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I...just did the practice for the PSAT (which is practice for the SAT, blah blah)....and wow. I...sucked really...badly. Uhh...this is worrying me now. T_T; Even when I feel confident I did well, I...don't. I screw myself over....I got waay below average grades. Errr.....gee, I thought I did well doing it too. I guess hopes of doing well are gonna go down the drain. TDT
Oh, oh oh. Our A.P. Bio teacher told us the origin of the word "shit"!
Lesse. So the reason came from back in our early shipping days (it was either the Renaissance or the Middle Ages....leaning more to Renaissance, but I remember his saying Middle Ages...ANYHOW. THAT ERA.) They used to pack a whole lot of manure on those ships. When salt water came in contact with the poop, a whole lot of methane formed; so if an unfortunate young man came walking along pipe in hand, and decided to take a light--
BOOM. DEAD. KABLOOEY.
As a result, the bags of manure were labeled with the beautiful word that is "shit". It's actually an acronym for "ship high in transit". Keep those bags high up before the methane causes the whole ship and its passengers to blow!....although I'd assume that'd be better than actually making the whole trip, but that's aside the point. It doesn't seem like a curse word at all, now does it? I guess it was just crude to say anything related to manure back in those days. Yeah. Who knew methane would take us on that tangent of all things?
Shocking. My English teacher called me a talented writer, WHAT. G-great, now I have to live up to that. :( I have a readable, distinguishable style? That's unheard of. I hope I can live up to it and keep it up and never return to the C streaks of freshman and sophomore English.
School will forever stress me out. Still not happy about my C- in AP Bio (at least my average is still a 94, but if future tests will be that difficult...) and possible Fs from APUSH (I bet I'm going to lose my B+ really, REALLY, fast). I'm going to go play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on my violin now. :(