Razor

Oh yes, there's another chapter. Don't expect anything for a little while, my r key is outta commission and I've gotta get this POS fixed. And that does NOT stand for part of speech. http://members.gayauthors.org/razor/rave13.php And you seem to underestimate me, franticity! Don't you know I'm INSANE!?!?!??!! ~twitchy face~ Okay guys, let me know what you think as usual. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!

Wow... just, wow... I love them, and I'm going to give a few to my english teacher. I think he'll get a kick out of subordinate clauses.

Whew, thanks, but this one's a doozy. It's really difficult for me to write it realistically, so I'm being really careful with it. I keep changing the third chapter, can't figure out what I want to do. Thanks a lot for the compliment, though. There'll be more before too much longer.

HEY! It's beautiful. You have a happy waiting for you in your PM box! Enjoy!

You DO know I love you, right?

Mkay, got a thing here... See, I want a pretty for Rave Boy. Like, a graphic bannerylinkeryclickerydoodad thing, right? Like the doodad in my sig, but for Rave Boy! I want it to be all prettified so people will want to clicky it... Can any of my fandom do this? If you can... there might be a reward... I don't know what... but damn it I'll make something up! Let me know?!?!

Hiya Nick! I started reading... it's nothing like I was expecting, to tell the truth. I'm enjoying it, but I'm really hoping it goes the way I want it to. If it doesn't, I may be forced to pull a Misery on you, burn the original copy, and force you to rewrite it... So, I'm on chapter eight, and it's great so far. Good job, I'm really liking it. Jamie

I haven't read but eight chapters so far, but I think I won't change my mind. His mom is absolutely despicable. I can't even imagine my mom ever acting anything like that. The dad, oh well. I mean, my dad sucks, so I can relate. But to take away the safe haven that mothers are supposed to provide? That's horrible. My mom's always been the one person that I know that no matter what I do she'll always have my best interest in mind and do everything she can at her own expense to help me. How could you not do that for your kid? I don't understand it at all. You have to be one crazy mofo to do what she did. So, with that in mind, I'm voting that she gets shot in the face seven times and that's how she gets put out of the story... just a suggestion.

MUAH HA HA! DEATH TO BAMBI'S MAMA! I giggle senselessly at the thought! Actually... I cried, it was so sad! Why'd you make me remember that?! Ack! Well, good news. Next one's about a fourth written (even though I said I'd have it this weekend... i lied... bite me), then dear lovely Connor here gets to mutilate it before I mutilate it again and he mutilates it again and then I mutilate it a final time and everybody else gets the remains. Sicko... go play with a tire iron. Ya naaaaaaasty!

I'm not saying anything! Nuh uh! You can't pry it out of me! You might could bribe it out of me... but definitely not pry!

LOL! You just might be! I have no idea! If it's elaborate, but not INSANELY elaborate, you just might be spot on.

~sighs~ I've become a Bright Eyes freak lately. "Landlocked Blues" has a really funny ironic part that kinda fits for me some of the time... "There's kids playing guns in the street, And one's pointing his tree branch at me. So I put my hands up, I say 'Enough is enough; you walk away, I'll walk away.' And he shot me dead." That made me nearly fall off the bed giggling, it was just hilarious. You'd have to listen to the song, it's like you were totally not expecting that and then he says it in a half singing voice, sounding kinda irritated... "And he shot me dead." hehehe!

Stay far away from Dell screens. I mean FAR away. Dunno how their others are, but the quality of my laptop screen is so terrible I keep getting closer and closer to wanting to kick myself in the face for buying a Dell laptop to begin with. It's not that the *quality* is bad, it's actually very decent. Bad part? They flex, bigtime. This is the second time I'm going to have to have it replaced, and I'm glad it's under warranty or I'd be giving them hell over the phone every second of every day. Basically, Dell laptops have terrible LCD's, so I'm assuming that the quality of their monitors will be just the same. I'm almost starting to think maybe Macs ARE better than PC's... cept they're the DEVIL! MUAH HA HA!

Ooooo, conjecture! Now I get to be all stonily silent and make everyone wonder what happens... OH GOD IT BURNS! I can't take it! I'm so much of a blabbermouth! ~runs away before I give it away~ I think you guys'll like it, though, hopefully.

Wow, so many happy people... weirdos.

You, sir, get a cookie!

Okay, maybe it's because I connect better with girls in general, but I love it when a female character is given depth in any story, be it with a gay protagonist or not. Straight guys? I don't write straight guys well... they're just so strange that it takes me a bit of thought before I can really write anything convincing to do with them. I'm with Dio on this one. Just because a lot of us write for a site called Gay Authors doesn't mean all our characters have to be queer... As far as sex goes, I think blatant sex is very tasteless. Eroticism is quite lovely, but some people's definition of eroticism conflicts with mine. I think of the way a necklace clings to a guy's neck, or a shirt unbuttoned enough to see collarbones, or maybe a flash of skin as someone stretches... get my drift? I don't wanna read about people doing the nasty, it makes me view the story in a totally different light after that. Maybe that's just me, but that's my own opinion of what's tasteful and what's not.

I LOVE block scheduling! It's so wonderful! There's so much more time for GOOD teachers to teach. Then, we have this standardized testing nonsense that interferes with it. AP classes are mostly a joke, anyway. Hardly any high school teachers are actually qualified to teach on a collegiate level.

