#20 General cut-ups(#8)

Looking at scientists it seems
Coffee is always nearby
It may be hard to imagine
It's certainly what I'm looking for

It has struck a powerful cord
That reindeer can spook suddenly
Disney Story's stay inside
A force of habit really

Contrary to popular belief
Away is a place
About the moments you share.
A new year never looked so good

#19 (Not done: due friday at midnight)

#18 mans (or woman's) best friend

Driving five hours to get to Kalispell, Montana
All I take is one right and two lefts
When I pull into the drive he barks like crazy
As black as midnight
Trying to park as he runs towards me
Such playful barks welcome me
One step out, I have a tennis ball at my feet
I throw it and he runs like the wind
Like a horse out of the gate he swiftly grabs the ball and rushes back
To the finish line
Panting hard but ready to race once again
He's delighted when I throw the
Ball for a while
Finally needing water he stomps inside slerping it
Ready for a nap he climbs on my lap. He always thinks
He needs a treat for everything.
He eats the treat so fast
Did he even taste it?
A nice big yawn, he closes his eyes
Still breathing heavy from racing for the ball
Pure black with dark brown eyes, hes fun, warm, and cuddly
Always ready to play
All I say is "outside" and hes good to go
I love my lab

Can poetry matter?

Poetry does and always will matter. In poetry one word can mean so many different things. That is one thing that I do like about it. Poetry can have so many different meanings yet also have the same. Poetry is almost lost in certain ways. I feel like not many people want to spend time anymore thinking of or about poetry. If you just sit back and listen around many people may quote songs. If you look at the lyrics most of them rhyme and tell a story. That is what poetry does, tell a story. Whether it is two lines or two hundred lines it gives you a story and insight to some thought. It may be a new though or view of something or it may trigger a memory and make you laugh, cry, feel sad or excited. This is just a very small insight to why I think that poetry matters.

#15 everyday conversation

u= unstressed
/ = stressed

How was the Haunted House?
/            /    u   /     u       /
It was interesting
/    u    u  /   u  /
I can't believe that you went
/   u      u  /        u     /      u
Haha well my friend Chancey came too
/   u     u      /     u        /     /          u      u
Oh ok
/      u
We missed you though
u      /          /        u
Yeah, I didn't want to get scared
   /      u   /  u      /    u   u     /
Haha it wasn't to bad about a half hour to a hour after hahaha
/  u     u    /       u    /      u      u   u     /     u  u  u        /     /  / /
That's what I was afraid of
/            u    /    u      /       u
Haha, yeah
/    /      u
I want to sleep
u    /     u     /
Me too but I'm here at LC reffing volleyball
/       u   u     /       u    u   /     /   u      /      /
Hey are the kids still going to be there Sunday?
/       u     u   /        /      /   u   u  u     /        u  /
I don't know, I think so
/     u       /      u   /      /

#14 My younger siblings

Waiting to see what they become, watching them grow.

Gone like summer to winter.

# 13 Sonnet of LIFE :)

This time of the year kind of sucks
There are many things that I am wishing
I could be out shooting many bucks
Or having a wonderful time fishing

Life can be so funny
Living day to day
With no money
Yet we find our way

College, that's what we work toward
Over coming all  the strife
Even if its hard to afford
Working towards a better life

If we hit a hard spot and life is a half empty cup
We turn our eyes to the Lord and keep looking up

# 12 Sestina

Oh life can be so sweet
It may be tough with things we do
But as a kid I was told
Through thick and thin to keep my head up
Fall down seven get up eight is a great
Saying reminding me I have always been loved

Its always great to be loved
It can be sad but it can be sweet
Love from my parents is also great
How we treat others and the things we do
Can determine whether we are put up
Or down and this is what were told

Since we were young we have been told
That we are loved
But then again being put up
From the saying is not always sweet
The way that society works and what we do
Isn't always great

What some people say is great
But what some people are told
Is not what they do
Because even if they are loved
Their words could be sour or sweet
So that is where their actions rise up

As we grow up
We decide which actions are great
Sour, saddening, wonderful and sweet
Words we are told
Dictate how we feel loved
And what we do

The things that we do
Can bring others up
With our words we can make them feel loved
And great
What they are told
Can make their day oh so sweet

People who are great
Have been told
And started a chain reaction with what is sweet

Ode to the Piano

When kept in tune
you make a beautiful sound.
No matter how old or new
You can always be found.

My parents made me
play when I was young
We bonded for over
five years.

With it always being
A love relationship
We were very keen
together forever.

Not sure why but
I decided to stop playing
I felt like a nut
when I looked at you

I still waned to play
But many years passed
Although I now have found a way
And all it took was sitting down with you

Quicker than I thought
My fingers slid across your keys
Nothing had to be bought
But a reminder of what I love.

Piano, piano, piano

#10 Comparision

There are multiple similarities and differences between "Bartleby, The Scrivener " by Herman Melville and "A & P" by John Updike. I'm going to tell you about the role of the boss/manager of how they similar and how they differ.

