Skype

If anyone hasn't heard of skype it is a program that enables you to talk to close friends, relatives, or anyone that you want to through video or on your phone. Even if someone doesn't have a video connection on their computer you can buy one or just talk to the person through your computer. I especially love this program because it allows me to talk to my friends from back home and while they are at college too. We can catch up and actually see each other rather than just talking on the phone. And this way I can see their dorm and they can see mine! There are many other programs that do the same thing but a current one and fairly new one is skype which all my friends and I use. It is great! Well, gotta go skype with me friend!

Apartments and Houses

It is so crazy that people are already looking for houses and apartments next year. How are you supposed to know who you want to live with next year only half way through the first semester? Sure you have your close friends but how can you tell if you want to live with them next year? On the other hand, next year, since my major is Deaf Education, I am living at the school for the deaf in Indianapolis so I won't be living in the house for the whole week just friday night and saturday night. Therefore it won't matter that much even though the people that are going to be living in the house are cool and will be fun to live with! It's so exciting but also very frustrating at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnY59mDJ1gg&feature=popt17us01

Entitled "Grocery Store Musical," this is hilarious. I love musicals so I thought I would watch it and see what it was going to be. Then once I started watching it, the people's reactions make the video even more. Also, at the end of the video they ask people's opinion and I have always wished someone would just break out in song and start singing randomly so my life would be a musical. It didn't even have to be about my life I just wish that we could break out in song just like this video anytime we want. It would be hilarious!

10 things i hate about you

Sitting watching 10 things I hate about you at home has sparked many ideas. First of all and most important is the fact that Heath Ledger is in the movie. One of the greatest movies and that he is in it makes it even better. Also, his role in The Dark Knight was one that everyone will remember. Even though I think that the role of the joker actually did kill him with everything that he had to take to make that role, it was a good way to end his life. He made the role of the joker and I wish he could still be living to be in more great movies.

6 year old in a balloon

http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27701&Itemid=70

A 6 year old was really found in a balloon? When my friend told me this I immediately thought that there was no way there could have been a boy in a balloon. Once i read the article it still was questionable but one thing that stood out in my mind was they mentioned the show Wife Swap. The child in the balloon was not the child that everyone thought it was and the report doesn't give that much information about the incident but, how does a six year old boy survive alone in a balloon? Also, when they mentioned Wife Swap, they mentioned it because the boy everyone thought was in the balloon was found in his garage hiding. His parents had been on the show and since he was hiding people are questioning if it was because his parents were on that show. Is it possible that this could have caused the boy to hide? Sure. With all the reality t.v. shows that are beginning, there has to be question of the credibility and what the show actually does to the families involved. What I do wish is that the article gave more information on the balloon and the two boys. This just shows that not many articles are credible and you have to do good research to find things you really want to know.

Is Serena and other top athletes really the best athletes?

In this article, it points out that Serena Williams has won many tennis matches and has won many of the major tennis matches but one that she has not won is the WTA tour. Even though she has won multiple tennis opens and tours is she really considered number one? Dinara Safina, the winner of the WTA tour, is also one that could be considered one of the best in tennis because of her ranking at the WTA tour. Even though Serena didn't win the WTA tour is she really one to doubt that she is the best tennis player? With all of her other standings I think it is safe to say that yes, she is one of the best tennis players. Without one title and one tour that she didn't win, you don't have to win everything to be "the best."

Reference List

Brett H. Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust. USA Today [serial online]. n.d.:Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 16, 2009.

References

Brett, H. (n.d). Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust. USA Today, http://search.ebscohost.com

Reference List

Brett, Haber. n.d. "Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust." USA Today, n.d. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed October 16, 2009).

Bibliography

Brett, Haber. "Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust." USA Today, n.d., Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed October 16, 2009).

Works Cited

Brett, Haber "Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Oct. 2009.

References

Brett H. Serena isn't No. 1, but it isn't unjust. USA Today [serial on the Internet]. (n.d.), [cited October 16, 2009]: Available from: Academic Search Premier.

Peer review

The best part of the peer review, I think, is the part of the balancing and the structure and the significance part. The most help I need with a paper is the balancing and the significance part so those parts on the peer review really help me. As long as people use detail and explain what they mean it really does help me expand and make my paper better. Since these parts can be exaggerated on and someone can write examples with their explanation it helps even more. Including parts of the text that we wrote and saying what they think can help tell me exactly what I need to change.

Times are changing

Getting back in the swing of things and school is one thing that I dread every year. Even though I have been in school for so long I still find it hard every year to get back in the motions of school. Also, once school starts it means summer has ended and that fall will be here before we know it. And, of coarse fall has come. I have to say that it is not as depressing as winter but it still isn't summer! The fact that fall comes right after summer I think makes it worse than it really is. The couple things that I love about fall though is of coarse the holidays. Halloween and Thanksgiving are certainly things to look forward to just like any other holiday. Holidays are the best parts of the year and I can't wait for them to come!

"Live like you were dying"

He said: "I was in my early forties,
"With a lot of life before me,
"An' a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
"I spent most of the next days,
"Looking at the x-rays,
"An' talking 'bout the options an' talkin’ ‘bout sweet time."
I asked him when it sank in,
That this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man whatcha do?

An' he said: "I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

He said "I was finally the husband,
"That most the time I wasn’t.
"An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.
"And all of a sudden goin' fishin’,
"Wasn’t such an imposition,
"And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
"Well, I finally read the Good Book,
"And I took a good long hard look,
"At what I'd do if I could do it all again,
"And then:

"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

Like tomorrow was a gift,
And you got eternity,
To think about what you’d do with it.
An' what did you do with it?
An' what can I do with it?
An' what would I do with it?

"Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I watched Blue Eagle as it was flyin'."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."

For those of you who don't know the song, it is "Live like you were dying" by Tim McGraw. Many of you may know it from the movie "The Bucket List" which was a very sad movie. For my song analysis, this is the song i chose. The three main points of this song that I have is to live our life to the fullest, to think of dying as a good thing rather than a bad thing, and that you usually don't use live and dying in the same sentence. Throughout this song the visible meaning of the song is to live life to the fullest. You have to count your blessings and remember that your life is how you make it to be. Throughout my life, this is one thing that I constantly try to do and I think this is a very good lesson.

Hair

Last night was the first night that I had seen hair before. Even though I knew a couple of the songs, for example age of aquarius, I didn't really know that much about the musical other than that it was about hippies. Of coarse, since I was seeing it last night, people in my other classes were commenting about it and I got to get more of a feel of what it was about. Although some people were right, knowing some of the prejudice of what others thought before going to see it gave me more of an insight. I knew what everyone else thought and I got to compare it to what I thought. The first thing that came to mind was how powerful it was. Expressing your freedom and your opinion is a major part of society or it has been before. I have always liked going to see plays and musicals and this was one of the best ones I have seen. Other than the ones I saw professionally, this musical was directed very well and was performed very well. The actors had very good voices and performed to their best ability. Overall, I am very glad that I could go see it.