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Ahahaha! Oh, lordy. I am the smartest little girl who ever did live. All week, I've been trying to figure out how to link my switch to my router so that all six of us in the house could have internet. I couldn't get it to work, though, so I haven't had internet in my room since Tuesday. But this afternoon, in the shower, I thought, why not just hook the second modem to the switch alone? And it worked! Mind you, three people using the internet via the switch could prove annoying later on, but for now I feel like the cock of the walk for figuring it out, even if it does prove faulty later on.
And so, to celebrate, I will now do the The Friday Five one full day late.
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why? I used to love history more than any other class, especially in Grade Four. My teacher, Mme. Plumas, reenacted the whole of the Tristan and Iseulth story for us that year. She was such a cutie. Now, though, history isn't quite as much fun, and my loyalty has switched to English.
2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why? Either Mm.e Plumas (see above), or my grade one teacher, Paulette. She was a large woman, and she seemed like a tough cookie so she scared my parents, but she was such a softie down inside. A corner of her class was reserved for her rocking chair and a big totem pole, and she used to tell us stories every day. Later on she became the librarian, because her daughter got cancer and she needed to be able to leave school at a moment's notice. Then she got breast cancer a few years after her daughter was diagnosed. Hers was the first funeral at which I ever cried.
3. What is your favorite memory of school? Call me square, but I really loved studying for the Chemistry exam in Level Three. A bunch of us sat behind the stage and spouted facts and formulas to each other all morning, and I never felt more confident, happy or prepared when going in an exam. Incidentally, I did relatively poorly on the exam, but I more than made up for it with an astounding history mark that year. Go me!
4. What was your favorite recess game? Until grade five, everyone loved recess. We used to play ponies, or King of the Castle, or run away from someone, but once we got to grade six, the big thing became to try to stay inside at all costs. We girls used to play cards (asshole, mostly) during lunch, and then try to get our teacher to let us stay inside and finish the game (which, as you know, has no end). I never realized how lame that was until now.
5. What did you hate most about school? Buying books. Textbooks are fucking expensive, man. I dropped out of one of my classes this week (because it was lame and stupid and the main point of it was to "appreciate" and "rediscover" the "lost female victorian poets" rather than actually analyse or criticize or comprehend anything), so I ha dto buy new books for the class I transfered into. Mind you, it was a literature course, so there were quite a few novels, but still. They cost me $145, and that's not counting Gulliver's Travels (which I refuse to buy again) or Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground (which wasn't in yet). Is that not obscene?
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