Weekly chat post!

[smeddley]

Here's your weekly "learn something interesting about your fellow inkstains members" post - which only works if you post something interesting about yourself in the comments! So, people out there, any unusual talents you have? Anything odd about yourself you want to share?

All of my oddities are quite boring, though I can write backwards and I did once bellydance in a giant bunny costume (it was Halloween, and there was a theme, it made sense at the time!).

Your writing challenge for this week (should you want one) is to write about a character with an unusual ability. Could be supernatural (I once had a character who could smell the future), could just be the ability to always shift perfectly from first to second gear (hey, it's morning, I haven't had my coffee, I'm not thinking on all brain cells here!).

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I spent a couple months in third grade doing all my math homework in base five until my teacher conned first fourth- and fifth-grade teachers into taking me in for the math part of the day, then a sixth-grade teacher into letting me take a math book home for Christmas break, then a prealgebra teacher at the junior high into letting me into his first-period class.

This would be more impressive had I kept it up. Unfortunately, that summer we moved. Mississippi schools suck, y'all. Biloxi's supposed to be the best district in the state, and if that's the best, I pity the schoolkids in the rest of the state. I skipped fourth grade, and if it hadn't been all arranged before the move it wouldn't have happened. My fifth-grade teacher couldn't talk any algebra teachers into taking me on. Then we switched from public to Catholic schools, and the junior-senior Catholic high principal wouldn't let me at an algebra book. And then I moved up to the junior-senior high, and the prealgebra teacher was "oh, there must be something she can learn." Not from you, lady, you weren't teaching algebra. I finally got to algebra in eighth grade, along with all the other eighth graders. I do not think my parents were terribly surprised when my career ambitions changed from math and science to things that involve words and fast typing.