1. Happiness is found in small things, the everyday things. Happiness is when your favorite football team wins, happiness is getting something in the mail you actually want to read, happiness is a joke that you found really funny. Happiness is in everything, you just have to have the right attitude to enjoy it.
2. I'd have to say the Falcons are one of my greatest sources of happiness, the Chicago Bulls too. Even in a down season (for both thus far... :( ) I still love watching them play and maybe love it even more when they win because of the circumstances. But I think happiness for me specifically involves making a good joke with one of my impressions, or just making people laugh in general. That, aside from my passion for sports. Some things that make me happy that don't make other people happy are the NFL Draft and making Mock Drafts, or predictions of how you think the draft will unfold. I love doing this as much as anything I have ever done, and I don't think it is common in the High School to like that so much, haha. Those are my original things, but I love just hanging out with friends playing video games, eating pizza. It is so much fun, especially since I don't see a lot of my friends in classes I have this year.
3. Well, the Falcons and Bulls players influence my happiness. But my friends all influence my happiness by laughing at my jokes or saying hello to me in the halls, or just talking to me and asking me where I've been (like when I was sick). My Mom can influence my happiness also, and so can my dog, Ben. When I'm waking up in the morning Ben will come in wagging his tail (and he wags it so hard and his tail is so big that he knocks things off my desk and bedside table) and he will jump up on my bed and lick me on the face, making sure I wake up.
4. I impact Sarah and Tyler's happiness every day during third hour, and I help make all of my friends happier by making jokes and being funny. I can cheer my family up (not just my Mom, Dad and sister, my whole family) with my Bush impression and jokes that go along with it. I think my humor makes a lot of people happy. I think everyone has that opportunity though, just being nice or talking to someone you don't usually talk to can make their day. Telling a joke or sitting next to them, it can be the difference between a boring and normal day and a fun day they might actually tell their parents about.
5. My greatest need is to continue to foster my passion for the NFL and NBA through mock drafts or watching the games. I have a dream to work in the NFL one day, maybe as the General Manager of a franchise, and if I continue to work and feed that passion I certainly think I can achieve that goal, as lofty as it is. That is my need, it is a strange need, but after reading my other blogs what else could you possibly expect?
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
1st Quarter Writeup
1. I really enjoyed the poetry unit. I was a little bit surprised by this, because I thought that I would enjoy the short story unit much more than the poetry unit. However, the poetry was definately fun, and I really enjoyed putting together poems for the poetry packet. It was fun being able to rhyme and think of creative ways to say things, but in less words than in a story or essay. It is more challenging but at times much more fun.
2. I think my strongest piece of writing was the poetry packet. My short stories were pretty good, but I would have aced my poetry packet had I not forgotten the rubric. My poems were about a bunch of things. One was a parody of the song "Because I Got High" that I re-wrote to make fun of Mike Vick for testing positive for marijuana just months before he would be sentanced. Another one was about me missing my dog, Heidi, that was the one I read at the DeCafe. There were a wide range of topics, but they were all so much fun to write and read.
3. I can pretty much write whenever I want to. I am very creative so I don't need a lot of preparation or pre-writing brainstorming to begin writing. The second I think of an idea I just start writing, and the ideas just flow out of me, and I write them down as I go. For that reason, I don't really like structure or direction. Because sometimes I have a really random idea that I'd like to pursue, but if the idea falls outside of what is required, then my idea will go to waste. After I start coming up with ideas it can be hard for me to just start over, because I will still want to pursue the other ones. That is when I can run into writers block.
4. Well, I am already pursuing an interest in movie making. As my friend, Ryan, has written in his Art of Film blog, Ryan and I have begun filming for a movie we like to call "The Michael Vick Musical", and will be continuing work on it this weekend. So, naturally I am interested in movie making and script writing, because I am already doing it and have already done a large amount of it. Aside from that, I also love writing non-fiction write-ups about the Falcons. Like making Mock Drafts for what I think they should do or what I would like to see them do with their selections in the NFL Draft. I have really enjoyed our 1st quarter, but aside from those 2 topics there is nothing that I am dying to pursue an interest in.
2. I think my strongest piece of writing was the poetry packet. My short stories were pretty good, but I would have aced my poetry packet had I not forgotten the rubric. My poems were about a bunch of things. One was a parody of the song "Because I Got High" that I re-wrote to make fun of Mike Vick for testing positive for marijuana just months before he would be sentanced. Another one was about me missing my dog, Heidi, that was the one I read at the DeCafe. There were a wide range of topics, but they were all so much fun to write and read.
3. I can pretty much write whenever I want to. I am very creative so I don't need a lot of preparation or pre-writing brainstorming to begin writing. The second I think of an idea I just start writing, and the ideas just flow out of me, and I write them down as I go. For that reason, I don't really like structure or direction. Because sometimes I have a really random idea that I'd like to pursue, but if the idea falls outside of what is required, then my idea will go to waste. After I start coming up with ideas it can be hard for me to just start over, because I will still want to pursue the other ones. That is when I can run into writers block.
4. Well, I am already pursuing an interest in movie making. As my friend, Ryan, has written in his Art of Film blog, Ryan and I have begun filming for a movie we like to call "The Michael Vick Musical", and will be continuing work on it this weekend. So, naturally I am interested in movie making and script writing, because I am already doing it and have already done a large amount of it. Aside from that, I also love writing non-fiction write-ups about the Falcons. Like making Mock Drafts for what I think they should do or what I would like to see them do with their selections in the NFL Draft. I have really enjoyed our 1st quarter, but aside from those 2 topics there is nothing that I am dying to pursue an interest in.
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