Scribe: 12.03.2008
Period 4
Today was probably one of the most random days in Period 4’s class history. Mr. E’s computer played an array of classical selections as we walked in the classroom; hearing that music made me feel really smart for some odd reason. I figured maybe he was playing it to fit in with the theme of transcendentalism. I took the pass and went to the bathroom; when I entered the classroom again, my eyes beheld the brightness of the peachy salmon imagery sheets that were passed out as my ears took in the sounds of the class chatting with the sporadic yells made by Sean and Ed. /Good old period 4 /I thought.
Anyway, for those of you who decided to ditch today or zoned out during class, here’s what happed:
* We started off the day by discussing Imagery 11. It was about an old blind horse that came back from the devil’s stud. I missed the big E’s explanation of what studding was so feel free to comment on that if you remember it.
* The grass in passage was described as being marked with leprosy. Leprosy is a disease that rots your flesh (for those of you who don’t know). Suddenly Eldridge got on this tangent about the war on terrorism and how the Alquieda used there most powerful weapons(our airplanes) to attack us earlier on. Of course it cost people their lives (WE’RE NOT IRON MAN!!-Mr. E). If we work the war on terrorism logically, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
* Then Mr. E asked if anyone knew how many people had died inAmerica from terror attacks. He finally told us that about4,000-5,000 were killed. That isn’t as much, he went on, as thenumber of deaths from drowning each year (which is 12,000 btw). Then, as usual, Sean shouted something random: There are 25 deathseach year from bear attacks and we need to forge a war againstthem. This somehow led to Michelle E. talking about how peopletry to pull their hands out of vending machines but the machines fall on them. Nadir then starting drawing pictures of people dyingat vending machines on the Imagery sheet. After that, Mr. Eldridge told the class about the Darwin Awards; basically theirawards given out to the most creative and stupid deaths. Anthony started talking about how a bunch of people died while gettinginto a Metallica concert; I think he’s supposed to look up thestory and bring it in to class.
* Next we discussed Imagery 12. The passage is just 2 lines;basically it is about hedges singing with yellow birds in them anda boy running by with lemons in his hands. Random, don’t youthink? Then someone in class commented on how nice Tristan lookedtoday. He was wearing a sweater with a sweater vest over it. Sean got mad because he missed sweater vest Tuesday yesterday. Unfortunately, the Big E announced he wouldn’t be here tomorrow right after the Tristan lecture. The class groaned. Mr. E felt so appreciated because when he told his sophomores they cheered. It just goes to show you that sophomores are immature scalliwags( I like that word lol) . So make sure tomorrow you bring thingsto do (because we have to stay quiet the whole period). Jordanwants the teacher to request an old sub that is deaf. Sean wants Mr. Petrick. I guess we’ll see what happens.
* Then, to finish off the day, we went over the first page and ahalf of Nature by R.W. E. So far, Emerson is saying that to becompletely alone, we need to be somewhere foreign (thus be innature). He goes on to say that the stars are awe-striking andmade to make us feel small (hence the perpetual presence of thesublime). Emerson states that the stars are inaccessible, thatthey still hold their mystery, proving that Nature never wears a common appearance and that we never stop analyzing Nature becausewe cannot extort her secret. Nature is infinite; it is always new and interesting. Little components of nature make up one overall impression of it (20-30 farms, but only one landscape). No one can own Nature; they might be able to own industrialism andman-made materials, but no one will ever own Nature itself. However, some people do not realize the beauty and greatness ofNature; they do not realize that the Sun is there everyday givingus life and that all seasons and every hour “yields it tribute ofdelight”. Emerson encourages us to view the world as a child in a forest; the forest restore youth and is timeless. Kid sees the world from their heart; they think that everything is amazing and fun. This is what Emerson wants to world to discover. And this is all I have down for notes on the essay so far! Hope this helps!!
Thus another crazy day in Room 804 concludes. So remember kiddies, brings books to read and work to do tomorrow!! Oh and be ready to hear Andrea’s awesome presentation on her trope (alliteration).See ya later!!
Period 5
Hey 5th Period!
Today we came to a rude awakening when Callie and other friends decide to holler “John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt!” for the whole class to here at the bell. Very interesting way to start off the class.
