Thursday, April 18, 2002
So I just took the test. (insert humiliated face here)
I am losing my skills. I thought the test was pretty easy...HOWEVER...it had the exact words on it that I have the hardest time spelling. I am good with most words. Even if I have never heard it...but you give me some of the age old common words and I will fuck it up consistently. The other day Rita says to me: "Joe, spell the word discusting". I immediately burst out laughing, cuz discusting is one of those words that I believe I know how to spell, but also believe that I get it wrong every time. I have been spelling it wrong for years. Discusting is actually spelled DisGusting. Hmmm.
I am not good with the "definitely's", the "absolutely's", the "ly's" that may or may not have that "e" before it.
But either way...I won my 5th grade spelling bee. And I moved to the next round. It is one of my best personal stories. Remind me to tell you sometime. One funny part of the story is...when I won the 5th grade bee...my parents got me a present. Anything that I wanted. Of course I got the dinner of my life and a movie or something. But the one thing I WANTED was "The Babysitter's Club issue 9, I think. It was called Dawn and the Haunted House. And my parents didn't know that I was from homo-city.
So imagine my suprise when I took the spelling test and this is what I saw:
Not bad.
But you probably won't win the big spelling bee. You got 10/15 correct.
I got some brushing up to do before our big home spelling bee!
I am losing my skills. I thought the test was pretty easy...HOWEVER...it had the exact words on it that I have the hardest time spelling. I am good with most words. Even if I have never heard it...but you give me some of the age old common words and I will fuck it up consistently. The other day Rita says to me: "Joe, spell the word discusting". I immediately burst out laughing, cuz discusting is one of those words that I believe I know how to spell, but also believe that I get it wrong every time. I have been spelling it wrong for years. Discusting is actually spelled DisGusting. Hmmm.
I am not good with the "definitely's", the "absolutely's", the "ly's" that may or may not have that "e" before it.
But either way...I won my 5th grade spelling bee. And I moved to the next round. It is one of my best personal stories. Remind me to tell you sometime. One funny part of the story is...when I won the 5th grade bee...my parents got me a present. Anything that I wanted. Of course I got the dinner of my life and a movie or something. But the one thing I WANTED was "The Babysitter's Club issue 9, I think. It was called Dawn and the Haunted House. And my parents didn't know that I was from homo-city.
So imagine my suprise when I took the spelling test and this is what I saw:
Not bad.
But you probably won't win the big spelling bee. You got 10/15 correct.
I got some brushing up to do before our big home spelling bee!
