lupe was good last night.... uhm im hungry for california pizza kitchen. :) this is my blog for hw. peace.

WEEKEND

Yesterday was just to nice and fun of a day to come back to school. I am anxiously awaiting the ending of classes today. I had a quiz at nine thirty this morning. I guess I am happy is was so nice out yesterday I started having fun early, and finished early (nine-thirty) so I got a lot of sleep. haha

Well I am going to try and get a little more work done on my final research paper. I just have a little more to do, mostly just putting the final pieces together. Ill probably end up reflecting and thinking about it this weekend, and try to finish it and put the pieces together on Sunday or Monday.

shake junt!

I'm going to go get a red bull and some chips and then go the english class. It's gunna be a ball. you really should join me.

Bikers

No offense to any bikers reading this. but i'm sick of you. I went on a road trip with my dad last weekend. We went to a bunch of different skate parks and had a blast but i noticed that bikers are all over! One even almost ran into me. and i don't mean like we just happened to get in each other;s way. I was takign a run in the bowl, and this crazy ass biker just came flying outta nowhere and literally ws about a foot from my head when he decided to air over the corner i was currently carving. I was talking with my dad about why there were so many bikers at the skate parks. I mean, these parks are clearly designed for skateboarding and not biking. Bikers ruin the coping and the concrete with their pegs. Plus if you've ever been to four seasons skate park in Milwaukee you will we that what once was an awesome park for skaters has now been turned into a giant street course designed for bikers with a few other accomodations for skarers. the only safe place there is the spine room, and even sometimes bikers sneak in there to ruin my night.
I propose that more bike parks be built all over the contry, so that i can skate in peace with out having to worry about reckless dueschbag bikers endangering my life.
Sorry if this came out as a irrational rant, I just feel strongly on this subject.

(and fruit booters.. don't even get me started on them..)

THe lobster's quadrille

So today i was walking from my french class to my spanish class, which suprisingly are on opposite sides of campus. ( you'd think they would be close since they're both romantic languages) And I was listening to the song The Lobster's Quadrille form the alice in wonderland soundtrack. And its suck an epicly good song!! I think I'm gunna choreograph a piece to it. and teach it to some of my student's this weekend. Some groups will be working on their Ballet recital pieces and so i'll have the free girls. I'm really really pumped about it :)

pro-procrastinator

I am so fabulous at procrastinating it's starting to scare me. For example, it's currently 9:25am and I have English at 10am. I waited till the last possible time I could do this blog assignment. This week has been so crazy that I'm so glad it's almost over. Between looking at houses/signing a lease. and studying for a crazy impossible anatomy exam, I feel like I could sleep for 3 days and still be tired. On the positive end of my sad week...my brother called me yesterday to tell me he bought me a new camera. It's a 35mm manual zoom, bad ass, awesome camera. & I can't wait to go get it. Anyways, hope you all enjoy your weekend! I know I will. :)

Bipolor Weather

Wisconsin is TOO bipolar! It's hot for a day, and then it gets cold the next. Then for next week, it gets HOT again (and when I mean HOT, I also mean stickiness and thick air)!

I've never been down south when it was in the summer, and my cousins from Cali ALWAYS tell me that it's way better down there. They say that although it's really hot where they are from, it's not humid like it is up North. But of course, where they are from is where the pacific is , so therefore, I would kind of understand what they are telling me. :s It's just that I wish we have the same breeze as they do in California, here in Wisconsin! :/

But yeah. This is just a simple thought that I just wanted to write in here! :) Enjoy the rest of your day1 :)

Summer/ 4 Goal

Such and beautiful and great day. Could not have asked for more perfect weather only to wake up tomorrow angry once it is gone. Just can't wait till it is summer like everyone else that is here. With that out of the way time to tlak abotu my going with the almighty 4 course goal. I understand how important and vital it is to meet this goal in our essay but for some reason my brain just doesnt function enough to allow me to fully meet this goal. I can see and understand what the Andrews says about what we must do and how we go about it but as soon as i start typing and thinking of it my brain shuts down only allowing me to meet it part way. I'm honestly gettign frustrated at this and just cant understand why I cannot meet this goal properly. If I cant meet this goal soon I might just start rantign abotu how much I hate this paper and wish it would just go away

Month left!

I can't wait to be done with this year. Words cannot explain it, enough said.

asphyxiation - killing by depriving of oxygen

This is what I want to do to people who drive their vehicles while texting. Random thought of the day, yes I know. But I can't stand seeing all of these people driving around... using their knees to steer and having both eyes concentrated on their phone. Seriously, just crash and learn your lesson already. I hope a law gets instituted that heavily fines people who are found texting while driving.

