the way i feel about blogging is ...

The way i feel about blogging is that it is a much more creative way of having assignments to do, rather than having essays. The blog posts we have also has an advantage in that i can always go back to the older posts and see what we were talking about in class. I also like how it is a more technolocically advanced way of interacting in class. I like that other classmates can read what other students in the class are thinking and their opinion on the topics discussed, and being able to comment on it, and interact with them. Blogging is just a really interesting concept and i really like doing it for a class as homework.

just add water questions; day II

1. What is in Ray's tin box that he has pulled out twice in the film?

2. Why is Mark so emotional?

3. Did Ray ever have a thought that maybe Charlene was cheating on him?

4. Why didn't Eddie ever tell Ray about his mothers affair with Mark?

5. Did Ray enjoy his childhood with his mom & siblings?

6. Is the lack of love between Ray and Charlene the reason Eddie wants to find it so badly?

7. Will Eddie & R'Ch'elle fall in love?

8. What is going to happen now with Ray & Nora now that Ray is available?

writer not a fighter

What is a writer? Am I a writer? Are you? why or why not?

A writer is someone who cn portray a story, phrase, or any type of feeling in a creative way. I think I am a writer, but not in the literal sense. I would much rather just draw, or take photographs than write an essay. I feel as though I even if the topic is not something i am interested in, if i try to portray it in a way i like and feel comfortable with it will be a lot better than having to sit at my computer and think of words to fill the pages. I feel like i can express myself in a more meaningful way through art, a way that is unique to me. Not that i dont find writing (like legit pen on paper or fingers typing away) to be creative because it is. I just find that my when writing an essay or assignment, my writing can be very similar to another persons, where as with a photo or drawing it is almost completely unique to me. I am a writer in that way. In the way that i can express my thoughts and ideas in any way i choose, as long as they are expressed.

writing center

I had a hard time at the writing center, I had scheduled an appointment on Friday at 11, and the person i was supposed to meet with to go over my paper never showed up, so the only other time available was the Monday the paper was due, and the only time available was an hour before class making it difficult to really get my paper to be its best. I feel like if I had a chance to go through my paper on that Friday it would have been much more useful to me. However the person i met with on monday understood my position and was really helpful and gave me insightful comments and was quick and to the point which really made it easy for me to go and put in the edits before class. It helped that he had me read my paper out loud, myself which 'made me cringe' as professor Lay likes to describe it. As i read it I would write down things to change, and the guy helping me (i forgot his name, i feel really bad. he was really nice) would also stop me to give input and insight about how to go about making it better. I think the comments I received really did help my paper to be that much better. They weren't major changes, but the little changes such as adding more quotes that would fit in with the content really added another depth to my paper. It also helped that He had read the play and had also seen it here at school and really could understand what the paper was trying to convey.

I changed my paper by moving around paragraphs around to where they fit better. Also by adding direct quotes from the play to better show the reader what i was trying to describe. I was also encouraged to add better transitions to help the paper flow better from paragraph to paragraph.

Roebke

" Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations? "

Roebke has a good point here. I think we see what we want to see, he describes the blue couch a lot. He says that a blue couch will be a blue couch no matter what mood you are in. I think this is true, but I believe there are some exceptions, I believe that if your in a bad or depressed mood you might find the color of the couch to be more of a grayish blue, and when you are in a super happy mood you can find the couch to be the exact color of the sky on a bright cloudless day. It's all about how we are going about observing the couch. If you are in a negative state of mind, you will see the couch negatively, whether it be the color, the way the springs dig into your back on the left cushion or just the place of the couch, and if you are in a positive state of mind, you will love everything about the couch, the way the color stands out, how it hugs you as you watch a movie or how well it goes with the rest of the room. It all depends on you.

I think a weakness of Roebke's writing is that it can get pretty technical and go into a lot of scientific detail which can get boring. I am in no way interested in quantum mechanics and having to read about the technical aspects of the theory just made me want to sleep. Not that i didn't enjoy it or find it interesting to read, but it did become more and more difficult to get through.

what a terribe thing to waste.

When thinking about the word 'waste' the one thing that stands out in my mind is the idea of a body wasting away. Seeing a close friend or family member having their body change from healthy to complete skin and bones. Having family deal with sicknesses that cause them to lose an excess amount of weight and having them look completely different from what i was used to was really difficult to deal with. I also have dealt with a friend who was anorexic, and seeing her waste away to almost nothing was horrible to watch, i would see her buy a lunch and sit there and nibble only on the carrots and celery of her small salad. It also hurt to know that the food was going to waste and knowing she was aware of what she was doing and was okay with seeing her body just waste away to nothing.

take every chance. drop every fear.

"Nothing intimidates me when I write. I say what I think must me said."

I really loved Derrida's fearlessness of writing. To hear that he has no boundaries when writing is so amazing and so inspiring. I found it to be really interesting that when he is not writing it almost haunts him. I have had similar instances, but I guess i never really felt so fearless to write whenever i was thinking, i feel like i have only wrote what i had to for a paper. For other circumstances, of course I have written with no fears, but mostly for things that no one else would see. There are times that I may take risks to see if it comes out alright, but I am never completely fearless in my writing. A lot of the fear comes from not knowing if what i am writing or the style is going to come out alright and appropriately get my point across. Derrida makes his writing seem unstoppable as well as unbreakable. His fearlessness would never lessen and nothing can make him stop. That there is no force, no critique that could make him less fearless.