Back to School Wishes for All!

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 678

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Alicia/Sue Spinnet" wrote:
> 
> Watch me as I leap into the air with joy at the prospect of another 
> year being dubbed "the brainy one", "the smart girl", and "the 
> Misery Chick" (oh, how I would love to kill the person who wrote 
> that line). 

They call you 'the brainy one' and 'the smart girl' because you ARE 
brainy and smart. Why do they call you 'the Misery Chick'? Is it from 
some song or TV show that is since my time? A couple months ago, I 
stumbled (while Web-searching for something else) on a Web site of 
"What to Name the Baby for Goths" on which Misery was one of the 
suggested names (in fact, Agony, Chaos, Despair, and Misery were 
suggested as nice matching names for anyone planning to have four 
children == as a person who doesn't like children, I find those names 
an excessively accurate description of life with children!)

>  But I'm seriously doubting my classes' ability to 
> differentiate between nouns and verbs. 

The difference between nouns and verbs is an arbitrary artifact of 
Indo-European languages. It doesn't exist as such in Semitic 
languages, and in fact it is a little weak in English: is 'wave' a 
noun or a verb? How about 'smile'? How about 'interface'?

Hang in there! It is a known fact that life gets better after high 
school! Life gets even better after college! Look at me: I'm 42 now, 
with credit-card balance problems and an ever-increasing 
collection of physical aches and pains (I didn't say age was 
PERFECT) and I wouldn't go back to High School for fifty million 
dollars!