We then got 2 salmon-colored imagery sheets- 11 and 12 (By the way, likin the change of color Eldridge. Keepin it spicy haha). Imagery 11 was a excerpt from Robert Browning’s “Child Roland to the Dark Tower” where I then so eagerly read the passage aloud giving emphasis to the word STUD due to the exclamation point that followed (STUD!). Asking what Browning meant by the stud in the last line, a group member of the Blonde Glass Puddles (Which by the way is the best group ever!), Danielle stated it was a hyperbole, but Mr. Eldridge didn’t hear her, so it took like 5 minutes until someone else stated the fact that it was a hyperbole.
Quote from Eldridge describing the old horse in Imagery 11 “Super-Dooper Rickety”
ATTENTION 5TH PERIOD! IT’S OFFICIAL! On December 3rd, Ryan C. and I announced our matramony! 2 seconds into our marriage, Ryan slyly comments saying I don’t know the meaning of MATRIMONY which then started a quarrel about its denotation. We are as Eldridge likes to say “Fighting like anold married couple”. The topic of marriage then got the subject changed to how Eldridge pruposed to his wife. I then offered the suggestion to reissue their vows to each other, but my idea was then shot down by the priceless glare Eldridge shot at me (how do you glare at Barbie!).
We then got on a tangen of movies and how Mr. Eldridge enjoys “sick, really really stupid bloody humor.” This then brought about the amazing opening scene in TROPIC THUNDER when Ben Stiller makes a cliche war scene with flailing limbs. Ben Stiller then brought up the other amazing film he stared in, ZOOLANDER, then forcing Ryan, Mr. Eldridge, and Glasser to start quoting the movie and mention the orange-dream frapocinos and the glasoline accident and the oh so famous MAGNUM!
We then got back to the day’s lesson and contiued to analize Ralph Waldo Emerson’s NATURE. Talking of how getting out of your comfort zone is the real definition of solitude and tlaking about stars and wilderness, brought on Ryan’s outburst on how we should all live in the forest. Kinda creapy not gonna lie haha.
Quote from Eldridge about Ryan’s sudden outburst: “Life With Ryan: Living With The Wolf Man”
We then continued to discuss the essay until the bell.
By the way, the virtue essay starts tomorrow!
ELDRIDGE’S DATING TIP OF THE DAY!!!!!!
Keep it interesting, keep your distance.
Have a sthuper duper day!
LOVE Barbie
Filed under: Daily Scribe and tagged Ben Stiller, Darwin Awards, imagery, leprosy, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sean acting crazy, terrorism, The old married couple, Tropic Thunder, Zachglasser, Zoolander
There’s still hope. The majority of California’s marriages end in divorce. =]
No, “Living With the Wolfman” is a real show on animal planet. It’s about this weird australian guy and his wife and their house is in a wolf preserve place.
Anyway….
Journal to essay.
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@Brittany, there the terrorism thing was not a random tangent. No, Olivia had brought up the strange yet interesting scenario where Al Queda would use a biological nuclear warhead against us. And I had to parse that one: a thermonuclear device equipped with biological weapons…? Figure that one out. And then we went on to what terrorism is about: creating fear. So then I briefly analyzed our favorite terrorists’ aims with their acts–and concluded that we should not be AS fearful–not that there is nothing to fear. (We’ll get to figuring out that difficult statement in the future).
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somehow I managed to get Mr. Petrick in my French class for sub on December 4, and Mrs. Austen for sub in English. As you probably know already, Mr. Egdirdle, that didn’t turn out so well. I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, lo and behold! Everyone was taking the pop quiz. That pop quiz was … not possible.
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I had a sub for japanese and then english too today! Both of them had band-aids on.
that pop quiz was impossible… And if you managed to know 5 or more answers, you probably cheated. Why did we have to take it? That was the quietest our class has every been probably. Wasn’t it!? maybe not.. why why whysa!!!!! (rhetorical question/exclamation?)
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Mr. E! It was not THAT strange of a scenario. I’ve actually (in the past year or so) read a lot about terrorism of Al Queda and possible future attacks on America or Americans. Even the recent attacks in India were supposed to be targeted mainly on British and American tourists. One guy saved his life by hiding his passport in his fake leg! But the article did say this might be coming around 2013. Obviously, I hope it doesn’t, but that does frighten me a tad.
