Fairly long entry.

Thursday: A more in-depth look

Actually, don’t think there really is that much more to say. Though I did decide why I was having such trouble writing my Eastern Religions paper when I sat down to do it. We were suppose to take a stand on if something is important will there be more of it, or a single instance of it. [I.E. God(s)/Incarnations/etc.] We were suppose to present our side, present what the opposing side may say, then come up with a rebuttal/conclusion to the whole thing. Well…When it came time to write the singular view of things…I just couldn’t do it gracefully. Even not intending to, I could pick out wording that was obviously aiming in the direction of ‘this is not something I agree with’. I did my best to keep those out of there…Which made for a short and choppy section. Which at the end of the paper I wrote a ‘defence’ (or a sort of back-handed apology as the case may be) for my paper. I pretty much said that I didn’t think it went the way the assignment was suppose to, but that I was having difficulty expressing the other view without my own remarks sneaking in, and that although I believe that everyone should be free to worship who and how they want…I apparently have a stronger belief in what I believe than even I realized.

But seriously, it’s like I said to my Mum…When I decided that their were multiple Gods/Goddesses, and that reincarnation was a fact, I was in elementary school! I wasn’t told by anyone that this is the way of things, it was something that came to me through my choice of reading/studying…And it’s something that’s been with me for over 20 years now. So yeah…Expressing the thoughts of singularity, without my own remarks, just wasn’t going to happen. Not fully/completely or eloquently.

Anyway…Next…

James did wear his plaid, like I said last entry. Good thing to, or I would have had to beat him. He needs it anyway. *rolls eyes at him*
He hung around for ‘lunch’ after he got out of class, even though he wasn’t eating, and didn’t have any classes to go to afterwards.

He called me to see where I was when he got out of class…Then called me again to see what was taking me so long to get to West Hall. *pokes him* Impatient much. He told me on the phone that he was going to go bury himself in the snow bank because I was taking too long, and he was lonely and no one liked him. *rolls eyes* Over-dramatic much? Told him I’d find him and unbury him though.

My 3-D design class was cancelled…would have been nice if it had been announced properly! I could of talked James into hanging around for a couple more hours, and wouldn’t of had to resort to sitting in the Pottery room with Reese.
I had checked the online cancellations before I left, no mention of it being cancelled. Went to class, it was empty, but still had like 10 minutes before class was to start. Went to check the TV in the ‘lounge’ at the Fine Arts building, just to see…Nope, not listed. Keep waiting, keep waiting…Then someone comes along as asks if I’m in that class…Then tells me it’s been cancelled! So bloody nice for Quirrel to let the rest of us know. He’s probably in Albania, picking up Tommy to put on the back of his head.

Eastern Religions at least had class…So it wasn’t a total wasted drive. Though I was so friggen tired I was certain the chances of me falling asleep in class were too high. Still…I managed to stay awake. J And he let us out half an hour early because he covered all he had wanted to cover for the day.

So…Homework looks a little something like this.

Creative Writing: Oh shit…*headdesk* I think I’m suppose to have my thing done Monday. *falls over* I will have to get to that. Crap.
I’ve got an idea for assignment #4, but I have to run it by the teacher first. It deals with rewrite a few RPG scenes. I just need to know if I can keep the names of the characters that aren’t mine…Or if I’ll have to change their names. *shrugs* I need to e-mail the teacher…Maybe later today.

Photography: I have two chapters to read, but I think they are shorter ones, and fill in the question sheet she gave us. Take pictures…Motion this time. I have to take a look at the camera and figure out how to change shutter speed and aperture. Only have to find half the subjects this time…Suppose to take one picture with fast shutter, then a picture of the same thing with a slower shutter.
These need to be taken and developed by Wednesday, the reading needs to be done by Monday.

