Last Blog :(

I'm actually kind of upset this is our last blog. In the beginning when we were first assigned blogging I thought it was going to be terrible, but it turns out I like to blog. I thought blogging was useful, also I think blogging being the new journaling shows how technology oriented our society is now. I think it was easy points to get, not in a bad way or anything, but getting points for writing a paragraph or so on your own opinion I think is an easy assignment.

Effectiveness of Workshops

I think that the workshops we do in class are pretty effective, well most of the time. Sometimes there isn't any feedback given, or it's all positive so I don't know what to do from there. the ones we did in class on Tuesday were good. I didn't particularly like the telling everyone the changes we had to make, because I guess I just didn't understand why they all needed to know, especially because we all pretty much had the same things to change. I liked when we read our papers to our small group of 3 and then they said what they liked and asked questions they had. I think that was much more beneficial to the writing process.

Babysitting

So I'm not sure if this is substantial, but I'm hoping that someone gets a kick out of the this wretched night. So on Saturday my high school football team won the state championship 42-0, naturally the coaches wanted to go celebrate their win along with their wives, and that's how I ended up with 3 little terrors. Ridge 4, Cooper 3, and Avery 3 months are the kids and it started off with Avery turning into a bear cat because she was so tired, but would not go to bed. Finally she fell asleep and then it was time to deal with the boys. One of my friends came to help because I know that alone I couldn't have handled it. Early in the night around 8:00 Cooper had pulled my back pocket open and was "looking" in it. I asked him what he was doing and he walked away, it was then that I realized it was all wet. He had just spit all of his milk he just drank into my back pocket. Who even thinks of that? Dani and I spent the whole night separating the boys who constantly had each other in leg locks and all other kinds of shenanigans. They wouldn't listen to us at all! My boyfriend stopped to give me some new jeans and the boys instantly loved, and listened to him. He was a big help! The boys had slept 4 hours in the car so there was no way they were going to bed early! They'd pick out a movie, watch five minutes and then start attacking each other again. Cooper was in time out 4 times, Ridge was only in once, but they both could've been in there the whole night. Finally around 11:30 they fell asleep on the couch curled up next to each other. Laying there peacefully it was hard to imagine that they were the same kids. Around 1 am the wives came home and we were free!

Outline

The outline worksheet was kind of helpful, I was confused in the beginning so I didn't do it right for the first 2 pages wrongish I think. I like to do my own thing though, it's nothing against the outline worksheet, but I guess I'm just used to doing it this way, I tried to fill most of it out, but I also did my own little sketch like I would normally do. The worksheet was very organized so that is a benefit of using that over other methods. I hard a hard time focusing on it, that could be do to my excessive levels of stress right now, but neither here nor there. It was a handy thing.

Thesis

If placed by a set of moral values Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," displays a skewed view on the correct behavior in the midst of another's suffering, by not helping the one suffering, and just walking away from the situation.

Thesis

If placed by a set of moral values Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," displays a skewed view on the correct behavior in the midst of another's suffering, by not helping the one suffering, and just walking away from the situation.

Reading Critically

So when I read the stories the first time they both seemed pretty drab if I may say, but when we went over them in class and the real meaning of the White Heron was brought out it turns out these stories were actually quite intense. I guess thats what happens when you analyze every word and sentence of the reading. I'm going to work on reading things more slowly and trying to figure out what the author is really trying to convey to me, even if I might have to dig deeper to find it. I'm afraid that I'll take something in a completely different way and I'll interpret the whole thing wrong, but I guess then that will just be what the story means to me because I suppose we all have different interpretations of things.