19:43 -!- Irssi: Starting query in freenode with Yahovah 19:43 http://crazytales.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/so-why-dont-i-use-deviantart/ 19:43 Is that a five paragraph essay? 19:45 Yes, it is. 19:46 I often write them for school, so I'm very used to the format and use it often in my blogpostings. 19:47 They taught you to write five paragraph essays in school? 19:47 Eeek. 19:48 Yeah. :P 19:49 Do your teachers take points off for not writing in a boring structure? 19:49 Well, prison is a better word. 19:49 No, it isn't. 19:50 They don't? 19:50 Why do you still do it? 19:51 Why not? I web out my thoughts on a concept map, then write an essay giving each node on the concept map a paragraph. 19:51 Sounds like a thought-prison to me. 19:52 It just happens to be how I like to organize my thoughts. What's a better idea? 19:53 Well, it's boring, trite and makes you write like you're in middle school. 19:53 I'm in high school. Not so far from it. 19:53 Surely you find reading prose that starts three successive paragraphs with "My first/second/third" corny. 19:54 Yeah 19:54 I try to vary the transitions. 19:56 Even three transitions in a row is kind of childish. 19:56 Depends on how you transition, though. 19:57 You go to a private school, don't you? 19:57 Yeah 19:57 Catholic school 19:57 That's horrible. 19:58 It's not that bad. 19:59 Educating minds in an atmosphere of uniformity is abusive and misleading, in my opinion. 19:59 Uniformity? 19:59 Everyone in your school is Catholic or pretends to be, I assume? 19:59 Diversity is a central part of education. 20:00 No. 20:00 A lot of them are Lutheran or atheist, and a few are Pentecostal (I think). 20:01 Nobody has any problem with that./ 20:02 And there are gays and lesbians there too. Nobody has a problem with that either. 20:04 That's cool. 20:04 I don't know about what Flint is like, but here in Florida, the public schools are usually better than the cheap private schools. 20:05 (How do you know I'm a flinttowner?) 20:05 Flint's public schools are down the drain now. 20:06 I would probably send my kids to a private school too, then. 20:07 You have kids? I thought you were like my age or a few years older. 20:07 I am. 20:07 It seems like for $7000, they could teach you to write essays decently. 20:08 $5-6000 or so. And that comes junior year, in Advanced Composition. 20:08 http://www.powerscatholic.org/tuition.asp 20:08 Unless their webpage is out of date. 20:08 6600 for us 20:09 I think it's pretty up to date, and how did you find out that I go to PCHS? 20:09 Raymond Chan, right? 20:11 No, and are you stalking me or something? 20:11 Raymond Chan isn't related to me. 20:11 Oh. 20:11 Damn. 20:11 I fished some information out of Hannah. 20:11 She's fairly easy to manipulate. 20:11 . . . What's her real name then? 20:11 I don't know, I didn't ask. 20:12 hannahkerela on AIM. 20:12 I distracted her with Pokemon while asking personal questions. 20:12 * Crazytales signs on to bitlbee 20:12 She's not on now, I haven't talked to her in weeks. 20:13 Why are you stalking me through my girlfriend? 20:14 Because you have poorly written essays about dull topics on your blog. 20:15 I don't have anything better to write about sometimes. 20:16 Sometimes it's best not to write at all. 20:17 Also, Hannah should know that Raymond Chan is not related to me. 20:17 She probably does, I just looked up Chans in Flint's phonebook and guessed he was related to you in some way. 20:21 What is my ambition of the month?