Unfunny.

I've always thought I was an interesting, if not funny person... But it seems like my humor gets lost somewhere during the trip from my brain to the world. Lost in translation? Those neurons sure are hard to decipher, haha. No. Again, there are many examples from the past to prove this but I've forgotten them all because I don't remember bad things--it hurt to be misunderstood. So I will now use my most recent experience.

My AIM status reads: "They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."

Recognize the quote? Yeah.

A little background information: all the Junior English classes are reading or have read The Great Gatsby.

Honestly, how into your reading must you be to be able to identify such a random phrase from a book? It's not even an important line that contributes to the story! ...Or does it, because all my friends can pinpoint the source exactly as if I were quoting something as used as "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" which comes from Romeo and Juliet, by the way! Just saying! Well I guess I missed it because I simply thought that Daisy's reaction was overly dramatic and what-the-heck making a harmless scene ridiculously funny! But no, over the past couple of days, friends have been IMing me about my status asking "Why are you quoting The Great Gatsby?" "Do you like it that much?" No! It's just a funny line. Why don't you find it funny!?

I need to calm down.

The above segment took me about an hour to write. My friend tells me I ramble a lot in my writing. I know. We had a 45 minute in-class practice essay on Tuesday and I spent the first 5 minutes or so planning what to write and then about 25 to actually write it. Then I rewrote it. Yeah, I didn't finish.

I wrote about half a page about car insurance then rewrote it on another page and only got to the back of the page before I started rambling again, this time about inflation. The actual topic was about whether or not minor crimes cause more harm to social order than the typical violent crime. I ran out of time and was unable to say what I really wanted to say because somehow I just couldn't lead into it. Yet. I can see me failing the EAP already...