Movies.

My favorite movie is Save the Last Dance. I love movies that revolve around dancing, such as Step Up, Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, Grease, Shall We Dance?, Center State and Take the Lead and so on. Those movies are so much fun to watch for me because I love to dance. I used to be on the Dance Team in high school and I took dance lessons all throughout grade school. My dad used to tell me that if there was dancing on the t.v., you could wave a 10 lb chocolate bar in front of my face and I wouldn't even look away from the t.v. I'm also IN LOVE with Ashton Kutcher, so any movie that he acts in are also my favorites. Just Married is a good one, also Dude Where's My Car?. Classics. Another good movie is the Notebook. Every girl has to love that movie...it's so good! Ryan Gossling is such an amazing actor that you just fall in love with him in the movie. I think if you fall in love with the characters and get real into the story line, you'll love the movie. It makes it so much more real when you can relate to the characters.

Dreams

My dreams are always really interesting. Usually I have dreams, or parts in dreams, that actually happen in real life. I can have a conversation in a dream with someone, then after that dream sometime I'll have that same conversation or a part of that conversation in real life. It's really creepy. Then I'll get this weird look on my face like I know this conversation from somewhere and then I get all weirded out, it's messed up. Then, the last thing I think about before I go to bed is usually what I dream about. I was thinking about my boyfriend Josh coming home this weekend and going to the Homecoming football game for his high school back home, and I had a dream that he and I were at the football game together this weekend. It's really weird, when I tell people they think I'm always making it up. Then I tell someone else and they say it happens to them too. I think I'm just special and have awesome premonitions...I could be with the FBI ha ha.

Thank you for not smoking.

This blog is about how I feel about people smoking. I think smoking is a bad habbit. Usually the people I talk to about it say they wish they could quit, and it's a bad habbit. I know it's hard to quit, but if you want to...then why don't you?? Obviously it's not that hard if you're not even trying to quit. I'm glad that the smoke free law is happening now. Mankato is all smoke free and my hometown, New Ulm, is smoke free on October 1st. I can't wait! I am a hostess at Applebee's in New Ulm and I am so sick of coming home after work smelling like an ash tray! I have nothing against smokers, it's their choice to smoke. I just think smoking is discusting and a bad habbit to get into. People think it makes them look cool, well it doesn't. To a lot of people it's a huge turn-off, and I think it is too. When you smoke, you're not only slowly killing yourself but the other's around you. When I'm working, I'm breathing in that 2nd hand smoke, it sucks!! I think the smokers should crack down and actually realize what they're doing to themselves and the people around them when they smoke. Smoke is not a good perfume to have, you smell bad, your teeth look discusting and you're killing yourself. I think people should just all quit!

Monster

I looked up the word "monster" at http://www.dictionary.com/ and these are the results I got.


1.
a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
2.
any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
3.
any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
4.
a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
5.
any animal or thing huge in size.
6.
Biology.
a.
an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure, as from marked malformation or the absence of certain parts or organs.
b.
a grossly anomalous fetus or infant, esp. one that is not viable.
7.
anything unnatural or monstrous. –adjective
8.
huge; enormous; monstrous: a monster tree.

I think that all these definitions are ok. I believe that a monster is just a bad person or creature who thinks it's ok to be mean or scary to someone. Sometimes monsters can be portrayed as scary or as just a furry little funny creature. Like in Monsters, Inc. the disney movie they started out making the monsters scare the little kids, then make them laugh. I think it's all just just what you think they are and what they do in your mind. I think monsters are scary looking creatures or mean people that sccare and are mean to people.

Negotiations.

I feel that the negotiations for this class were perfect. I don't see why it's hard to not go on Facebook or Myspace during class time. If anybody in the class can't possibly wait 50 minutes to go on Facebook while they are in class then they have a problem and they're super addicted to the Internet! It's rude to go on Facebook and Myspace and listen your iPod in class when someone is talking and you're in class. I'm pretty sure they didn't allow anyone to do that wherever we went to high school and I don't see why people think it's OK to do whatever they want in college. The professors and TA's should be respected in their class just as we had to respect our teachers in high school. I'm pretty sure anyone in the class can refrain from Facebook and Myspace for all of class. I'm almost 100% sure that we all check Facebook or Myspace 20 times a day, and nothing that exciting is going to happen in 50 minutes, we can check it later!

The class participation rule is a good rule I think. We should lose points if we're not paying attention to what people are saying during discussions and class. The weekly tests are good too, then you know that we're paying attention in class and doing the homework that's needed in class. I think if we do our best, that our final drafts should be good, especially if we're doing the homework so it shouldn't matter if we get credit or not for our rough drafts.