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So, about Nature by Emerson…. I find his ideas very deep and complexing. But i do agree with him in saying that to be in total solitude you must not only get away from society but from your natural habitat also. In your “hang out” as some may call it, you are surrounded by familiarity, therefore feeling comfort. In this area of comfort, it is easy to get distracted to think of other things than your state of being. That is why, like Ryan said, we should all like in the forest. In nature, nothing is familiar. It is always changing. While in the midst of sporadic and unfamiliar changes, one should take the time to think, to think about his or her state of being, about their true self. If you don’t have anything to think about, like I though I did, just take it rationally. Does the human ever stop thinking?
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About Mrs. Austin:
Either she has hearing that would put Superman to shame OR she is imagining things. I was just working in a quiet room when she decided to give us a pop quiz. Half the class didn’t hear anyone talk and apparently she did. Totally unfair.Oh and I think you’ll enjoy reading those quizzes because a lot of people were writing down incredibly long complaint
And on that Darwin Award, the stupidest one during 2008 was a contract worker who was using his power tool on a communications tower. Turns out he was unscrewing the very bar he was attached to. GENIUS. another person “who improved our gene pool by removing themselves from it”
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I second Adam’s comment about Mrs. Austin’s hearing.
I dunno if anyone else noticed, but she started reading them after we turned them in.
She thought my answer was funny on what Emerson’s father’s job was.
I don’t find it flattering, I am more scared to see if she read the back where I said her band-aid looked like a mustache.
You better have been out today for a good reason Mr. E
Oh, and the Darwin Award has been expanded to people who have removed themselves from the gene pool but did not kill themselves… although in some cases, they may want to. (ouch)
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Tomorrow’s going to be very interesting…
I want to comment on the death at Wal-Mart. The family is sueing because Wal-Mart failed to provide adequate security and had an advertisement that aimed to bring in large crowds of shoppers. I just think the whole thing is ridiculous! About the adequacy of security, maaaayyybeeee there is a case, but where should the anger be aimed? Wal-mart? or the shoppers? One woman on a news video called the shoppers “savages,” and another man remarked that they “acted like animals…just to save five dollars.” I agree. It’s just so sad and totally ridiculous to die like this, especially at this time. And the worst part of it all, the man who died was shielding a pregnant woman from getting trampled.
What we can learn from this is that stores do need to provide better security for Black Friday Sales (at least when they expect large crowds like Wal-Mart did). The video suggested giving out numbers or wristbands for more control. BUT should Wal-Mart be sued? I think the bottom of this problem is the greed of the people.
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my dad told me about one guy who removed himself from the gene pool by using a bullet to connect something in his car to something else(sorry..I’m not a car person) and it got too hot and shot him..well..you know where. and he lived but hes no longer in the gene pool and missing a few important parts of himself.
also, Mrs. Austin certainly isn’t a normal person if she really thinks we were being loud. But i mouth the words as i read and write and she walked up behind me and told me to stop talking. so i think she just assumed we were talking because our mouths were open because she was too deaf to actually hear anything. and her band aid did look like a mustache..
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we asked for a deaf sub, we got one wit super hearing :/
we were quiter than we are when Mr. E is in class and we still got that pop quiz!
that band-aid was the 1st thing i noticed when i saw her. she started laughing at seans usual meltdowns and had to stop because her lip hurt. i think she resented him for that.
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Mrs. Austin is just a whole another world of crazy. I’m pretty sure that she assumes we’re talking by reading lips, and giving us the quiz in the last 5 minutes was just ridiculous.
Why do we have the craziest subs at Los Al anyways? First Mrs. Bennett, then Mr. Petrick, and now Mrs. Austin. Whatever happened to Scott, or the guy who looked like Santa?
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@Olivia, my point was not that terrorism is not real or that attacks will not be perpetrated. My focus was the idea of a NUCLEAR AND BIOLOGICAL weapon. If this were real, it would be the dumbest weapon in the world, b/c it would defeat itself. Thermonuclear blasts destroy all living and non-living things for miles and miles. A biological weapon would be incinerated in the blast.
What it sounded to me was that it was a convenient way of combining two scary things into a super-scary thing, that, when logically interrogated, cannot make any sense. It then becomes merely a term to apply to something scary. Like “boogie-man.”
My response to all of this terror-mongering is USE YOUR HEAD. It, your head, will save you in a crisis. Your fear does nothing but weaken.
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