Peer reviews

So after a few blog posts I've received a few positive comments. Mostly on Facebook but it is kinda fun to hear compliments from friends. In school I'd get praise for my writing from teachers but they were pretty much my only audience. You know the drill. Write a paper, turn it in, get a grade, and that's about it. I never really shared my writing with anyone else. Having friends appreciate my writing is even better than teachers and professors. I shared this story with Essex last night:
In high school I had a friend named Shawna. We had the same AP history teacher but were in different classes. Apparently the teacher would praise my writing to the other class. A mutual friend told me it really pissed Shawna off. You see, she was really smart and also very competitive. I remember hearing her say after a mutual friend out scored her on the SATs " every time one of my friends succeeds a little piece of me dies". Any way... That was my context for friends' attitudes towards eachother's work. It makes me all the more appreciative that friends "like" my posts.