Overall I think the negotiations are necessary and should be respected by all of the students in the class.

College life.

College for me so far has been awesome! The first week was a huge transition for me but I got over it just fine. Coming from a high school with a student body of 300 to a school with a student body of over 15,000 is a HUGE adjustment for me. I walked to my first class at 9 in the morning and saw 5,000 people all over the place walking with me, it was so scary! However, I have gotten very used to it and I love that I'm always surrounded by so many people all the time. It makes me feel a lot more comfortable, like I'm not in this by myself.

I've made so many friends on my floor and in my classes too, which I'm so thankful for. I'm the kind of person that can never be by myself. I always have to be doing something or with somebody or making plans to do something. But I know there will come a day where I will love being by myself in the dorm room for a couple hours or have the room to myself for the weekend.

So far I love my classes and my teachers and the campus!

Credible or not?? -Websites

www.improb.com/archives/classical/cat/cat.html

The website above is called. "Feline Reactions to Bearded Men."
I don't think this website is credible. I really don't think cats can have specific reactions to men with beards different from men who don't have beards. They may have different reactions to different people because of the way they walk or the way they're acting, but I don't think it's necessarily about if they have facial hair or not.

http://city-mankato.us

This website is about the city of Mankato, MN. This website is DEFINITELY not credible. First it starts off with a picture of a gorgeous beach...definitely not in Minnesota. Then it goes on by saying that Mankato has a pyramid, underwater city, hot springs, hot falls and so much more. Mankato has nothing of the sort. It has a mall, a university, a bunch of houses, some shops...and that's about all. Haven't seen a pyramid around Mankato in a while. This person needs to get this website off of the Internet. My TA for English said that this website actually got people to come up here to see the pyramids and the underwater city, that's just sad. They need to get their information and their sources right. Maybe they're talking about Mankato...in Jamaica? Don't think so.

News Article - Snack Cake Killing

I was on cnn.com this morning to look for a news article and came across a funny title "Girl, 9, Threatens To Kill Classmate Over Zebra Cakes". So I read into it and read that these two girls were going to trade their snacks during an after school program...one was going to trade her potato chips for the other girls' zebra cakes. One of the girls wanted the potato chips and the snack cakes all to herself, and when the other girl wouldn't let that happen, she wrote her a letter. The letter was about how she was going to kill her and what guns she was going to use and even how the other girl was going to fight back and what guns she was going to use because the other girl wouldn't give her the potato chips. This was all in a note, and the mother of the girl who the note was being sent to didn't even get a copy of this note, she just got to read it.

As a terrified mother, she was left in the dark during this whole thing. She doesn't even know if the little girl is going to be suspended or punished for writing this horrible note to her daughter. You would think that this girl would be expelled or suspended for...a long time because of this note. A 9 year old little girl was writing about how she was going to kill another person and what gun she was going to use all because she couldn't get a bag of potato chips!!! A 9 year old!! Nobody should be writing these things to anybody let alone a little 9 year old girl. How does she get this information about these guns anyways?! I think this little girl should be expelled from the school and get counseling immediately.


This article: http://www.wftv.com/news/14108990/detail.html

Bullshit.

So this blog is about this new t.v. series that I was recently introduced to in my English Comp. class called Bullshit! I absolutely love the show now. The two hosts of the show have the funniest personalities and are very opinionated, but in a good way. They like that everyone has their own opinion and they don't discriminate against them at all.
One of the shows we watched in class was about recycling and how it is actually bad for the enviornment. People feel good when they recycle, but it's actually not good to recycle. It costs more to recycle your garbage then it does to just throw it away and not reuse it at all. They really make you open up your mind and see things a different way. The other one was about Wal-Mart and how everybody hates Wal-Mart. Everyone that hates it says that they treat their employees badly and they don't pay them the money they deserve. There are people actually making "I hate Wal-Mart" t-shirts! I was so shocked when I saw this about how many people seriously hate Wal-Mart! I honestly don't see what's bad, you get good quality items at a low price...I'm a poor college student so Wal-Mart is the place to go! They just let everyone has their opinions, and whether they agree with your opinion or not, they don't say anything about it. They let you have your own opinion, even though they have their own opinion, they don't sway anybody towards it.
I encourage everyone to watch at least one of the episodes, it really broadens your enviornment and the way you think. The show will definitly benefit you in some way.