bleed over from the other blog

I've been giving 'how to blog' advice in my class-related blog. One topic I've been tempted to take has been quizs. A lot of blogs are filled with these things, such as "what was your highschool stereotype?" This makes sense because it there an easy was to fill space when you can't think of anything to write. Surprisingly, most people I've seen don't seem to take these as inspirations to further writing, writing starter exercises.

I took the quiz mentioned above. This particular survey gave me some interesting answers. I scored over 80% on the loner index and the next one wasn't even close. I was somewhat surprised that 'drama' scored as high as it did, higher than either 'nerd' or 'jock', both communities I has some claim on. (Despite what my HS athletic director might have indicated, cross-country really is a sport.)

Perhaps the drama-folk were really my people, maybe if I was an exile, they were the community from which I was exiled. I certainly liked them the least, at least for many periods in my HS career.

My attitude was cemented in French I with Ms. I. She has the rather obscene practice of organizing the room according to homework success. (To be fair, I found that homework tended to interfere with my roleplaying habit.) Row 1 had the perfect homework people all working on advanced topics, while I sat over in row 5 with the perpetual homework revisers. The students in row 1 tended to be drama people, the people in row 5 tended to be high. By 'tended', I mean everyone except me got high as a way of coping with class. I was told that pot smoked before school could make French class tolerable, but LSD made it down right interesting. As the non-stoner in the row, all I had to fall back on was my hate.

Ms I and I of course managed to find a middle ground. I didn't seek her favor, nor did I seek it. But how was I to feel about those who actively sought the good will of the tyrant? Well, they could have either my respect or that of the instructor, and they had chosen.

ps. my favorite quiz was the one with the theme "which novel are you?", that test alternately pegged me as either Ulysses or Lolita. Both of these tickle my ego in their own way, which is why I mention them. The quizes that get cited are most probably those that tend to entertain the taker the most.