Two Weeks

Hey guys!!! So this is my last required blog for my English class, I have not decided if I am going to continue it or not…we will see. For this blog I am just going to talk about my crazy weekend and the week ahead. As most of you know exams are coming up and that means we all have tons of papers to write, but I didn’t stay home to work on it. On Friday I drove up to my dad’s house in Richmond for my Uncle Vinny’s graduation from the police academy and a friend’s wedding to see everyone from high school. I drove up right after class on Friday, which put me there right around dinner time. I like going to my dad’s because it puts me close to my high school friends, but I hate having to find parking on the street downtown. Anyways…back to the weekend.

Saturday morning we had to wake up early so that we could all be ready in time for Vinny’s graduation, which went well. We ate so much food that I could not move, I guess that is what you get with an Italian family. Then I had to go to the wedding. It went ok, I was glad that my best friends from high school were there. After waiting around for the bridal party to take pictures for over two hours they all came out. Not long after that we, meaning my friends and I, bailed. We went back to my best friend Jeremy’s house to change into more comfortable clothes. Then we all loaded into cars so that we could go meet more of our friends and hangout. We all talked for around an hour in the cold, but then I had to leave because I needed to say goodbye to my family and drive the hour back to Richmond. Needless to say I made it back and then drove back to Wilmington on Sunday.

Although this weekend went well, the week that we are starting is crunch time. I have got to finish all of my papers, which are not going so well, and get ready for all my exams which are all the first week of finals. On top of that I am driving to my mom’s house outside Winston Tuesday night for Thanksgiving Break. Once I get there I need to get work done, but don’t know how easy that will be with over ten people staying at my house. Wednesday morning I need to take my car to the shop in hopes of getting it fixed and the oil changed. I guess my days are planned out and my nights will have to be for school work. I think if I can make it through the next two weeks alive and finish my school work, with decent grades, I think that I can make through almost anything.

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The advertisement that I have chosen is a Covergirl ad featuring Drew Barrymore. The ad is full of color with pink writing which will catch girls’ eyes, who are Covergirl’s directed audience. The bold letters draw you to the brand name which is what the company wanted. Once they place Drew Barrymore in the ad, along with her name, they place credibility within their product. Some teen girls and even some adults look up to Drew Barrymore. So, if they want to be more like her, they will buy the product that she “wears.” At the bottom of the advertisement it also explains about their mascara and what colors it comes in. In addition, it tells you where you can find this product on their website. At the bottom of their page it has the tag line “Easy breezy beautiful COVERGIRL.” This is for people to recall their product’s brand name, with a catchy phrase, in hopes of having them buying it.

Facebook

Because I have nothing better to talk about, I am going to discuss Facebook. Although most people use Facebook for keeping up with old friends, most who you probably hated in high school anyways, it can be used for more than that. A recent article claims that a New York teenager was set to go to jail for a string of armed robberies, but to their surprise he was saved by nothing more than a Facebook status update. I guess I never thought Facebook could be used for something more than teenage nonsense. Thanks to Facebook a teenager dodged twenty-five years in prison. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that Facebook also has its downfalls. For example, other articles say that there are thousands of sex offenders on it because they were kicked off of MySpace. Facebook has no real process to creating an account; as long as you have an active e-mail address your welcome to join. In Facebook’s defense, it does have security options available, but you need to go in and set them. Now, as to how reliable some of these sources are, I have no answer. As many of us know, anyone can post anything on the internet, just like I am now. I guess the point to this whole mess is that we never know when we will be accused of something that we honestly did not do, but sometimes the thing that proves our innocence is found in our everyday things, like posting on our Facebook page.

Papers 4 Sale

So this whole blogging thing seems to have gotten away from not just me, but a lot of people. I wish I had some exciting story to tell, but sadly I have nothing. The past week and I know my future weeks will be filled with school work. We are a few short weeks away from the end of fall semester, which means that my life is filled with essays that I don’t want to write, nor do I think teachers really want to read. I want to know how teachers determine the page length of their assignment. For example, our English paper has no real limit and neither does my online final, all you need is enough to cover your topic. However, my Jurisprudence paper assignment is supposed to be ten pages. My problem with length of papers is that I just want to get to the point and be done; I hate beating around the bush and having to add fluff to a topic in order to make a page length requirement. All this does is leave me wasting time making crap up and teachers wasting their time reading it, if they really do. I am convinced that some teachers don’t even really read their papers; they just skim to make sure it “looks good.” To back this theory I have had a friend who was assigned a ten to twenty page paper, on the eighth page she started to ask questions like “are you really reading this” and “this paper sucks,” I would like to note that she still got a B with this added crap. I, however, never have the guts to add things like this. So for the next few weeks when I am not busy with homework, in class, or running around like a chicken with its head cut off, I will be sitting in my room or in the library trying to finish these papers that I don’t even like the topics of. This includes the last English paper (which will include a presentation), a ten page paper on the legal philosophy behind criminal justice, an analysis paper of another paper for Logic, and an essay style final (which at mid-terms ended with twelve pages for five questions) for my online Jurisprudence class. As much as I like being in school, the papers kill me. Oh well I always just tell myself that soon it will be over and I will be writing papers or something like a paper for future employers. Too bad my life cannot consist of either just classes and tests or writing papers, because both just seem like too much at this point. Well I guess with all that said I need to get some dinner, figure out a game plan for all this work, and find time for the gym. Welcome to my life…it sucks sometimes!

Nothing Special

OK, so I am kind of falling behind on this whole blog thing so I am trying to get back into the swing of it. Sadly nothing overly exciting has happened lately, just the usual life spinning out of control. This coming week is super crazy with four meetings and registration for classes. I have two papers I need to start working on; my English one which I might change the topic of half way through (as usual) and my ten page paper for Legal Philosophy. I just don’t really know where to start on either of them nor do I want to start on them. I also have a test this week in Logic, which I am also not looking forward to. My friend Ben always tells me he wishes he gave college a chance cause it is so much easier than the Marines, but I don’t think he understands that college is not always fun. You pay people a lot of money to give you assignments and homework. Granted, you can choose not to do them but then you fail and paid all that money for nothing. It is times like this that force me to remind myself that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Now on to something other than school…my life outside of school, what little there is. I was sitting in my living room this morning wondering why in the world there are so many plants in this apartment; I mean does the third roommate think this is her personal green house. There are so many of them, most of which are overgrown, that I feel as if I am in the kid movie Jumanji. While I was sitting in the thick forest that is my living room my sister called. It was no big deal till she sprung news on me that I had yet to hear! I guess my dad has been going to the doctor and they say he is borderline diabetic, so I am not sure how to handle it. I mean I know his dad has diabetes, but everyone always told me he got it from the gases and stuff while away at war. My dad, although retired Navy, never went into an active war zone. I mean don’t get me wrong, I know that people can live with diabetes it is just sad you know. On a bit happier note, I went to a Halloween party this weekend that was a lot of fun. We played some odd games like bagel on a string, so hard to eat a dry bagel.

Well I guess I better figure out what is for dinner. This time change has thrown my whole schedule off balance. Well hope everyone had a good Halloween and is ready to hit the ground running come tomorrow morning.