wooooooooohhhhoooooooo!!!!!!!!

Wow, this is our last weekend here without the stress of finals. I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Darn I thought all those exclamation points would give me a bunch of words. I guess it doesn’t work that way. That’s ok because now you know how excited I am. Any who I’m guessing most of you are going to party like there is no tomorrow because this is the last weekend you can do that before the end of the year. I hope you all have fun. I’ve never been to a party here; never got the chance, not a big drinker, and I have a special someone back home so I don’t exactly see the point. So I’m going to go home this weekend and drive myself insane but I can do that when I’m home. I have two projects to work on, but one of them is painting stuff and the other is messing with a hot glue gun so sounds like fun to me, and I have to finish writing this paper and add in sources I feel like they are unnecessary because I can get enough information from the movies I’m using but that’s ok. I also get to tell my mom some news that I really hope she takes well and dye my hair for six flags… YAY SIX FLAGS!

After this weekend everything is going to fly by and I can’t wait. I want to go back to work and meet my crew at batman, 20^th ANIVERSORY BABY!, (and I’m turning 20 at the end of May, what a cowinkidink). I’m also super excited to ride x-flight! It looks so cool. I don’t remember if this is our last blog or not but if it is it was nice being in this class with everyone I think it was a pretty successful semester. If you get the chance this summer visit me at Batman and good luck next year!

Word count: 326

Happily Ever After

About 5 years ago in middle school, there was a girl and a guy in gym class. The guy being a 14 year old boy was being an idiot and throwing a shoe through the basketball hoop and almost hit the girl. After a while the guy and girl started hanging out and became best friends. The guy didn’t want to tell the girl that he secretly loved her so he kept it to himself and tried to do everything he could to make her happy. Eventually they got really close and spent almost every day together. The guy’s parents eventually started calling the girl their daughter in law because they saw that they both loved each other.

One day the girl started dating another boy. It lasted for a little bit till the boy broke up with her for another girl and broke her heart. The girl’s best friend was there for her and tried to help her through everything. One day the girl let the guy know that she liked him and she kissed him, catching him completely off guard. The next day the girl’s old boyfriend took her back and her best friend lost his chance. The girl and her best friend were getting really close and she couldn’t get over her feelings for him so her boyfriend told her that they couldn’t be friends anymore.

A year past and the girl and the guy thought about each other every day. She tried to see him on the way to school and took every chance she could to just get a glimpse of him. She finally realized this feeling wasn’t going to go away and made contact with her best friend again.

She broke up with her boyfriend and spent the best summer ever with her best friend. Until, he finally asked her to be his girlfriend. It’s been almost a year since then and they are planning their wedding for this summer right after their one year anniversary.

Word count: 334

more about my paper wooh!

For my paper for this class and for most of my research papers I normally come up with topics for my paper then go through all my sources and look for facts and quotes that support my topics. It normally doesn’t matter what class I am writing the paper for my method seems to be the same. My way is probably not the correct way of going about it. I think most people read through their sources first before they start on their paper but that is too much reading for me. I’d rather come up with an idea and skim to find reasonable support.

One time that really didn’t work out for me because I didn’t feel like writing a paper in high school so I used a friends paper from a different school and found an article to match it and apparently it matched it a little too well. I got a note back on my paper saying to put it in my own words. I couldn’t tell her that my paper was written before I found the article so it was in my own words because it wasn’t in MY words. Oh well.

For this paper I think I will be ok with the sources that I have. I also think I will have enough information since I am a Disney fanatic. I have plenty of movies to cite and compare to others over the years to help with my point. I also have multiple sources to back me up. Even though I normally don’t look at my sources before I start writing I defiantly make sure I have them before I start my paper.  I find if you need to search for a source when you are writing your paper you might get distracted which happens to me a lot. Well I hit my 300 word mark. Hope you enjoyed reading about my research process. Have a good weekend!

Word count: 326

close reading

I’m not the best at reading to begin with as I’ve mentioned before in my past blog about having ADHD. Close reading kind of distracts me from the story when I try to take notes. For the readings we had for Wednesday, as depressing as they were, I got a lot out of the discussions. We got a lot of things I would have never noticed reading the stories by myself. For that reason I’m not a fan of close reading because I would rather have a group discussion about a story to get every point of view to come up with the best analysis. I just need to figure out a way to do that in my head with close reading without getting distracted. I’m also still not exactly sure what parts I should take notes about because it seems when I take notes about stories we talk about everything that I didn’t take notes on.

I’m a little worried about close reading the sources for the research paper. Remembering and close reading folk tales and regular stories to get the meaning is one thing but factual research papers are another.  I think it will be a pain to find the right information to take notes on when I’m close reading. I’d rather just read more old stories with hidden meanings and have more discussions about them. The discussions are very interesting. I’m hoping to learn different methods of close reading to help with our research papers and other types of text so I can use all types of media for my research. It’s a little hard to talk about close reading for so long so I think I’m going to take up the rest of the space with this sentence sorry for the rambling but now I’m at 300 words.