I believe in the long history of LTG, this is the first time I’ve scanned a document and then uploaded the PDF to a post. I wasn’t sure it would even work, and I won’t know if the copy is readable until I publish it. So, consider this an experiment.
Anyway, from deep in the memory box, this is something I wrote as a sophomore in a high school English course. Nothing special about it, although it does demonstrate that I’ve been consistently atrocious in grammar, spelling, and punctuation throughout my life. Now, this is a typewritten document, and I’m sure some errors are, in fact, typos, but still, it demonstrates that I was always better at content than mechanics. You can see the teacher used a lot of red ink on my work. Hard to remember how rough we had it back in the days before automatic spellcheck.
I’m still hoping that “heaven” turns out to be a do-over life. Obviously, I’d still make the same grammatical errors, but I’d have a lot more fun if I knew then what I know now.
UPDATE: Weird; when I publish, the document shows upside down. It’s easy to flip using the rotation key at the top of the PDF box, but I don’t know why it does that.
UPDATE II: Hmm, it is also too small to read, at least for me. If anyone has suggestions on how to better upload documents like this one, please let me know in the comments.
You took all your old papers with you to the Philippines? Interesting.
No, not even close to all of them…just one wine box that was in my daughter’s garage when I visited four years ago. I just started going through some of them again the other day on a whim. There’s one large envelope I haven’t opened yet. It is full of letters I sent my soulmate Linda over the years. She kept them all and then mailed them back to me shortly before she passed away. Reading those will probably be as close to time travel as I’m going to get. It may well prove to be a painful journey too.
My new Mac has a huge monitor, so I’m not experiencing any problems reading the text. I did see the “upside-down” problem, but as you said, the rotate button made that easy to fix. You had a real issue placing your apostrophes back in the day, didn’t you? (Or rather: “did’nt you”?)
For people who think the text is too small, they can magnify their browser screen by hitting the “command +” combination.
Your teacher made one false correction: on the second page, she thought your semicolon needed to be replaced by a comma, but since you’ve gone through my series on commas, you know perfectly well that you don’t put a comma before a subordinating conjunction like “because.” She should have told you simply to delete the semicolon. Her other comma correction in that sentence is legit.
This, most likely, won’t last long…
Yeah, I don’t know what was up with those apostrophes. Hell, I wasn’t even using drugs yet. That’s one handicap I managed to overcome, at least.
Damn, I need to track down that teacher and get her to adjust my score! Hmm, well, s/he is probably dead by now, and those 3 points wouldn’t change my “D” grade anyway. Never mind.