If you would have asked me about what i thought about blogging before we started this whole thing I most definetely would have said LAME!! I guess I thought that blogging was something that only people with no lives did or people HAD to do it becuase it was part of their job. I started this assignment thinking "why is he having us waste our time on this, this is so boring.." yada yada yada. But after doing this for the last few weeks i've come to realize that it isn't that bad at all! I've actually started to look forward to days where we blog in class.
I look at blogging as a way to get things off of my chest and to tell other people about things I like. It also seems to clear your mind when you put your thoughts down on "paper". I would most definetely reccomend blogging to people who have never tried it or are a bit skeptical about it becuase usually i say "don't knock it, until you try it." which by the way i didn't do with this assignment, i'll be honest.....i knocked it.
I started blogging about one specific topic and as you might be able to tell i've matured a little bit on my blogging by not limiting myself to one topic, but opening it up to many numerous topics such as sports, music, me ranting, and all sorts of fun stuff. Which leads me to another reason why i like blogging, you can do it about ANYTHING, i mean look what i'm doing now. I'm blogging about blogging, crazy i know.
Well i'm thinking that's enough out of me for a while, i have some major things to work on such as my L.A Presentation(maybe extra credit for mentioning it) and my spanish final(which if you read my earlier post about my spanish class should be hell). But like i said i'm done for now i'll talk at you later.
ADIOS!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
whoa!
Last night if you watched anything that had to do with sports I’m guessing you saw one of a few things, you either saw something about High School kids signing there services over to colleges for football, Kobe and LeBron trying to one up each other, Duke getting WOMPED by Clemson, or Wake Forest getting WOMPED by Miami (Fl).
This night was both good for me but bad at the same time. As a Cavalier fan I was extremely happy to see LeBron go 52, 11, and 10, for the highest scoring triple double in a long time. But on the other hand was thoroughly embarrassed to be a Duke fan as I witnessed their dismantling at the hands of Clemson. My best friend who by the way is a Clemson fan let me hear it for about 2 hours at how overrated and bad Duke is, the truth is I sort of believe him, last night they were completely outplayed and deserved to win, that is now two ACC games that they've lost to ranked teams this one being more embarrassing. The other was a last second lost to the also beaten Wake Forest Demon Deacons who got beat last night as well by an underdog. This showing was thoroughly embarrassing and frankly I’m done talking about it.
Now on a more positive note, LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers won their 8th game out of the last 9 they've played last night behind an extremely impressive performance by LeBron who had 52 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds, only one night after Kobe scored 61 points in the same arena (Madison Square Garden). With 61 points Kobe now holds the single game scoring record for Madison square garden, with 52 LeBron is now in the top 3. The top 3 are Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James, not exactly a bad group to be in. Now many people may think Kobe had the better night, but I disagree. LeBron is more than just a scorer and he proved it last night, he does everything. He gets rebounds, assists, plays defense...he's a machine. No disrespect to Kobe who is considered by many to be the best player in the League but I think LeBron was the better man last night.
DATS ALL FOLKS!
This night was both good for me but bad at the same time. As a Cavalier fan I was extremely happy to see LeBron go 52, 11, and 10, for the highest scoring triple double in a long time. But on the other hand was thoroughly embarrassed to be a Duke fan as I witnessed their dismantling at the hands of Clemson. My best friend who by the way is a Clemson fan let me hear it for about 2 hours at how overrated and bad Duke is, the truth is I sort of believe him, last night they were completely outplayed and deserved to win, that is now two ACC games that they've lost to ranked teams this one being more embarrassing. The other was a last second lost to the also beaten Wake Forest Demon Deacons who got beat last night as well by an underdog. This showing was thoroughly embarrassing and frankly I’m done talking about it.
Now on a more positive note, LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers won their 8th game out of the last 9 they've played last night behind an extremely impressive performance by LeBron who had 52 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds, only one night after Kobe scored 61 points in the same arena (Madison Square Garden). With 61 points Kobe now holds the single game scoring record for Madison square garden, with 52 LeBron is now in the top 3. The top 3 are Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James, not exactly a bad group to be in. Now many people may think Kobe had the better night, but I disagree. LeBron is more than just a scorer and he proved it last night, he does everything. He gets rebounds, assists, plays defense...he's a machine. No disrespect to Kobe who is considered by many to be the best player in the League but I think LeBron was the better man last night.
DATS ALL FOLKS!
