LAST BLOG!!!

MMMKay..... I am not sure if I actually need to do this blog, but better safe than sorry on something as painless as this. So yeah like the title clearly states, this is my last blog for ENG 102 and possibly my whole college career... tear..... Well not really, this has been a fairly decent easy experience. The past 3 weeks school has been so easy for me, with almost nothing left to do in all of my classes I have been able to take it easy. This has been great, but I have just been playing the waiting game for school to end. This equates into a stress free time, but it also leaves me hoping time away which is never a good thing especially when you are in an environment like college where the best should be made of every moment. As for school work, I have finals I have to do just a small amount of studying for and our final english paper that I plan on making the finishing touches on here in a minute. This will be difficult because I have so much written already, but still have to cram in a fairly important part of my paper still. Therefore, the final touches on my paper will be my cutting back on what I have written, which to me is harder than actually writing something in the first place. Anyway, I'll get that done eventually, but for now I am out forevvvver!

PS I seemed to have missed posting pictures and performing the overall beautification of my blog page. Hopefully Ryan doesn't hold this against me and instead focuses on the fact that I have done all if not more than the necessary amount of blogs all of which are of a fair length

One more blog

Well due to my close call for being late with my last blog I decided while sitting in front of a computer to waste time that I would do something fairly productive and write a random blog. As is typical I am out of my 8 a.m. human A & P class early. We had our last test before finals today. Like usual I crammed at the last minute and think I still did really well on the test. It is quite a releif to be done with that test because it is the last test out of all of my classes before finals. From here its just smooth sailing (well as long as finals aren't too stressful). Changing subjects, I am quite happy today because my aforementioned sunburn from hell has finally receded enough to where I can finally go work out. Though the break from has been disappointing (longest time off since the summer), it has also been extremely relaxing. I have also done a lot of work early that I normally would have procrastinated on, due to the extra freetime and energy that not working out provides. So anyway looks like my usual length to cut it off so I am out of here!

Late blog

ok I am here in the library after just leaving English class for the day. Due to my classmates constant state of unpreparedness, we were able to get out of class early. I was reminded in class that we had a blog due. I do believe I am late with this, but I am not completely sure. I do have quite the valid excuse for my tardyness. As only Ryan likely knows, I lost my best friend growing up in McComb last Tuesday. I heard about his dismal condition on Monday, so my whole last week has thrown me for a huge loop. I managed to make most of my classes from Monday through Wednesday of last week, but could not help to miss all of Thursday and Friday. Thankfully things have been winding down at school leading to the end of this semester, and I did not really miss anything of real importance. But anyway, I have finally coped with the recent occurances and I have also been getting back into my normal routine of life which has helped with the healing. If only my sunburn would heal as quickly......... but thats another story... so until next time I am out of here.

blogging in the rain

Well here I am just chilling in my room, watching the rain fall outside. Today has been quite pleasant so far. I got to sleep in this morning, sleeping in the dark and hearing the relaxing sounds of thunder. If you were wondering I did skip my two early classes of the day because today both classes mainly involved the handing out and going over of tests that I already know I did very well on. Anyway, here lately I have noticed that all I can think about regarding school is counting the days until summer. Though summer is fairly close about four and a half weeks left, this is still enough time for a lot more school work to be done. I do feel as though after this week the last remains of this semester will be smooth sailing for me. This is because I have my last lab practical, last sociology test and sociology paper all due this week...... lame. This week may be rough, but it will be so great once its completed!

Getting an early start

Well here I am again blogging early in the week. When I sit down to try to do work, for some reason my blog is the first thing I can always motivate myself to do. So anyway this is our first full week since spring break and hopefully it will go well. I have a whole load of stuff for next week so its in my best interests to try to get motivated some times this week to work on and study the various things coming next week. I hate to say it, but I am already looking for the end of the school year. I feel that after this next week I will be over the hump and on the home stretch to summer. Though summer is still six weeks away, I predict that those six weeks will fly by. In other news, happily turned in my final copy of our second of three English essays today. This is a big relief because now we only have one fairly large essay that we will focus the rest of our class time on. This last essay will be an arguing essay, which I feel I already have a good idea of what I want to write on. Either the downside of Wal-mart or why illicit drugs should be decriminalized in the US. Either topic should be fairly and easy for me to write upon. Anyway, guess thats it for me this week. Until next time I am out and working on all the bunches of other stuff I have to do.....