Aside from that, the construction on the interstate is great. Especially when people cut off the bus. It's a great idea to cut off a bus, I mean why the fuck not. They can stop on a dime and everything, so keep pulling in front of them and locking up on 'em.

I hate people that drive... like dumb people. Thanks, there's my blog.

Need more..

I agree that the fourth course goal is important obviously since that is really the only thing the reviewers reading our work are looking for. I guess I can see why that is important, but I feel that I really do meet the goal in my essay, pulling in different sources for my main topic. It kind of sucks getting your paper back and it saying "Good, but needs for of the fourth course goal" at the top. There were no examples of what I could do better or anything, and so I guess I'm not having trouble of what I should do to "improve it" when there was no examples of how to do it.

Problems

Is anybody having any problems with their research paper? I have some good points and a good sart, but Im trying to meet the fourth course goal with much more influence. Anybody got any ideas or feedback.
thanks

My bad habit.

So i have had this bad habit since i can remember, and i have yet to figure out how to break it. Biting my nails. I have tried every technique possible to break this habit. I have tried the salt on the nails to where you bite them and they have a bad taste. that didn't work, i just picked the salt out. My mom tried buying me the "no bite" polish that makes your tongue go numb and that didn't work. and i try keeping them painted so i don't bite them, but that doesn't work either! so anyone who knows the secret of breaking this habit, please share :)

positives and negatives

when i got my feedback back i was both disheartened and happy to see what adam had written. He wrote that alot of my middle portion had little to do with my main controlling purpose. I guess i should have seen that coming because i was even thinking that while i was reading it. But the good thing about this is that it gives me more to write about. I was trying to get to 10 pages by bsing my way through but now i actually have something substantial to write about. Overall i think my paper is going going pretty good. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the teachers think now

revision

Yesterday I spent a massive amount of time revising my paper even though revision was not due. It occurred to me that we only have a few weeks left and I need to get going on really nailing my controlling purpose and connecting and analyzing my sources. In doing this I completely eliminated some sources that seemed useless. I deleted a lot of awkward paragraphs that threw off the direction of my paper. I focused on analyzing two things rather than a bunch of things. This made my paper flow better. I still need to do some work on my conclusion. Also I need to revise my research analysis essay.
- ps the beach was great today. i love warm weather
-macy malin

blogging assignment

It's B-E-A-U-TIFUL outside!! OMGosh! But too bad I'm stuck here doing homework...hopefully the weather stays nice...

:)

So I had my OPI part of my final for spanish today. Totally sucked it up, but it was only worth 15 points towards our final. 15 points for 20 mins of talking seems like a waste to me, but whatever. On a happier note the weather was so nice today! I'm so ready for summer to be here! I think my paper is finally starting to meet all the course goals. Still have quite a few revisions, but its starting to come along now! :)

hmmm

so the weather is gorgeous today! and i have been productive too :) i already commented on the two papers, which were really interesting if you ask me. also i am blogging! which is the second part of the assignment. i'm waiting to get my paper back so that i can revise it and hopefully get closer to where i want it to be. i came up with two different sources i can use for it, so im sure it'll be better once i incorporate them to my paper. besides reading one of the revisions that was done to my paper helped me realized that i need to work on it..

but yeah, i have to get ready for workk now. yay me!

blogging just to BLOG.

It's so nice outside today! (:

102-025

Anything interesting happen in class today that i missed?

im sick of people wearing peace signs on everything

if you really care about peace why don't you actually do something about it. buying every article of clothing that has a peace sign doesn't help anyone except the corporations making the shirts, kinda the opposite of what you would want. All the money used to buy the clothing could have been used towards helping someone by donating it to charity, or the time spent going to the stores could have been used to physically go and help someone. It just pisses me off when people smoked weed once in their life and all of a sudden it was a life changing experience and everything is peace and love. your not a fucking hippy so don't try to be one. personally i say fuck peace.

This weather is awesome. thinking about going to play some football or basketball. I have a lot of psych left to do, but its just to nice out to stay inside and read from a textbook and most likely get an 8 or 7 out of 10 when I need at least a 9.

So yeah! I am most definitely going to appreciate the great weather outside and not let it go to waste. Im going to go outside.

peace!

