your immune system cannot fight the virus, and you’re actually more vulnerable to diseases because of the weak immune system. However, that cannot be true because Sean Arakawa and I do not try in cross country, haha. Maybe that’s why Keith keeps getting sick, and he keeps infecting us so we get sick, and as soon as we get better, Keith strikes again.
Damn you, Keith!
(Also, did anyone notice that the anti-spam word is the same every time?)
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hey!!! i do pay attention when i read, i was just out of it at that moment. grrrrrrr
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ANDY BANANDAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nrrrrrrrrrrrr Zachglasser
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luv u too melanie
Oh and sean: actually i have not been sick this whole season (knock on wood). Did you ever think that maybe it’s Coach Howard using his powerful inertia to drift germs toward you and sean arakawa because he sees you two walking the workouts that is making you guys sick? That’s my explanation.
And my anti-spam word is different every time. I don’t know what you are talking about willis.
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