11.24.11

Its Thanksgiving!  I'm more excited than usual this year because this is my first year out of the house and I miss my family so much.  Some peoples family's live states away and I can't even imagine what they go through.  Mine lives in Portage and I still get sad sometimes because I miss them.  It's mostly my mom and brother.  I hate not waking up to their faces every morning. But today I get to see all my family and I'm so excited.  We all just sit around the table and EAT.  And then the men go upstairs to play video games and us women stay in the kitchen to clean up and play cards.  It sounds kinda sexist or something because we always do the cooking and cleaning.  But we also provide for all the food on the table.  Its always been weird like that.  The women in my family are always the  head of the house hold and bread winners.  There are so many strong women in my family and I'm proud of them all and love them all.  I'm about to go to smash outtttt!!!!!!

11.17.11

Yesterday the class presented their genres.  I am going on Monday and watching the others gave me some helpful tips.  I noticed some people looked nervous and just read off their powerpoints which made me feel awkward.  Others presented their example with enthusiasm and I felt like they really knew what their genre was about.  I'm not worried because I know that I worked hard on my project and that it'll pay off.  My genre is tattoos so its composed of a lot of images and I just want to be sure that there are no technical issues.  Mine is also a little bit more complex because it has so many elements but I'm sure I'll pull it off.  Another thing I noticed about the class is as an audience they aren't very receptive.  I always make sure to laugh or give the expected reaction to presenters to make them more comfortable because then I can feel comfortable. 

11.13.11

So I finally have a job!!!   I'm so happy, I'm just going to enjoy it for now because I know eventually everybody grows to hate their job.  I work in the Meijer's Bakery and so far I really like it.  This is my first job ever so I didn't know what to expect.  I've heard its the easiest department in the store so that made me happy. Its also nice that I pretty much know everybody there because my boyfriend works there too.  So its nice that I don't have to feel like a stranger.  I also like it because it forces me to be nice!  It may sound strange but I like it.  Usually I'm kind of solitary and been described as intimidating but now I HAVE to be nice.  I think I don't really mind though because most of our customers are the elderly or little kids which I really like.  I also get to help make goodies.  The bad part is I can't skip meals anymore because if I do I get super hungry being around all those cookies all day!

11.10.11

I missed class on Wednesday for a job orientation so I don't know what material we covered.  I did complete and turn in the journal entries that were due.  I wish I could have been there on Wednesday to receive feed back so I can know if I'm on the right track or not.  I think I am.  My genre is tattoos and I knew it would be a more complicated one so I hope I'm doing what I'm supposed to.  So far the most difficult part is stating what the purpose of the tattoo is because for that I'd need to speak with the person who has it.  But it is fun to make educated guesses.  There are so many different possibilities because each person is unique.  I'm steering away from cliche and common tattoos because I think they're distasteful.  Even though they'd be easiest to analyze I find unique ones more interesting.   

For Colored Girls

Yesterday my boyfriend and I went to see the play "For Colored Girls".  I had heard of the movie and that it was really good but I never knew it was a play too.  It was very good and I really enjoyed it.  I liked that it was a very personable setting.  It was held in a qaint theatre and the characters each wore a differnt colored shirt with black bottoms.  They all performed and I feel no one was over shadowed by another.  The singing was also very enjoyable and I liked how they converted the songs to be played on (I beleive it was) a ukelele.  Something I didn't like was the scene transitions.  They were somewhat smooth but it took me a minute to realize what was happening.  A man behind me would make small remarks at certain vulgarities and language.  It was really annoying and I wish he would of understood that it was necessary to set the tone and make the intended impact on the audience.  Other than that I am glad I went. 

11.06.11

I'd like to talk about my feelings on the whole teen vampire drama.  I stongly dislike it and I really don't understand the craze surrounding it.  It really baffles me.  I think its just another thing for our generatin to make a mockery of.  The oringinal stories of dracula are considered classics and to convert it to this trash is dumb.  I don't watch these new vampire movies or shows.  I've seen one Twilight movie and it was horrible.  I thought "okay they always say the book is better" so I tried to read the book and it was horrible as well.  The fact that some people try to compare the Twilight series to the Harry Potter series is just insulting.  Twilight doesn't come close to the empire that J.K Rowling has created.  Twilights characters have no personality and it seems they're all depressed and overly melodramatic.  I guess this would seem appealing to  hormonal and emotional teenage girls.  I'm glad I can recognize true talent and apperciate its worth rather that wasting my life obsessing over something so stupid.

11.03.11

Our next project is to work on genres and kind of anylyze them and explore the many different kinds there are.  I never realized that there were SO many!  I'm not sure which one I should choose.  I'm really really leaning towards tattoos.  Ms. Moses said nobodys ever done it before so I think it'd be neat to do it and also allow her to help me explore it.  I only have two so far but both my parents have many tattoos and I wish I could too but due to my future plans I don't see it happening.  So I just admire from afar.  There are so many different tattoos out there and it sounds like a very interesting genre to look at.  The other one I'm looking at are Shakespearean sonnets because I really like his work and the messages and symbols he uses.  And the other is song lyrics because I truly deeply madly love music but I feel like too many people will do that one.   Decisions, dicisions........