I am a terrible writer, I really am. I have a love addiction to run on sentences and the em dash. I get so excited about what I am writing about, that I want to include everything and anything. I don't understand cutting back and only focusing on one subject, when there is so much I want to say. I'm so bad that my journalism teacher in high school tried to get my mom to pull me out of the program and out of the staff. I mean, THAT is the epitome of being a bad writer.
My friend was editing my Spanish paper last night and he joked that "you can't translate this into Spanish, if it is already dumb in English."
(Man, I reference him a lot in ways that make him seem like a jerk. However, he isn't, I swear. Last night he could have been in a coffee shop being productive, watching a movie at his house or generally enjoying life. Instead he came to my residence hall to edit my paper when I was on night duty and could not leave. Plus, he puts up with my all out raunchy and awkward, but never the less awesome, comments and just laughs about them. I mean, yesterday I learned about Female To Male post op surgeries and the process they go through and he laughed about it when I told him.)
See, if I was a good writer I would some how transition FTM back to my terrible writing.
So, let me see if I can transition this. I am terrible at being a female. I'm not trying to say I want to be a FTM, I strongly support those that made that transition but I like being a girl. I may suck at it, but I like it. This is kind of how I feel about writing.
I guess I am just use to getting insulted about my writing but here is the thing-- I LOVE to write. I love to find out people's stories and how they got where they are. I came to college expecting to stay in love with journalism and find all the little niches in the college life. Unfortunately this was not the case. I found people who just wanted to get an award for their writing. I found people who never missed a comma but never added in an extra one. I found people who were more concerned with an extraordinary synoym for the world corn in a story about a plain quiet farming family. I found out that this was not the type of journalism I wanted to do. This is one thing I actually do love about the internet. I am now studying environmental issues and geography but anytime I get an itch to write I can come here and be the journalist I shouldn't be.
My blog does not require me to have a degree in journalism, creative writing or english. I love that.
I'm incredibly happy that during the first semester of my freshman year I discovered this. I'm glad I left the journalism field and found something I'm actually good at doing and also love to do. When I think back to high school I often wish I would have spent more time in Environmental Education. I think back to the countless hours I dedicated to a book that was so important to me, but that I haven't touched in over three years. However, when I truly think about it I am glad my mom kept me in the program. I do feel sorry that people had to read my shitty writing and think of a nice way to say this is horrible let's fix it. But (see never start a sentance with but) the program gave me some of the greatest friends - 3 of whom I still talk to daily. It gave me a way to express my nerdism and gave me something to care about. It kept me from being depressed and was a niche I fit into, despite my lack of grammar skills.
It reminds me of something the dean of the school of education once told me. Some of you will be amazing at this and love it and this is where you belong. Some of you will be amazing at it and hate it. Some of you will be horrible at it and love it. While he was talking about being a teacher, this applies to me so much more with writing.
To those of you who read this, I hope you find something that you are amazing at and that you love and that you do it. I also hope you find something you are horrible at but love doing and you keep doing it.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
BSMDA - Charities!
Blog some more days in april?
So, I want to start a Charity--or help one that has been started but it slumping get off the ground.
I have so much random knowledge flowing through my brain. I know stuff about environmental issues, geography, GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, public relations, advertising, writing, history, american history, biking riding, gardening. I want to combine all of these to make one super awesome charity. I just don't know how, or what to do. Is anyone else where I am at and wants to team up to decrease world suck?
-danielle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvjM04Nfq2E
So, I want to start a Charity--or help one that has been started but it slumping get off the ground.
I have so much random knowledge flowing through my brain. I know stuff about environmental issues, geography, GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, public relations, advertising, writing, history, american history, biking riding, gardening. I want to combine all of these to make one super awesome charity. I just don't know how, or what to do. Is anyone else where I am at and wants to team up to decrease world suck?
-danielle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvjM04Nfq2E
Saturday, April 11, 2009
BSDA (not for those that get offended easily when it comes to religion.. though I would like some opinions)
Blog Some days In April?
So, my window looks out the this amazing view of Lawrence and Campus.. well and a ginormous air conditioner unit.. but if you look over that part. My window is a little more than half my entire East facing wall. Which is awesome, except in the morning. Like right now, when I can barely see what I am typing because of the flux of sun that is in my room.
Did anyone see the moon last night? It started off huge and blood red at a low level, but when within 30 minutes was the normal size and up in the sky. I thought that never happened, that it was one or the other.
