So, for my poetry response tonight I wrote about my connection with Denise Duhamel's poem "When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbil" which is really good and really short and just awesome. But besides all that I really connect to the piece, both because I'm notorious for loving animals but being hated by them, frequently killing them, and for having mommy's issues. It's just a lot of fun times.
Ummmmmmmmm, other literary related things? I'm a sorta-kinda-not really-or officially editor for Lit Mag, basically meaning I do about of the crap work, but don't get an official title... But Lit Mag is fun and going to be awesome (even if our acceptance rate currently is like 25%), but we have yet to get to a lot of the pieces submitted by our class or creative writing 2/3.
Also, today in english class I wrote a poem, it's totally awesome and legit and like the best thing ever. Okay, not really any of that, but it makes me laugh and I feel the need to share it so here it is:
Dear Owner of the '86 DeLorean:
I'd tap that.
Well, more like hit that.
And more like I did...
With my car...
Bending your vanity license plate "OUTATIME" and
tearing your "I left my flux capacitor back in 1955" bumper sticker.
I've never been skilled in "driving"
Check out my bumper,
it's a crime scene.
just ask that squirrel,
forever splattered on the side of I64.
He's not going anywhere.
That smeared squirrel patch?
He'll wait for you,
Where I didnt.
But I left a note
(just not my number)
Sorry!
These are the things that come to my mind when I'm supposed to be analyzing the horrors that is Emily Dickinson. You can tell that I'm super productive then. This makes me happy though oddly.
TP-CAST and Rhetorical Triangle that Mullins.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Blog for 2-14-13
Mullins posted the article from Huffington Post about formal letter writing, and I can honestly say I don't think that I've written an actual letter to someone (not just a BS school assignment) since like 6th grade.
You see when I was little, I had my best friend move away to North Carolina. We used to then write each other quite frequently as a way to keep in touch.
In the letters we would tell each other all about our lives, the things we were doing, the new friends we had made. We talked about our family, our pets, our schools all trivial things thinking back but at the time they were of deep importance.
I remember the excitement I would get or getting a letter in the mail, I would rush inside, rip the envelope open ( I was never skilled at nicely opening letters) and tear into the letter, soaking up all the words on the page. The whole process was always just awesome to me as a young child.
I will admit when it came to our letter writing, I was some what lacking in writing. I would forget quite often and there would be long lapses in between my letters. I was kinda bad at it.
But never the less, letter writing was a way to keep a friendship a live. It was personally we still felt like we new each other and we're close. I don't think this could have been achieved through email, in fact I know it couldn't have been.
A few years into middle school we switched to email only writing, and soon lost touch, something that I regret.
Letter writing is a dying art, as in the postal service and I can easily say I will be sad to see either of them go. In my high school, 18 year old heart there is a team of nostalgia for my forgotten friendship and formal letter writing.
You see when I was little, I had my best friend move away to North Carolina. We used to then write each other quite frequently as a way to keep in touch.
In the letters we would tell each other all about our lives, the things we were doing, the new friends we had made. We talked about our family, our pets, our schools all trivial things thinking back but at the time they were of deep importance.
I remember the excitement I would get or getting a letter in the mail, I would rush inside, rip the envelope open ( I was never skilled at nicely opening letters) and tear into the letter, soaking up all the words on the page. The whole process was always just awesome to me as a young child.
I will admit when it came to our letter writing, I was some what lacking in writing. I would forget quite often and there would be long lapses in between my letters. I was kinda bad at it.
But never the less, letter writing was a way to keep a friendship a live. It was personally we still felt like we new each other and we're close. I don't think this could have been achieved through email, in fact I know it couldn't have been.
A few years into middle school we switched to email only writing, and soon lost touch, something that I regret.
Letter writing is a dying art, as in the postal service and I can easily say I will be sad to see either of them go. In my high school, 18 year old heart there is a team of nostalgia for my forgotten friendship and formal letter writing.
Blog for 2-21-13
Mullins posted the article from the NY Times about guns on campus and I have to say until seeing that I hadn't really thought about that as an issue.