PROCRASTINATION!!

Well yet again I sit down to my computer with great hopes of throwing down on some school work and instead end up venturing through everything else the world wide web has to offer before starting. So in a more constructive effort of procrastination I decided to do a blog. I want to finish my paper so ideally I can clean that concern from my mind, but things aren't looking too promising. I am afraid that I am all too comfortable with sitting through class tomorrow to cause too much concern with finishing my paper early. Besides dodging my paper, I am also avoiding the studying I should be doing for Human A & P. I have not been to class the past 3 times we have met. This is highly uncharacteristic for me, but the week before spring break did not motivate me to wake that early and well, I found out that apparently when you are in college you have to seriously celebrate St. Patty's day. I plan to pick things up again though, and after all the class is extremely easy. So guess I am done for now. I feel warmed up for more work!

Spring break blog

Well being not completely aware of the blogging situation over this spring break, I decided that it would be better safe than sorry and post an entry that in the worst case scenario will put me a blog ahead for next week, so here you go. Spring break has been a great time composed of catching up with old friends and a short trip to Memphis, TN with my dad. Though the break has been good so far, it has also managed to seem disappointingly short. Therefore, I already plan to really make the best of this weekend! Lately I have been plagued by the thoughts of school work over the break (which is quite unfortunate). With Human A & P memorization and our 3 written pages for English looming overhead. Hopefully the writing I am doing here will help motivate to work on the English assignment, because writing 3 pages in just one evening is not a pleasant task for me. So I guess I'm out for now, while the writing juices are flowing, to see if I can muster the ability to do early school work over a break.

looking forward to spring break......

Well as the title of this blog clearly states I am quite ready for spring break. This eagerness to get out of here is resulting in less procrastination than usual and an overall uncanny initiative to complete any required tasks I may have. Though I am enjoying my last days here before I get to see my family and friends again, I am also finding myself wishing them away. I am writing this before I finish the final touches on my paper explaining why we should not have class this Friday. As you should be able to tell I am really hoping that either myself or the rest of the class can prevent the occurrence of our gathering on Friday. Well anyway guess I am done here need to move on to explaining how we can compensate for the missed rough draft review. Honestly I am not too sure of how this could be undertaken, but hopefully someone else can pull my slack. Until next time I hope everyone has a great spring break and I'm out.

early morning blogging

Well once again wasting time between these sleepy, sleepy morning classes I have decided to blog to try to keep myself awake. Just left Human A&P where we were taking out second test of the semester. This one was on the bones and tissues, stuff that we are finally done with since we have finished up with it in lab. That is material we have been on since the beginning of the semester. I feel like I did just fine on the test, even though I could have been more prepared. Considering the average person in that class is not the most intellectual when it comes to anatomy and physiology, I expect a decent little curve on this test. So anyway we are moving on the muscular system, which is way more interesting to me than bones and tissue. On a different note spring break is coming up after next week. I'm sure it will be here before we know it! While I normally have some sort of trip planned (the beach), this year will unfortunately be much more uneventful. Due to USM's seemingly odd placement of spring break in comparison to other schools in the state, I am the only person out of my major group of friends that will be out of school then. This situation leaves me hanging out at home for most of if not all of my spring break..... Lame. Anyway guess that still beats the hell out of being in school.... hmmm I am a little long winded today.. so until next time thats it for me

My idea for an essay topic!