Yesterday was Good Friday, which I didn't know until I invited a friend to a concert and he almost acted appalled. So, I ask a lot of my christian, catholic and friends who had to go to catholic school in high school, why it was called Good Friday and not something like horrible Friday, worst Friday ever, the Friday of Suckith. None of them could explain to me, so I asked my friend who is completely nonreligious, if anyone has been to church less than me--it's him. AND HE KNEW! Well, at least he was the only one who could give me an answer. Which was it is called Good Friday because everyone gets a clean slate and gets a chance to go to heaven. The only way he knew this though is through his dad. His dad went on a huge knowledge binge awhile back and learned about every religion and what makes them work and their entire story... just for fun and to know. I kind of think it is funny an Atheist knows more about Jesus than most of my Christian friends. It always suprises me that some of my smartest friends are very religious. I mean the story of how Jesus came to be, and what happened to him--is extremely far fetched. I mean seriously, a virgin mom? Jesus comes back as, for lack of any other word, a zombie? How is this any more believeable than aliens dropped down and did it, or scientology?
It's early and that is gonna offend someone, I should probably BLIA (Blog less in april)
DFTBA
Danielle
So, my window looks out the this amazing view of Lawrence and Campus.. well and a ginormous air conditioner unit.. but if you look over that part. My window is a little more than half my entire East facing wall. Which is awesome, except in the morning. Like right now, when I can barely see what I am typing because of the flux of sun that is in my room.
Did anyone see the moon last night? It started off huge and blood red at a low level, but when within 30 minutes was the normal size and up in the sky. I thought that never happened, that it was one or the other.
Yesterday was Good Friday, which I didn't know until I invited a friend to a concert and he almost acted appalled. So, I ask a lot of my christian, catholic and friends who had to go to catholic school in high school, why it was called Good Friday and not something like horrible Friday, worst Friday ever, the Friday of Suckith. None of them could explain to me, so I asked my friend who is completely nonreligious, if anyone has been to church less than me--it's him. AND HE KNEW! Well, at least he was the only one who could give me an answer. Which was it is called Good Friday because everyone gets a clean slate and gets a chance to go to heaven. The only way he knew this though is through his dad. His dad went on a huge knowledge binge awhile back and learned about every religion and what makes them work and their entire story... just for fun and to know. I kind of think it is funny an Atheist knows more about Jesus than most of my Christian friends. It always suprises me that some of my smartest friends are very religious. I mean the story of how Jesus came to be, and what happened to him--is extremely far fetched. I mean seriously, a virgin mom? Jesus comes back as, for lack of any other word, a zombie? How is this any more believeable than aliens dropped down and did it, or scientology?
It's early and that is gonna offend someone, I should probably BLIA (Blog less in april)
DFTBA
Danielle
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Am I too old to be a nerdfighter?
In one of the groups I am in, someone said they felt a little creepy because there was a slight age gap between them an the creator of the group. Now, he was just talking about the particular topic of the group but I know at several times I have felt this way about nerdfighters in general. So, I thought I would blog about it giving examples of feeling creepy and then my thoughts on it.
Seeing John and Hank
Back in November I celebrated my 21st birthday, I also attended the KC nerdfighters convention with John and Hank, with another 21 year old friend name Jackie. While there I saw two of my friends who are 22 and 21 and I'm sure we all just kind of noticed something odd about the event. We were all surrounded by 12-16 year olds. I was about the 6th person to arrive at the event and even skipped my GIS class for it. (If that isn't the definition of nerd, I don't know what is) As Jackie and I started to talk to the random girls there, we heard about how they were excited to be starting high school, were excited to be in high school or were excited to start looking for colleges. We met two freshmen in college who had driven 3 hours to see the event and even they felt a little creepy, though way less than us. Aside from my creepy friends, the only other older people there seemed to be either real life friends with Hank or John or the parents of the book obsessed and totally awesome nerdfighters.
Getting friends to join
So, a very good friend of mine use to make fun of Jackie and me for spending so much time on nerdfighters and use to make fun of us for reading John's books because they are geared towards 15 year old girls, or the twilight generation if you will. However, I some how convinced him enough to read Paper Towns in which he read in one night and flipped out about how great it was. Since then he has watched the entire year of BH2.oh and read or watched various other nerdfighter things. I woke up this morning to an email that said he posted a comment on a group I'm apart of--at 2 in the morning. Now granted, I left his house around 1:40 but still, the fact that instead of going to sleep like any normal person would do (okay I sat and played Scooby-doo's 3d haunted house game with a friend for a bit... seriously, look into buying it and changing the ghosts face, it is hilarious ... annnnywho) he got on nerdfighters and joined the ning. We always joke to each other that he is going to turn into a 15 year old girl, and quite possibly at the rate of awesome he is going--it's entirely feasible. :-)
The ning and youtube
So, I use to be a part of the original brotherhood website--does that even exist anymore? I liked it because it was fresh, new and simple. We talked about NF (from henceforth will mean nerdfighter) t-shirts, and ripping Hank's songs from youtube to listen while away from the computer. I tried to start a discussion on how to make my dorm more ecofriendly and got maybe two posts. If I posted that here today, I would get a bajillion posts--that part I really like. However, I feel more than 80 percent of them would start with, I can't wait to live in a dorm! or well I don't live in a dorm yet but you could do x,y, and z. It also is weird when someone on the ning hits on me and then I realize they are 16. Most video responses or vlogs that have branched from BH2.oh are from people born in the 90s, to me that is bizarre! However, when we do the project for awesome, I see fellow nerdfighters my age climb out of the woodwork and it makes me feel a little less creepy.
