Read-speed

The average human reading pace of reading is 200-250 words a minute. How come I feel like I'm only reading 200-250 words a day since I started getting ready for the exams? Shitty... Must be struck with an illness of some kind, it has hit me with an uncanny timing.

Clay Pidgeons

We are clay pidgeons, all of us

shot out of guns that do not move

We are clay pidgeons

The people who make us fly

are also the ones who shoot us down

We are all clay pidgeons

send out with dreams of soaring

we all realize that we are not supposed to

Like clay pidgeons

we realize that when we are highest

we will start to go for the low

Are we all clay pidgeons?

Or will some revolt

and create wings

and fly

The numbers that determine the maps of your "Future-GPS"

"This is the final run", "Your only chance to change your grade is now", "This grade determines whether or not you can use your diploma", "If you want your diploma, now is the time to start doing something about it".

The number of these and other similar "pep talks" are increasing rapidly during this period of education. It seems that it has become more important to teachers to remind their students, that they to be awake, aware and ready to learn than actually teaching and educating their students instead. Teachers want to emphasize that your entire future is decided in these months. At least in their eyes. It is like they are what they are really trying to tell us about our grade averages is this:

If you get a -3 average you don't even get a "future-GPS",
since you have no hopes for your future.
...

If you get an average of zero, the map on your "future-GPS" will look like this:
Few colors, one straight road paved for you.

If you get an average of 2 it will be looking like this:
More colors, more interesting turns, but your still headed towards a place called
"Gydevang".

At an average of 4 it starts to look interesting you get a grid of opportunities
and a number of possible turns, but still it is quite "square".
When you reach 7 it starts to get harder to choose;
Therefore your "future-GPS" will look like a roundabout, you can
travel in circles for 2 years, get your average multiplied by 1.08
and still be ahead of the game
With a 10 your headed for the Autobahn: no speed limits, unlimited exits,
and you can even go abroad and still be "smart".

For an average of 12, the GPS-analogy does not suffice.
If you get an average of 12, you are according to your teachers it seems,
unstopable and on your way to Outer Space, future-wise,
you therefore don't need a GPS.

This is what teachers try to tell you. Especially during the last part of the final semester. Yet numerous pep-talks and what not, will not change the fact that happiness is not determined by the grade you get in high school, so screw the future-GPS

Pink tea

Hibi-tea

Almost a day off. Yet still I shall produce.

But I sit, drinking pink tea.
How did that come to be?

Try to set fire to the keyboard the only way I know
by Looking at my fingers, the blue sky and the snow
Borrowed from Regnsky.dk

Listening to the music of a rain cloud on a sunny day
Come today, come what may, come this way

I look for inspiration in what is all around
but My inspiration should not be wasted on words
That are dictated by the government and the danish crown

Tina & Bertel; disciples of the devil, putting shakles on youthful danish minds