It's genetic

I just hung out with the sisters for a long time.

We were sharing our high school stories with the little one and Vicky decided to give us a glimpse into how she scored so poorly on her AP Government and AP English Lang exams.

AP English Lang: She thought the writing section was meant to show off your cleverness rather than test for skills like "grammar" and "spelling." She decided to write it like a blog entry. The prompt asked, "If you could uninvent something, what would it be?" Her response was some nonsense about how obvi wooden clogs and Uggs should have never been invented, but if she could uninvent anything, it'd be the ladder. She got a 3.

AP Government: The prompt for the essay used the word "litigation." Vicky didn't know what the word meant. She still doesn't because she referred to it as "ligation, you know, having to do with law-y things." And she pronounced it "lie-gation." Assuming it meant the grassroots movement, she wrote her essay about eliminating cold calls and turning to the internet. She then explained how this wasn't all that unexpected based on the final paper she wrote for her AP class. She didn't understand the assignment, and somehow ended up writing an essay about how the government should take money from Hurrican Katrina efforts to fund a space program sending men to Mars. The essay was supposed to be about... space? I'm not really sure, but she said she needed to come up with a funding source and thought about where the government was wasting money. Somehow, by the grace of any and all higher beings, she pulled off a 3.

If the relation wasn't obvious before, it most definitely is now.