Posted by keith I too hated reading from those reading anthologies. I actually enjoyed The Legend of Sleep Hollow though. Since then I've had the hankerin' to reread some of the stories. Remember having to memorize lines from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner? "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink." Cuban Missile Crisis scare: while in 6th grade I talked Craig into stealing some of his dad's gunpowder so I could make my own fireworks and bombs (I had learned to make my own powder while in 5th grade but I wanted the "real stuff"). I waited for what seemed like hours, while Craig did the dirty deed, at that tiny corner tavern kitty-corner from Bud Leisz's gas station. Finally Craig returned and announced to me that his dad had just said the bombs would be dropping before the weekend ended. Talk about nightmares after that! I used to lay in bed at night and visualize the Ruskies invading, and imagined the mushroom clouds forming over the twin cities and Eau Claire, and the hapless survivors making their way to Cameron where we had to house and feed them. I remember that each household was told how many people they were expected to house in the event the world blew up (maybe this last part was created in my own mind, but I do remember thinking that).
on 8/16/2006, 12:29 pm, in reply to "Re: booklets"
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Boy did I hate doing those damn things. Unlike Julie and a few others I had no artistic talent whatsoever. What really got my goat was that you could do daily "A" work and ace all of your tests, but the most you could get on your quarter grade report would be a "C" - anything higher required extra credit work. And how about those daily quarter sheet quizzes. By the time you got your paper out she was on question 3 or 4 and she wouldn't repeat anything. I swear I never had that much work even in college.
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