Sloppy All The Way

In Suzanne Britt's essay she describes sloppy people being better as neat people. I always thought of neat people as being better because most people are raised thinking that the word "sloppy" was more of an insult or a not so great characteristic than a compliment. After reading Britt's view on the two though I realized that maybe sloppy is better. I've always loved collecting little trinkets or things passed down to me. It seems like I'm on the brink of being a hoarder but at the same time I can't stand trash or a cluttered house. It's actually really frustrating living with my mom right now because she's not much of a keep-everything-clean-at all times kind of person. Sure, there might be a pile of dirty laundry, but that's okay because it's better to clean them all at once than to clean each individual outfit right after you wear it. I guess it's just a matter of how you organize your messes that makes you a good or bad sloppy person. Neat people on the other hand are people that I couldn't imagine being. As Britt put it neat people will throw anything and everything away that isn't of use at that very moment or in the future. I definitely wouldn't be able to throw away such things as letters or birthday cards that were from someone I cared about. Since this is getting a bit long and it's time to leave (9:15 to be exact) I will point out the fact that my title kind of sounds like an "all the way burger or hotdog". Sloppy all the way... haha.

Homosexuality: No Problems Here

Same sex marriage has always been a very touchy subject for many years. Luckily, people nowadays are becoming more open to the idea. Personally, I can't stand the people that still hate and discriminate homosexuals. I was raised to not care what a person's sexual preference, skin color, or gender was. As long as they showed me respect I had no reason to hate them. The arguments that anti-gay marriage people express are completely irrelevant too! Procreation is not the main reason people marry. People marry because they love each other. They want to live their life with the one person that makes them the happiest, not because they want to breed more lives onto this earth. Katha also points out that marriage isn't shared with your average straight couples but a diversified collection of people. She says that "Virtually any man and woman can marry, no matter how ill assorted or little acquainted" they are. It seems anyone can get married as long as they're opposite genders. Society needs to come to their senses and realize all of this is a pretty ridiculous argument. Anyone should be able to marry anyone.

Writer's Voice

The writer for any Wikipedia article, whether it's over a hilarious movie or a super serious disease, has to have some kind of authority to their "voice". In order to show that the writer knows what they are talking about they must write in a more academic manner. It helps the readers have a sense of trust that what the writer has written is true and factual. Readers will most likely find it very unnerving if someone writes a Wikipedia article as if they were texting their homies. As long as the writer maintains a professional and explanatory, or informative, tone the reader should have no problem understanding the article. Unless the writer actually doesn't know what they are writing about...then not so much.

Language Interpretation

For my Wikipedia topic I chose language interpretation. I specifically chose the sections of the article that explained Escort and On-site interpretation because the two related the most to my chosen profession and seemed to need a little more work. Even though I'm not a hundred percent sure that the specific career that I want will be given to me in the military, I still focus my learning around face-to-face translation. The main reason I'd like to interact with the people that I am interpreting for is because you learn so many different things about another person's culture or background. Talking in a foreign language is also really cool. Just imagine being sent to another country full of uniquely different people to translate while you get paid for it. I actually can't wait to accept any opportunity to travel that pops up. Hopefully doing more research and editing this Wikipedia article will teach me a lot of other things about language interpretation that I can use in the future.

Wikipedia Readers

I was a bit confused as to exactly what "handling a reader in Wikipedia" meant, so I'm just going to throw things out there. I was thinking somewhere along the lines of capturing the readers attention and properly defining the information on a particular topic. Maybe making the text interesting by adding facts that people wouldn't normally see unless they looked deep into the subject? I've never really read a Wikipedia article all the way through myself because the ones I have read only had the most basic information that someone would have already known. On the other hand, as Professor Hamon likes to emphasize, "Authority" is the best way to get to readers because it shows them that you actually know what you're talking about.

Anime Weekend Atlanta

Have any of you guys heard of the Anime Weekend in Atlanta (AWA)? If you have and are interested please see me after class to become my new friend. It's actually harder than some people think to find another person that likes the same kinds of anime and nerdy stuff as yourself. I'm not that much of a geek, but I do enjoy immersing myself in all things nerdy. Anyway, the AWA is a huge anime convention in Atlanta, Georgia only on a certain weekend in September. I'm actually going with my brother (unfortunately) and some friends, and we're even cosplaying. If you don't know what that is it's basically like Halloween where you dress up as your favorite character. Just because anime is in the name though don't think that that's what you're limited to. There are a lot of people that actually cosplay as video game characters too. I've seen some really cool Assassin's Creed and Borderlands cosplays and really wish to be that good.

