The Friday Awards

Oh glorious, glorious Friday, you are upon us! We bow to you, and in your honor, we vow to spend the next 48 hours eating string cheese in thick, soft hoodies, dancing in our socks to Empire of the Sun, and laying on our beds with our heads hanging off the side, "reading" our assigned books upside down while using 23 percent of our brains to think about something completely unrelated to the task at hand.

Ehem.

Weeeeeeekennnnnnnnnnnd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL Points to mauvelocity for...

Great Expectations needs to be banned. It just made me want to stick a hot fork into my ear and singe the part of my brain where memories of that book are engraved. My friend even suggested buying a copy and having a ritualistic burning of it.

to count_olaf for...

Yo-Yo Ma is my homeboy

to Gemmaroonies for...

Last year at my school [seniors] had to describe theirselves in 3 words. This one guy's three words were "No, I refuse." I thought that was pretty good haha

Nerd in a Good Way Award goes to endlesslight44 for a comment on this post...

This may be one of the nerdiest things said on SparkLife (And apparently we're a whole bunch of serious nerds), but here goes: Does anyone else recognize the book the girl in the picture is reading? Well, I do. (Nerdy, I know. Like what are the chaces? Well, with all the books I've read, I guess pretty high...) But it's Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, and it just happens to be one of my favorite books ever. I loaded the page and was like "Woah! I totally know that book!" Anyone else a fan?

Great Additions to Horrible Teachers post goes to...

emMCie for...

Arial IS a terrible font!
But I think you skipped a few stereotypes.
I just transferred schools and this really has been an experience.

1. The "I-have-no-idea-what-theyre-talking-about-because-they-look-strange-teacher." My french teacher has these terribly distracting face moles. And when she thinks we're not looking, there's this one near her bottom lip that she nibbles on. *twitch*

2. The "let's-make-my-students-feel-inferior-so-I-sleep-better-at-night" teacher. My AB Calc teacher told me in front of the entire class that I belong in Algebra One.
3. The"I'm-teaching-this-because-its-all-they-had-left-and-I-need-a-job" teacher.I teach my psychology class more than my teacher does.
4.The"I-live-at-the-school-because-I'm-going-through-a-divorce" teacher. Yes. Seriously. She slept on the couch in the lobby for a week. But our school has no showers....skeevy!

to lemondropofdoom for...

Perhaps you could also add "Brand New and No Clue" to your list? My freshman year of High School I had a Geometry teacher who had never taught before our class. She was always very nervous--she stuttered and basically flew all over the classroom looking for papers (that usually ended up being on her desk where they belonged, or in her hands). She was usually very flushed in the face and more often than anything else she would say very quickly "Is it hot in here? Does anybody else think it's hot in here?" and then go mess with the thermostat. I felt bad for her, and was on my best behavior all the time just to make sure she didn't end up in the fetal position on the carpet. Other students weren't as nice. One girl, a vicious Junior, would start fights with her (literally) and have loud phone conversations during class, just all around taking advantage of the teacher's passiveness. And then the next year she moved. To New York. Where she (according to the other math teachers) got a husband and a job at a trendy boutique.

to theeighthdwarf for...

My geography teacher from last year spent entire lessons ranting about how much he hated our class. He told my mother that we were the most ignorant, arrogant and ridiculos class in the entire school. Yet all our other teachers loved us. And he wrote on my report card that I was a terrible public speaker. I do public speaking competitions and come first or second in them so I don't know what he's on. I found out later that he wrote the exacr same comment on half our classes reports. And he came to school with GLITTER in his hair. GLITTER! The man has problems.

Awesome New Text Abbreviation Award goes to CoffinMaker for...

MUIITNF
(Must Use It In The Near Future )

Nickname of the Week Award goes to Now_what

Hilarious Additions to the Scarier Than Vampires post go to AuriChan for...

Do you know whats REALLY scary? The coffin my English teacher keeps in his classroom (yup, fullsize wooden coffin). Sometimes you misbihave, he looks at you, and then the ccoffin, and then at you, and then the coffin. He sais it's from an English project, but it's always scared me.

to charred_rose11 for...

My school's fried chicken. Seriously, I found some sort of ORGAN in it today. My friends and I think it's a kidney. And when I told a teacher, she's like, "Yeah, these things happen..."

to shelbcz for...

Also!
-Dimly lit parking lots
-I can't believe it's not butter! (Then what is it?!)

to GabelineHouveltz for...

> the lack of a social conscience in society
> the palm pre lady who creeps your screen every 5 minutes
> ditto with the dairy milk chocolate kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0SchmcLXMQ
> calculus. YES I SAID IT.
> rejection from a university
> 2012
> the end of Cadbury sales. or Red bull.
> portraits that follow you with their eyes

The Helper Award goes to thebumm for directing synchrogirl117 to this post.

The Funny New Memes Award goes to Peonies_and_Flan for...

Randomness is so fun! How about these:
Every tooth scum is part of that clique
A snowmobile is blocking out almost every monkey butt
You eat gangly vegetables
You will slurp in fourty-six seconds
Smash that chartreuse cotton candy!
I hope you like clashing lions
Tom Cruise would be spherical

And finally, this week's Wordle Award goes to buttercup32. Last week, Sparkler Amazedg made an awesome word cloud out of the post Blogging New Moon 23 on wordle.net. This week, buttercup32 created a cloud out of all Blogging New Moon Posts. Here it is—just click to see it bigger!

Congrats, Frampions!