it’s ALREADY on the intarwebs

I have to keep a journal of sourts for my English-slash-writing class. I know already that this is going to be the easiest part of the course for me. I have no problems writing what I want to write, when I want to write it. The only guidelines I have are that I must write a total of 50 entries of at least two paragraphs each by the end of the quarter. This’ll be cake.

The instructor made a comment (joke, I think?) that the journals would be thrown out if we didn’t pick them up at the end of the quarter “unless there’s something worthy of putting on the internet.” I snickered to myself as I thought “Everything I write is ALREADY on the internet.”

I’m half-tempted to write about my sex life in juicy detail, but a wise teacher once told me, “be careful what you put in writing.” One could argue that I’ve not been terribly careful in the past, but somehow writing on the intarwebs is different than writing on paper. It seems less real somehow. I know that logic doesn’t compute, but eh.

Intarwebs. That would be what my new English teacher calls vernacular. The language of the streets. The streets of the intarwebs. That makes me giggle.

Project 365

I thought you were done with college for this year. If not that is ok. What are you allowed to write about in the journal? How many days are there in the quarter you need to do the 50 entries? For a teacher to read 50 entries two paragraphs long is going to be a lot of work for that teacher. I wonder why this teacher wanted students in the English-slash-writing class you are taking to have ajournal. Do you have to type up what will be in the journal or you can write it by hand? What is intarwebs and vernacular?