3-D design: Work on sketches I guess…Might get some posterboard while I’m out and attempt a mock-up of the dragon…If nothing else, it might hush James for five seconds. *laughs*

Eastern Religions: Have a 151 page book to read for Tuesday, so we can have a test on it. Have a 81 page book to get to reading…Not sure when it has to be done…But as Reese has yet to get her own copy…I most likely need to get it read so she can borrow it. Luckily no media review for me this week…It’s my week off for that one.

Going to go print pictures later…But for now I have to re-pen puppies, and get ready to head to the school…Have a parent meeting with a social worker having to due with the Autism testing. Unfortunately, it means having to deal with Dan as well. *rolls eyes*

Friday: I thought the meeting was at 9:30 AM…Turns out it wasn’t until 1:00 PM. So everything I had planned for the day kind of went down hill.
Sonja came home with me when I was at the school at the wrong time. She wasn’t feeling good. I think part of it was because she knew it was her father’s week-end, and she’d have to be going home with him. I think she was hoping since she was sick, she’d get to come home with me instead. Unfortunately it didn’t work out how she had been hoping…And after the meeting got done, she had to go home with him anyway. [Tried to make it better…Told her that if everything went alright and she was feeling okay, I’d take her to the college next week-end and show her the darkroom.]

Speaking of the darkroom. L I didn’t get to go there Friday like I had planned. By the time I got home, looked at the schedule…By the time I would of gotten to T.C. I only would have had half an hour in the darkroom…I need an hour at the least.

The meeting was a bunch of being asked questions, our thoughts about how Harley behaves, thinks, acts, etc. Then filling out a questionaire.

I had been suppose to be going over to T.C., doing my photo-thing, then hanging out with Reese & Skittles. [Skittles is Reese’s best friend…They met at a camp for kids with cancer. Skittles has osteoparosis due to the type of cancer she had…She can easily have bones broken…She’s a tiny thing too, smaller than me! Anyway…She & her husband just moved up here. They are currently living in a hotel in Traverse.

He was heading off for training with the National Guard Friday…So Skitts was going to be alone.]
I didn’t really feel up to doing much of anything. My head was hurting, and I was tired. I’m actually surprised I managed to get all my photos scanned & an entry up with them.

 

Saturday: Hey, that would be today.

About 8:30 my grandmother called (like I said in my last mini-entry).
When Mum got home from work she had talked to my uncle and got some more information.
Roy is in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. He’s sedated and unresponsive. [There is thought/hope that the unresponsiveness is due to the sedation.] Unconscious and unresponsive is pretty much how he was found yesterday in his room. He had a fever of 103 at the time. The fever has come down to 101.
My uncle is suppose to keep us updated.

Started work on taking pictures. This weeks assignment is Motion. We have to take a picture of something in motion (duh), first with a fast shutter speed, then the same subject with a slower shutter speed. I’ve gotten two subjects, so four photos total so far.

I’ve got the reading I need done for Tuesday for Eastern Religions. Has to read ‘Sidddhartha’ by Hermann Hesse. It’s nothing I would of picked out for myself…But it wasn’t totally evil. Didn’t care for the ending though. It was just…*shrugs* I don’t know…It needed something a bit more solid…Substantial. *shrugs* Like I said, I don’t know, just something. Apparently, according to the last page in the book, it was made into movie. Might be slightly interesting…*shrugs*

Did get all the reading & the questions done for photography.

Need to do quite a bit of reading for Creative Writing & do some actual writing too.

Plus need to get to reading ‘Zen in the Art of Archery’ for Eastern Religions.

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The other day I edited my one essay from ENG111. I entered it in a scholarship contest. The essay could only be 1000 words, my initial essay was around 1300. It is not easy to remove 300 words from an essay! I managed to do it somehow though. Not sure it’ll do me any good…But at least I tried.

There is a contest called Caretoon that has a prize of $1000. I’ve been thinking about attempting to do it. Deadline is March 31st. I’d just have to come up with a cartoon. The theme this year is “Dreams of Peace”. I keep trying to come up with some kind of thought…But it hasn’t gotten anywhere.