Geeky moments...

[Elita Justice]

Wow, I have to pick just one? lol, well, most of my moments are pretty similar. Basically it's just people telling me I need to loosen up (their way of saying forget to do your homework once in a while), or mention how I'd rather read than do pretty much anything (which I must admit is completely true). Something else people do, though not because their pointing out I'm smart, but simply because the want to know, is continuously ask what something (that usually I say) means.

I think the one actually geeky moment I had (though it was small) was when I was reading a book instead of watching a movie with the class (it was for entertainment, but I didn't like the movie) and then my friend sitting next to me noticed, and told everyone around us and everyone was so surprised that I didn't want to watch the movie, and all I said was "But it's a really good book!" then everyone laughed. lol, I thought it was funny. Thanks
~Droplets

(space bar doesnt work)...is it a crime to enjoy doing school projects...thats me...i just got another one and my classmates are freaking out about the deadline while im cruisng through because i did it during the xmas break...hehe

[edited to put the spaces in. --kli.]

[bookworm6]

The other day we were watching an example of sci-fi for our English class. There was a planet that had people on it that was being sucked into a black hole. The planet's sun was seen being sucked into it. But wouldn't the star supernova before being sucked in? I'm not quite sure about that, but I pointed it out. Even the teacher looked at me weird.

[Dragon Writer]

It's not a crime to enjoy school projects! i enjoy many of them...it's a crime to enjoy certain REGULAR homeworks, but projects are fun! most of my geeky moments these days are when either one, i listen to something that's supposed to be one of the greatest class writing projects and think "wow...that's so...bland..." because i just read a masterpiece work of fiction, or two, when i read so much people think i'm reading a new book every day even when i'm not...I DON"T HAVE TIME FOR A BOOK A DAY ANYMORE! i'm seriously lacking in geeky moments at the moment. *sigh*

ooh, geeky moment! finishing your pracctice test, going to the bathroom, coming back, and finding that not only is no one else done, that i know of, but people are still exclaiming in excitement of having finished the first side of the test...it was one page, bacvk and front.
oh, and more of a readers moment, having a teacher saying that a student said, though the student says this wasn't exact wording, that all books are my books because i read them all.

[Rubywolf]

Oh. Iwrote an awesome short story for public school two years ago. It was sci-fi / fantasy. Trust me, it was really good. We had to read it outloud. I went last. Before me, every one had written crummy stories. They were really crummy. My story was a bout a young girl. Her father is a scientist. He's part of a team that uses cryogenics to bring dragons back to life (they had been frozen in the polar ice caps.) The dragons break free and kill a two thirds of population. Girl gets older and joins a dragon hunt, but she can'tbring herself to kill the dragon that they are hunting because of a glint of honor in its red eyes. when I finished, the teacher took me out in the hall and told me that my story was good, but that I needed to write to my audience (my class). She said that she had watched the class the entire time. When I mentioned cryogenics, the zoned out. They had no idea what i was talking about. Then she lectured me about the importance of writing to my audience and said that I should write to my classmates' levels.

My classmates' levels? when we do our half-hour reading, most of them read Dr. Zeus.

[Dragon Writer]

...rubywolf...your classmates levels are kinda sad. Of course, most of my school doens't really read at ALL, it seems but still...
and i HATE listening to people in class tell stories...i mean, i know the stories are where they should be at our gradelevel, but after reading real books...everything sounds like it doesn't quite fit together. no fluidity...
*tries to think of geeky moments i've had recently* well, due to the fact that i've had about two weeks off of school, i don't have many, but a while back, i had a teacher, in english, catch me whispering the words to the Raven when we were reading it in class, because i was bored of just listening, so as i kinda punishment she made me read it outloud...
when i was finished, i remember someone going "wow..."

[Rubywolf]

*giggles* (something that doesn't happen very often) I love The Raven. My old school wouldn't even consider letting that into the classrooms.

Quothe the raven, Nevermore.

*sighs*

[wordwielder]

Rubywolf and young reader...I'm in public school, too, and it can majorly get on my nerves. I'm so sick of being treated like some sort of anomaly. Like when we got a vocabulary test back and someone shouted, "What did [my name] get?"
And yes, vocabulary can be miserable. It's kind of pathetic that so few people ever open a book.
On the thing about The Raven, out-loud reading can be really miserable. In my English class, we have memorization assignments, and when people recite, they seem to have no idea what they are saying. The worst was when we had to recite three Emily Dickinson poems. The only person who had ANY clue what they were about was the one who started using pantomime in "If I can stop one heart from breaking." He was immitating taking a robin from the ground and "help[ing] it unto its nest again," etc. I think I'm the only person in my class who enjoys reading out loud.

[maxxrox]

Does anyone read the New York Times Magazine? The front-page article of the most recent one was about how processed foods are bad for you and that you should eat more leaves, as opposed to seeds. The author's argument was this: "Fish are an inefficient source of omega-3 fatty acids because they get them from eating plants that produce them via photosynthesis.
Funny, I thought that plants made glucose, a carbohydrate with photosynthesis and that fats were made only by creatures unable to photosynthesize. Am I really that geeky that nobody else noticed that and I do? And I'm not even all that interested in biology!

[Fox]

Originally posted by bookworm6:
The other day we were watching an example of sci-fi for our English class. There was a planet that had people on it that was being sucked into a black hole. The planet's sun was seen being sucked into it. But wouldn't the star supernova before being sucked in? I'm not quite sure about that, but I pointed it out. Even the teacher looked at me weird.

That would'ant happen to be star gate would it? I remember an eposode where a team on a plant got sucked in. My understanding of it was that the star was far away when it supernovared or it was traveling [either the balck hole was moving or the planet was [think it was the planet].
Fox

[Dragon Writer]

today, in honers history class, we had a ws on king auther, and noboddy had ever read any of the books...except for me, reading sword int he stone, but this was all about when he was an adult, not a kid...
and yet, i STILL ended up somehow giving the class answers to the ws...weirder, i gave them RIGHT answers to the ws! what really bugs me though, is that many people in the honors class weren't even certain of what the holy grail was...It's not even a book thing! it's a religion thing!

[Rubywolf]

Yay for homeschooling! I don't have to deal with that stuff anymore. Oh, about the black hole. the star would not become a supernova. If the black whole was strong enough, it would be sucked in, where it would loose all of its mass. Then it would be ripped to shreds. then it would be broken apart, atom by atom. if the black hole was not strong enough, the black hole would wear itself out. Then the black hole would collapse. then all the atoms inside the black hole would be released into the universe to join gas clouds. If the black hole was absolutly huge, it would cause the star to break apart before coming anywhere near it, forming a small black hole that would join the already huge one. Or something like that.

[Dragon Writer]

today i once more find myself reciting an entire story line of all the king auther books it seems, despite never really having read them, too the point where the teacher pulled me aside and asked me not to reveal quite so much before she could pass out the books...and was told by the other kids that they don't read like i do, so don't know it...
IT"S HONERS ENGLISH! READ!

[Rubywolf]

I love to read. Who on here doesn't? I don't get people who don't read. They don't get me.

[Dragon Writer]

it's sad that people don't read...*Sighs* reading rules! but most people don't seem to get that...of course, even i get a bit weirded out when i start reciting plots to books i've never read...