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I don't know what else to do right now. No sleep, no food in my house, no car, no plan. I don't know what the hell im supposed to do about college. I have turned nothing in yet, people have already gotten in, i don't know where i want to go my counselor gave me new places to look at so im pretty much back to where i started and i still dont know what to do and im so aggrivated im writing in run on sentences! Stupid stupid future planning. I hate it. senior year is supposed to be easier. I cant even do my math. calc is not possible, it has no functions in ANYBODY'S life. my stupid teacher who cant even teach it because she's "learning as she goes" doesn't even need it and shes a math major! its not relavent. i feel so helpless in that class and i cant stand it. I don't know how im gonna take a whole year of that crap. even with that curve i still have a c in that class. when and if i ever get into college, im screwing myself over this stupid !@%$#@% class!
sorry for you who have heard me rant about it before. Its pretty much whats getting me down. Puts me in a wickedly great mood for this class.... wow i can feel the sarcasm leaking out of the computer. Sorry Jaws, i'll try to wipe it up before leaving.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Poetry Vocab
Definitions provided by Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Rhythm: an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech
Rhyme Scheme: the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem
Alliteration: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) —called also head rhyme initial rhyme
Anaphora: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
Consonance: correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words ; specifically : recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels
Assonance: relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels or repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse
Rhythm: an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech
Rhyme Scheme: the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem
Alliteration: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) —called also head rhyme initial rhyme
Anaphora: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
Consonance: correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words ; specifically : recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels
Assonance: relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels or repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Escribe Libre
"Escribe Libre" means "free write" in SApanish (or at least i think/hope it does...) embarrassing if not! Oh well.
I really do like procrastinating. For instance, I have a hard calc test tomorrow that i've been hearing complaints about for about a week, and have i started to study...nope! Instead I've been doing all other homework before it. I also have this hard worksheet my teacher gave us three days to work on, so obviously it's a challenge, but i haven't even looked at it. Crap.
Another instance of my procrastination: So, I got out of play practice around six o'clock, and since today was a late start, all i had to eat was two delicious extra chocolatey chocolate chip waffles (made for me by a very sweet someone) at around 9:15 this morning i was pretty hungry. Instead of just going home and making something to eat, i go ahead and make a whole production out of it! I found out my flag football game was cancelled, so that even gave me extra time, but i call my superfan and let him know the game was cancelled, he seemed a bit busy and i didn't feel like being by myself so i called my fav gal pal Code Name: Angelina Ballerina/Monet to come dine with me. So, a half hour later we're sitting down at Panera and who should i run into? Our buddy Kraus! Twas a good time indeed. Ang and i stayed at Panera for a good hour chatting, then went on a driving hunt/ adventure (at least for me) to find a coffee shop to talk some more at. So by the time she had to go to her tutor and me dragging my butt home, it was already about 8:10...
I feel like the children's story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" i just keep finding something more and more to do. Maybe, if i was to be an animal i would be a mouse? Oh that's depressing. I would want to come back as something sweet, like a COUGER! ya... writing group, i'll know you actually read my blog entry if you comment on what kind of animal i'd be and what you think you'd be!!
Ok, off to do my studying!
... after my shower
I really do like procrastinating. For instance, I have a hard calc test tomorrow that i've been hearing complaints about for about a week, and have i started to study...nope! Instead I've been doing all other homework before it. I also have this hard worksheet my teacher gave us three days to work on, so obviously it's a challenge, but i haven't even looked at it. Crap.
Another instance of my procrastination: So, I got out of play practice around six o'clock, and since today was a late start, all i had to eat was two delicious extra chocolatey chocolate chip waffles (made for me by a very sweet someone) at around 9:15 this morning i was pretty hungry. Instead of just going home and making something to eat, i go ahead and make a whole production out of it! I found out my flag football game was cancelled, so that even gave me extra time, but i call my superfan and let him know the game was cancelled, he seemed a bit busy and i didn't feel like being by myself so i called my fav gal pal Code Name: Angelina Ballerina/Monet to come dine with me. So, a half hour later we're sitting down at Panera and who should i run into? Our buddy Kraus! Twas a good time indeed. Ang and i stayed at Panera for a good hour chatting, then went on a driving hunt/ adventure (at least for me) to find a coffee shop to talk some more at. So by the time she had to go to her tutor and me dragging my butt home, it was already about 8:10...
