Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Clay Madsen

Amendments to “Sonnets from the Portuguese 43” by E.B. Browning

How do I love thee Claymore? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the big and little and tallness

My red pen can reach, when grading with might

To the ends of the grade scale and student haste.

I love thee to the level of five day’s

Educational creed, by sun and new LED light.

I love thee freely, as you begin to persuasively write;

I love thee purely, as your persuasive writing phrase.

I love thee with the thesis you put to use

Writing about Darth Vader, and new school electives.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

Worrying about Junior’s ability to write. I love thee with the spit,

bile, blood, of all my life; and, if your Mother choose,

I shall but love thee better after State Testing.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Shawn Eitemiller

A first impression of Shawn Eitemiller would generally bare connotations to athletic wonders, formidable warriors, or chiseled models. One may also visualize a sturdy construction foremen or even a robust fireman.  Persuasive writing savant… generally not on the list for the average-standard-median superficial onlooker. Yet, after reading Shawn’s essay regarding the addition of two new graduation requirements, I do declare even the great political strategist, the Ragin Cajun himself, James Carville may concede in a debate with Shawn Eitemiller on the topic of graduation requirements.  In fact, rumor has it that Carville is trying to find Shawn a scholarship to Tulane University (his alma mater) as a successor (or prodigy if you will) once his political career has come full circle.  Congrats Shawn Eitemiller...English Geek of the Week.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Vernington Parish

Although a Jedi may possess the ability to wield the force, “many souls perish in its tumult” (Chopin 13). Previously, definitively overt in her erudite opinions, Vernington Parish is quickly assimilating the literary powers of analytical black, white, and the ever dangerous grey. “This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman”, (Chopin 13) yet Vernington is cray-cray close to “becoming herself and casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world” (Chopin 57). OOOOOOOOKKKKKKK, maybe a bit much (or a lot much), but this girl has learned to straight-up spit some mad diagnostic game. Congrats Vernington Parish...English Geek of the Week.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Dover, 1993. Print.