Assignment 8: "I never had to choose my subject--my subject rather chose me." (Tyler Gorman)

Fears: Being viewed negatively by others, loneliness, obsolescence.
Annoyances: Poor grammar, cockiness, impossible tasks.
Accomplishments: Wind ensemble, surviving as long as I have in the Academy.
Confusions: Playing woodwind instruments
Sorrows: My lack of organization
Dreams: Drum major, not fail my classes
Idiosyncrasies: Counting the number of stairs in a staircase
Risks: Rollercoasters
Beloved possessions, then & now: Legos (then), phone (now)
Problems: Time management

I'm what you might call a "Grammar Nazi." When I'm reading something and I find a grammatical error I cringe a bit, and I always have. I guess what really gets to me about it is that if you're going to have your work read by other people, why not at least make it legible? I mean, leaving out important grammatical conventions like commas ("Let's eat, grandpa!" versus "Let's eat grandpa!") or apostrophes ("its" (possessive) and "it's" (it is)) changes the meaning of a sentence altogether, so why not go to a little extra trouble to make what you're trying to say understandable? It just seems kind of lazy not to. I know it's probably not something that should bother me as much as it does, but I can't really help it. It's just really frustrating when an otherwise-excellent piece of writing is soiled by tons of mistakes that make the piece harder to read. There's a reason you never hear about typos in famous pieces of literature; authors acknowledge that they have an audience that needs to make sense of what they're reading.