What's with all this snow dude?

Seriously, since when does is get into the 70's and 20's in the same week? I'm not complaining about the cold, i love the cold weather. I would rather it be cold everyday of the year as long as it was consistent. Because you can keep putting clothes on when it is cold, even naked there is little you can do about the heat while you are outside. And getting out of school is sort of fun, except that it completley screws everything up at school.  It is the way that people overreact to the cold temperatures that annoys me, sure it's cold but if you need 4 jackets and a sweater for 30 degree weather? No, the answer is no, you do not. It is O.K. for it to get cold as long as everyone just chills out(lol) and keeps it to themselves, you do not need to walk around screaming "ohhh its sooooooo cold out here I'm freezing toez off"! It is just a little much no?

Let's see what else. Oh yeah, when it is cold and everything freezes up, i understand the closing of big bridges that completley freeze, but i do not get the concern about driving on roads that everyone else is already driving on. There is no added danger, except for the occasional iced bridge. Like, i wasn't alllowed to leave Sherwood on our snow day and it was terrible because the only places that i wanted to go i usually go to by roads that were completley fine. But, from what i understand, this is because others were freaked out by the weather and were driving crazy. I just don't understand why people freak out so much about things that really aren't that big of a deal.

The Human Condition

When we think about what it really means to be human, what usually comes to mind is the progressive evolutionary. We think about the hundreds of years of progression and innovation full of exciting inventions and discoveries. What people often forget about is the imperfection that comes with being a human. People do not perfectly co-exist with each other because we were not built that way. If we were, we would have much more adaptive personalities and would learn to live as peacefully and with as little conflict as possible. But, we But, we are not this way; we are stubborn, creative, complaining, innovative, competitive, and greedy beings. To be a human is to make mistakes, however we learn from these mistakes and push on to do better and be better people. That is what it is to be a human, to be better than you were yesterday, to learn from your mistakes and improve. To me, life is a constant strive to be better than before. That is what it means to be a human to me.

Plays are ways that we can study our humanity. They allow us to do this by letting us see how people would react to certain situations. Also, when we read plays it allows us to learn about ourselves by interpreting the way that we interpret the text. Because we are all different we will interpret the text differently, and that helps us learn about our own humanity as well as that of others by viewing how they look at it.  Much Ado About Nothing helps us learn about our humanity by exploring the human capacity for love and examining how we treat our feelings. We haven't gotten too far into the play yet so I am not sure how specifically it helps us explore humanity.The performance of a play is the directors interpretation of what the play actually looks like. He expresses his humanity in his version of the play by giving scenes certain emotions that represent how the director feels about it. Therefore, the play is a representation of the directors humanity.

Class of 2015 Mindset List

1.  News spreads like a virus, if something happens that someone could use as a means of calling attention to their selves for a brief second then that person is going to shoot that information all over the place.

2. "Me time" is no longer spent alone, me time is just spending time on social media by yourself, but usually you are interacting with other people.

3. Instead of inventing things to make life easier, people are now inventing things that make things that make life easier, easier to use.

4. The law only applies whenever there is someone around that enforces it.

5. A curse word can now be used as any part of speech, multiple parts of speech, or an entire statement all by itself.

6. If someone doesn't tell someone to do something, that thing isn't going to get done.

7. The more symbols you can replace for letters while still being able to make out the word, the cooler the word looks.

8.  The simpler the device is, the more expensive it gets.

9.  Instead of dealing with the problem, people would much rather just do what they can about they symptoms of that problem and move on.

10. Taking your time is no longer acceptable, homework that is completed in class is "better" than if it is done at home, regardless of the quality.

Free Post 3:2

 I swear Sampson is the most aggravating dog to sleep with in the whole world. Sampson is my doggy and what he does at night makes it so hard to fall asleep. O.K. So the first thin that he does is he always gets in bed before me and his 100 pound butt lays right on the middle of the comforter, not only cutting me off from three fourths of my bed, but also rendering me incapable of moving the comforter at all. So when i get into bed I have to scoot to the bottom of the bed and have my feet hang off because i can't pull up the covers so I am stuck only using a little part of my bed. Also, Sampson gets really into his dreams. Like one night i woke up to Sampson kicking and rolling his lips(like a horse does) so loudly that i actually had to wake him up and kick off the bed, which happens a lot. He is also dirty, disgusting really. He likes to lick his paws and leave a huge puddle of saliva on the bed... EWWWWW. He's a little nasty. 

The worst part is that he has a bed! I spent an hour cleaning out my closet for him. I cleaned it out and put down his bed in there so that he can sleep in the dark while i am watching T.V. and he doesn't use it! I have to force him in there whenever i want him to sleep in there, and even after i do he still jumps back in the bed with me! I just do not understand, i'd love a bed big enough for me in a closet. Ughh... It's just a little frustrating. 

Free Post 3:1

My Christmas Break was pretty boring. But i did get to play golf like all day every day and do whatever i wanted at night. Nothing really exciting happened but i did get to do pretty much whatever i wanted all day every day for two weeks and that is a really good feeling. It was a really relaxing and refreshing break, but come last Monday i was ready to get back to the routine. Well, no i guess i never really had a routine. Now that i think about it i pretty much did whatever i wanted before and after school every day. Like there is nothing that i really have to do and i guess that is part of why i have so much trouble making myself do homework. For instance, every day i would wake up at a different time because it didn't matter, i could get to school on time regardless of when i woke up. And after school i could do whatever i felt like, which, too much of the time was nothing. I don't really like it, but i have never felt the need to change it until now.

I have got a plan for improvement for the second semester. Because of this lack of a daily routine, i feel very unorganized. So, i have forced myself into one. I've decided to wake up at 7,  because it is easy and it gives me plenty of time for everything else. And then on Monday's i will either go to LSU for E-STAAR or go play golf. On Tuesdays i have Wind Ensemble. Wednesday is a golf day. Thursday is an E-STAAR day, and Fridays are reserved for my friends. This last week it has served me well, because when i get home i feel like jumping right on my homework and i haven't had to scramble to finish my homework yet. I feel that it is working and that it could  really help me out for the rest of the year, especially with me switching into Honors Physics.

Data Based Reflection

On my exam, my main problem seemed to be that I forgot details that we're important but not absolutely necessary for me to explain myself. I also had trouble explaining myself, like i knew what i wanted to say but i had trouble getting it out in a way that made sense. On the quote identifications, i knew what the quotes were about, but i didn't quite know the specifics, like why they said it, etc. This disadvantage came from me not doing everything that Ms. Duke told us to do over the semester, and this is something that i am going to fix. Also, a bug problem on my exam was the legibility of my writing. And that is another big thing that i am going to fix so that in the second semester I will do significantly better than i did in the first.

My plan to improve this year is to work more diligently and manage my time much better. The first thing that i am doing to improve on this is i have allotted myself two times during the week to do my blogs, which is what I am doing right now! The other thing that i am doing is i am forcing myself to do my English homework before any other classes work so that i make sure that at least it gets done. I am going to handle the legibility issue by writing all of the notes that we are taking in class for the semester by hand instead of typing them so that when i am rushing on the exam in the summer my writing will be legible enough to understand all of it.