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Lauree Frances Keith
English II PreAP/GT
K. H. S.
August 10, 2000
Diagnostic
My name is above, and you can just call me "Lauree" if you don't feel up to including the "Frances" every time. This is my first English class since sixth grade where the teacher has not had my older sister. (Emily Koch had that problem with her brother Eric, too. He was in all of Ashlea's classes, and I've been in all of Emily's since junior high.) I'm glad to walk in and not hear 'Oh, you must be Ashlea's sister! You two look exactly alike!'
You shouldn't have any major behavioral problems from me, except for an occasional cynical comment, but I feel that this only adds flavor to the classroom. Usually at the beginning of the school year I'm very quiet until I get comfortable with my new surroundings anyway, so you really needn't worry.
I do fine in English class, and I don't particularly mind learning more about grammar, since I'd like to use writing somehow in some undecided career, and I want people to be able to understand what I'm writing. I read more books outside of class than in, and I haven't minded reading the novels for school curricula except The Call of the Wild. That was the most insanely pointless book, and of course my seventh grade English teacher thought it was some awesome literary work, so I ended up doing more than necessary with it. Oi weh...
My after-school activities this year will include Latin Club, piano lessons, Creative Writing Club, and accumulating crew hours for technical theatre. Right now I am working at K. D.'s Music and Arts (which is also where I take my piano lessons). Before my dad comes home from work, I have to stay home and make sure the Mongoloids don't get themselves killed. The Mongoloids consist of my sister Kailey, who is ten; my brother Michael, who is thirteen; and my baby brother Eddie (Mr. Ed), who is eight. I have a name for my older sister, too, but it might be best to leave that to your imagination.
In between all of this I try to get as much sleep as possible, but my dad seems to find something wildly funny in waiting until I've just fallen asleep and then waking me up to go do some chore that he could just as well have had one of his four other children do. When I can't fall asleep late at night, I stay up to watch The Newlywed Game and ancient reruns of Married... With Children. The last has been my favorite T. V. show since I was six. And when one of these two is a rerun I don't like, I put in my favorite Marx Brothers movie, A Night At The Opera. Those things are so inspiring! I've been waiting for an opportunity the past couple of days to tell someone, 'Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?' Hee-hee...
Other than all of that, I never do anything and I'm horribly uninteresting. El fin.
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