Two Questions

i'm going to be honest here, i didn't like this essay at all. i actually had a really hard time even finishing it. i thought it was all over the place and that is didn't really seem like the author had much of a point. i think i would've liked it more if the writer showed some more confidence in the essay. in my opinion, it seemed like she was unsure about what she was writing and it didn't really seem like she knew where she was going with it.
personally, i didn't like her style of drawing either. i thought they were too sloppy and all over the place, much like what her writing was. i thought that all the little side quotes by the creatures were distracting unnecessary; overall i don't think the added anything to the essay. quite frankly, i felt like reading this essay actually brought down my intelligence level. overall i thought the essay was on the childish side and i didn't think that it helped me at all when it comes to better understanding the graphic essay.

From Show and Tell (graphic essay)

overall, i thought McCloud did very well in explaining the graphic essay. he really did a good job on explaining the importance of the picture when it comes to writing essays. i especially liked the section where he has an essay with the pictures, and then he puts the same essay back in without it to show you how much work the picture actually does for the essay. he puts it quite simply, "the pictures carry the weight if clarity in a scene, they free words to explore a wider area."
i like the essay because it made me understand the graphic essay a lot more than if i would've read the same thing out of a textbook without the pictures. the graphics hold my interest an make the essay a lot easier to read and to understand. without the pictures, i don't think i would've been able to understand some of the terms. it's one thing to write a definition, but when you actually show you what it is.
lastly, i also liked McCloud's use of diction. he makes it seem more personal as if he were having a conversation with him versus him just writing an informative essay and then you reading it later. he didn't use very popular words so to speak, but he used his words in a way that you can understand them.

Txtaholic

good lord, ever since i got texting on my phone i haven't been able to stop. last month, 6,000+ texts, and the numbers just keep going up. it's a little sad i know, but texting permits you to talk to your friends all day, which i find to be quite nice. because sometimes, you have something really awesome to say but by the time you see that person next, you might forget what it was, or it won't be as funny anymore. plus, i'm a bit of a baby, if i had to go to school and actually just learn the whole day with no contact with friends (aka: alan and amanda) i really don't think i could make it! i'd be sitting in class going through text withdrawals, shaking like a scared little puppy dog. phoneless would be quite the traumatizing thing for me to go through. i'm pathetic enough that i have gotten to the point where i can actually text with one hand and write with the others with no problem. it makes life a bit easier you could say; i get a lot more done that way too it's nice... go technology.

8-P

The One

you know how everybody always says there's one person for you out there that you are meant to be with; a "soul mate" so to speak? well i think maybe i've found mine. it's only been five months since we've been dating but he's different than the others. there's something about him that's just different. i know i'm only seventeen but if you think about it, a year from now i'll be moved out and on my own. but i do believe you can find "the one" at this early of an age. my aunt did it, and she's still happily married; my grandparents did it too. we spend about every waking moment together that we possibly can and i can definitely say that we are both nowhere near sick of each other. i really really like him, love him even, and i've never felt this way about a boy in my life. i've gotten to a point where i'm not even interested in other guys, all i see, and all i want is him. i just have that gut feeling that it's very possible that we could be spending the rest of our lives together. if it happens, i'll be the happiest girl on earth.
i feel really lucky to have him in my life, he takes good care of me and i know that he will always be there. when i'm with him, i feel safe, like nobody is going to hurt me as long as he's there.

so alan, i want to say thank you for everything, for always being there for me, for your love, and for your heart. i love you!!!

:-*

"Good Riddance"

today i think i'm going to talk about my favorite song, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day. i really like it because it's different and i think the music and lyrics are beautiful. it's a lot different than most of Green Day's songs because it's really mellow and relaxed. "Good Riddance" has been my favorite song since the first time i ever heard it. whenever i'm worked up about something, i just pop in my headphones and listen to this song. it's almost tranquilizing really; in an instant i am completely calm and i forget about what's bothering me.
the song is very poetic and you can tell Billy Joe put a lot of thought behind the song and it has a lot of meaning behind it. basically what i think it is telling you is that even though life could be going really well, it can change in a second. but you can't hold on to the past you have to move on and look towards the future adn make the best of it. or in other words, "it's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. i hope you had the time of you life."