 The female ones are my favorite because you never expect such awesome costumes from a game with a male main character.

They also have really cool events like a ball and rave party. Plus, there's all the awesome booths that sell pretty interesting stuff, just don't buy manga books there because they are way more expensive than at a book store. Overall, I love being able to interact with other people like me outside of the internet and participate in such cool activities. It's especially amazing when you cosplay as a group!

P.S. this is who I am cosplaying as.

Peer Evaluation

For our Doc1 Assignment we had to evaluate, or comment, on another group's paper while a different group looked over ours. It was a bit scary at the beginning, but I started to realize exactly how helpful the whole experience was going to be. I'm usually not used to people commenting on my academic papers because I'm always the go-to person at my high school for anything grammatical or literature related. This time people were critiquing my work, but it was really helpful. It showed me the places, or things, that I needed to work on so that I could further my understanding of writing.

Wikipedia Topic

Finding a Wiki topic to edit on Wikipedia wasn't as hard to find as I originally thought it would be because I already have a specific profession that I would love to do. It only took a few minutes for me to find "Language Interpretation". I chose this topic because I've been wanting to learn all kinds of languages, along with their cultures, out of pure passion for all things foreign. I especially can't wait to become fluent in German, which is one of my favorite languages in the world. I'm still kind of nervous to edit something on Wikipedia, but hopefully it won't be as bad as I'm thinking it will be.

Marching Band Life

Since I am terrible at thinking of topics to post about I'm just going to gloat about how proud I am of our High School's football team but sorely disappointed in the Marching Band. I'm actually a clarinet player in our band, but I've very abruptly come to the realization that we have gone down hill pretty quickly. Since our band director allowed 7th graders to join marching band we now have a lot of newbies to train, but some of them are untrainable. At our first home game she also insisted that we march while playing, which we hadn't done yet on the field except for practice, so naturally it was a disaster. Luckily, the football team's major win distracted everyone from our epic fail. I'm actually very proud of our 35-0 win from Crawford County High School, a school that was known for its very long losing streak.

Writing to Learn

Through out my school life I've learned that writing isn't just something for communicating with people; it's also used for knowledge. People don't really realize how much writing can teach us. I've learned a lot of things through writing, including a different language. Thanks to The Little, Brown Handbook I've realized that my Spanish teacher's technique of having students re-write words over and over helps them really learn the language. Through writing I also learn different ways to further my own works of literature.

Doc1 Experience.

The Doc1 assignment that our groups of three or four had to create definitely taught me a few things about working together with a group, but it also helped me realize how much work has to be done within a certain amount of time. I have to honestly admit that I've never been the best person at dealing with projects, or really anything, that requires a deadline. I especially can't get school papers done that are over particularly hard to research topics in a short amount of time such as the one we had to do. I'm thankful for the professional online image topic though because it also taught me to be careful of what I publicly post online. It's given me a more mature outlook on social media and websites that display personal information, and I hope to use the advice my group and I found on the topic for my own experiences on the internet.

As Above, So Below

Okay, I couldn't help it, but I just watched what I think to be the best movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I just couldn't help but blog about this, so please bare with my over excitement. If you aren't familiar with the movie As Above, So Below, it's a horror film set in present day Paris, France in an underground tunnel system that is said to hold some kind of really historic relic from about seven hundred years earlier, and a group of people led by a couple obsessed with historical objects. Even though I didn't get to watch it from the very beginning I could still understand the primary plot which was great. I'm not really sure how to explain the awesomeness of the movie in words without completely spoiling, but you guys have got to just trust me and watch this. The whole idea behind it was just phenomenally creative and out of this world. I've actually never been this excited about a horror movie. I had the perfect way of expresses the movie's greatness, but completely had a brain fart when I started watching another movie (lol). I'm a sucker for movies. Well, thanks for reading, and go watch As Above, So Below!!!