Extra Credit: Poetry Reading

discussing what work of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction stuck with you and why.

The work that stuck with me the most was man in high heels. Well of course the title would stick out to me but the story was entertaining as well. He took us on an adventure though his life, though sad times and funny times. I feel like if I saw that as a book or even an article in a magazine or paper i would pick it up and read it. His descriptions were well written and I could visualize him walking down a hallway with on floors and as he walks by a classroom the classroom stares because of the clacking of his cowboy boots. He skipped over parts in the story, most likely due to time but I would like to read the whole thing. 

blog post 15

In this final blog posting of the semester, I'd like you to reflect on your progress throughout the course. What do you feel you have really improved on within the fifteen weeks? What do you still struggle with? Explain. (Consequently, the answers to these questions can pertain to your writing process, the way you conduct research, organizational skills, critical reading skills, or whatever else you can think of). Lastly, provide a suggestion or several suggestions for how the class could be conducted more efficiently in the future. Is there an assignment you think could be reworked? Would you have benefited from more conferences? Less conferences? Etc. etc.

I feel I have gotten better on my writing in general and getting my ideas on paper because, before i came to this class it was really difficult for me to do that. I had trouble staying focused when given readings. I find that when I try to read something like that I can get done with a chapter or story or even paragraph and not remember what I read. I feel like I would be more motivated to do blog postings if it wasn't about our topic. There was one blog posting I really enjoyed and it had nothing to do with our mini-ethnography or our subculture, it told us to describe a "special place". I feel if you did more blog posting not pertaining to the mini-ethnography people would be more enthusiastic. I think another problem was, was after a while all the blog postings started to sound the same and I had to ask myself  "didn't I already do this posting"? As for the conferences, I thought these were great. For me one on one time with a teacher is important. I feel like you should have conferences after ever rough draft for your class it really helped me a lot.

in-class cut ups

The day started off with stretching, then jumped straight into the most intense part of the whole process./ Coming to college I wasn't sure if I should expect the same thing, or with so many varieties of people at Ball State./ I had my friend/co-worker Travis sitting next to me driving the cart./ he told me something that I have wanted to hear my whole life… HE WENT TO WOODSTOCK!

Blog post 13

My research had gotten the better of me I wanted a tattoo, and from talking about it all the time my roommate, Abby did too.We both hopped in her car to try to find a parlor open at 9 PM. We drove to Dragonslayer (knowing they do terrible tattoos). When walking into Dragonslayer it was dark, the walls were painted black, right as you walk in the door you hear the humming of a tattoo needle grazing human skin, and right in front of you is a display case of piercing jewelry and their front counter. They were overpriced and were incredibly rude. We left and went to a different parlor. The tattoo shop was located in the oddest place, right above Jimmy Johns. As we walk in from downstairs the walls were bright It could almost be an apartment. The owner welcomes us and is enthusiastic about our ideas. He printed up designs and called us back. As I walk down the short hallway to the tattoo room my heart beats faster, my adrenaline is pumping through my veins, and i have a pit in my stomach. as soon as I was in the chair it all went away

writing quote

"I am a better writer when put under pressure"
-I am a procrastinator but if I am in a time crunch and I need to get it done all my focus is on that instead of getting side tracked and starting and stopping, you lose thoughts that way.

Way back in week one I asked you folks to discuss a paper you had written for a previous class and your writing process. Now, in week eleven, I'd like to hear about your writing process again. Has your writing process changed since we started this course? If so, how? Did any particular assignments give you trouble (both in terms of the type of assignment and how it might have conflicted with your specific writing process)? Were any assignments unexpectedly easy? And now, the million dollar (somewhat philosophical) question: Why do you write (aside from it's a requirement of this class and higher education in general)? What role does writing play in your life? What role do you think writing will play in your future (in terms of a career, family, etc.)?

My writing process really hasn't changed much I still procrastinate and it takes what feels like years to get one idea from my head into words on paper. No assignment really gave me any trouble, I enjoyed the first one for the most part, the annotated bibliography wasn't really hard just tedious and time consuming. When I was younger I used to write all the time. I wrote poems (not very good ones) I felt it was a release of anything I was feeling. However, as I became a more serious visual artist I left writing behind and never really looked back. I never really had a passion for writing but every once and a while I feel the urge to tell a story. I actually wrote a graphic novel for one of my classes last semester.In the future I probably wont find myself sitting at a desk writing the next big novel but probably sitting at the dinner table with my kid helping them write. Since I am interested in tattooing as a profession I probably wont write a lot. However, if I become an art teacher I might write more. I lost the love I had for writing when I was younger through school and being forced to write papers on awful topics such as how a layout of a mall can convey spiritual meaning BORING!

In class

My Grandma and my dad's step-sister are the drama queens of my family. My grandmother well in her 60's and my dad's stepsister, probably 30 or 40's both have facebooks. However, they do not use it for the social aspect of facebook they use it to spy mostly on my cousins and I. I said "fuck" one day on facebook and they called my parents. I am 18 leagally an adult, can vote, buy cigarettes, and I am in college I am pretty sure that I can say fuck without getting in-trouble. On holidays they will gossip to everyone about everything even if that person is still in the room.