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I know it’s 4am, but I slept late today and now I’m up and active and finishing the paper.

Perhaps I should feel silly that it’s 4am and I’m working hard on finishing something I’ve spent a month on. Especially since I just edited an article on Time Management.

Maybe I should read it…

Just a thought.

Rachel just told me that her English Teacher spent a whole class period picking apart the summer issue of Spark and finished up with “If you want to know how to write well, do what Spark is not doing.”

Sometimes I feel stabby.

I could begin with the fact that a newspaper isn’t a collection of essays that have sanitized and reworked hundreds of times for grades. No one (and by that I mean faculty or staff members) reads over our work before we go to press.

I’ve heard of several teachers who spend their time picking our work apart. Are your lives so devoid of meaning, your lesson plans so devoid of actual content that you have to pick on students?

You know what I think about?

If I want to use comma splices, if I want to spell everything fonetikally, if I just want to write everything in a encoded mirrored Prussian… I damn well will.

Of course, our boxes say ‘Free. Take One.” for a reason. You’re only supposed to take one, so if that teacher took 30+ copies for each class… then she owes me for the additional copies.

People need to learn there’s a difference between criticism and constructive criticism.

But what should I expect from someone who apparently is named after cheap candy.

Ok. I’m freaking out.