The topic of this paper will be to describe what you would find to be an ideal (utopian) society/world. This paper would involve your description of how this perfect world would run around you. Mention how such things as maybe politics, schooling, military, economy, law, individual freedoms etc... would be different in this ideal world of yours. Focusing on more of an individual level is also acceptable such as how people would dress, what music they may listen too, etc... There is infinite room for creativity so have fun with this and lets see what your perfect world/society would be!

just blogging away

Well here I sit once again in the library adding another weekly installment to my ENG 102 blog. I feel unusually eager to do some work so I'm getting an early jump on this weeks blog. I just left our english class for today and man! I must say I pretty much love that class. The atmosphere is so much more casual and relaxed than my ENG 101. Last semester our teacher seemed to think we were all English majors or something because he was way to serious with us. Therefore I spent all of last semester coping with some major stress brought on almost exclusively from my English class. This time around things are infinitely less stressful allowing me to relax and do some potentially better work. Unless one is an English major there is really no reason for too serious of an english class. Since it is likely that everyone else will rarely if ever need to call on exceptional amounts of creative or peer reviewed writing after taking their required english writing classes in college. Anyway guess thats it for this week.... before i go I just want to give props to Ryan for being a great English teacher.

something to do between classes

Alright so this looks like the first blog where I won't be complaining about something..... I am actually in exceptional spirits as of late. This week has been great so far (and yes im aware it just started). I have made A's on both my english and math tests, my english essay is going quite smooth (which is unusual), and I have finally taken some initiative with a good bit of my school work as opposed to the extreme procrastination that I am prone to. The rest of my week looks good too, with my least favorite class, Sociology, cancelled on Wednesday and no assignments due as of yet. This weekend I am going home to McComb for the first time in about a month and a half. Although my hometown is notorious for being an extremely unexciting place, when you go there as rarely as I do it becomes much more intriguing. Doing and seeing things that used to be boring everyday occurances are now extremely nostalgic. Plus I get to see quite a few friends that are still around town, which is always a good time. So anyway hopefully my week will only prove to be even better than it already is and until next time I'm out.

yet another unexciting blog entry

Alright so once again I find myself trying to occupy myself in the school library until my next class. I just got out of my first class today Human A &P. We took our first test of the semester this morning at 8 o'clock. Due to our awesome long weekend Mardi Gras break I of course forgot about my test. Therefore, much cramming was involved last night. And like clockwork, whenever I have to cram my roommates coincidentally decide to do something fun involving many people at our house, loud noise, and late nights. Not only do I tend to miss out on the excitement, but I am actually easily distracted by it when studying and especially when trying to fall asleep early enough to get some sleep for an 8 o'clock class. As usual I did the minimum amount of studying, struggled to get to sleep at a decent time and still managed to do really well on the test (well i feel that way, hopefully my feelings prove true). By the way if anyone is reading this take Nick Griffis for any sciences he teaches, he is super easy and then you can do like me and half way participate and still have an easy A! Its about time to go to my next class, so until next time im out.

Payne Center Interviews

This is a questionnaire filled out by the director of the Payne Center Mike Giles. I plan on getting interviews to post soon from two employs of the Payne Center that I am friends with .



