Miscellaneous #7 Snow

                So as we all know it the weather was crazy yesterday! I don’t remember it ever snowing in October. I mean it can never snow on Christmas so maybe we will get lucky, considering the snow is starting this early. I am the type of person who only liked snow during the Christmas season, anything before or after I can deal without. Well since it snowed I thought I would tell you my experience I had. Yesterday I had to get out of bed early so I could drive in the scary weather. Of course it started out as sleet with high winds, and as I got closer to Lima the snow started to fall. The campus looked like a winter wonderland. I thought it was pretty in the beginning until my feet got wet. I thought wearing my boots to school with this crazy weather would be a good idea, but did I guess wrong. I like to wear boots so the bottoms of my pants don’t get wet; I hate the feeling of wet pants around my ankles. The thing I hate worse is wet cold feet. Apparently my boots could not withstand the slushy water, because it ended up in my boots. I was so mad because I was at school from eight in the morning, until two. All I could think about were my cold wet feet. I f that is not a distraction I don’t know what is. So that is my first snow of the year story, I hope you all had a better experience than me.

10 Minute Writing Assignment #11

A witch, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny break into a Museum, crazy thing are bound to happen. The first thing that happens is of course one of the most expensive artifact breaks! The way this happens is of course Santa Claus is great at getting through small place, since he goes through chimneys all the time. Well the witch puts him on the back of the broom stick and takes him to the roof. They see a small little window that Santa Clause can squeeze through. Of course he makes it through the window into the museum safely with of course the expensive artifact to break his fall. He then hides the artifact like nothing happened, and lets the witch and the Easter Bunny through the back entrance of the museum. The witch then cannot help but visit the broom exhibit. Like any witch she has to fly on all the brooms at least once. When she is done of course all the brooms are laying all over the place. When the three hear a loud noise they know it is the security guard so they try to hide. During the process the Easter Bunny hides eggs to throw off the guard. Nobody can pass up finding eggs hidden from the Easter bunny. Now that the security guard is preoccupied the witch, Santa Clause, and the Easter Bunny must find their way out. If these three get caught the holidays may never exist. So luckily the three take off through the back door, and get in the getaway sleigh. Most likely finding tricks on Halloween, coal in their stockings on Christmas, and the dreaded black egg on Easter. Although the three did not get caught, they are held to the same standards as everyone else!  

Career Path #3

                Last Tuesday I sat down with my advisor to talk about where I am at on the waiting list for the Physical Therapy program. I was so glad to finally know I just need to take one more math, and I will finally be on the list. It’s exciting to know with hard work I will finally be on the list and eventually be able to take the classes. It was great how he left me know I am still able to test out of a math class, and I will be able to take the higher math offered. I have to say he did an excellent job laying out my options, and I can take other classes for other careers while I wait on the list. I have decided if I have to wait to get in the program I will take classes for phlebotomy. This is a great pick for the fact most of my classes I am taking now I need for this program. So I will just need a few more classes to get the certification. It will be way better being able to be productive rather than doing nothing. My advice to all Rhodes students is if you’re unsure about any classes or the program you’re in, go to your advisor. The process of sitting down with them will make you feel so much better about the whole college process. I will for sure make an appointment for the next semester, just to make sure I am doing everything right.  

10 Minute Writing #10 Horror Movie

I live in a world where evil is what I live for. I don’t care about the good of man, but what is good for me. When doing what is good for me that means evil. Even when I am wrong I believe I am right. Have you ever heard about the bloody bridge, and how it is haunted? Well I was the person who died there, which once made me a victim. I swore after that point I would listen to nobody. This allowed me to have the power to haunt others, and be able to be pure evil. With this pure rage I was never able to move onto my next life, but rather stay in this world haunting anybody who wants a thrill of going to a haunted place. The haunted place is known as the bloody bridge where I died, some say by accident, but I am here to tell you it was pure murder. The way I enjoy being a villain of the bridge is by letting people who visit think it’s all for fun, but in the end I will scare them so much they will have nightmares forever. I once was a good person who would never do such a thing, but I was pushed too far. First I was murdered then no one cares. Then people use the bridge I died on as some sort of freak show. Don’t people understand I was human once. Why can’t people make my story positive rather than making me into a villain. So if you want a scare visit me, but remember your life will never be the same!

