YOWCH!

That's a hot cuppa! HOT cuppa!

*we interrupt this blog to point and laugh as Rio winces and rubs her sore lip that is now turning red from being burnt by a very hot cup of tea*

Okay, but anyway... You've all (read: Besl'a) have been around for all my ramblings on my various English papers, yeah? I complain about writing them, it takes me four hours to write a paragraph, yet somehow I always scrape by and have it done by the time I have to go to class?

Well, this week's topic (actually, next week's topic, since this week is Thanksgiving. The Vegan's favorite holiday... pass me a slice of the tofu loaf?) is an argumentative paper. If have to argue some controversial topic. I couldn't think of anything worthwhile until I got to history class. We were talking about Truman and the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So I figured, hey, why not? I'll write about that. However, as I try writing about it, I realise that it's not nearly as much fun when there's not the Knights of the Square Table to argue with.

Interruption: My history class is actually a leadership class. There are eight of us, plus two professors in the class. It is mostly discussion. They ask us what we would do, say, in Truman's position. Do we drop the bomb, or don't we? Since it is discussion (read: lots of liberals and conservatives yelling at each other), we don't have the room set up like a normal classroom. We arrange the tables in a square and all sit around it, a la King Arthur, only with a few more corners (since we are lacking a proper Round Table). Therefore: Our unofficial name is the Knights of the Square Table.

So, Hiroshima. Not as much fun to write about without anyone to yell at. One thing I would like to write about, though, is wolves. You know, shatter the stereotype of "The Big Bad Wolf" and such. 'cause hunters totally kill more deer than wolves. But I've already turned in the outline of my Hiroshima paper. So, is it too late to switch topics now?

So I decided to e-mail the professor to ask if it would be alright for me to switch. Oh look! There's already an e-mail from her!

She wants to know if I can e-mail her a few copies of my papers so she can submit them to a committee who will review the papers and decide which ones to offer an award to. She'll be putting together a folder of work from several students in her ENG101 classes, students who have shown "consistently high quality".

.... the hell?