Revision

On, well let me see here...
September 27th, Lacy asked us to write in our day book about revision. I put that I agree with the concept of revision and nothing is ever set in stone, well maybe except the 10 Commandments  but God makes no mistakes, and we are humans, not God. As I am writing this I notice that the date is 09/30 which means tomorrow is ~October~ whoo hoo! which reminds me of orange! I really don't feel like taking a picture of my day book right now and since this is do at midnight, I am going to submit this with a fancy picture of a pencil and REVISE it tomorrow. 
Looky there I'm rollin' with this post.

By the way, who remembers Doodlebob?? Better watch out, he made a mistake and he wants to REVISE you. Oh God I am so funny.

Fishbone

As I decide to type my blog post at almost 11:30pm (I was working and went to taco bell, ooh and Walmart and Targét.) I am using this blog post for the Fishbone activity we did September 18th.

I felt like the story was reminding us on what previous history did, assimilating others into American society. Personally, my grandmother came form Scotland in 1961 and if she even had a little cough she could not come to the United States. Now it seems like anyone and everyone can come.

I put a quote on the back bone of my fish. I said "you can take a home from a boy, but not a boy from his home." Meaning that you can try all you want to take something "natural" out of someone but no matter what you do, it's always going to be there.

I will admit this isn't my best blog post but hey, at least I'm honest.

By the way, great game Giants on Thursday!

Literacy Dig

So I finally get around to doing this after working and working, oh and working. But I decided to do my post on the Literacy Dig homework. I'm just gonna stick to 3 things: my desk, the dining room table, and my iPhone.

My desk: This is where I mainly do my homework, math, geology, English (what a pain in the butt to read and sit at the desk, I can never find a comfortable setting.)  and any other things I have to do. My desk is where I am mainly because it's just a pain to bring my laptop anywhere/

The dining room table: This is where all my stuff goes. Notebooks (day book!). binders, books, bags, keys, you name it. I guess it's kind of like a mud room, but no mud of course 'cause my mom would be pissed.

Last but not least, my iPhone: I think this can relate to literacy, well more of the class because it has a twitter app. And I text Lacy for the exit question, so technically it is English/literacy related.

I guess I'm off to do more homework now, but I am going to be a procrastinator and go to Walmart*

Beyond the Barrier

So according to our syllabus "The One That Rules Them All", on September 4th we did a response to another professor's blog post. This one was about choosing the right words I guess. As I said before, I believe the words that you choose have a different impact on each different person. Like when sometimes you are joking with a friend and call them an idiot. Some people take that offensive and don't know how to take a joke, when others laugh and carry on. Me personally, I guess joking around with you like that means I like you. Are we allowed to swear on here? Anyways, in a gist of things, in today's day and age we have to watch what we say because "words will hurt you" as we've seen with bullying and other sorts of things. 

Here is the link to the blog post that we responded to:

http://cindy-beyondthebarrier.blogspot.com/2012/08/hanging-with-wrong-crowd-of-words.html?showComment=1346373199653#c3308675704239980942

P.S. Did the large text and bright colors throw you off? 
#powerofwords

My Writing Timeline

http://www.glogster.com/bcarpe26/my-writing-timeline/g-6la36tcdq5uru14o67q94a0

"Leave Plenty of Space Around Your Entries."

Going into the first day of class, I didn't know what to expect or how technology would work in this class. We were given a sheet of quotes from Ralph Fletcher's "Breathing In Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer's Notebook" and were told to pick a quote that stands out the most.

Well, here's the long version of the quote that I didn't want to write in my day book: "Try to leave enough white space around your entries so they can breathe, so you can find them when you need to reread and react if you feel the urge to do so.'

Why does it have to be white space? What if the paper is a a different color like orange (#teamorange).

But aside from that I started writing things that I needed to do that day, like going to Walmart, Lowe's and the post office. And now as I think about it and look back at the page, I can go in and change what I did. Some of the things I didn't get to on my list or decided not to do them.

"Leaving plenty of white space..." allows you to go back and add things or change them, it's not set it stone just like writing. When you write a paper, it is never finished. You may decide that it's finished at 3 o'clock in the morning the day it's due but you can always reread things and say "oh I should of done this." Don't you feel the same way when you get into a fight? You make up and then you're like "darn, I should of said this."

The gist of my this blog post is to say that nothing is ever final, things can always be changed. Like for instance, I started the post on Thursday, but wrote this part on Monday...