My Margin Thoughts.

From "Performing Writing, Performing Literacy", I took the sentences I underlined and the notes I made about them and put them here.

"To be human, we are reminded, is to speak and write and perform through multiple systems of signification. "
       We need to remember this avenue when it comes to expressing ourselves.
        How we as humans release thoughts.

"I tend to use non-academic writing as a type of therapy"
        It's the best kind there is.
        Nothing helps you work through something more than writing it all out.

"Not as much bullshit."
       It's so true. If there were no such things as paper length requirements, I'd have a much easier time just getting straight to my point sometimes.

"The in-class writing is restricted to topics that are often not things that I am passionate about while I can always choose to write on my own about exactly what fuels my passions."
        I struggle with this too. I need to start taking class that explore my passion.
        Finding out who you are...

I'm willing to break rules more often in order to get a specific effect I desire."
        This hardly ever happens with academic writing, because you're writing to meet an instructors desire. We write to please others, and I find that crippling sometimes.

"Where does a voice come from?"
        That is a damn good question.

"I've always considered myself more a performer than a writer."
     I've always considered myself more a writer than a performer.

Some of these might not make much sense. Some times my margin notes hardly make any sense to me.
And some may not have stuck out to you. But I guess you could say these are raw thoughts, just put here for everyone to see. These are really the only thoughts I had while reading this.

Do what you love.

As I'm working on the assignment that is due tomorrow, I have rediscovered why I love this topic. I chose a project that was not originally discussed on my project proposal but I'm sure I'm not alone on that one. 

But I chose to do a lesson plan. A really extensive lesson plan for both high school and college level sex education. 

It's very in depth and very informative and as I'm knee deep in statistics and empowering words I've remembered why I do what I do.

Not that I've forgotten, I just haven't gotten the chance recently to become fully emerged in something like this. 

I hoping what I chose and what I complete reflects my passion for this topic and I hope to maybe use this one day. 

The idea of me being able to help people in creating and maintaining a healthy life style in terms of their sexual health is really rewarding.

I want to help people in making their own decisions and I want to empower people. I want them to take control of what is theirs and I want them to be fully confident and educated in the choices they make. 

Everyone deserves at least that much.

Okay I'm done. 

I still have a long way to go on this assignment, so I'm probably getting no sleep tonight.

P.s. Caroline if you read this, I'll be making comments for this week and last week tomorrow. I'm not slacking, I've just be short on time.

Just throwin that out there.

Irrational.

I'm the type of person that once a bad grade is received I shut down. I am not a comeback kid. Mostly in academic stuff, but once I have messed up I tend to just shut down and move on. It's not the best quality to have and it sure does make for a hard time being a student.
After the article analysis, which I'll admit I had trouble with, I find myself shutting down. And I can sense it now as I write the rest of my annotated bibliography. I find myself second guessing everything and only believing that I'm going to receive a bad grade on it. Because I tend to believe that it's all down hill from here. I want nothing more than to just shut down and stop writing, but I cannot afford to do that. So I'm going to continue battling myself through this and hope for the best. Even though I'm discouraged by my work.
Does anyone else ever feel like this?
Or am I being irrational?

Because Cats.

My blog is lacking. This was the thought I had once I finished writing my last post. It's lacking in something that catches the eye.
So because I'm in love, and I'm that girl, I'm going show you a picture of my cat. Because well, why the hell not?

A post a little less academic, and maybe a post that will make you chuckle.

I have no shame. More academic stuff to come.

Slacker.

I've been doing a lot of writing in my personal journal, so I have been kind of neglecting my online one. I don't really have much to say about my topic, just that it's going and it's coming along as best as it can come along.

One thing is though, the reason behind the title of this post. I missed class on Wednesday. I had a work meeting. We meet every 1st Wednesday of the month at 730 am to kind of do a check in and see how everyone is doing and do a little bit of housekeeping.
So if anyone would be willing to share with me what we went over and what some of the topic of discussion were it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!
Hope all of your classes are good, and your topics are proving interesting.
Happy Midterms.