My Paper

Everything seems to be going better with my paper. These example essays are helping, but I always seem to forget something about one of the course goals. I finally got my paper back and I already know of some other sources that can give me a better idea of what I am trying to accomplish, so the length really isn't a concern because I have 11 pages right now and haven't even made corrections or input anything new. I am having problems with getting exactly what I am thinking about into the right words. I always find the words that sound similar to what I want to say, but it never is exactly what is in my head and that kind of frustrates me.

Long time

It's been awhile since i posted something on the blog. Last night i watched the new season of Deadliest Catch, who and why would want to work that type of job? Shit you earn a good amount of money but with it worth working around 40 hours, or having a boat sink in the middle of no where. Well if I knew how to work on those types of boats, i would become a crab fisherman.

Paper progress

I finally feel like my paper is starting to shape up. I was having a tough time getting enough information to close out what i was trying to say, but with the help of the comments written on my second draft i feel like I'm making progress. I cant wait until this class is done and summer is here.

Excitement

So Glee's on tonight so excited yay!!! but another note the sample piece was good, I think it was great finally seeing a completed portfolio. So I think everyone forgot about the blog but thats fine here's my two cents lol.

Feedback

Looks likes our class isn't as bad as Adam expected! I think it is funny that our class did well on our research papers because we not always ready to learn and we get off track so easily.

With that being said I am satisfied with the comments that I received on my paper. I need to make my critical analysis more clear. "stereotype threat" is a key term that brings my papers conclusion and critical analysis together. My paper hinted that stereotype threat could be the reasons for African American athletic dominance, but I need to bluntly express this somewhere in my research.

I have not enjoyed the stress that this paper has put on me, but I do like to acknowledge all of the work I have put into it. I like flipping through a thick thirteen page research paper and know that I wrote all of it, and that I am almost finished. Also, learning and gaining new incite on this subject is fun too. I was naive and narrow minded to it before, and now I can safely say that I have found information new to me and hopefully the authors I have critiqued.

too much to do!!

so i just peer-reviewed a paper, i'm waiting to get some feedback for mine. I definately have to work more on my paper, i just feel like i'd know how to approach it!!! for me, writing the research analysis is ten times easyy. besides i have been getting alot of homework in every class, and that includes papers, hw assingment, etc. i'm working on my research analysis paper that is due tomorrow right now... YAY! ha and i still have other homework to do :(
i loved the weather todayy, i had a bbq with my family after work and it was great. i hope the weather stays warm! i have a communications test on tuesdat that i HAVE to study for, ew. and econ hw, and two quizzes for chem and a reading assingment, math homework and ohh work every day of the week tuesday - sunday.. umm sounds like a wonderful week!

Trying to keep up.

Finished my rough draft tonight. It has been a horrible week. But I feel better that I have completed my second draft. It is completely different from my first and it really has little to do with Bin Laden, but I think that I did a much better job of using my sources. I dont know if my paper is very good in terms of answering or resolving my question, but I think I really got some good analysis going and I think I was able to engage my sources. I will wait to hear what everyone says though. I dont feel confident, but for the moment I feel relieved. I am exhausted and it has been hard to concentrate on school with everything that has been happening. But it is pertinent that I keep my eye on the prize, regardless of what else is going on in my life. I just hope that I can continue to be sucessful. I havent been able to sleep much because these hospital beds are as comfortable as a rock and it is hard to sleep with moniters attached to you and everytime you move a nurse has to come in and find the baby again in your tummy so it has been almost impossible to get any rest. I was allowed to get wheeled outside today and it was so wonderful to get out of this room. Otherwise I just worked on my paper and tried to get a few things accomplished. I hope that my paper is closer to meeting the course goals. In fact, I am praying that it is because I could certainly use a little less stress in my life right now.

review

has anyone checked to see if their paper got peer reviewed over the weekend? Because i feel like alot of students will be left out and their paper will not get looked at. there is just too many papers on the list, i feel especially bad for the students who submitted theirs first because students are going to most likely review the papers that are on the earlier pages.

research analysis

Just working on getting some English done today. Then maybe later tonight i'll start to memorize all the bones and muscles of the body for my exam on tuesday. yay. Anyway im excited to almost be done with my last english class i will ever have to take! i maaay take more. who knows. but i like my ten page paper so far...but im now starting to make my analysis paper better. i might go to the writing center. okay bye.

Spring is here

I'm loving the weather these past days, I've been hanging with friends and having a blast. But now it's time for classes tomorrow and work all week. All this week I will be extra busy getting ready for elections, so if you live in the residents halls don't forget to vote the 18th and 19th.