Frustrated
So last night went about how I figured it would, minus a few surprising things. After basketball practice I went home and did something I don't usually do...I studied. Usually I’m pretty good at getting stuff as soon as I hear it but there is one darn class that I just cannot seem to get the hang of and that class is AP Spanish....we are just now combining like everything we've learned the past four years and combining it and guess what....my mind is blanked on all of this stuff. All of the tenses, all of the stem-changing words, basically everything that we need to know for this stuff! I must say it is pretty darn frustrating.....It's not like I don't try or anything but I just do not know how to figure this crap out...I’ll either start going in before school and getting help on this stuff or I’ll just wing it but as of right now it's not looking like a good idea to just wing it.
So that was just the background story for you guys. Everyday we take quizzes worth about 20 points a piece. This doesn't seem like a lot but after a while those points star to add up. I WAS doing pretty well at these quizzes.....back when they were only vocabulary words....now that we are putting them into all these strange tenses that are apparently used in English also, it is getting almost unbearable. My last two quiz grades over this stuff have NOT been good at ALL and here they are....12/21 and 19/36...i know what you're thinking OUCH!!! Another thing you may be thinking is "calm down, it's an AP class of course it's going to be hard" but here's what I’ll say to you the next lowest grade on those two quizzes were 19/21 and 28/36. How's that for a spirit breaker? well I guess I’ll just have to stick with it and keep studying because that's all I CAN do at this point, I think I’ll go in tomorrow morning and see what he can help me with. Wish me luck
So that was just the background story for you guys. Everyday we take quizzes worth about 20 points a piece. This doesn't seem like a lot but after a while those points star to add up. I WAS doing pretty well at these quizzes.....back when they were only vocabulary words....now that we are putting them into all these strange tenses that are apparently used in English also, it is getting almost unbearable. My last two quiz grades over this stuff have NOT been good at ALL and here they are....12/21 and 19/36...i know what you're thinking OUCH!!! Another thing you may be thinking is "calm down, it's an AP class of course it's going to be hard" but here's what I’ll say to you the next lowest grade on those two quizzes were 19/21 and 28/36. How's that for a spirit breaker? well I guess I’ll just have to stick with it and keep studying because that's all I CAN do at this point, I think I’ll go in tomorrow morning and see what he can help me with. Wish me luck
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Music and Me
Over the last couple of months I have noticed that my taste in music is beginning to change a little bit. I used to be into all the mainstream Lil' Wayne's of the world then I realized that in reality the man raps with what sounds like, to put it bluntly a speech impediment, his rhymes take no thought and his stuff has become so mainstream it scares the living hell out of me. I've recently shifted to lesser known music that actually takes thought and has meaning. I'm not all about rap either I’m what people call eclectic I like all different types of music. From the 2-pacs to the Jack Johnsons (wide variety huh) I like most everything...if it isn't on Z-102.9 I’ll listen to it.
I'm thinking that the reason people don't like or don't know about these artists is because all the listen to is the "lollipop and Hollaback Girl" songs on the radio...I guess what I’m trying to say is COME ON PEOPLE broaden you're horizons a little bit, a good website that helps with this is one called Pandora.Com. I’ll link it for you. Here’s how it works, you type in a song you like, and guess what...IT DOESN'T PLAY IT!!! it plays songs that have similar styles so you don't just have to dive head first into something, you either give the songs a thumbs up, or thumbs down, and then it starts to tailor to your likeing....pretty neat-o huh?
But don't get me wrong not all mainstream artists are bad, lil' Wayne was alright before "Tha Carter III". I have some of his earlier stuff on my IPOD. Also you may have heard of a band called Linkin Park? Yeah they suck now, their first album Hybrid Theory was AMAZING, their second one Meteora, still dece., but there newest album Minutes to Midnight = TERRIBLE!!!!!!!! They right now are the definition of sell-outs.
Well this is just my opinions on things you either like it or hate it, but please if you don't agree with me and feel like arguing have an educated opinion, because if your reason is "It was number one on Ryan Seacrest's top twenty" I will not waste an ounce of my breath on you!
That’s all there is to say!
I'm thinking that the reason people don't like or don't know about these artists is because all the listen to is the "lollipop and Hollaback Girl" songs on the radio...I guess what I’m trying to say is COME ON PEOPLE broaden you're horizons a little bit, a good website that helps with this is one called Pandora.Com. I’ll link it for you. Here’s how it works, you type in a song you like, and guess what...IT DOESN'T PLAY IT!!! it plays songs that have similar styles so you don't just have to dive head first into something, you either give the songs a thumbs up, or thumbs down, and then it starts to tailor to your likeing....pretty neat-o huh?
