Another Tale of Grades Gone Bad

Since I can't think of much to blog about, I thought I'd share my grade stories too, although it took me a bit to come up with the good!

So, I have always considered myself a good public speaker, but maybe taking two speeches to state forensics in high school went to my head! In my somewhat arrogant state, I think I forgot to ever prepare for my speeches in my college public speaking class. Either that or I was trying to top Krista at extemporaneous speaking. Anyhow, I don't even remember what kind of speech we were giving, but I decided to tell about camping in Colorado. I told all about setting up the tent, going hiking, making s'mores, etc. I thought the speech went very well until I got my grade. He marked me down to a B because I did not explain technical terms such as s'mores! Come On!!! The funny thing was that when it came time for our demonstration speeches, a young man in our class brought in an electric grill and demonstrated how to make s'mores!

The worst I can think of was my Freshman year in junior high. I was taking geometry and we were studying right triangles. Somehow, on the day of the test I totally mixed up which side of the triangle was the hypotenuse. To make matters worse, each problem built off the one before, so if you screwed up the first one, you missed the next five or so! I could tell something was wrong when the teacher returned the tests and instead of giving me my test, she asked me to stay after class. I got a D!!! I can remember standing at my locker crying and then crying all the way to gym class. My saving grace was that this teacher was very generous with extra credit and I raised my grade back up to an A with one extra credit assignment!

One other funny note was my freshman year in Honors Composition. Keep in mind that the entire class was made up of students that had always excelled in school. The first day, the teacher proclaimed, "Everyone in here starts out with a C and it is up to you to raise it!" You should have seen all of the horrified faces!!!

This and That

I guess my writing goes in spurts. I do real good for a week or so, and then... nothing. I have actually thought of fun things to blog about, but as I am sitting here I can think of... nothing. John and I have ordered Chinese from the new restaurant down the street. I hope it is good because I am hungry! John is watching Enterprise because he is a Star Trek junkie. Well, not the type that go to conventions and dress up as a Klingon, but he has a scanner, phaser, and a comm-badge, so you get the picture.

Baby Riggs is doing well. We had a check up on Valentine's Day. Dr. Wootton had trouble picking up the baby's heart beat with the Doppler, so we had a quick sonogram. He/She actually looks like a baby and not a lima bean like last time! It was amazing to see him/her wiggling around. Since we were looking I asked if she could tell the baby's sex. She gave it her best, but stubborn little Baby Riggs was butt down and wouldn't let us take a peek! Oh well, our next appointment is March 21st and we will get to do another sonogram, so maybe then!

Well, I took a break for dinner, and the Chinese was pretty good! It's nice to have something else delivered besides pizza! Then again, maybe we should just get our grocery shopping done so we have some food around here. I think I will do that tomorrow! Good night!