You see I'm going to a small state university here in Kentucky. Come next fall I'll find myself in Highland Heights at NKU.
This school as I said is pretty small, and relatively crime free outside of some petty theft that can be found on any campus. That was one thing that I remember well from my campus tour, along with the fact that they have these "call boxes" sporadically around campus that you can press a button and it calls campus security and they can help you or escort you to a dorm or whatever is needed.
But guns on campus? Gun violence on campus? Never crossed my mind.
But now I think about it and it is a real concern and real debate that surrounds many.
Personally I am a pro gun person, I do not think they should ever be outright banned, but I do believe there need to be restrictions in place on them and honestly I think there needs to be some on college campuses.
I don't have a problem with people keeping a gun in their car on campus or having a conceal and carry permit and carrying on campus, but I'm not sure they should be brought into a classroom or a dorm.
My major concern is just the safety issue, theres so much more liability for accident now. Say there's a small fight or occurrence yet someone gets a little to into the and pulls or a gun, someone can get seriously hurt real quick.
Or say in a dorm, one person is a very responsible gun owner and keeps everything in order, has taken the necessary precautions, classes, and has the right permits, what about their roommate? Should they be required to go through certain gun training to since they will be in close proximity with it and could potentially end up using it?
There are also no gun safes in dorms, and a lot of colleges don't let students bring in furniture to a dorm room an a safe may fall into that. Plus there is the practicality of space.
I just don't see guns being carried into classrooms or in dorms on college campuses is a necessary thing. There are too many risks and liabilities.
You see I'm going to a small state university here in Kentucky. Come next fall I'll find myself in Highland Heights at NKU.
This school as I said is pretty small, and relatively crime free outside of some petty theft that can be found on any campus. That was one thing that I remember well from my campus tour, along with the fact that they have these "call boxes" sporadically around campus that you can press a button and it calls campus security and they can help you or escort you to a dorm or whatever is needed.
But guns on campus? Gun violence on campus? Never crossed my mind.
But now I think about it and it is a real concern and real debate that surrounds many.
Personally I am a pro gun person, I do not think they should ever be outright banned, but I do believe there need to be restrictions in place on them and honestly I think there needs to be some on college campuses.
I don't have a problem with people keeping a gun in their car on campus or having a conceal and carry permit and carrying on campus, but I'm not sure they should be brought into a classroom or a dorm.
My major concern is just the safety issue, theres so much more liability for accident now. Say there's a small fight or occurrence yet someone gets a little to into the and pulls or a gun, someone can get seriously hurt real quick.
Or say in a dorm, one person is a very responsible gun owner and keeps everything in order, has taken the necessary precautions, classes, and has the right permits, what about their roommate? Should they be required to go through certain gun training to since they will be in close proximity with it and could potentially end up using it?
There are also no gun safes in dorms, and a lot of colleges don't let students bring in furniture to a dorm room an a safe may fall into that. Plus there is the practicality of space.
I just don't see guns being carried into classrooms or in dorms on college campuses is a necessary thing. There are too many risks and liabilities.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Blog for 3-13-13
Our up coming unit is the poetry unit and I'm actually kinda really excited for it! I know a lot of people look at poetry and see it as frufru words and symbols strung together to say simple stuff about love, and sometimes theyre right, but personally I find poetry is so much more than that. I love the images that it can convey, the emotions and stories that it tells and all in a very short and limited format.
I think a lot of people associate poetry with things such as Shakespearean sonnets and thus the boring idea of them is born, and I'd have to agree reading Shakespearean sonnets for any length of time is pretty boring. But there's so many other types of poetry.
Take for example shell Silverstein, yes his poems are kids poems but they are poems and they are funny ad cute and make you have an emotional response none the less.
Or if you want to say that of course kids poems are better than take slam poets, they have so much energy and passion , you can't help get excited about them. And slam poems are the kind of poems that you don't need to be an english major to understand or write, you just need a sense of life, some experiences, and some rhythm.