But don't get me wrong not all mainstream artists are bad, lil' Wayne was alright before "Tha Carter III". I have some of his earlier stuff on my IPOD. Also you may have heard of a band called Linkin Park? Yeah they suck now, their first album Hybrid Theory was AMAZING, their second one Meteora, still dece., but there newest album Minutes to Midnight = TERRIBLE!!!!!!!! They right now are the definition of sell-outs.
Well this is just my opinions on things you either like it or hate it, but please if you don't agree with me and feel like arguing have an educated opinion, because if your reason is "It was number one on Ryan Seacrest's top twenty" I will not waste an ounce of my breath on you!
That’s all there is to say!
Complaining At It's Finest!!
Well as you might have noticed of late, I've been complaining quite a bit about stuff around Kennedy and I guess I’ll just update on some of the S*** that I was ranting about.
First of all, the whole politics in sports....yeah hasn't gotten any better last night we played a JV game and I stress the "JV" part isn't JV supposed to be for the people that don't get to play on varsity or play very little? Apparently it's just another way for the coaches to make people feel bad about themselves. Last night like I said earlier we played Linn-Mar for JV and yeah like you might have guessed if you know anything about them they were good. The first half went like I expected 5 to 6 guys playing the entire 16 minutes, this is nothing out of the usual because I stated earlier coaches feel like "hey why give the other people a chance" but the second half as our team proceeded to make the lead larger, you guessed it he kept the starters in. I'm pretty sure the most rest that any of the starters got was probably 1-2 minutes at the most and for each of those times they went out for either the 1 sub or the other starter that was resting....ARE YOU F****** KIDDING ME!!!! They say that sports in high school are all about fun right? Well how are people supposed to enjoy themselves when they play 0 seconds in a game that was won by 10-12? This just really makes me mad, and if one administrator or someone happens to read it, maybe you could do something about it....but as things are looking right now I’m thinking things wont change.
Alright, time for my second rant of this blog!! About the whole taking all half-days and making them full days, yeah it happened =( All of our half days are gone now and the finals schedule for the rest of the people is all messed up. my complaint is why make such a mess out of things? Two class periods a day for four days? Really? Why not just keep them as two class days with three periods a day? It’s basically the same as a half day, and you get more done. I guess I don't know anything though, another thing, if you think that these freshman, sophomores, and juniors are going to take the time out of school on those half days to study, how in the world did you get your teaching or administrative license, sure maybe one or two will study but it's summer almost summer and there is no way they're going to stay inside and cram their noses in books when they could be doing, lets face it anything else. Especially when the weather is nice out and the seniors are making fun of them for being inferior.
That's All For Today
First of all, the whole politics in sports....yeah hasn't gotten any better last night we played a JV game and I stress the "JV" part isn't JV supposed to be for the people that don't get to play on varsity or play very little? Apparently it's just another way for the coaches to make people feel bad about themselves. Last night like I said earlier we played Linn-Mar for JV and yeah like you might have guessed if you know anything about them they were good. The first half went like I expected 5 to 6 guys playing the entire 16 minutes, this is nothing out of the usual because I stated earlier coaches feel like "hey why give the other people a chance" but the second half as our team proceeded to make the lead larger, you guessed it he kept the starters in. I'm pretty sure the most rest that any of the starters got was probably 1-2 minutes at the most and for each of those times they went out for either the 1 sub or the other starter that was resting....ARE YOU F****** KIDDING ME!!!! They say that sports in high school are all about fun right? Well how are people supposed to enjoy themselves when they play 0 seconds in a game that was won by 10-12? This just really makes me mad, and if one administrator or someone happens to read it, maybe you could do something about it....but as things are looking right now I’m thinking things wont change.
Alright, time for my second rant of this blog!! About the whole taking all half-days and making them full days, yeah it happened =( All of our half days are gone now and the finals schedule for the rest of the people is all messed up. my complaint is why make such a mess out of things? Two class periods a day for four days? Really? Why not just keep them as two class days with three periods a day? It’s basically the same as a half day, and you get more done. I guess I don't know anything though, another thing, if you think that these freshman, sophomores, and juniors are going to take the time out of school on those half days to study, how in the world did you get your teaching or administrative license, sure maybe one or two will study but it's summer almost summer and there is no way they're going to stay inside and cram their noses in books when they could be doing, lets face it anything else. Especially when the weather is nice out and the seniors are making fun of them for being inferior.
That's All For Today
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