Week 4 Blog 2 - Topic for Research Essay

I am dealing with horse back riding and wanting to ride more competitly than I have money for. I have spent alot of money to go to a show in St. Louis and just horseback riding in general. I am also looking for a new apt. for next year with a few girls. I just had heart surgery a year back and I am still recovering from that. I am getting upset with my sorority and the way that people are running the sorority. I am questioning my religion alot. I would also want to know what makes guys tick because they have be so wishy walshy sometimes. I also want to know what it take with horse back riding. I have no other research papers do in any other classes right now. My mom is dating right now, that effects my life. I wish my dad was more a part of my life. I wish I was closer to my little sister. My top priority and hobbie in my life is riding horses competitivly.


What am I dealing with?
Any big purchases?
Any health problems?
A policies or procedures I am upset with?
Any burning questions?
Any research papers due in other classes?
Any of family or friends ingaging in habits that effect my life?
Do I have any hobbies?

I really care about horses. Maybe about the bloodlines of jumping horses.

Week 4 Blog 1 - If Someone made a movie of my life

If there were a movie about my life I would hope thta Kate Hudson would star in it. I think she would be able to play my character well, which would be blonde, ditzy at times, alot of feelings and she goes through some hard times. I think she would be able to play all of my many different personalities. I do not know any directors so I do not know who would direct my movie.



There are many people in my life, the biggest one would have to be my mother. The best person to play my mother would have to be Moira Kelly. She plays Lucus Scott's mother on the TV serious "One Tree Hill" She plays a brave single mother and that is what my mom is, caring, beautiful and brave.

I would also need someone to play my best friend Lauren, which would probably be played by a young Teri Hatcher, One or the starts of "Desperate Housewives" She is beautiful and thoughtful, but also has a spirit about her.

Next would be my boyfried, Kyle would be kinda like a matt Damon with darker hair. But that same exiting spirit and mysteriousness about him.

I would have to say those would be the 3 most important people in my life. My book would be a rollor coster of ups and downs.







play other characters

do the musical scene

Week 3 Blog 4 - Free Write

I am in a sorority on campus and I love it. The girls that I have meet are wonderful.. Yes there is the occasional fight between girls.. but hey we are girls, and you cannot put 100 of us in a room without someone getting into a small fight. But I do love my sorority. I think that it is a good experience and it is easy to get involved in campus. When you arte having a hard day there are always girls there for you to help you through tthe day. I feel that I have learned alot to. I have been the Vice President of Fiance for the past year and I have now been re-elected for that position. I have alot of responsiblility in the sorority, and it is great to have that responsibility. I understand that sororities are not for all girls. That is alright because everyone is different. But they are for some people and I would invite anyone to take a look at the different sororities.

Week 3 Blog 3 - Free Write

I want to write about animals again. I love animals. I think that are wonderful. I have 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 2 horses. I would not trade any of my animals.. and if I could I would have more animals, but they are alot of work. I will never not have an animal. I heard that there is sometime about the outside of a horse that does something for the inside of a human. There are so many animals out ther ethat are neglected and I want to help more. someday I want to have a farm out west and fence off miles and miles worth of land and then rescue horses that I can just turn out into a big herd. I could then have more animals whhere they could run around outside all day long. As you can tell I am a huge animal lover. I do not understand people who do not like animals because they bring peace to me. I will forever love animals and will always be an animal person.

Week 3 Blog 2 - Free Write

So as I mentioned previously, I am not into alot of technology stuff. Of course I am good with a computer and I know how to work technologies today. But I am not someone who prefers them. Such as my phone runs out of battery alot, all my friends make fun of me for it. But I do not mind because the people who need to get ahold of me know where to reach me. I am also not one of those people that like to have a blackberry and receive me email. I do not like being available at all times. I like having my own space and checking my email when I want to check it. So even know I like technology, I do not like being available all the time and I do not mind living without it.

Week 3 Blog 1 - Free Write

Ok, you might laugh at this blog but I am going to talk about TV today. I do not understand why everything has to be so violent and drama on TV today. Don't get me wrong I love some of the shows like Grey's anatomy, Gossip Girls, and One Tree Hill, but I love old shows like The Andy Griffith Show or Disney Shows like Lizzie McGuire. Maybe I just want to know what it is like living in the "Good Old Days" like the I love Lucy Show (in which I have bought episodes). Now you turn on the TV and there is all of these reality Tv shows on and blood and guts movies. I do not understand, I want the world back where things were simple. I know I am old fashion and I know I am not the traditional "technology" kid growing up. My cell phone always runs out of battery and I do not seem to care. But that is getting into a new blog. All in all, I love the old black and white shows and the "make you feel good movies"

Week 2 Blog 4 - Free Write

There are three things that I will not stand fo rin a man that I want to be with.

The first is smoking. I will never dat e smoker. I realize that it is addicting and hard to quit and there are those people that only smoke "socially", but I will not stand for it in a guy I want to be with. If you want to do it that if fine I will not yell at you for smoking, but it is just not the person I want to be it hits to close to home. I have been hurt by a smoker before and I will not be hurt by someone else who gets hurt because they choose to smoke.

