"In order to accomplish 50,000 words, I’m going to have to do a lot of stuff, write about a lot of stuff and a lot of people. So I thought that I should just write about the more than 350 people in the Senior class at Timberlane! That seems like a good way to get a LOT of words with little work done. So this book is basically a description of each and every person through my eyes."
"Lucas Alper: Tool. 2. Cool. He is a big jock that does not seem to have much going for him. He slaps around his buddies like all the rest of the jocks and makes jokes about how gay they all are and that they all want to have sex and blah blah blah kind of stuff. He is big and muscular, so he fits the stereotype quite nicely, and, get ready for it, he plays football too. This guy is probably one of the best examples of a jock and a tool. All he is concerned with is the latest football play, the hottest girl, and being the toughest guy. He was in my gym class in 8th grade as well, he was next to Abby Alper and was the apple of the gym teacher’s eye. He is a great example of a tool. He is only working out every day of his life and drinks and does illegal things like that to make himself seem really cool, but then he compromises his school work and grades and does terribly in school. He does not care at all with school and could not care less about how he does in school and what he is going to do in the future because he only wants to be muscular and tough, which will be lost when he is in his 60s and will deal with a sorry life and very little success."Hoo-boy. Nice way to set yourself up as a target, Joshua.
Sam Jones: Bwitch/ Gray. 3. Cool. She stole my hat in fifth grade once and I chased her around the playground. She thought it was cool, I thought it was annoying. What would she want to do with my hat? It seems like she has slipped under my radar now. Now she is just a lazy bwitch that eats all the time and tries to solicit sex with other really lazy, dirty, profane and disgusting people that are also looking to solicit sex from Sam Jones. She hangs around that icky area outside of the café who wants to make drug deals and be as black as possible, but she will only be gray."It's not true, so why let it bother you?" said senior Jesse LoCascio. "People are going to talk about you no matter what. It's high school."
Jesse LoCascio: Gay. 0. UnKool. He is almost obnoxiously gay, but not yet. However, he still makes stupid sex jokes and talks about the sex lives of his friends that are girls (not girl friends because he is incapable of that). He has a look on his face that people are icky and that he is smelling every other person’s bad body odor, then goes over to his friends and shows off how gay he is. He is kind of quiet, at least when I see him with his friends, then other times he is obnoxious and laughing obnoxiously like a stuck up gay person laughing about the stupid sex jokes that he absolutely needs to survive or something of that nature that is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for me to write about.posted by delmoi at 11:59 AM on December 6, 2009 [2 favorites]
"Police are treating the incident as a suicide."can I?
This would be an amazing format for a real novel...Kind of an inverted Spoon River Anthology.
One plausible scenario: diagnosed with ADD and given stimulants as a treatment. It often takes a while for doctors to get the dose right, and I can see a kid writing this during a couple weeks of being completely wired on legal speed.Or another plausible scenario: Dumbass, yet over achieving kid staring down a 50k word goal, a one month deadline, and no quality requirements comes up with hair-brained scheme get to the end and sticks with it.
Re: the likelihood of college applications back-firing: a friend of mine has a sister who got accepted to Harvard, then showed up to school drunk one day and was reprimanded. Somehow Harvard got wind of it and her acceptance was revoked, so it's not like a similar thing couldn't happen here...Maybe at Harvard. But come on, this guy ain't Harvard material here. I don't think admissions at Podunk State U. are going to care.
1,400 kids in a single fucking year?!?? 350 is referred to as 'only' a 'puddle'?!??How many people were in your university class?
"There is a high-school graduating class nationwide of 3.3 million students. Colleges are expected to be sifting through a record number of applications this year. Personal branding is important for this crowd as well, especially for those wanting to gain acceptance from ivy league schools, such as Harvard University....WSJ: College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page Is Showin .
Kaplan Survey (Top 500 Colleges)◦10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants'The school will do an Internet search, including Facebook and other sites, if an application raises "red flags," such as a suspension from school.' – Thomas Griffin, director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
◦38% said that what they saw 'negatively affected' their views of the applicant
◦25% of schools checking social networks said their views were improved
◦21% of colleges used social-networking sites for recruiting prospects and gathering information about applicants.
...'My staff is free to check out anonymous tips about social-networking sites or make use of the information if the admissions committee is evaluating a "tight” decision."' - Greg Roberts, senior associate dean of admission at the University of Virginia."
And if this thread only exists to introduce one person to SRA, then it has served its purpose.Seems a good time to bring up Richard Buckner's adaptation.
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What he did was stupid, no doubt. On the other hand, it is really hard to do NaNoWriMo.
posted by rebent at 11:11 AM on December 6, 2009 [1 favorite]