1. What, if any, are plans in the near future for improvement in any
area of
the Payne Center? EXPANSION PLANS ARE BEING CURRENTLY
CONSIDERED. WE ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PAYNE CENTER
WITH A FACILITY THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE THE STUDENT HEALTH CENTER,
COUNSELING SERVICES AND THE SCHOOL OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND RECREATION.
2. What kind of medical support is offered at the Payne center for
emergency
situations? WE TRAIN OUR STAFF IN FIRST AID AND CPR. WE ALSO INCLUDE THE
USE OF AN AED FOR LIFE THREATING EMERGENCIES
3. What kind of security measures are in place during the business
hours of the
Payne Center. If cameras are used could you share a general area that they
cover? WE DO NOT HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS. WE USE A PATROL SYSTEM WITH
FACILITY SUPERVISORS WHO ARE STUDENTS.
4. How often are maintenance and/or replacement done on workout
equipment? DAILY AND AS NEEDED FOR SPECIAL SITUATIONS
5. How often is the sports equipment upgraded or replaced?
EQUIPMENT IS REVIEWED BEFORE EACH INTRAMURAL ACTIVITY AS WELL AS ON AN
ANNUAL INVENTORY. EQUIPMENT THAT IS USED IN "FREE REC" IS CHECKED DAILY.
6. What are prices for personal training service? THIS VARIES WITH THE
NUMBER OF SESSIONS BUT A BASE PRICE IS $26/HOUR
7. What workout classes (such as yoga, martial arts, Pilates) are
offered? Are
all of these classes co-ed? ALL CLASSES ARE CO-ED. VARIOUS CLASSES ARE
AVAILABLE. SPECIFIC CLASS AS WELL AS THEIR SCHEDULE IS AVAILABLE AT OUR
WELCOME CENTER
8. What request for change do you have most around the Payne Center?
FOR AN EXPANSION OF THE WEIGHT ROOM(WOZ)
9. Are there any plans for handling the over-crowding that occurs in
the workout
zone? EXPANSION PLANS ARE BEING INCLUDED WITH OUR PLANS FOR EXPANDING THE
ENTIRE FACILITY
10. What are some intramural sporting groups offered and who organizes
the
tournaments? MATT SEBRING IS OUR IM COORDINATOR. WE OFFER A VARIETY OF
SPORTS, BASKETBALL( SEVERAL VARIATIONS), FLAG FOOTBALL, SOCCER, ULTIMATE
FRISBEE ARE JUST A FEW. PLEASE CONTACT MATT.SEBRING@USM.EDU FOR MORE
INFORMATION

pointing out a mistake i made

Just wanted to point out that I actually have 3 blog entries, its just that I created a whole other blog for my second entry. Just view my profile and you can see it. I have this figured out so all of my entries will be here from now on. Just needed to clarify

storms: making bad situations worse since forever

Alright well here I am back again blogging in my third installment of English Composition 102 weekly blog. Once again it looks like I will be using my blogging time for an excuse to vent some extremely current issues or concerns I have. As I am sitting here at my computer trying to waste time (by blogging) until my ever exciting Human A & P lab, I can already hear the predicted stormy weather starting to begin outside of my window. Just to get an idea of how bad and maybe when to expect the aforementioned storm I just checked the radar on weather.com. Using some meteorological guestimation I have come to the conclusion that some nasty weather should be hitting about exactly the time i have to venture out of the house to lab. So anyway wish me luck that I may not at best get too wet or possibly make it out alive. And well thats what is on my mind at the moment. So until next week I'm out and I hope everyone has a great Mardi Gras 4-day weekend break of pure awesome.

My first attempt at blogging!!

Alright well here we go. As the title of this clearly indicates, this is obviously my first time blogging. So with that in mind here goes my awkward dive into the world of talking to myself and anyone else who decides to read the following narratives. Having never kept a journal or anything similar to a collection of fairly pointless writings I am somewhat interested in what (if anything) may come from these blog entries. My thoughts tend to wander from time to time and writing on a strait and narrow topic may not always work, but anyway enough with the over complicating concerns and on to some real blogging.
Beginning the new semester at southern has turned out to be a surprisingly pleasant experience, with all of my teachers, classes and schedule times appearing to be to my liking, I hope to have just as good of a time this semester as the last. My least favorite class last semester unsurprising to myself was ENG 101, but I still unhappily decided to go ahead and try to knock out ENG 102 instead of putting it off. My distaste for English comps is all derived from my inability to not over analyze and over complicate my writing, because of this fact I procrastinate hardcore. Even something as simple and casual as this writing I am doing now very nearly takes an act of God to get me off of my ass and complete. Regardless, I feel less bothered by writing after completing ENG 101 and seeing how we have less essays to write and a seemingly cool teacher I don't think ENG 102 will be too bad of any experience.
Ok so I guess that is about it for me. I'm fairly eager to see what everyone else has to say. I think this will be an interesting way to get a feeling for some people through their thoughts and/or opinions.
SO.... If you made it this far... um thanks I guess you must have been quite bored so hopefully I helped give you something to do if only for a short time? lol anyway until next time I'm out.