Blogging

I think that blogging can be a valuable tool, but for me it becomes to mechanized. It takes away from actually writing with your hands. What ever happened to that? I mean i find myself attempting to write everyday in my journal that my significant other bought me for my birthday, because at leas then I am enjoying the art of writing. Yes, online journals and blogging can possibly accomplish this, but it takes away from the authors we followed as kids; they wrote with their hands, they felt the ache in their hands, and we today type away like no ones business lol..idk just a thought

I don't know

Today I am working on my papers, and I keep finding myself changing the direction of the papers. It pisses me off sometimes because I need to stay focused, and it is too late in the semester to begin changes like I have. I need my mind not to wonder at the moment, contradictory of my screen name, but nonetheless true. Anyone on the same boat or is it just me lol?

Organization

As i look back and reflect on this semester, i must admit, i wouldnt have gotten by without improving my organization skills. This semester i priorotized, i put school before work, and i dedicated day in and day out everything to school. I work about 70 hours a week, plus school, and i have a family, but organization has been key to my sanity. 

P.s. My little boy broke my laptop over the weekend :(

academic writing

So my paper will be discussing this concept of academic writing. After reading for Dr. Sullivan's class and writing my journal for that class, I brought up some interesting things i think.

"There is no such thing as simplifying power, because as I converge in academic writing, the vernacular community I belong to has no voice and there are conventions and rules that I must abide to. Social power governs all, and I can only enjoy one community membership at a time, and that is the truth. The label that I fall under is a simplification of who I am, but power can never be simplified without resistance; I am an outsider trying to fit one foot in. "

"In being critical, it is ironic how members who have become part of the dominant culture within academics propose diversity within academic writing, while the subordinate culture within academics enforces upholding normative styles of writing. It is known scholars such as Zamel, who teaches in a predominately Anglo community that can perhaps envision the merging of separate communities within academic writing. However, I contest that there is nothing preventing one from moving freely between vernacular communities and academic discourses, because minoroities are still marginalized, status and power still exist, and stereotypes exert dominance."

"My two conflicting identities that I rarely attempt to infuse within academic writing goes against the robotic and political norms of how to write and what to write about, and to avoid discrimination or being labeled as a “minority” or multilingual writer, I situate and play the language game within the dominant community. I have been taught that if I practice the language and writings of the educational community, that perhaps I would fit in within the conventions of that circle. Is there such a thing as the allusion of maintaining membership, value, and ideologies within multiple communities? Has identity really become decentered? "

Editing

So I am working on our end of the year assignment for this class, and it is much more difficult and emotional that i really thought it would be. no, not the kind of emotional that deals with crying, well perhaps just a little lol, but it is very difficult to actually reflect and write about yourself don't you think? it is also very cool though, this experience of actually thinking about yourself in depth, and being able to reflect both on paper and through experiences this reality that we live through education.

Spring Break

Spring break, man if only it was really a break, instead it was more of playing catch up than anything else. Although beneficial, I guess this notion of spring break, in accordance to undergraduate terminology, fades away from out terminology use as we become graduates. However, i did have some pretty cool nights with friends which was enlightening and refreshing.

Back to work guys!

Progress

So today, during my run, I was thinking about progress, i.e. how far I have come, how I feel about my direction, where do I want to go now, how happy I feel, and just reflecting on everything that embodies me living. However, I think of this illusion of progress that we all seem to be caught up in. I mean yes, we may earn more money and we may have the ability to do better things, but at times progress can be an illusion.