Second it not being a animal lover. I realize that some people do not like animals, and that is okay everyone is not the same, but I am a HUGE animal lover. I have 2 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 horses. I will always have animals for the rest of my life. So I have to be with a guy that shares my love for animals.

Third and last is that I have to be able to trust you. I realize this is a broad word but that is why I choose it. I think the fondation of a good realationship is all about trust. Trust that you are not cheating on my, trust that you really love me, trust that you are not going to hurt me, trust that you are not lying to me, trust that you will always be loyal. People do not realize how many different quality trust is a part of, almost every single good quality. Like being faithful, you are trusting your partner that they are going to stay faithful.

All in all these are the 3 main qualities I look for in a guy. If he does not have all of them that is okay! Everyone is different and it just means that it is just not the guy for me.

Kim

Week 2 Blog 3 - Free Write

During this blog I would like to talk about family.  I have a mom that is my family, she is the only intermediate family that I count on and that has been there for me all my life.  Her family has also been there for me all of my life and I would trust them for anything in the world.

I would like to talk about a different type of family though.  I would like to talk about a family that I call my own even though they are not blood related.  I have been riding horses with this family for over 5 years now.  They know my ups and downs and accepts me for who I am.  First there is the mom Christine, who I call mom she is energetic and the most caring person I know, not to mention that she feeds me constantly.  Then there is the dad, Randy, hopefully one day her will walk me down the isle because he has been a great father figure to be, letting me walk in at any time of the night or day and stay in his house.  They then have 3 wonderful kids.  Lauren who is now in her 2nd year away at college and I miss her every time I go to my barn to ride my horse wishing she was back home.  Jenny who is a jr in high school and is my little sister who rides with me all the time(who by the way in incredibly mature for her age) and Ryan who is in 7th grade and until only about 6 months ago would barely talk to anyone in the house.

I know this family almost as well as they know me.  I am always over at their house multiple times during the week and go on trips with them a lot.  Now I am not down playing my own mother because she of course is the single most best thing in my life.  But I have realized that there are people out there who care about you if you look in the right places.  My second family has been a blessing on my life and I thank God every single day of my life.  I cannot wait to share good and bad experiences with them for the rest of my life.

Week 2 Blog 2 - Changes in paper

My group told me that my paper was good and that it was a good topic and writen well. Some of the things that I think I need to work on are my transitions and maybe defining my topic sentences better. Over all with some editing I think it will be a great paper.

Week 2 Blog 1 - Experience of Research Papers

I have written two research paper in my life and that was in high school. Research paper's are extremely hard to write, but I semi-enjoy doing the research on them. Sometimes I get so caught up in the research actual research that i do not leave myself with enough time to write the actual paper. I really do not like writing the paper at all and talking about what I found and puttin git in a certain format. I do love the research again though. Lots of times I do reseach online for random subject, just to see. I do alot of research into the bible, because I question my religion alot. I also do alot of research on things like health and love to read other people's stories. I do not know why, but I feel that I learn alot from other people. My mom once said "smart people learn from others mistakes, normal people learn from their own mistakes, and stupid people never lear4n at all" I like that saying, I do not know if she was the first person to say it, probably not. But getting back to research papers, the thing about them is they are alot of work, and I would rather sit down and read a book instead of having to quote it and write a bibliographym, always scared that if you do something wrong in the bib. they can nail you for plagirism even if you did not mean to.

Week 1 Blog 4 - "Save the Economy"

This blog is a response to the article "Save the economy: bail out our kids" by Rick Dalton from the December 26th, 2008 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.

I was going to write my blog and then write the summary, but I decided that in order for me to write a non- bias summary, I should probably write the summary first and then talk about my feeling of the summary.  Plus now I feel better educated on the article after writing a summary on it.  I feel that my view has changed slightly after I wrote the summary.

Before I wrote my summary I understood the problem Rick Dalton was trying to educate me on, and I agree that something needs to be done to help our educational system.  I was upset because I wanted him to discuss more about some of the solutions to helping the education system.  When I wrote the summary I realized some little helpful things he suggest about how I can help the Educational system, but I still do with he would have talked about more some of the strategies the government could take for helping out with this ongoing crisis.

Some of the facts in his article were startling, like how much money it cost the community to have a dropout student.  It is amazing on how much of a difference one person can make.  We do not realize how much of an impact the choices we make are choices that effect the world and people around us.  Such as the choice to deal with the educational system.  Some people who are out of school would say it does not affect me because I no longer need to attend a university because I have already been there done that, but it does matter because the kids who are attending schools right now are going to be the future leaders of our country and they are going to be the leaders when the current leaders are old and need tons of money from medicare.

I know this article talks about the growing problems in the educational system, but it also makes you realize how connected our country is, and how we need to support each other in order to survive.

Week 1 Blog 3 - Free write

Now is not the time to be writing this blog because I am at work, but for some reason I am having trouble focusing today, and I thought maybe this would be the perfect time to share some of what I am thinking.

