Job Shadowing

I had a really good time when I went job shadowing. It took me a long time to get there because it was all the way out by Lincoln Land kind of, off Toronto Road and way back in the back of this little place called Industrial Park. I went to Canham Graphics, and at first I thought it was going to be really boring because when they showed me around and I just thought all they did was made signs and put stuff on cars. But it was actually really cool when we got into it. They started of with showing me all of the machines that they use and a quick demonstration of how to use them. When they showed me the machines, I thought that was all they were going to do all day and that I was not going to like it, but that is not really what it was like at all. Until around 11 or 11:30, Doug (the guy I was shadowing) and Justin (another worker there) were putting a giant picture on a Chiles Team truck, and it was pretty cool. They used this like, colored vinyl that was adhesive on the back side, and had this just huge picture of the Chiles team. After they were done with that, they said we were going to order lunch. They even paid for mine. We got it from somewhere called Chaditos, or they call it, Little Chads. It was pretty good. After lunch they were pretty busy making more signs, so that was kind of boring because I could not really do anything but watch. It was interesting to watch, but not hands on or anything. At one point, they asked me if I wanted some leftover vinyl to take home. I wasn't really sure what I could do with it, and they said I could just put in on stuff and use and exacto knife to cut out stuff. So I took this really pretty aqua marine color, it was kind of metallic-y, and covered the backside of my phone with it. Then I took a some white and cut out a swirly design and put it on the back so the blue would come through. I like it, I think it looks really cool. They also gave me a bunch of other pieces of vinyl in different colors to take home. Towards the end of the day, Doug was working on a drag car for Tim Wilkerson, who I guess is a really big deal around here, he races drag cars and is basically in the dragcar version of Nascar. So he was working on the decals for that car and detailing some flames on the side with piping in a teal color...then he asked if I wanted to help pipe. I said yes, and he walked out of the room. I really didn't want to mess up since this car was kind of a big deal, but I didn't. i finished the piping on both sides and it looked really cool. Then day ended around 4:30, and overall I had a really good time.

47. American Literature Project

Well, so far I have mixed feelings on this American Literature Project. There are some aspects that I do like about it, and some aspects that I do not like very much. It may seem kind of confusing, but what I do like branches from what I do not like, so stay with me as best as you can. So I should probably start off with what I do not like to avoid unnecessary confusion. It is not the fact that we are working in groups that I do not like, I think it is just the fact that we do not have much guidence on the specifics. I mean, I know we have opportunities to ask Mr. Langely about anything we need help with, but I think that we kind of just got thrown into this project without much structure to it. It's pretty much willy nilly whatever we want to do with it. It could have also been helpful if we had had some kind of background on Emily Dickinson first. I just think maybe we could have learned about her (in generalities) beforehand so that the project made more sense. On the other hand, and it may sound contradictory, but that could just be because I am not sure how to completely express my feelings either way and they are kind of back and forth, but I do like that we get to pick our means of relaying the information. We get to choose the way we present the information, and I like that for the most part. I just wish that maybe there could have been a list of like 5 to 10 different predetermined ways to do it, instead of just letting us choose. So, I don't know if this makes any sense to you (whoever is reading this) but it makes sense to me. There are some parts I like, and some parts I don't, and they kind of go off of each other, but I guess I will have to wait until the project is completely over before I can say for sure what I did and didn't like.

46. Favorite Car

Well I do not think I have a favorite car?...I do not really have a preference when it comes to cars at all. As long as it gets me where I need to go, it works for me. I have a Chrylser Concorde. It is definately not the coolest car ever, nor is it the best, but I don't care. It is kind of cute looking and it gets me places. Um, well I mean I have always liked convertables. My aunt used to have a mustang convertable and I always really like it. The only thing I did not like about it was the fact that when we had the top down, my hair would blow around everywhere and I could not see anything, so the whole idea of having the top down to see everything and enjoy the outside and weather was kind of obliterated when my hair was in my face the entire time. Also, I would always get really really cold, no matter how hot it was outside. So, I guess a convertable may not be my favorite car per say, but I like them. I used to think that I like Porsches, but I think I just liked them because I knew they were expensive. So when it comes to cars, I do not really have a specific type of car, or brand of car, but I know what I like when it comes to what they look like. I like them to be roundish, not square. For colors, my favorites are light silver or dark greyish silver. After that I like black and that kind of light gold/champagne color. Other than that I do not really like any other colors. I like little cars, like sporty cars or little ones, but not like big trucks or vans or anything like that. I kind of like the car I have now, it pretty much fits my criteria, but I wish it was a shade of silver or grey, not the light gold it is now.

