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