15 January 2002 ~ Helena and the red pen of doom...

I feel SO fucken good. And evil. Ohhhhh, Helena loves homework sometimes!!!

So the assignment I had to work on was "looking over" the essays of several of my classmates.

...Only, of course, Helena couldn't just "look over" these papers, as two out of the three were REALLY horrific, and REALLY should have been torn up and redone. Helena couldn't just "look them over." Helena had to mark them up so they were illegible.

DAMN, but I love editting, proofreading, and destroying people's work! Makes me feel SO damned powerful to let somebody know that what they've been working on is a lousy piece of junk!

Truly, I'm not going to say I'm the smartest person in the world, or that I'm really good at much of ANYTHING... But I AM pretty good at writing, and I AM pretty good at knowing how to classify good writing versus bad. And this shit was BAD. Made me feel pretty good about my own paper, which I'd initially thought was pretty lousy...

Someday, I'm going to be an English teacher, and I'm going to totally slaughter everybody's work and hope that they learn some things... I feel like I REALLY know a lot about making words work together; mostly just luck and a HELL of a lot of practice -- none of it is really any formal teaching... But still; someday I'll be an English teacher, and I'll do this stuff for a living, and gahd BLESS won't that be fun!

Love,
~Helena*

PS -- Uh, to those of you whose papers I corrected tonight... Um... Sorry. Don't hate me for being such a damned critical bitch... *grin*