Tuesday, October 7

Blog post of the day:
The following article was in the September issue of The Tiger Print. Read the article (even if you already have) and respond to it below. What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Consider all perspectives of the article while you respond.

I read this article earlier last week, when I first got the newspaper, and my friend and I finished reading it at the same time. She and I both looked at each other, and we smiled. I told her that I was glad that an article like this finally came out, and she couldn't agree more.

I really am happy that someone wrote this, because I agree. I especially agree about the part where she mentioned that not everyone's thumbs go down to the same length, so some people can't wear what other people can. I was also blessed with the (unfortunately) long, lanky, arms. The sad thing is, I have a skirt at home that I was so excited to wear to school, and I had even picked out a few tops from the store that went with the skirt. On the first day, I put it on, and went downstairs. My mom told me that it looked adorable, but that the school did have a thumb rule, and that I should check where my thumbs went. I checked, ans sure enough, they went past the end of the skirt.

The thing is, the skirt wasn't too short. I had worn it to my Grandpa's birthday dinner, for Pete's sake! I have yet to wear that skirt to school, opting out of skirts all together. I just feel like it would be too much of a hassle to repeatedly show where my thumbs went to any teacher that happened to walk by. But as I said before, the skirt wasn't too short! None of my skirts are too short! 

I am not the kind of person who wears really tight or revealing clothes, and I don't wear anything for attention. I wear things because I like them.

Monday, October 6

Blog post of the day:
Tell me about your weekend! If you don't have anything fun to share, tell me about the city you live in. What do you love about Kansas City? Do you have a favorite place in the city? Favorite team? :) Favorite event? Explain.

This weekend, or, well, Thursday of last week, I got my wisdom teeth out. That was probably the biggest event that happened this weekend, because the rest of my four day weekend was spent in recovery. So, this weekend, the main thing I did was sleep, and second to that I watched a ton of new TV shows.

Also this weekend, my friend celebrated her birthday, and we went to see the new movie, The Maze Runner. I went with Lexi, Julie, and Lily, it being Lily's birthday. Lexi and I sat together in the row above Julie and Lily, because we had similar feelings about the movie. Almost 80% of the time, Lexi and I were huddled together with out ears plugged and our eyes closed, trying to block out the intensity of the monster fights going on on the big screen.

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All in all, my weekend wasn't a total bust, because it was two days longer than everyone else's, but it also felt like it was way too short.

Monday, September 29

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This weekend I did not go to the Homecoming dance, but I did go to the football game. It was really fun, and I'm glad that Gabby Gunnerson won Homecoming queen, because she's on cross country with me, and she's very nice. At the football game, cross country ran the ball in, which I guess what kind of cool, it didn't really seem like a big deal. I invited my friend from St.James to the football game, and she had a lot of fun as well.

(left to right): Lily, Julie, Lexi

Then on Saturday my family cleaned the house, and we were going to go to Costco to get new phones, but they don't support our carrier at this specific Costco location, so we couldn't get them in the store. So the my mom waited until 9:30pm last night, and then we couldn't log in to the website to order the phones. Long story short, we still don't have new phones, or even ordered new phones.

Also on Saturday we rearranged the furniture on the deck, and Truman really likes the new rug.

On Sunday I didn't do much of anything, and that was my weekend!

Monday, September 22

Blog Post of the Day:
How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

This weekend I did absolutely nothing. I was going to go to the Plaza Art Fair with my aunt, and bring my dog, but it didn't work out, which was too bad. Sadly, yesterday was the last day of the fair, so I have to wait until next year to go.

Also this weekend, I watched a movie on Saturday night with my friends, like I always do. This Saturday it was hard to pick a movie to watch, because one of my friends was being difficult, and not wanting to watch anything but sci-fi. So we ended up watching something called A Long Way Down, which was a drama, I guess. I don't think it was very good, but it didn't matter because all we did was talk throughout the length of the movie.

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On Sunday, I didn't do anything but lay on the couch all day watching new episodes of New Girl on Netflix.

And that was my weekend!

Friday, September 19

Blog Post of the Day:
Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

I like this class, even though it's not exactly what I thought it would be. I expected it to be something more like layout and graphic design, more how to design the layout of website with pre-planned code. But what I'm learning now is so much better, and is so much more useful. I have always thought web design was cool, because I've always loved technology. Also, I'm not very good at drawing, so when you can design something without drawing it, but still making it unique, it's pretty cool.

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My favorite part of this class is probably the blogs at the beginning of the day. Even though we're learning how to code a website, and how to make one, we're also learning how to write on one.  

Wednesday, September 17

Blog Post of the Day:
What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

Deadlines are really important, because if you never have to meet any deadlines, then you never feel like you have any obligation to get the work done. You can just take forever to do it, or not do it at all. High school deadlines simulate a real world experience because if you don't get your work turned in on time, you are penalized.

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An example of when I failed to me a deadline for an assignment was in 8th grade. We used to have to do these online math courses called BAIPs. Apparently I totally forgot to do them, even though my friends and brothers were doing them, I didn't even remember to do one. Long story short, I got an absolutely awful grade, and it took me the rest of the year to get that grade up to an A.

Tuesday, September 16

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

Times in my life where this quote apply are whenever I decide not to study enough for a test, or something like that. Or even if you decide not to stretch before you workout or play a sport. If you don't prepare the correct way for anything in life, you will not do as well as you could if you did prepare. It doesn't mean that you won't pass, or that you won't still play well in you game, but you won't ever do the best that you can do.

I also like this quote because it is basically taking the first sentence, switching it around, and making it another sentence, that still makes sense. That's cool.