Overwhelmed.

Hello all, I hope you had a good relaxing weekend.  I did for the most part, but it was too short like usual.  With thanksgiving break this week I am getting very ansy to just be done until next Monday.  I am incredibly jealous of the many people who are already home for break or are going home Monday or Tuesday. I am ready to be home, sleep in my bed, be with my family and dogs and see my friends! This is the first time that hopefully all my friends will be together again. There has been some drama since summer but I am hoping we all get past it and are able to have fun together like we used to, I really need it! Although I have made great friends here, I miss my best friends that I have known forever. Thankfully I don't have exams in every class or papers or lots of work to do but I still have to go to them which blows. English was my only class cancelled which actually was very nice because then I can be done for the night on Tuesday and just relax-hopefully.  I hope you all have a happy thanksgiving!

Genre: Scrapbooks!

Hello Bloggies, hope you all had a good week. This week's classes were extremely helpful for me in project 3. Tuesday we discussed The Vampire Diaries and Twilight and the things those things both needed to be considered in the vampire movie/tv drama.  Then we looked at many comics and did the same things with those. This was helpful because this was exactly what we would be doing for our genres. Then on Thursday we did two of our journal entries for our specific genre which really helped out a lot.  Until this week I really wasn't sure on the specifics of this project.  Now that we have done examples of it and actually done it with our genre I know what we need and am not as nervous for it.

Life of a Waldo Library Employee

Hello all, I hope you had a good weekend or at least a better one than mine. I always write my Sunday/Monday blog while at work at the library, so I thought why not talk about my job here? I have only been working since the beginning of the school year, so I am still a rookie but I do know a lot already.  I work Monday and Tuesday, and work Sunday nights from 6 to midnight.  I work in the mornings on Tuesday and the afternoon on Monday and I definitely prefer my Sunday and Monday shifts more than my Tuesday's. I am in no way a morning person.  I also like my Sunday night shift because I get a lot of homework done, and don't have to do any of it over the weekend until I get to to work.  I also really like the night guy I work with Greg. He is very funny and always makes the shifts exciting. I also like the other people that work here. All of the librarians are very nice and extremely helpful. I work in central reference and a lot of people come asking us questions from research to how to print. Since I am new it is hard for me to answer some of these questions, but the librarians and other veteran student workers help me out a lot.  I am happy I decided to work here!

Unfamiliar Genres

Good Afternoon bloggers, it's finally Friday! We had a pretty good class yesterday. We went over our fairytales which I actually enjoyed writing.  I thought it would be really difficult but it was fun. We also went over some more unfamiliar genres. I liked watching the vampire movies because who doesn't like watching movies and I, unlike some people, actually like Twilight and I found I may like The Vampire Diaries. I was nervous for our unfamiliar dramas assignment until I saw the list of genres there was. I didn't know a lot of them, but I chose scrapbooking because that is one I don't know a lot about that I know I will like to do. Although I am not very crafty, I can still do well and have fun with it.  The time I have to do it is making me a bit nervous, but once I get my criteria for it I will start it and hopefully it won't take long.

Weekend Fun

Hola bloggers! I am very happy and very upset because I had a great weekend, and it's already over! I was able to go to Olivet College to see my best friend who I haven't seen for at least a month. I know everyone has been away from their friends and family for a long time but it seriously has felt like forever since I've seen her! Olivet is about 20 minutes past Battle Creek so it really isn't that far. I went up there around 6 on Friday night and stayed til 3 on Sunday, so it was a nice long weekend! It was really nice to get away and just hang out with her all weekend. I'm just mad it's already over! But that always seems to be how it works, the things you want to last longer always end quickly! Oh well, back to the daily life of a college student. Hopefully I'll get to see her again soon!

Peer Reviews

Hello bloggers, Thursday in class we all had to have our papers ready for peer review.  We spent the whole class in groups reading and peer reviewing each others papers.  I actually really like peer review, because it really helps to improve my paper. It is good for me to hear my paper out loud being read by someone else, and to hear other people's papers to see what they did well on and not so well on. This really helps my paper too to see if I did some of the same things. I also do value my other classmates opinion and it helps to make my paper much better. This analysis however is going to be rough, once again I feel like I can do it but the required length of the paper is what makes me nervous. Hopefully I'll get in the mood to write and just grind it out, we'll see!