I feel like the children's story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" i just keep finding something more and more to do. Maybe, if i was to be an animal i would be a mouse? Oh that's depressing. I would want to come back as something sweet, like a COUGER! ya... writing group, i'll know you actually read my blog entry if you comment on what kind of animal i'd be and what you think you'd be!!
Ok, off to do my studying!
... after my shower
Love is like...
Love is like water.
You don't always need to see it to know its there, and you are never sure when it's going to miraculously fall all around you and witness first hand things come alive because of it. Love is like water because you never really realize how much you need it until you're not getting it. There is no substitute for love, people try all sorts of things, but there is no substitute, just like how people try to substitute water for other things. Yes gatoraid and vitamin water are good for a while, but there is nothing like a ice cold, rushing into your mouth, thirst quenching glass of water. Sometimes a puddle of water goes unnoticed, and in everyday life and ancient stories alike, unrequited and unnoticed love is here as well. But most importantly, just like water, everyone needs love.
You don't always need to see it to know its there, and you are never sure when it's going to miraculously fall all around you and witness first hand things come alive because of it. Love is like water because you never really realize how much you need it until you're not getting it. There is no substitute for love, people try all sorts of things, but there is no substitute, just like how people try to substitute water for other things. Yes gatoraid and vitamin water are good for a while, but there is nothing like a ice cold, rushing into your mouth, thirst quenching glass of water. Sometimes a puddle of water goes unnoticed, and in everyday life and ancient stories alike, unrequited and unnoticed love is here as well. But most importantly, just like water, everyone needs love.
A Love Poem
Evening Song
by Sidney Lanier
Look off, dear love, across the sallow sands,
And mark yon meeting of sun and ses;
How long they kiss in sight of of all the lands,
Ah! Longer, longer we.
Now, in the sea's red vintage melts the sun
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine
And Cleopatra night drinks all. 'Tis done,
Love, lay thine hand in mine.
Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's heart,
Glimmer, ye waves, 'round else unlighted sands;
Oh night! divorced our sun and sky apart
Never our lips, our hands.
The theme of this poem is the love between two people and how nature mirrors it, but never captures it. The whole poem is a metaphor for their love. In the first stanza were the sun and sea meet and "kiss in sight of all the lands," the author gives the reader a visual image of two beautiful things coming together, but he finishes the stanza off by saying "Ah! longer, longer we". Their kiss lasts longer than the the beautiful view the poet provides. Lanier goes on to the second stanza with another familiar and breathtaking sight of a fiery red sun dipping behind a river. This moment in the day, and the connection the two different things make is the author's similie for holding hands. Cleopatra could drink in that beautiful view until it's over, but the author has their loves' hand in thier own for time after that. And even when the day is gone, and "night divorce our sun and sky apart/ Never our lips, our hands" their love goes past the moment of the day and the sun setting moment, it goes on and on.
by Sidney Lanier
Look off, dear love, across the sallow sands,
And mark yon meeting of sun and ses;
How long they kiss in sight of of all the lands,
Ah! Longer, longer we.
Now, in the sea's red vintage melts the sun
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine
And Cleopatra night drinks all. 'Tis done,
Love, lay thine hand in mine.
Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's heart,
Glimmer, ye waves, 'round else unlighted sands;
Oh night! divorced our sun and sky apart
Never our lips, our hands.
The theme of this poem is the love between two people and how nature mirrors it, but never captures it. The whole poem is a metaphor for their love. In the first stanza were the sun and sea meet and "kiss in sight of all the lands," the author gives the reader a visual image of two beautiful things coming together, but he finishes the stanza off by saying "Ah! longer, longer we". Their kiss lasts longer than the the beautiful view the poet provides. Lanier goes on to the second stanza with another familiar and breathtaking sight of a fiery red sun dipping behind a river. This moment in the day, and the connection the two different things make is the author's similie for holding hands. Cleopatra could drink in that beautiful view until it's over, but the author has their loves' hand in thier own for time after that. And even when the day is gone, and "night divorce our sun and sky apart/ Never our lips, our hands" their love goes past the moment of the day and the sun setting moment, it goes on and on.
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