who studies grammar in their free time??

Fun story:

Approximately two hours ago I completed my English provincial. I feel better than Sara apparantly does about it, but I don't think I did fabulously either.

The hardest part for me was the original composition. I knew that I wanted to write a narrative, considering that most people stick with your standard five paragraph essay.

"Those we admire shape our lives." Or something along those lines. Who remembers, anyway?

When I was brainstorming, I came up with what I thought was a fabulous idea. I've been listening to this grammar podcast for the past few days, and have been learning a lot. Knowing this, it seems obvious that my composition would be related to grammar in some way. I wrote a first person narrative from the point of view of an English teacher with almost a fetish for grammar. The story itself was pretty good. Not my best, but probably good enough.

I discovered the problem probably three sentences after I had begun.

In order to write from the point of view of a grammar fanatic, I had to have impeccable grammar myself.

This isn't such a big deal, I have pretty good grammar, but I was so paranoid that I would let something slip and the characterization would be negated. I can't use improper grammar to write from a character who loves it! It was because of this that I took over an hour to write an essay they gave me 35 minutes for.

Just to say, this podcast I've been listening to? Pretty rad. Go here and click on Grammar Girl!