In both of the stories the boss does not seem like they know how to handle their job to well. In Bartleby, the Scrivener the boss gets really frustrated with Bartleby because he starts to say "I'd prefer not to." That frustrates the boss so bad to the point that he actually yells at Bartleby a few times instead of handling the situation without any raised tempers and harsh feelings. Also for A & P when the manager is talking to the three young ladies he is very rude and blunt about wearing clothes. I believe that he could have handled the situation much better by the way that he talked to the girls instead of being demeaning towards them.

All-though they both approach their co-workers in rude ways they do differ some in the way they still feel about their co-workers. Even though the boss in Bartleby, the Scrivener gets really frustrated with Bartleby, he still cares. The boss still keeps giving Bartleby more and more chances and Bartleby keeps saying "I'd prefer not to." With A & P the way that the manager treats the young girls and the way that he even approaches the situation he does not seem to be understanding at all and is rude right from the beginning. He doesn't even try to understand where the young girls are coming from and doesn't seem like he does or ever will care.

#7 A&P

A&P is a story told by a young boy who is a cashier. With plenty of time on his hands he observes people and finds it entertaining. When three young girls walk through the door, he is unable to keep his eyes off them. The story goes on with the boy describing the girls and watching them. (Well that isn’t creepy!!) With this story being told from a guy’s perspective is raises many concerns from a lady’s point. When I was talking to some of the girls in class they thought that the young boy was very arrogant and rude with the way he talked about the ladies. But here is my thought to all of the extreme feminists about this article. Do you ladies ever find a man attractive, and in the best words I can think of at the moment, “pick and choose” what you do and don’t like about them right from the get go? I know that if a female were to write a story about what she thought about a guy who she just saw I am sure that some of the guy’s reactions would not be nice either. Although when comparing men and women they are obviously very different from the start. What if you were a guy alone walking back to your dorm on campus at night? Hardly any guys would have any problem with that. But you ask women how they feel and almost all would say that they don’t even want to go near campus alone at night because it is creepy or they just feel weird like something is going to happen to them. This partly defines a female identity just in the way we process things differently than men. This pattern of thinking so differently than men may never change.

#6 The Story of an Hour

Mrs. Miller: I was just told by my sister and Richards that my husband just died

Mrs. Miller: So lost on how to feel.....

Mrs. Miller: This room is so lonely

Mrs. Miller: I feel like something is coming but I just don't know what it is!

Mrs. Miller: I feel..... strangely enough... FREE!!!!

Mrs. Miller: From now on I will and always love to live for myself!!!!! =D

Josephine: Hey sis I really need to talk to you.... If you stay in your room forever you will get ill!
           Mrs. Miller: Go away. I am not making myself ill!!

Mrs. Miller: Well I do know that I will NOT need this

reason being is because...
  

Mrs. Miller: So I was doing some thinking and I believe I need a vacation and I found this site:
http://www.singlestravelintl.com/ looks like a blast!!

Josephine: Sis I would really like to see you to make sure that you are okay!
           Mrs. Miller: I am fine and I'll be out soon :)

Mrs. Miller: So nice to see that I have such supportive friends and family. -with Richards and
                     Josephine

Mrs. Miller: Alright I better go so I can enjoy my new life!.... Someone is opening my front door
                    better go see who it is. :) Hope to talk to you all soon. Bye :)

#4 Southern Grotesque

When I think about the story “A Hard Man Is Hard to Find” the most southern grotesque character in the story is the grandmother. Right off the bat she makes it known that she doesn’t want to go on this trip by the way she talks about The Misfit. The grandma says “…I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.” Although she still goes with the whole family on this trip. The southern grotesque comes from the grandma when she starts talking about the young boy they see on the side of the road and how she pointed out that the boy didn’t have any pants on and that he probably didn’t own any. From this and the way the grandma talks about it you might think that she is racist to a point. You can notice her attitude towards things when the family pulls off to stop at Red Sammy’s and asks the woman who works there if she is ashamed because the young girl just insulted where they work/live. You start to think that the grandmother is changing her mind about the trip when she suggests to stop at a plantation that she visited when she was a young girl. Which this leads to the family to crashing the car and this is when they meet The Misfit. Ironically she is didn’t want to go on this trip because of him and now she meets him because the car crashed. Throughout the whole story the grandmother is rude, inconsiderate, demining, and more. Yet in the end with her family and herself dying, I believe that she “had it coming” because what comes around goes around. Although dying was a little dramatic but what story that we have read for this class hasn’t ended how we thought?

