Searched the forums

Tried to find an old conversation I remember because Blinky used the word "unilaterally."
Tried dropping some specifics in the search function and nothing matched the criteria. That's OK, I can find it some other way. So, I look through my posts via my profile and I can't find it. None of the pages near the conversation function, I get the "nothing matched your criteria" message. Note that this is only by working chronologically from past to future, so I'd have less pages to turn. Going back in time would result in over 200 pages of my own posts. So I leaf through the threads on GD, going back to when I joined. But I realized the only way to find the conversation would be by looking through every single thread between 2006-08. Even though I want to find it, that's too tedious.
Still, found some funny old threads from yesteryear, and even found out what happened to the children's book I wrote. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll find that book. It was a class project and my teacher liked it so much she wanted to donate it to the elementary school library (and I got the best grade in the class). Apparently, I thought that was a better idea than getting it published. I checked the library a few years later and apparently a student borrowed it on their last year of elementary and never brought it back. I asked who the kid was and I was told the information was private. Yes, even if you're the author of the only copy of a well received children's book, you can't find out who the last person was to take it from the library. So there's someone who's at least 5 years younger than me either sharing that book or who lost it at some point. Damn kids stealing books from the library.

 

So you didn't save it to your computer?

 

I made it out of construction paper. It was a collage that taught kids how to count objects they could identify. I did actually type out the words for each page, but at the time I was working on my dad's old Power Mac. He made a habit of cleaning out the memory each year and only preserving stuff that was his, due to it being his work computer and all stuff that was done as classwork was pertinent only to the previous year. So, yes, it was my fault I didn't use a floppy.
Mr. Snowman's Dinner Party. He went around his wintery village picking up particular numbers of things he needed for a party he was organizing. He gets home, sets the table with plates, forks (I even bothered to individually cut out the tines), knives, and spoons, and then realizes he never invited anyone to come. I got a 98 on it because it had too many pages. The teacher set the guidelines as "No less than 25 pages." Then she decided she didn't want to read that many pages from 27 different students, so she cut it down to "no more than 18 pages," just two days before it was due. I already finished, and had 28 pages. I would've had 10 points off, but since it was awesome she only subtracted two. Well, lesson learned, I guess. I've been thinking about making another children's book, so we'll see how that turns out. And this time, I'm not donating it to a library until I get it published.

 

She subtracted points for having too many pages when she had changed the parameters of the assignment only several days before, then made you believe you were lucky to only lose two points?

You got scammed, bro.

 

Even if they did follow the revised parameters, no one else got a 98 or higher, meaning my book was the best one produced in the class (according to my teacher). I even talked to other people who had more than 18 pages due to editing not really working out, and they got scores ranging from 87 down to 83. The only reason I didn't edit for length is because I would've needed to rewrite the story, and then re-illustrate each page (which I cut out of different colors of construction paper). The whole process would've taken me about 4 days, because the initial book took me about 7. And then, I would've had more points off for being late, so if I got scammed, two points out of 100 isn't so bad.
Even so, it was a children's book. If she was really afraid of "all that reading" from 27 different children's books, she's a bit lazy. At a generous comparison, I'd say that the average 25 page children's book written for the age specified at the start of the project has the equivalent of 3 pages of double-spaced type in MLA format. And that's still a lot of text for a children's book.
Still, the semester before we were in her class, one of my friends thought she was a student and hit on her. She was 5'2" and "Very bangable" according to him.

 

I'd tap her.

 

She did look very young, and was actually quite pretty. She looked at least 10 years younger than she actually was, which would put her in the same bracket as one of the 14 year olds who went to that school, hence getting hit on by teenagers. I'm sure she got hit on even by students who knew she was a teacher and simply didn't have her in class. Or maybe even by students in some of her classes. By the time I got to highschool, some of the kids in my class hit on my english teacher during the class period. Then, she was hit by a truck and died. I'm not saying it's related, but we went from having a really good english teacher to having a sub for the rest of the year that just kinda phoned it in.

 

Being hit on by kids. The gateway drug to being hit on by trucks.

 

That made me laugh pretty hard.
One of the girls in my class got really emotional over the whole thing and suggested the 6 page topic-of-our-choice papers we each wrote be buried with her.

 

Same. Nicely done, Smuel. Keep this up, and I might unban one of your other accounts and let you use it instead.

Creepy.