Zap! II

Mood: Grrr! Angry! *HULK SMASH!*
Music: B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (my new favorite song!!) (heh heh..."B.J."...)

Okay. Mrs. Seibert is out to see me fail. And I don't like it. She is determined to give me a 41% on a project I earned 83% on. Her reasoning? Allow me to explain.

(Besides the fact that she is on crack) Mrs. Seibert has worked out something that has come to be known as the infamous checkmark system. How it works, is you get a checkmark for every day you are seen working on your project in class (stretching canvases don't count as working on your project, by the way, and I fail to see how they don't because where I come from canvases don't stretch themselves...). To be marked out of 100, you need to have aquired three checkmarks.
Granted, on this particular project I only aquired two checkmarks, on account of on one of the studio days I was off on a trip for English. A trip that I only went on because Mrs Seibert had double-booked me for another trip on the same day my English trip was supposed to be on, and since I cannot be in two places at once, I went with a different class to the University and consequently had less time to work on my project than everyone else in my class.

Which brings me to my first point of vindication: Since my field trip was arranged at the last minute and on special purposes that Mrs. Seibert herself had a hand in, I feel that I should be pardoned of the missing checkmark because missing class on a studio day was beyond my control.

That said, it should be noted that there are students in my class with special arrangements with Mrs. Seibert which allow them to do their work completely at home and update her on the progress of their paintings via digital photography. Now, these arrangements are specially for people working on very large canvases and I understand why it would be unnecessary to apply the same conditions to someone working on a 13"x19" watercolour piece, but:

On account of there are special circumstances surrounding my missing class on the studio Monday, I believe an exception should be made in my case and I should be given a checkmark if I produce pictures of my project that were taken on Monday evening. Which I have. Readily available. ...For justice!!

Either way you chose to look at it, in all fairness I should be given the checkmark because I did a pretty darn good job on my project, and to rob me of the mark that I earned would be sheer wenchism on the part of Mrs. Seibert. I think she just wants me to fail. Allow me to explain.

I have collected two out of the desired three checkmarks. Let me re-write that. 2/3. As in two thirds. ...She sabotaged my mark by 50%. Since when has two thirds meant 50%??!?!? Now, she's no math teacher and I, quite frankly, am no math student, but I'm enough of one to know that 50% means half a pizza, and two out of three checkmarks means two thirds of a pizza, which just so happens to be bigger than half a friggin' pizza!!!!! (By 16.666666% to be precice.) So, if she is going to insist on riding her high horse of tight-assery and rob me of my hard-earned 83% even though it is clear to any compassionate being that it isn't fair, than at least she could do it properly and give me what would come out to be a disgraceful, unwarranted 55%.

(And even if she were to divide 83 by 50% it would come out to 41.5, which rounded to the nearest whole would give you 42. But we're not going to dwell on that, because 42 is lower than 55 and alot lower than 83.)

Another infraction that I shal point out is not only did she get the wrong answer, but she wrote the wrong equation. On my paper it says:

66.5/80 = 83% x 50 = 41%

ERRR! Wrong! 83 x 50 is not 41. It is 4150 (which is fine by me, really). 83 x .50 is 41.5

...Insufferable woman.

GAH!!!