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I love Ms. Shortall so much. Whenever I see her I'm all, "Hi Ms. Shortall!!!!" blaugh She's my favoritest teacher, which is pretty tough considering how much I love Ms. Walters and how much I practically worship and stalk Mr. Walz. xd (Which reminds me...I MUST E-MAIL MYSELF THAT PICTURE TOMORROW! I WILL WRITE IT ON MY ARM SO I DON'T FORGET TO PRINT IT TOMORROW NIGHT FOR HIM TO SIGN ON FRIDAY!)

Speaking of Friday...we're finally distributing the newspaper on Friday. It was supposed to come out on April 1st for the April Fool's articles to be perfect, but we had technical difficulties so we had to put it off 2 days. And then we had problem with our printer (our local newspaper...which sucks a**).

Anyway, back to Ms. Shortall. Sometimes I pass her on my way to AP Lang. (I actually go down that hallway JUST so that if I see her I can talk to her. xd ) And if I don't pass her because she's in her room I peek in. If she's not talking to anyone I pop in and quickly say hi.

So today I was walking and then I saw her and I said hi and at first she didn't know where it came from so I waved and then she saw me and said hi back. I walked over to her and talked about how AP Lang was kind of boring because I wasn't really learning anything extremely helpful. I told her how we've mainly been focusing on how to improve your writing and all of these notes are helpful for the little things I need to remember, but I need something or someone to REALLY critique my writing so I can improve. Ms. Shortall helped so much with my writing. I walked into 10th grade English all cocky and then I got a 4 (basically a B) on our first long essay and I was like, "What?! But I'm amazing!" I worked myself up to a 5 (low A) and by the end of 10th grade I had finally reached 6's. I was lucky enough to have her for 11th grade English as well and she also helped a lot with my parallel structure and knowledge of rhetorical devices. Seriously, Ms. Shortall prepared me so well for AP Lang, that I honestly can only take so much out of that class. xd I really, REALLY wish she taught the AP English classes.

It also doesn't help that so many of the seniors are dumbasses who can't write. So we spend so much time on learning how to write and not enough time on other things, like preparing for the AP test. So I got myself a Princeton review AP Lang book and I've been working out of that to improve. I'm not worried about the essays since I've gotten plenty of 8's and 9's (AP scale ranges from 0 to 9 instead of 0 to 6). The hardest time I have for essays is when it wants you to use first person or a trivial and childish subject to write on. Because I HATE dipping into informal writing. Ms. Shortall took off lots of points for informal writing (contractions, "I", "you", etc.) so as a result, I have a very academic style of writing on essays. I leave my informality for journals, like this and the one I have for AP Lang journal writing.

I've realized I have a really hard time writing novels. I get so distracted and lose interest. I'm not disciplined enough. emo So I'm going to try my hand at short stories now. When I get older I want to write essays as well. I think I'd make a good essayist. 3nodding After all, I AM going to be writing for the rest of my life because of journalism (even though I'm going into copy editing, but that's just because the demand for them is much higher than it is for reporters and they get paid more too--although I'd love to also write for a magazine I liked...like a Nintendo magazine or online news site...or something of that sort).

Jocey and I have been keeping a journal between us as well about the s**t going on in our lives. And well...I don't have much s**t going on right now other than past problems coming up (I'm a glutton for punishing myself and bringing back old memories back...I swear, I have so many songs I relate to--especially Linkin Park songs--because of past conflicts, mainly from last year and the year before). And I wrote a 5 page summary of all the crap that happened to me and Jocey read it and she was all, "Awwww Carly! crying "

Well, onto my song of the moment. xd (I have it on repeat on iTunes right now. ninja )




It reminds me of James and me so much. Because he calls me his angel and it's just a happy song to such an immense degree. It just reminds me how much I love him. heart heart heart