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I see that relations between the avian race and myself are rapidly deteriorating.
First, I was innocently walking from the Commons to IC when I suddenly saw, silent and motionless in the long grass in the ditch… NINJA DUCKS. Doing nothing but watching my every move. It was creepy.
But that would’ve been okay if I hadn’t then reached IC and seen, fluffy and round amid the daffodils by the pond… BABY GEESE. Goslings, I guess. They were so fluffy! Eeee! I instinctively stopped to regard them fondly from what I presumed to be an acceptable distance, but their mother disagreed and rushed towards me, hissing ferociously with its bill wide open like it was about to EAT ME ALIVE.
I won’t lie, I literally ran away. Geese are kind of scary.
You will observe that I skipped over the AP Lit exam completely. There’s not much to say about it. It was pretty good I thought. I felt fairly competent throughout, and let me tell you, fairly competent is an awesome way to feel during an exam. I was also a little closer to being on time than I was for CS, so that was nice.
The only truly horrific thing about the test was the fact that my throat was basically on fire during it. And I could not douse the flames without leaving the room and losing precious time, so it burned and burned. Sometimes (often), I would cough, and smoke would come out of my mouth. Nobody seemed to notice this dragonesque behavior.
I am incredibly amused at the thought of me being a dragon during the AP Lit exam. Rawr.
Tags: AP classes, birds, dragon, English Literature, exams, geese
7 May 2009 at 11:43 pm |
Gahh. I felt very less than competant. It got to that point where I wasn’t actually sure if my essay was cohesive at all, I was just writing all my thoughts down in hopefully coherent English.
8 May 2009 at 12:07 am |
I believe gaggles of geese were historically used as substitutes for guard dogs—they also have the bonus of mowing your lawn.
But yeah… Standing up is interpreted by geese as a submissive position. You can usually get them to back off by bending over a bit and hissing back—although in the case of goslings that may not have been effective.
8 May 2009 at 10:20 pm |
Kendra: Oh, I’m sure it was better than you think it was. ( And even if it’s not, it doesn’t matter at this point anyway.)
Raffi: I’ll be sure to try that the next time I am threatened by geese. Although I think if I bent over, it would just eat my face.
15 May 2009 at 10:22 pm |
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