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Pop Quiz

We have a pop quiz today. One sheet, front and back, short answer questions. There were a few short activities at the beginning of class, but apart from that we have the entire period to do the quiz. Which is a good thing, because I'm having a hard time with it. After what seems like a very long while, I check the time and I see that I still have an hour left to finish. That's better than I thought I had, but it will still be close. Some time later, the teacher (a woman) announces that there are still forty-five minutes remaining. A lot of kids behind me laugh at this. I know it's because they're already done, so they have forty-five minutes to do nothing. Well, good for them, but I know I'll need all forty-five. I keep trying, but I don't finish in time.

After a break, I return to the classroom. One of my high school math teachers is teaching, but he's in a very odd mood. Irritable. Impatient. Sometimes he laughs sarcastically for no apparent reason. He's probably unhappy with the way we scored on the quiz. I try to walk up to him and explain, but he's hardly paying attention to me. Eventually he bursts out, "I'm fed up with"--here he does a violent hand gesture--"mediocrity!" I'm not sure what to say to this, so I settle for saying in an angry undertone that people make mistakes sometimes, and he will just have to deal with it. I go back to my seat. Class starts.

Once, I answer one of the questions he addresses to the class. I get it right. To my surprise, he walks over and puts a jelly bean on my desk. I wonder if he's trying to apologize to me, or if he does that for everyone who answers a question.

Random Video

I've found a YouTube channel that does parodies of and/or tributes to various TV shows. I'm not sure which show inspired the video I'm currently watching. I wonder if it might be Legend of Korra, but of course I have no idea what that show is like. A man and a woman are talking. I think they are (or maybe were) a couple. The man is planning something, but the woman is one step ahead of him: she strips him naked, then tells him that she plans to kill him. Not because they're enemies, but because it is, regrettably, the only solution to a dilemma they've been facing.

The show jumps back in time to explain how the woman engineered this situation. The pair are having another conversation. She promises to show him something if he'll follow her. She also cuts off his clothing with expert use of a whip. He says something about the One Power, but then she reveals that she can channel it as well. The man travels to the location from earlier in the show. As he looks around, the woman appears about fifty yards away. Her arm is raised above her head, seizing something invisible, and it's clear that she got here using the One Power.

The man's chest features some smallish breasts, and somehow this seems appropriate to me. The woman is wearing a white, unbuttoned vest without a bra, and she doesn't trouble herself much about making sure that the vest stays in place. Her breasts are about the same size as the man's.

Frags:

• A vertical antenna capped by a sphere the size of a ping-pong ball sticks up from the middle of a large metal dish. The ball bursts in a sort of molten, fiery explosion. This means we've finally defeated the enemy.

Rehearsal Test

I'm taking a test. Only, we were given the exact same set of questions as review only days ago. In fact, right now the proctors are going through and handing back our review worksheets, because the test is to be open-note. Incredulously, I open the test and the review worksheet both to the first page. Yep, exact same questions. Am I really meant to sit here for the next half hour copying over my previous answers? I call over a proctor to ask this question. In reply, she merely points out that I got some of the review questions wrong, so it won't be exact copying. Hmph.

I decide I may as well drive home before deciding what to do. I get in my white Pathfinder and head out. Due to road closures, I have to drive straight up a steep dirt road on my way home.

Later I return to the testing room. I open the review packet again, and this time I notice that the handwriting on the answers isn't my own. In fact, it seems like the handwriting changes with every new page! The graders must have split the packets for grading and then haphazardly stapled them together again, hopelessly mixing everything together. Affronted, I call over a proctor again.

Pictures App

I'm trying out a new app for party entertainment. Basically you just click a button and it collects from the Internet a bunch of funny, cool, or otherwise interesting pictures, for the group to look at, one at a time. The word "pictures" is slightly deceptive, because actually they're three-second videos that freeze on the last frame (the picture), so they have some context. The guy that made the app is asking for donations, because he spent a lot of time on it, making sure that each set of pictures has a unifying theme and that the pictures are the best ones available.

Contest

Someone's hosting a raffle. They want it to be a really big raffle, so there are a lot of different prizes, not just a couple really expensive ones. Also, there's one particular purchase you can make that as a bonus also gets you thirty raffle tickets. It's an interesting technique, I think.

Frags:

• biking
• tumblr