45. Working with Google sites

Well up until the end of last week I had never used or even heard of google sites. Then in less than one week I encountered it in two different classes, English and American History. In American History each student has their own different site and in this class we have one site for each set of partners. In history, Ms. Radliff made each of our google sites and we just edited them and put in the information that we wanted in it. It was kind of different for this class because we actually had to make the site ourselves and make all of the modifications. I did not like working with the google sites for history...but that could have been just because I was not a huge fan of the project we had to do and put on the site. So far, for english I have not really formed an opinion yet because we haven't really used it very much. But if I were to guess I think I will like it better than using it in history. The difficulty level is pretty low too. It seemed to me that it was easy to figure out which is a good thing for those who are not computer-savy (and I don't know if I just spelled that right?) but anyways, it was easy to navigate (for me at least). So I don't really know...we will have to see. I have a good idea that I will not mind working with it because of its ease. Matthew, taylor, and I are going to be posting quite a bit on our site and it is going to look awesome! As long as we don't let Taylor pick that background called 'glitter', I think we will all be okay. As of now our background is rather plain, a couple shades of blue, but I think it will suffice for now until we get all of our information on the site and can actually worry about what it looks like later.

43. 2010 Olympics

Well I do not really see how I can write about the winter Olympics...because I have not watched them at all. So what do I write about?... The only thing I know about, and not even because I watched it, but because it was all over the news and everyone was talking about, is how that luger died. I am not sure if I even spelled luger right but it is 12:39 a.m. and I would really like to finish this. All I know is that some guy from somewhere ( I do not know where) once upon a time in a land far, far away, was luging, and I guess maybe he was going too fast or slipped off or something I am not sure, but I guess he flew off of his luge board thing and flew into a pole. Well I am glad I was not watching the Olympics, especially at that point because I am really glad I did not see that. Something like that would have been horrible to see happen, and I heard that many news stations were running the Olympic footage live and when the incedent occured, and they couldn't stop it in time to stop the video from reaching everyone watching their station. (Sorry if you can not understand anything, I will probably look at this tomorrow and realize that it is gibberish but I can barely keep my eyes open) So yeah, that is all I know about the Olympics. Except the other day I was watching the Singing Bee and one of the contestants on it said she was one of the people who ran the torch wherever for the Olympics in nineteen ninety something. I thought that was kind of cool, not many people can say that they did that! So I am not even sure if the winter Olympics are over for this year or not, but if they aren't I probably won't watch them.

42. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Well I feel that I am a bit jipped on account of I was not at school when this blog was assigned and I was not able to discuss it with other people so for this blog it will be alllllll me. Alright, so the first time I read this poem, I thought it was talking about a snake, saying how it divided the grass and what not. Makes sense right? I think so. Also, before I go any futher with my analysis, I would like to say that some of the time, I think that authors just plain wrote poems. They did not necessarily have to mean anything deeper than what it appears on the surface, it was just something they needed to do. I do that sometimes, but with drawing. If I can not think of anything good to draw or paint or whatever, or if I just have to draw something but do not have any ideas as to what, (and it happens all the time) I almost always just start scribbling or doodling until something good comes out of it, then I take those several lame ideas and work off of them to get one good thing. I think that that is what authors do sometimes too, sometimes they just need to write but do not necessarily have anything deep to write about at the moment so they just write about whatever they see. That could just be my opinion, but I stand by it. So what I was trying to get at with all of that was I do not think that this poem necessarily has to have another meaning to it. It could just be about a snake in the grass, maybe it was just a word-vomit poem like I was talking about. The poem does use a lot of imagery however, so Dickinson must have actually given the poem some effort instead of just throwing something together for the heck of it.