There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of English prose (he points out, for example, that we possess only four stops (the comma, the semicolon, the colon and the period (the question mark and exclamation point are not, strictly speaking, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
10 Feb
The Best Conversation I’ve Had With A Public Schooler.
Ben: “That is the best thing about life: One day ends, another begins.”
Me: “And, perhaps, that is also the worst.”
“How do you see that?”
“That a good or great day has to end at all. If you’re a pessimist, then you know that, eventually, any good day leads to an awful one.”
“Any good day leads to [...]
9 Feb
Homework? Blech.
So on Friday, I had an AP History test and that was it for that class. The reading assignment was on the board, for the textbook. But my friend Alex asked me about the other assignment and I was like crrraaaaappp. What?? Well, nothing was said to me by either of my teachers for that class [...]
6 Feb
Trippy Entrance, Duuude.
Haley: Hey, yu.
you*
Drew: Hey. Zup?
Haley: (wow, graceful entrance much. That’s like when yo trip on your way through a doorway)
(my
(my “entrance”)
Geez, pardon the typos, lol.
ANYWAY. I was wondering if you were going tomorrow.
This is my lifffffe.
3 Feb
Forget it all. F5.
Maybe the reason it seems that almost everybody wants some one else’s hair, or wardrobe, or singing voice, or body, etc. is because we’re bored.
I wonder what would happen if we could forget about what we look like, about what clothes we have in our closets, forget how our voices sound. What if we [...]