Other Class #5 First Year Experience

                I know most students have to take the First Year Experience Class. Not my favorite class, but this is such an exciting moment for me. I have completed the class and don’t have to take it anymore. My week feels so much less hectic for the fact I don’t have to work on the time consuming journal entries. I would usually try to work on them every Tuesday, but it always turned into doing them every Wednesday. I am just so excited that it’s Wednesday and I don’t have to worry about those silly journals. Right now I just feel like I completed so much even if it wasn’t a hard class. The feeling that I now have two classes done for college just makes me feel like I am getting somewhere. The other positive of having the class done is now I only have English on Thursdays. What a relief to go to school and only having to worry about one class. I feel bad for those who are just starting the class; it just makes me so happy I decided to take it in the begging of the semester.

                Although the class was not hard I am anticipating the moment my teacher emails me that I have received and A. I know most people get A’s in the class, I just feel like it would be nice to see all of my hard work rewarded with a letter grade of an A. I guess you can say I worry what my grade is until I receive the letter grade. I just like to know my grade for sure. So for those of you just starting the class good luck, and remember it is an easy class so just do the dreaded journal entries!

10 Minute Writing #9

Ex-Girlfriend
O my gosh that is my ex-boyfriend! I wonder what he is doing shopping for baby toys in Toys R Us considering he never wanted to get married or start a family. I am so glad I never stayed with him or else I would be miserable shopping for somebody else’s kid right now. At least right now I might be single, but I one day will have a family. I might just have to walk over there and tease him about his situations. O my gosh they are hugging and being all cuddly, they have to be married with a kid. He must have changed his mind. If I would have knew he wanted to get married and have kids one day I would have never broke up with him. I feel like such a full, was it me he was playing me all those years we dated. I wonder why he never seen me as the marrying type. I am really going to go over there now and give him a piece of my mind! I am going to ask him what made him change his mind about getting married and having kids. Ok now’s the time here I go, one step at a time. I can’t yell at him he is so happy with his family, and I just have to be happy for him. I am just going to walk away; there is no need to start a fight. He is happy and so am I, and one day I will have a happy family just like him.

Reader Response #6 Lantry's Article

           

                                The article “Stay Sweet as You Are” is about advertisements directing the image of articles towards women to attract guys for marriage. I like this article because usually all ads for women to make them look better. For most women when looking for products it is all about making them look better, and we all know it is to impress guys.  The article points out how ads are directed towards women, but I believe it goes both ways. Guys like to impress women too, why else would men dress nice and so on. The article does not direct this because back in the day the main goal for women was to get married and have kids. The article addressed how these ads started in the 1920’s, so this shows that it was always a goal to impress men. 

                Without reading this article I knew from experiencing other ads that is always show a flawless girl advertising a product so people buy the product hoping to look the same way. This article helps to show with examples of advertising soap and mouth wash.  The questioned being asked is why not give this product a chance if I am able to get guys. When women are single and the goal is to get guys they are most likely going to try anything. Overall ads will do anything to sell a product, even when it comes to lying saying it will get guys to like you. From now on I won’t listen to what ads say, because they are not always true!            

10 Minute Writing #8

Detective:

There was a twenty five year old male reported to be killed in a Chicago hotel room. The hotel is the Embassy Suites; the site is on the third floor in room 303. The site shows he man was showed to be dead because of being electrocuted in the hotels bathroom by a radio. The death cannot be confirmed if it was a suicide, accidental, or possibly a murder.  This appears to have marks around his neck, but cannot be determined what from. No note was found to be proven a suicide, but the hotel claims he was staying here on vacation with this girlfriend.

