Rick Detorie - The Accidental Genius of Weasel High

On the first day back to school after winter break, Mr. Hawley, freshman English teacher at Arthur C. Weatzle High School (commonly known as Weasel High), distributed spiral-bound notebooks to each of his students in his returning freshman class. He told the class that because he was unhappy with the overall poor writing skills and penmanship many of them exhibited in their work last semester, he was starting off the New Year with a long-term assignment that would run twenty weeks, from January through May.

The assignment required that each student maintain a personal blog, a notebook blog.

At least once a week, in their own handwriting, each student was to post an entry of any length. A post could be a couple of sentences, or multiple pages. Over the course of the assignment, Mr. Hawley would be periodically checking on each students progress.

In the notebook blog, bloggers would be expressing their original thoughts and ideas. If their brains contained no original thoughts or ideas, they could write about other peoples thoughts or ideas. They could write about things theyd done and places theyd been, people they know, TV programs they watch. They could write about pets, sports, cars, music, fashion, anything.

Students were to refrain from using texting abbreviations and profanity. They were also forbidden to use the word suck in any of its variations or connotations.

The notebook blog would count for one-third of their final grade. However, the blogger with the most compelling, interesting, or humorous blogas determined by Mr. Hawleywould receive the special grand prize of a sum total grade of 100 for the semester.

What follows is the notebook blog of student Larkin Pace, who won the grand prize.