This has no basis in reality, but I keep imagining my creative writing class reading my bit of words and rolling their eyes in very meaningful ways, if you know what I mean. And I'm afraid they'll be all "Pit bulls tear apart little children every day!" and force me to defend my stance, and I'm terrible at doing that. So I keep filling the piece with statistics and temperament test results and it's making it very dry, but if I don't have proof that pit bulls aren't inherently vicious dogs, won't they all just tell me I'm wrong? Which wouldn't be the end of the world, I guess. But I think the idea of the assignment is to stand up for yourself and not be passive. So I shouldn't have to hide behind a ton of facts! And, and...
I HATE THIS ASSIGNMENT. I hate having to hand something in on the first day of a new term. I hate that I haven't finished it yet and will have to keep working on it tomorrow afternoon. I hate reading about dog attacks and dogs that have been attacked. And, let's see, I hate having a headache at night when I'm trying to get to sleep and being physically unable to relax the muscles in my forehead. I mean it hasn't happened to me in a while, but it's just really annoying.
And I know this picture completely undermines my serious intentions, but oh the pup-ocity!
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A pitbull once ate my sweater. But that didn't matter because afterwards he brought the shards to me with such a huge smile on his face that I could do nothing but forgive him. He was really lovely and his name was George. George the Pitbull.
Is this creative nonfiction? What other sort of assignments do you do?
And I am a bit of a breedist, I admit. I would like to read your article.
I am so behind this article, and I am so behind you writing it, even though it's making you all sleepless and forehead-tense and stuff. You are a poorniestpoornie, but also you kick ass.
I HATE DOGS AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR.
Kim - YOU DRESS YOUR DOG UP IN HOMEMADE SCARVES.
Narns - Supportisimo! Cha cha cha!
SM - I'm told this is creative nonfiction. We've also done profiles/biographies (I did Kimi), and autobiographical writing. Next, we'll do a "progress piece", or exposition-y thing. And I'm sort of a breedist too, but only in the most superficial and ridiculous way. I'll send you the rewrite of my article when it's finished. The draft I have now is too disorganized.
SD - I love pit bull smiles. They are outrageously huge. Even upside-down Happy smiles can't compare.
I WANT A DOG.
Also: I think word verifications are getting progressively more difficult.
This is too late, but I have a minor obsession with pit bulls and challenging BSL. Reading about it is how I spend much of my internet time. Uh. If you ever have reason to talk or think about it again, let me know.
Dex, your lj posts about BSL kept me thinking about it, which is why it became the subject of my piece. And I will have to do a rewrite in a few weeks, so I might ask you then if there's stuff I'm unclear on. Which I'm sure there will be.
Well, I look forward to catching up with you, whether or not it's BSL-related!
Guess who I saw yesterday - Charmaine!
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