Orientation #5

So to start off this is where we all usually park. This is the door that we go in, although you can go in the front door but the other attorney usually unlocks that door so we don't have to. The first door on your left and the first two doors on your right belong CASA, we do interact with them a little on our CPS cases. The second door on your left is the girl's bathroom and the next door is the men's. Here is the Pepsi machine... it's not much but then again this is a small building. This is our office, and that one is the other attorney that is in this building, we work with her a lot on having mutual clients and conflicts in cases.
So here in the office this is the other secretary's desk, she mostly handles the paperwork. DO NOT try to do something that you think might help because she is almost 66 years old and she has her system of doing things and don't mess with it. Here is your desk, you will mainly answer the phone and do monthly reports. Also you will pull files for the next few up coming days so that when a client calls that we will already have the file pulled and ready for our attorney to talk to them about their case. Here is our semi-rec-room, this desk is for our intern when he comes and helps our attorney. Here is the fridge you can put anything you want in there and you don't have to label it because there isn't that many people who work here.
Just a few more things. When you're looking for any type of supplies like pens, pencil, staples, sticky notes, folders, well any office thing you need, you will find them in these drawers. Also you will find the garbage bags because if you take out our garbage without having to be asked the other secretary really appreciates. You will find juvenile files in these file cabinets, felony files in this drawer, misdemeanor files in this drawer and ones set for trial in these drawers. Lastly, if our attorney or the other secretary asks you to do something, you do it no if, and, or but. If you follow these instructions it will make life much easier here in the office.
**I work for an attorney as a legal secretary just to let you know :)**

The Lottery

In Shirley Jackson's, "The Lottery," one theme is Man's ability (and need) to rationalize generally unacceptable actions. After talking about this in the classroom, most everyone jumped to reason why they did this, was tradition. Okay, but why was this "tradition" started in the first place? Was it to try to help keep the towns population down? Was it to show that no matter what happens in life that you have to take it as is and hope to get the best situations? In the story by Shirley Jackson, so many of the people act like its an okay, everyday (or in this case every year) thing to do, by the way they talked, (ie. "Alright men, lets get this over with," "come on, hurry up") the way the dressed, (in casual clothes and not their 'Sunday best'). But, my question is do they really know why they are doing this action other than tradition? In today's society we have so many things that we do that are being deemed or rationalized as acceptable even though they really aren't. Take commercials for example, I feel like most of them have some point of sexual context whether you notice it or not. Now in my next statement I'm saying most not all.... With men an advertisement will grab their attention if the commercial has an attractive woman in it, or they will remember it better. Vice-versa with women, an advertisement will catch our attention more if it has an attractive man on it. The most I see with that is that same saying that we have had around for quite a few years.... Sex sells.... So are we saying that having half naked people everywhere we look is okay?.... You tell me.

#2: Son

Do your homework; Always respect your elders even if you don't agree with them; Keep your room clean; In everything you do always give 110% ; This is how you change you change the oil; Remember to do your chores; When you play sports, always do your best; Never hit a girl; Don't judge a book by its cover, in everything in life; Don't be afraid to be a nerd.... nerds can be the one girls are attracted to; Be a team player; remember those who have always been there for you; give people the benefit of the doubt, you don't know their past; Take responsibilities seriously but don't forget to still have fun in life; Even if she is wrong and you know it, most of the time just agree with her because its not worth the fight; Don't forget your dreams in life; Do what you love; This is how you do laundry; This is how you cook _______ dish; This is how you clean up after yourself; This is how you make your bed; This is how you treat a woman; Be an avid reader because its like a movie in your head; Learn another language. And most of all if God brought you to it He can help you through it!

Blog Assignment #1: Introducing myself

1. My greatest asset is my personality, or so I've been told. :)
2. My friends will tell you that I am friendly, outgoing, have a good sense of humor, and I'm loud at times but fun to be around.
3. One thing most people don't know about me is I had back surgery when I was seven years old and had a 20-40% chance of coming out of the surgery walking.  
4. When I am 40, I will hopefully have traveled out of the US more than twice.
5. I appreciate it when teachers keep me updated on my grade and how I am doing in their class.
6. When I want to, I have the ability to be extremely determined.
7. My pet peeve is someone chewing with their mouth open.
8. When I am sad I like to either go exercise or bake something.
9. People like me because I'm outgoing, positive, can be funny, and just an all around good person to be with.
10. A friend once showed me how to crochet.
11. I like almost all music, particularly these songs: Do everything By Steven Curtis Chapman; Free to be Me by Francesce Battistelli; Trouble with girls, Old King James, Water Tower Town all by Scotty McCreery.
12. My favorite color is blue and green.
13. I have trouble dealing with people who think their above God.
14. My favorite place on earth so far in life is my home town, Kalispell, Montana, because from there I have 2 ski mountains and an extremely large fresh water lake only 30 minuets away and Glacier National Park 45 minuets away.
15. I am an expert on nothing because you only live once so I like to try new things often. :)
16. One dish I can cook well is gooey brownies!
17. I am proud of my mom!
18. My teachers last year will tell you that I am fun and hardworking.
19. My favorite class is math because all the numbers and equations come quickly for me.
20. If I had one hundred dollars I would pay bills, boring I know.
21. I like mountain biking and hiking because I love to be outdoors.