Homework has a way of putting a shindy in your day

Many people refer to me as a beacon of academia and intelligence.  Others think that I am God's gift to the literary world.  Who are these people you may ask?  My overinflated ego when I'm able to use the WoD in academic context.  I finally got the opportunity today.

shindy

\ SHIN-dee \  , noun;

1. A row; rumpus.

2. A shindig.

Now, I'm slightly nervous about telling you how I quoted this word, because it was in a written paper that I sent to my professor using turnitin.com.  For those of you who've never heard of turnitin.com, it's a ploy teachers use to know when their students are plagiarizing papers.  I actually have nothing against it since I don't cheat, but it's still nice to rant about how lame teachers are by trying to catch students in the act of doing something wrong or unlawful.  Anyway, chances are when my prof reads my paper, it will show me getting that quote off of this blog, and unless she takes the time to read this entry (which probably won't happen) she might think that I copied it off this blog.  Which I did, technically.  But technically I'm the one who wrote it.

What I wrote today was for my COM101 class, also known as "Grammar Slammer".  I just needed to send in a writing sample about my experience with and perception of grammar.  The WoD was used in my thesis statement: "

-->Learning the rules and details of grammar threw a real shindy in my perception of grammar."

  

Basically I was saying that elementary school grammar is a lot easier than learning all that crap about conjugations, direct objects, pronouns, etc.  If you're reading this now though, Professor Deppa, I don't think it's crap.  I think it's wonderful and I love your class and Lolly is the cutest name I've ever heard for a dog in my whole life.