Anis Mojgani is one of my favorites. He has a simple poem called "Rock Out" a common format of slam poems, yet it is o energetic and the examples he gives have so much energy it's just awesome.
I think a lot of people associate poetry with things such as Shakespearean sonnets and thus the boring idea of them is born, and I'd have to agree reading Shakespearean sonnets for any length of time is pretty boring. But there's so many other types of poetry.
Take for example shell Silverstein, yes his poems are kids poems but they are poems and they are funny ad cute and make you have an emotional response none the less.
Or if you want to say that of course kids poems are better than take slam poets, they have so much energy and passion , you can't help get excited about them. And slam poems are the kind of poems that you don't need to be an english major to understand or write, you just need a sense of life, some experiences, and some rhythm.
Anis Mojgani is one of my favorites. He has a simple poem called "Rock Out" a common format of slam poems, yet it is o energetic and the examples he gives have so much energy it's just awesome.
Mojgani, also does another frequently written form of slam poetry called "This is for." The one that he does is called "Shake the Dust." This is again another simple form that can be written fairly easily. One of the things that I really like about this is how relatable it is, all the examples and instances that he comes up with are things that you can visualize and almost feel. You understand the things that he is saying without even trying. One of my favorite lines in this poem is "This is for the two-year-olds who cannot be understood because they speak half-English and half-god" I just think the way that it flows and reads is striking I love it.
Like I said, I'm really excited for this poetry unit, even though some I know will be not my favorite or I may just hate, I feel it will broaden my view and appreciation.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Blog for 3-7-12
Things that are on my brain right now consist mostly of school. I keep thinking of all the things that have to get done and yet some how never seem too amidst the panic ridden anxiety issues, bouts of insomnia and then sleeping for 13 hours straight (okay thats not completely accurate, but its how I feel), two days of a lovely stomach virus, and general forgetting about them. For some odd reason right now, I keep feeling like I have a TON of things to do, but in all honesty theres not a whole lot, just a few things here and there that when added together make a sizable but fairly reasonable amount of things that I need to do.
However, when I think about what I have to do when it comes to school for some reason my brain gets utter lost in all the chaos of it and then freaks out and gets overwhelmed when I try to rationalize doing things in an organized manner. It sucks and I can't control it (another lovely side effect of the whole anxiety thing).
I try making lists. People tell me to do that a lot and sometimes they help, as I love getting to cross things off and feeling that small tiny bit of achievement at something so trivial (sometimes I will write out small things that are easily completed just so I can cross it off), but other times list instead terrorize me. I see all the things written out on paper, clean and orderly, all in a column and something about it, maybe the sheer number of things or the fact that it looks so organized and the rest of me feels so chaotic, they just instead intimidate me and make me feel inadequate.
This blog post is kind of shorter compared to usual ones, but thats because I dont want to become ranty and really dont know what else to write about. I just went with what first popped in my mind and honestly is something that I needed to say just didnt have a platform to do so, but currently thats on my brain, my lack of productivity simply because I feel overwhelmed and dont know what to do.
However, when I think about what I have to do when it comes to school for some reason my brain gets utter lost in all the chaos of it and then freaks out and gets overwhelmed when I try to rationalize doing things in an organized manner. It sucks and I can't control it (another lovely side effect of the whole anxiety thing).
I try making lists. People tell me to do that a lot and sometimes they help, as I love getting to cross things off and feeling that small tiny bit of achievement at something so trivial (sometimes I will write out small things that are easily completed just so I can cross it off), but other times list instead terrorize me. I see all the things written out on paper, clean and orderly, all in a column and something about it, maybe the sheer number of things or the fact that it looks so organized and the rest of me feels so chaotic, they just instead intimidate me and make me feel inadequate.
This blog post is kind of shorter compared to usual ones, but thats because I dont want to become ranty and really dont know what else to write about. I just went with what first popped in my mind and honestly is something that I needed to say just didnt have a platform to do so, but currently thats on my brain, my lack of productivity simply because I feel overwhelmed and dont know what to do.
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