At a Loss

So I got this assignment in English. I'm supposed to write a story using words provided by everyone in the group. I talked about this in another post. I'm finding I'm having a really hard time with this. The words are so random that its hard to lace them together. One of my classmates did a really good story on working in a call center and how stupid people can be. I could do that about AutoZone but I don't know if I want to do a story that is that similar to hers. But This assignment is due tonight and I don't want to be out all night trying to come up with something. I need to do the brakes on my car and check the power steering before a trip tomorrow and I'm rapidly losing daylight. I think I'm going to take a break and come back to this before it ticks me off even more. It may not be so bad if I knew if the assignments were still worth doing or not since I will probably get a zero for that essay I turned in 12 hours late. Ugh this sucks!

One can dream

One of my friends showed me a video of Danny MacAskill , who is a highly accomplished trails rider. Trials riding is a type of riding where you are to get through an entire course or trail without putting a foot down. So you can imagine how highly skilled these guys are. The movie was mesmerizing. Danny went back to the Isle of Skye, Scotland where he was born and road the Cuillin Ridge line. I am in awe of his skills. I thought I was an OK cyclist, but nothing compared to Danny. It makes me wonder what I a capable of if I try hard enough. Can I bunny hop gaps and turn 180's without touching the ground. Can I jump gaps and hit a trail without bonking. Then the question is, if I could develop those skills, would I be brave enough to try? That's a big question. Self preservation usually trumps all in most of us. But if everyone was concerned with that then we wouldn't have people like Danny in the world. You got to admit, being able to pursue your passion without getting overly caught up in self preservation would definitely make life sweeter. But before you can fly, you gotta drop in off that ledge... Here's to everyone reaching for their dreams!

Forgot to submit an assignment. Great.

So I forgot that my final copy of my essay was due yesterday. I was so busy cramming for business that I forgot. No excuse. So I'm going to get an F for it. I'm already at a 70%. I'm honestly wondering what the purpose is at completing this course. I wont get an A, or even a B with the amount of time left in the semester. I have a couple assignments I can do for 30 points, but 30 points is nothing compared to the possible 100 I just lost. I'm so mad and disappointed right now. I have been so good at getting assignments done and turned in. Then the one big one I have been working on for weeks comes due and I don't get it in! I could just scream right now! Ugh. I would drop the class if it didn't mean losing the money I paid for it. But getting a bad grade on my transcript might be even worse. I don't know what to do.

My Five Words

Got an assignment this week - come up with my five favorite words and what they mean to me. Never really thought of my favorite words, or even ones I use a lot. Now that I have to put them to paper they escape me. So lets see.

Seriously comes to mind.

Seriously as in "did you really just say/ do that? There are so many people out there that do things that make you wonder how they got so far in life without getting dead.

Bonk. That's a fun word. To me its official use is in the bicycling world when someone crashes or they run out of fuel and they just cant keep going. They "bonked" up that hill. Well, I like to play with it when I screw up or someone else does. Oops, looks like I bonked that one!

Dude! Who doesn't like to exclaim Dude! when you just heard or saw something really awesome or crazy and cant wait to share the glorious details. Its just makes the whole experience more real. This is also often used in conjunction with Seriously! - type moments.

OhMahGa! This one is fun. It is a creation. At my work I'm reasonably certain. It is a contraction of Oh, My God. Thing is, one of my co-workers says Oh, My God so fast it sounds like OhMahGa! Great for exclaiming surprise and general dumbfoundedness.

BOOM! This has great versatility. It can be used to describe and explosion, car wreck, things falling, or just for dramatic effect. Never gets old. Commonly used along with the other words in this list.

Sweet. OK, so I'm sure this word is way overdone and needs to be retired. But I have yet to find an alternative that is as versatile and able to bring together all your feelings on a topic / subject so concisely.

Looks like my words are pretty useful in the situations I normally find myself. Its cool how they can all be connected in a single sentence to exclaim a general circumstance or sprinkled throughout the description of the newest viral YouTube video!

What to Write?

I don't know what to write about tonight. Its getting like that much more often the longer this Blog goes. I just commented on some of my classmates' Blogs for the bonus points. Now I have to write my own. So lets see. I was commercial driver today. It helped it go much quicker than last night did. Being able to get out of the store is probably the best thing about where I work. I'm not stuck inside always. Tomorrow I got to work on my friends car. His rear brakes need done so Ill be doing that then doing homework. That will probably take 4 hours out of my day. I'm also needing to go pick up my mountain bike from the shop. One of the bearings went bad, or so we think so it was getting replaced. Hopefully its fixed and I can go ride this weekend. After I pick up my bike tomorrow Im probably going to meet some classmates from my Business class to finish up a piece of our project that didn't go so good. SO hopefully we can fix it because the revision is due Thursday. Then after that, Ill probably go home and watch TV until its time for bed. Oh, wait, I have to come write another one of these Blogs...

Tired

I'm tired. Worn Out. Capuut. Done. I didn't sleep good at all last night then had to get up early for work. It was truck day, so all the worst customers show up and want our undivided attention while we haven't o put up over a thousand new parts. It gets old. Then my knee started hurting half way through with made things worse. Then the people that try to steal things come in and do there thing, thinking were not looking. Then I had to come sit outside the library to write this. I'm like most people in class. I'm finally starting to loose the oomph to do this blog. Nightly is too much. They say online classes are to allow you to do the work in your own time. I don't know how that's the case when I am making time for assignments. The world revolves around it. I wont ever take another online class. Its exhausting. So I'm cutting it short tonight.

Editing My Essay

I started editing my essay today. My group had some good constructive criticism about it. I tried to implement it as best I could. I went through it and tried to cut the fat like I learned in out Writers Workshop. This allowed me to expound on the ideas my group came up with while staying under the 4 page barrier. I think I did OK. I'll try to get the writing center to look at it before its due. To those that are in my group:

Irene: I wanted to expand on the backgrounds of the men who helped me, but didn't want to say too much. They have the right to privacy just like everyone else, no matter what some people may think. I tried to give details on Bull and a few other that I was very close to. I hope it shows that people can overcome anything if they truly want to. I also tried to reword my first paragraph to make it BOOM more.

Destiny: Expanding on my family was also something I had to cut. Before I knew it I had over a page and a half of nothing but my family. I ended up cutting a lot of it before I submitted my rough draft. I tried to put in some details about my family, specifically my Grannie who thought me the most about the morals I now follow. I tried to reword the sentences you commented on, about learning things I shouldn't and how it made me believe certain things. That was a sloppy paragraph and I think most of it needed deleted. I also tried to clear up and edit my first paragraph and make my thesis clearer.

Christina: I reworded my first sentence, hopefully making it a stronger, clearer thesis. I also found the misspellings and grammar errors and tried to correct any others that I saw.

Thank you all for your words of encouragement and help with this Essay. Hopefully it meets your standards. I'm going to re-post it and let you guys read it and re-comment on it if you like. I'll also email you this so you're sure to see it. :-)