Some one said that they didn't like the blogs as well as the journals but i think the opposite. I liked the journals but i like the blog even better. I made it easy for myself because i set my blog as my homepage. That made it easy for me because whenever i got online, which is a million times a day, it was easy to just type out a post. I think that i might even keep up with the blogs after i have to. I might start a new one that's not even public. just like an inline diary i guess. I think it will be interesting to go back and read it a couple years for now, and maybe eventually share it with others. I don't want a physical journal because someone always seems to find it and read it!

I have no more classes. And i don't have any real exams. I only have one regular art history test next week during an exam time. I am stuck up in Richmond without a car. I have to find a way home to get my car so i can drive back up, take my one test next Tuesday, and move all of my stuff out of my dorm by myself. I have nowhere to park my car, which is a big truck. I plan on going to belle isle every day the rest of the week but ive herd that it is going to rain. Basically i am going to be bored as shit for the next week and i am going to go completely broke. As soon as i get home i have to figure out the situation with my work so i can get back on the schedule as soon as possible. Summer is starting out with alot of stress.

I was scared to use the pictures on my oral presentation but i just decided t do it. I was pretty sure they would be effective and they were a good visual that showed exactly what my research was about. I didn't think about how they might be offensive to some untill i get in front of the class. I realized that though i had no problem with them, some people pay have a weak stomach or even a weak heart. Another thing is that the pictures were projected onto a huge screen instead of my small computer screen. I didn't even look at them up on the screen since i was talking but i bet they were even more graphic at that size. I think they flowed pretty well into my presentation, even though the presentation all together didn't flow very easy. At least they bought me some time!

i don't think my oral presentation on Friday was as bad as my last one, but it was still pretty bad. I don't even remember it i was so stressed before and i was like out of it while i was presenting. At least it's over with. i really hope that i never have to do an oral presentation again! or that i just get over being afraid of them! i don't know what it is i just reallly reaallyyy realllyy hate them. Oh well i guess ill just have to deal...

my sister sent me this website (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/) like a week ago and its sad how much I've been playing the games on it. I keep my roommate up because i click the mouse so hard. There alot of things like this that i spend time on, time i should use for work. like the peacock picture I painted yesterday for my friend...
I just filled out my planner/ to do list for next week and i have ALOT stuff that needs to get done. I will have absolutely no time at all for things like these. At least it will all be over soon. I can smell summer

The peer revision was helpful once again. It told be what i knew of already knew but what i needed to be told. I should of started off with better topic. This paper wold of been much much much easier. I was just trying to do something different , but it did not pay off this time at all. At the beginning it really did make sense to me like at least in my head it all fit together, i just can't get my idea and thought across clearly. I am currently sitting in the laundry room, still trying to revise my whole paper.

what kind of questions lend themselves to academic research? not the one i picked! I had a feeling it wouldn't really work out and should of not been dumb and picked s better topic. I liked my topic it just is way to broad. I just went at it completely wrong. I reeeealy wish i could just start over. I basically am doing that anyway. I am spending today on my 2nd Draft because i have to post it by 11:59 tonight. It really will be like another first draft. So far i am still trying to come up with a concrete topic/question that i can find good sources on. uhhhgg

easter

This is my sisters new baby bunny Oscar. sooo CUTE, and just in time for Easter. It was hard getting home. This is the first year ever that my spring break didn't start on holy Thursday. It's weird, i just assumed we would have an Easter break. Oh well, i guess I'll have to plan better next year.

you can still maintain your "voice" in a formal piece of writing. You still set the tone of your paper through how you write it, even if it has to be all proper and stuff. You can make it really boring if you don't show some of your personality through in your writing. The paper has to be somewhat interesting if anybody's gonna read it. You just have to find little ways to add your flair to the paper without denoting its credibility.

This is what i did today instead of doing homework. I really should jump on all the work i have due soon though... like my research paper 1st draft!

The article was interesting but analyzing it was kind of weird. First of, i got pissed that twice she use Madonna as sort of a negative answer. She says that popular culture gives women the message that is is " better to be popular sexy and "cool" than to be intelligent accomplished, and outspoken: Madonna has replaced June Alyson." Diane Ravitch was born in 1938, which makes her pretty damn old. I don't know who the hell June Alyson is, but I do know that Madonna is intelligent, and definitely is accomplished. I don't know what the main question of the essay is. Are "smart" girls looked down on at school? Are smart black kids looked down on at school? Is academic achievement going down? What are we doing about it? What should w do about it? How is this effecting our economy? There are a lot of different ideas addressed in this essay.

I think the second essay, " The Unjustified Iraq War," was better. The Works cited was more extensive and it just flowed way better. There was just more real information in it. The first paragraph starts of showing a little bit of the other side. It gives reasons why we went to war. The essay's argument is very clear, you can see it as soon as you read the title.I don't know if it is bias, or just truthful.

" Christian Institutions Benefit Toward American Society" was a decent essay. maybe i am wrong but it seemed to have some grammatical errors or maybe just some awkward wording. I felt like it repeated itself alot. There was some about the other side, but not much. And not enough to make the statement that it has caused more good than bad, because it was mostly just a list of the good. I dp agree with the argument in the paper though.

slaughterama= goodtimes

this weekend was insane. Slaughterama was ridiculous. it was sooooo fun but it was wild. It was exhausting though. Richmond has some pretty interesting festivities. There were a lot of dirty, stinky people down at the river. I've never seen so much public drunkenness in my life. i don't even have a bike so i had to walk there. There were so many people doing ridiculous stunts. bike jousting? there's Richmond for you...

The essay i turned in for Unit one was a piece of crap. I obviously didn't try very hard on it. It wasn't even argumentative, it was just information about myself. It wasn't well written it was pretty boring. It was interesting to read though. It had a message of change at the end of it, and i really think that that change has happened. I actually want to be proud of whatever i turn in now, and not just do the least amount of work possible.I still need much improvement.

developing an argument of your own

The reading was all some pretty basic information. The example wasn't a research paper but it helps to show how we can effectively put our arguments into out papers. It points out how to write your paper to your audience. You have to address them in a way that they will understand and point out all of the things they need to know. I wish i would have read this before coming up with my topic, but it will still help when i have to put my paper together. It helps with paragraph structure and flow.

ew

We just dissected fetal pigs in my bio lab. Not a good way to start out the day. I couldn't make the alternate lab on the computer because it's at night. I feel pretty nauseous and I'm pretty sure i am scared for life. I especially got sick when we had o break the jaw open and i herd the crunch. uhhhggg i am probably not eating today. OK, so here's a fun fact... In Jeffrey Dahmer's last interview before his death, he told Dateline NBC this - "In ninth grade biology class, we had the usual dissection of fetal pigs. I took home the skeleton. Started branching out with dogs, cats—I suppose it could have turned into a normal hobby like taxidermy, but instead it became this. I don't know why. It became a compulsion." He said that he enjoyed the power and excitement he got when cutting up animals and fantasized about cutting up human bodies. SICKKK. why can't we just look at the pictures?