Fat Children

so the other day at work i saw one of those kids with the heelies (sp?) on and i thought to myself, "what ever happened to just walking?" in case you didnt know, heelies are those stupid shoes with wheels on them so instead of walking everywhere like a normal person you get to "skate." so what's next for this fat world of America we live in?
i mean, i was watching this girl and apparently she could only take about two steps before exhaustion and would have to roll her way to the pop machine. it just makes me wonder what america is going to be like by the time these children are adults; and what about their children? do we really need shoes with wheels on them? every day america just keeps getting lazier and lazier and pretty soon, everybody will be fat.
just like with school lunches; they are trying to make "healthier choices" but then complain that kids won't eat it so instead they make "healthier options" so the healthy food is there, but so is the junk. TAKE AWAY the crap, leave only the healthy. the kids might not like it at first but eventually they will eat it. seriously, i really don't think that they are all going to starve themselves for a terribly long time. if they are hungry, they will eat what is given to them.

>:-&

Must Not Look Hungry

alright, here we go my spanish food story. as you already know if you read my last blog entry i was on my spanish trip in chicago and we were now at the spanish restaurant. it was set up as two long tables that everyone sat at and then they brought out tapas (appetizers) for everybody on big plates in the middle. then everybody had their own little plate and you could take whatever food you wanted to eat in the middle and put it on your own. now so far, everything seems like a pretty good deal here, not really any problems; except for the fact that this wasn't just any food, this was spanish food. in other words, i'm not entirely sure what the heck it was but i told myself i would try everything they brought out.
it started out not too bad, they brought out some weird potato stuff but it just sort of tasted like potato salad, nothing crazy yet. after that it was some funky bread with ham and cheese ant way too many diced tomatoes (which i hate), but still not bad, still recognizable as food. next was just a giant wad of different foods, there was green bread with some salsa and goat cheese that tasted to me like lasagna, why i have no idea i can't explain it. there was also some sausage that strongly resembled charcoal, i took a pretty big bite and almost puked, it was disgusting. there was a mush of brownish something that turned out to be onions which i didn't figure out until after i ate it. and lastly there was the octopus... eww. no, actually i think that one deserved more something along the lines of, EEEEEEWWWWWWW!!! now that was some funky stuff i wish never to try again. you could actually see the tentacles still. it basically just looked like somebody just chopped up and octopus leg and then gave it to you to eat.
now for some reason i must not have looked very hungry because out of nowhere one of the waiters just came up and took my plate away... never came back with another one either and i was the only one who got their plate jacked i was mad. then a few minutes later they took my glass away as well. they brought everybody else out their refills but i never got another one. so for the last forty minutes or so i got to sit there with no drink or plate. it cut me deep, made me pretty sad; i suppose it doesn't matter too much though since the food was fake!

... still don't know why i was the only one who got their plate and drink taken away.
:-/

Cheecago!

took the spanish trip to chicago as i said in my last blog post ans i'd say that it wasn't too bad...
so it started out at the crack of dawn when i hopped on the charter bus in the south lot at a solid 6:00 in the morning! EEK! to my surprise though i really wasn't that tired at all. plus i had my gargantuan energy drink to help me out. what it did not help out, on the other hand, is my bladder. i actually had to go and use the bathroom on the charter bus, it took about half an hour for me to convince myself but i just couldn't wait any longer.
we ended up getting to chicago pretty early so we got to do a little bit of sight-seeing before we went to the museum. then it was finally time to go and look at all the spanish art our hearts desired. we split off into groups and each had our own tour guide. ours was ridiculous, she liked to get right in your face and ask you stupid questions and i hated it. as far as the art itself went, i was surprisingly really interested in it. i really liked looking at all the different paintings and learning about the stories behind them. overall i had a really good time (somehow) at the art museum it was weird, but i guess i won't complain.
afterwards we went to a spanish restaurant and got some tapas, but that experience deserves a whole other blog entry of its own.
then there was the bus ride home... ICK X 1000! it took us over an hour just to get out of chicago. we left there at three and didnt get home until a little after eight, it made it into a very long day. we actually were able to finish three movies on the way home, none of which i was the slightest bit interested in watching at the time. after that bus ride i was very tired and cranky, not a good day to mess with me. but i'm good now, life goes on. i just dont want to take any more road trips for a very, very long time.