I love my work, I get excited to go and I have fun when I am there. I started at a student worker position, but then it turned into my intern over the summer. It is in the college of business and it is not your normal copy and file paper job. In this job I gather all the information and put together an annual report by myself, a senior resume booklet, a freshman Bio booklet, along with other misc. publications. I also plan events such as a welcome dinner for all the incoming freshman, a homecoming eve party for all of the alumni, a recruiting breakfast for high school students, and other events. I like that I have a lot of work, and I love working here.

Although, lately I have been disappointed with myself because I do not work as hard as I use to. Ever since my heart surgery I have not been able to focus here and I feel like I do not have the energy. Although I feel that I have energy in other parts of my life.

I realize this is a little on the personal side, but I am beginning to feel more comfortable writing down my feelings. I think it has helped, not putting as much on my workload lately, but I am still tired sometimes and I always have to watch myself and make sure I get a lot of sleep. I do not schedule classes before 12 and I do not work before 11 and that seems to really help me focus better since I am in a sensitive time during my life.

All in all, I am doing things to help myself recover from my heart surgery, but I feel that there are other activities where my motivation is lacking. I guess the key is to stay focused as much as I possible can, and that is all I can do.

Week 1 Blog 2 - free write

I have decided that the blogs in which we get to pick the topics that we write about, for me are going to be some of the topics or discussions that go through my head everyday.  Such as when you are walking to class alone and all you can do it think about your life or at night before you fall asleep and you lay in your bed wide awake thinking of the things in your life that you can usually escape thinking about any other time of the day.

Now I will still not yet share my personal self and some of my most personal thoughts to random people that read this blog, but I can share some of the random thought that do go through me head.

My thought today was inspired by, surprisingly, one of my classes that I sat through today.  This is an IT class and since it was "Syllabus day" as we call it, we discussed how technology is growing in this day and how it affects our world.

Now normally I am good at listening to lectures, but they do not go much further than the classroom, unless I am studying.  This particular lecture must have gotten my attention, because as I was walking back to the place where I live, away from class, I was thinking about how much technology is apart of my life.

I chose for it not to be as much a part of my life as most people though.  For instance, I refuse to get email on my cell phone, because there are those times when I just want a break from the would, when the world does not have to know where I am.  I check my email everyday and I am pretty prompt in answering email most of the time, but to get them every second of my life is to much for me.

I am the kind of person where I do not like to be available all the time.  I like to have time to myself and chose when I am in the mood to deal with life itself. 

That being said, I have no idea how my mom survived without a cell phone when she was my age.  I guess it is because she never knew what she was missing.  I feel so safe with mine though, like I can connect with anyone that I want to, and I also like that feeling.  I have been known for not charging my battery all the time, but that is okay with me, because if you know me well you know where you can reach me when my phone is turned off.  And if I need to get ahold of you I know your number by heart.

I guess what I am trying to say is that technology is alot of what you have grown up with and what you are use too.  I am use to having a cell phone with me everywhere, but my kids might be use to getting email every second of the day, a thing that I am not comfortable with.

Week 1 Blog 1 - Pet Peeve

During class, for 10 min we wrote about something that upset us or pissed us off.  What upsets me most is my dad, and what I did not realize is that when I came to write my blog and submit it online for others to read, it was a much to personal story for me to share.

I have been sitting and thinking about what else to write because we wrote multiple ideas down, some of those for me included people that can't drive, people that smoke, people that get "blackout drunk" repeatedly, but then I realized none of those are any good because they do not have passion behind them.

Then I realized that maybe the thing to write about was what I was struggling with in the first place, so here is goes...

I have always been a very open person and been able to talk about my struggles in life pretty openly.  I did not understand why other people were not as open as I was, everyone has struggles, and if anything, we learn from not only our own struggles but also other people's struggles.  You could say that it annoyed me when people were shy and would not be comfortable telling some of the life experience stories, or even not being secure enough the tell people a little about themselves.  Such as during class when we had the cards and some people did not know what to write, not because they don't know themselves, but because they do not want anyone else to know them.

 Now, I understand why some people are not comfortable talking about their life, because for one of the first times I was not comfortable talking about my own life.  Now maybe when someone is shy in talking about themselves I will understand more.

I always use to hate people that were quiet, and could never spit out a word in front of a group of people, or the people that will only give you one word answers because they are to shy to have a conversation with you.  I guess in some ways I will still be a little annoyed by the fact that they are so shy, but at least now I understand a little of how it feels to not want to reveal yourself to the world.  

It is hard to put your self out there, or let anyone into who you are, but I feel that is what makes us comfortable with ourselves, not being afraid to be us.  We all have problems and things that are scary and regrets in life, and we all have our dirty little secrets.  I understand not telling the world a personal story or a dirty little secret, but to not let the world know who you are, to not let your voice be heard is a crime to yourself as a human being, and also disrespectful to the person you have worked so hard to be.  So I guess what I am trying to say is be proud to be yourself, let others see the greatness you can be.