Coroner:

The body does prove to be electrocuted with significant electric damage throughout the body. The observation also shows extreme force to strangle the victim. The marks resemble the attacker coming up from behind with the shape of woman’s hands. The marks prove the man was not killed from being electrocuted in the bathtub from a radio, but first strangled then electrocuted. The examination shows the victim dying from being electrocuted was just a cover up, and the cause of death was from being strangled.

Attorney:

To the court today I present a murder of a young man. This man was on vacation with his girlfriend. On this day I present the girlfriend right in front of all of us today. She thought this was the perfect moment to kill her boyfriend who she found out was cheating on her. With this rage she strangled him, and once dead put him in the bathtub to look like he was electrocuted. To all of you in front of me I believe we can all see it as her to killed this man, all because of rage.

Reader Response #5 (Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages!)

This was by far my favorite essay to read in the Field Guide book. I loved reading about how magazine covers advertise. Who knew numbers played such a big role in advertising, and intrigued people. Katharine Q. Sellye does an excellent job explaining why magazines put numbers on the cover of magazines. I also liked the fact that she worked for the New York Times, so be was a part of knowing how the business works.  As a magazine reader I never knew I was being driven to read magazines because of numbers, but now that I think back I did flip to articles say get the best beach body with these five moves. Not to mention the one hundred and one hottest guys of 2012. All this time I thought who was on the cover draws everybody to the cover, and the writing made no difference. This almost makes me feel as if I was tricked into reading magazines. Now that I know the truth about numbers it makes me wonder if the information is accurate. If using less numbers for exercise attracts more people, is it still an accurate exercise tool. I do remember opening magazines because I wanted to see the top ten, and being highly disappointed. This essay I read just makes me feel like magazines are full of lies. I feel as if it just a gimmick to get our well earned money. From now on I won’t let the numbers and who’s on the magazine cover full me. I might just look inside before I buy next time! 

Computer Class Other Class #4

              Today I have my computer class, it is weird having class once not having to go to class last week. The reason this class is on my mind because I am sitting in the computer lab wondering I should study for the test or not. I am usually one to study pretty hard for test, but in this case I am not sure. The reason for wondering if it is important to study or not is because, it is over Microsoft Word. I have been using Microsoft Word for a long time, and I am pretty sure I know most of it. I am worried she will make the test totally different than what I think it will be. Maybe this test will have definitions on it, or possibly just following directions. We only had one test so far so it is hard to judge how the test will be set up.

                When I was in high school out computer teacher was really tough on us when it came to learning. He always said I may be tough on you, but it will help you in college. I feel like he helped me a lot considering my computer class in college is really easy. Maybe he did help at all it could just be my basic knowledge. I decided since my class is later today I will study an hour before the test. I think this will give me time to refresh my brain of what we have been learning. After all my high school computer teacher said it is always important to study.

Change in Music Miscellaneous #6

            Today I realized this once fan of rock music has changed to a foot tapping country fan. I should have suspected my change in music I listen to was making an appearance when I started to change the station from rock to country. Don’t get me wrong I always did like some country music, but I was never a big fan. The crazy part is I now sing along, and catch myself singing the songs when no song is even playing. In the past I would tell people to turn off the country music, but now I enjoy the music. The reason for this change is I hang out with people who always listen to country, so I believe it just slowly started to grow on me. It could be possible with the change from high school to college I possibly could have changed as a person. The other theory is I never gave country a chance and was too quick to judge the music. I still love rock music, but these days country music is out numbering my rock music on my IPod. Not only has my music style changed to country, but so has my clothes. I use to wear rock t-shirts. These days cowgirl boot have snuck into the closet, along with the occasional plaid. It could be because these types of clothes can be seen in stores. I guess change is not bad, and there is nothing wrong with liking new things. I just never thought in a million years I would listen to country, and wear cowgirl boots!