WE NEED SOME MO'!

amanda and i... it's happening again!

plan of action this time, stuffing our faces till we pass out. tonight we are going to go to godfather's and not only get p-wedges and a desert pizza (m&m of course) but also a jumbo pizza to go along with it. i dont know if you're familiar with godfather's pizza, but the jumbo is pretty much the monster of all pizzas. 18" in diameter with 12 pieces, not too shabby. we are going to try and eat as much of it as we can, the goal is to stop before we go into a coma, but we will just have to see what happens.
afterwards, we are going to go raid the gas station in preparing to completely dominate on our spanish trip to chicago tomorrow. we plan on getting a couple of the huge cans (biggest you can buy) of energy drinks along with all the sugary junk food we can afford. come 6:00am tomorrow, we will be ready for one extreme day. last time we had just one of these massive energy drinks, i was shaking like a scared little puppy dog for a solid hour and extremely hyper for hours thanks to my follow-up bottle of mountain dew. with us like that on a bus to chicago... it's to going be one long ride. i pity the fools who have to be on the same bus as us

:P

Why am I Such a Beast?

complete pwnage in everything i do. today, my mind wanders so im not sure where this entry is going.. we will just have to see i guess
so far my ipod is full of awesomeness today; have it on shuffle and it's playing anything from AC/DC to Garth Brooks to Three Days Grace to Queen, and all of them are amazing songs.
i strongly believe that this has been one of the longest weeks of my entire life! its only wednesday! make it stop! i even get a four day school week because of our spanish trip on friday and it's still taking forever! i think i'm starting to twitch a bit, i need my weekend to be here. on top of everything, i get to work almost every night this week, the only days i dont is tomorrow and friday and on top of that, three out of five of my shifts are closers and one of the other ones is a five shift which is almost as crappy.
at least the weather is getting nicer... that's probibly good since its already the MIDDLE OF APRIL!! it is supposed to rain on friday but thats ok, it beats the heck out of snow thats for sure.
my grades are amazing these days, not sure how but i won't complain.
lastly, my poor horsie is sick and it bums me out quite a bit. he just wasn't quite himself last night, it took him forever to eat his oats and he didn't eat much of his hay either. he just seems really sad, im not sure if he just had a stomach ache or maybe a little cold i don't know. the horse just seems to be depressed, i hope he feels better soon.

:**( or is it?!?!

I'm Old

my birthday was last sunday and now i'm old, it's neat i suppose. since it was nice out i took my one and only out to the horsies with me and we rode them for the afternoon. then after that we headed home and my mother took us out to papa juans to eat some yummy foods. i picked that place because they have awesome potato skins, my favorite for sure. then to continue the awesomness we went home and ate my teenage mutant ninja turtles ice cream cake, it was quite tasty i would have to say. i had my aunt pam and cousin emily come over and eat it with us because they are both ice cream cake freaks and it just wouldn't be the same without them there.
then after that me and alan decided to go to a rated R movie (legally now) and it was pretty intense :-P we saw The Ruins and i think that it was one of the grossest movies that i have ever seen in my life. it was still pretty good though, don't get me wrong. there were times that i was definitely thinking i haven't caught up with my old age yet (ha! bad humor, but just go with it) i couldn't believe what i was watching. but i got over it and am liking the freedom that comes along with this new year. full license and R rated movies, not bad in my opinion.

:^)

Gypsy Bird

ok so i have a lil horsie (who is actually far from little but oh well) and i believe the thing has a split personality. either that or its just the fact that she's a psycho mare, who knows? one day, she's the sweetest horse you could ever know; she'll do whatever you ask her to do without question. then the next day she's the complete opposite; her main goal is to get you off her back and possibly kill you in the process.
well my mother decided that she doesn't want her daughter to die at such an early age so she decided to try and sell her to a trainer we knew who had worked with Gypsy last year. we figured it would be a done deal because when we had her trained the trainer had nothing but good things to say about Gypsy. "oh Gypsy's wonderful! oh i love this horse she is so well behaved! i can't even believe that there's anything wrong with her! I've even been using her as a lesson horse." but then when we finally got ahold of her the other night and offered her to her she just said, "no, i can't she's too dangerous of a horse for my students." WHAT?! you wouldn't stop talking about how wonderful she is and now when we offer her to you all of a sudden she's too dangerous? i'm thinking somebody was lying to us...
so i guess is was meant to be, i'm stuck with the dang horse and she's mine forever. i'm giving her a good month to get better, devoting all my time and effort into making her a good horse to ride. i have faith, i think it'll all work out.

;)