Well this is my last blog update.  The class seems to be going well and I don't have any complaints about anything.  I have definitely been forced to write more of my thoughts and try to let all of my restraints fall to the side and trudge through.

I still have an issue with final drafts.  I can't seem to get a handle on always wanting to cut and replace thoughts.  But as with life sometimes perfection is only in the eye of the beholder.  We strive to get there, but there is always going to be a flaw that someone points out, or one that we try to hide and hope it doesn't come to light.

I just hope that my flaws add to my charisma. 

Well the homework for this week is definitely going to be interesting.  I have read both stories in the past, but I have never studied dialogue.  The example in the book is a little help, in compare and contrast, but another would have been helpful.

To compare and contrast the two is going to be hard.  Both writers are a world apart in many aspects.  Especially in dialogue.  I have seen Poe's work recreated in a one person play, and it was very gripping to watch as a many claiming to be sane falls apart at the seams.


This is a paper that can't be written on a late night.  I have sat and read and then reread the stories trying to figure out a place to start.  The paper will have to wait until tomorrow to complete.  I have ideas running in all directions of my rough draft and it resembles the true definition of a chicken with it's head cut off.  Hopefully all will come together in the end.

Well this has been a week of fall break.  My family and I have spent a week in Orlando.  Every day has been a new and different adventure.  One day was spent at Gatorland just peeking in through fences at the "wild and dangerous."  Another day spent in a canoe on the Little Manatee River actually seeing gators in nature, no fence or obsructions to prevent danger.  I link these experiences to what could be my attitude toward this class.

I could choose the Gatorland experience and keep at a safe distance and just coast, never really learning anything and only experience what I'm told.  Or I could choose the up close and in your face experience that will stick with me as far as I want to take it.

I think I am choosing the full experience.  Why else would I pay so much for an education and not learn anything.  I want to remember what I learn and the hands on way is how I can pass on what I know.