~shrugs~ I can deal with an absentminded teacher, even though I firmly believe that a teacher should have an iron grip on their subject, know it backwards and forwards, and be practically all-knowing therein... but w/e. Some people are just scatterbrained, like me. At least he admits his mistakes and takes the time to explain and rectify. Some teachers are just... wow.

Yeah, um, all of that was over my head. The one job I've ever had... I didn't have taxes taken out, got paid cash, lol. I guess that's illegal or something... I just don't understand the entire process and I figure I just don't have to quite yet.

Sharon, Graeme, Kevvers, I admire you all for your outlook. Unfortunately, I'm a confirmed pessimist. If something happens and I can't change it, I get frustrated to the point that I go temporarily crazy from not being able to right the obvious wrong. I don't deal well with life's little down points, at all. One person suggested that it was because I'm a cancer, and all of that empathy crap and whatnot. My explanation is that I just kinda care too much about the people I love to accept anything bad happening to them. I don't like things that "just aren't fair".

That is just absolutely adorable! And if I were you... I'd grab emo boy and threaten his genitalia if he hurt my little girl. Which is why I couldn't be a parent; I'd KILL any person who made my kid sad, lol. It'd be all like RAWR, STRANGLING YOU WITH YOUR INTESTINES! It's quite cute, though. Little girls are weird critters indeed.

Haha, an essay... wow. Am I freaky if that actually sounds fun and interesting to me? I'm beginning to blame student apathy and complacency just as much as teacher stupidity... my English teacher cracks me up. He'll give incorrect examples on purpose to see if anyone catches them, and hardly anyone ever does. Shows how much attention he gets in class. A GA Tutoring program would be wonderful. I'm sure that a few people would be incredibly useful to have around for random questions (like dear Michael, who very quickly and efficiently cleared the air around my misunderstanding). Interesting tidbit... Today a classmate heard me explaining the correct answer to a person who had actually asked me to explain it. She butted into my conversation and said to drop it, that it was yesterday, blahblahblah. (Basically she's a bitch and no one likes her, but I held my tongue on that one). So, I told her to hush up and mind her own conversation. Then I thought for a moment... THIS GIRL IS TRYING TO BECOME AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST. Do I REALLY want someone that complacent and accepting of falsehoods to have my life in their hands? How has our standard drooped so low that we just accept things like this that are really important to our success? Another little example is today a band student was complaining about the way the band teacher's been doing chairs (seating based on rank in the section you belong to). She's been wanting to strangle this woman over it for about four days now. Her mother even called the school. The band teacher pissed someone off, and even though she's not a terrible teacher like the economics teacher, people are more incited about being placed in the wrong chair than getting a shitty education. How sad is that? When other people's perception of you becomes TRULY more important to you than what is actually there... I just can't believe that people could have that mindset.

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND! So the idiot actually was correct, but he was correct because he had the teacher's edition with the answer... but couldn't explain how he arrived at that answer. THANKS MICHAEL! Can't believe they let someone like that teach... it's pitiful...

THE SETTING: Economics, third block. THE SETUP: A problem dealing with marginal cost. Marginal cost is the cost of producing a good or service. It is a summation of the equipment, labor, time, and other valued things used to produce a product. THE TABLE: Marginal Cost of Producing a Dozen Tortillas at the Amazing Tortilla Company Dozens per day / Marginal Cost Up to 500 / .50 501 to 1000 / .50 1,001 to 1,500 / .75 1,501 to 2,000 / .75 2,001 to 2,500 / 1.00 2,501 to 3,000 / 1.00 PROBLEM 1: Supposing the business could charge no more than .60 per dozen. HOw many would they want to produce each day at that price? Why? ANSWER: 1,000, because the marginal cost is still low enough, and price high enough, to make the greatest possible profit. THIS IS WHERE THINGS GOT UGLY! PROBLEM 2: If the price increased from .60 to .80 per dozen, would the business want to sell more tortillas each day? Why? MY ANSWER, AND THE SMART KIDS' ANSWER: No. They would want to sell the same amount, because at that same amount they would make a greater profit. Producing more would create an inferior profit for the company. TEACHER'S ANSWER: Yeah, they're expanding. (with nothing to explain or back his answer...) SO, I argued him down about it. I tried over and over to explain my logic and math, and let him know that he was indeed incorrect. No one else spoke up. They were perfectly content to sit there and let the teacher tell them the wrong answer, knowing he was wrong, and just accept it. The reason America is falling behind other countries is not because we don't go to school long enough, or anything like that. It's our teachers who can't teach, and our students who won't stand up for their rights. I hope the day comes soon when they're both ashamed of their actions. A second example... I was teaching my little sister math. The teacher had given them a series of figures, and told them that base multiplied by height will give the area of the figure every time. I was confused; the area of a triangle is NOT found that way. You must half your answer, because of the concept behind it. You add in a triangle of the same size to make it a quadrilateral so that the formula basexheight= area will work, and then you half your answer because the triangle is only half the quadrilateral. The worksheet was one of those that the answer corresponds to a letter and spells out something... Instead of teaching the concept behind this, she lied to her students. She halved the measure of each base on each triangle so that it would correspond to the letter it needed to. She was quite content to let them continue thinking this, even though it is incorrect. What kind of teachers do we have today? How is this going on without the parents getting involved? How can people even call themselves parents if they don't pay enough attention to their child's education to notice something this seriously, horribly wrong? Is it the complacency and faith we place in our education system? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, AND HOW DO WE FIX IT?