Overall
I think this site, the idea being a nf, what nfs stands for and what it has created is amazing. In high school my group of friends were definitely nfs and we knew were were awesome but I think having the idea nfs to reinforce that for younger generations is really good. I think anything that promotes being active in your community, reading, celebrating being smart, being active in things like KIVA, and hank dressing as Carrie Bradshaw and hankrolling us all is something so positive and so awesome that is just blows my mind. I also think it is important for the 40 something year old nfs to tell the 30 something year old nfs about life, and the 30 something year old nfs to tell the 20 something year old nfs about life, and most importantly the 20 something year old nfs to tell the preteen and teenager nfs about life, high school, love, and to just be a mentor. My high school life would have been way better ( though it was pretty much an awesome experience) if I had a 20 something year old teach me about their experiences in high school and simple things like how how to get a male nf to like you, a female nf, because male nfs are a rare breed and really shy. So, basically I look at it from a less creepy place and more of an awesome big sister/ mentor role. Though I do wonder what Hank and John think about starting what some could consider a cult primarily of 15 year old girls. ;-)
And if any nerdfighters out there, male or female, would like some advice on life or high school feel free to message me because I'd love to help increase the level of awesome in your life.
DFTBA
Danielle
Seeing John and Hank
Back in November I celebrated my 21st birthday, I also attended the KC nerdfighters convention with John and Hank, with another 21 year old friend name Jackie. While there I saw two of my friends who are 22 and 21 and I'm sure we all just kind of noticed something odd about the event. We were all surrounded by 12-16 year olds. I was about the 6th person to arrive at the event and even skipped my GIS class for it. (If that isn't the definition of nerd, I don't know what is) As Jackie and I started to talk to the random girls there, we heard about how they were excited to be starting high school, were excited to be in high school or were excited to start looking for colleges. We met two freshmen in college who had driven 3 hours to see the event and even they felt a little creepy, though way less than us. Aside from my creepy friends, the only other older people there seemed to be either real life friends with Hank or John or the parents of the book obsessed and totally awesome nerdfighters.
Getting friends to join
So, a very good friend of mine use to make fun of Jackie and me for spending so much time on nerdfighters and use to make fun of us for reading John's books because they are geared towards 15 year old girls, or the twilight generation if you will. However, I some how convinced him enough to read Paper Towns in which he read in one night and flipped out about how great it was. Since then he has watched the entire year of BH2.oh and read or watched various other nerdfighter things. I woke up this morning to an email that said he posted a comment on a group I'm apart of--at 2 in the morning. Now granted, I left his house around 1:40 but still, the fact that instead of going to sleep like any normal person would do (okay I sat and played Scooby-doo's 3d haunted house game with a friend for a bit... seriously, look into buying it and changing the ghosts face, it is hilarious ... annnnywho) he got on nerdfighters and joined the ning. We always joke to each other that he is going to turn into a 15 year old girl, and quite possibly at the rate of awesome he is going--it's entirely feasible. :-)
The ning and youtube
So, I use to be a part of the original brotherhood website--does that even exist anymore? I liked it because it was fresh, new and simple. We talked about NF (from henceforth will mean nerdfighter) t-shirts, and ripping Hank's songs from youtube to listen while away from the computer. I tried to start a discussion on how to make my dorm more ecofriendly and got maybe two posts. If I posted that here today, I would get a bajillion posts--that part I really like. However, I feel more than 80 percent of them would start with, I can't wait to live in a dorm! or well I don't live in a dorm yet but you could do x,y, and z. It also is weird when someone on the ning hits on me and then I realize they are 16. Most video responses or vlogs that have branched from BH2.oh are from people born in the 90s, to me that is bizarre! However, when we do the project for awesome, I see fellow nerdfighters my age climb out of the woodwork and it makes me feel a little less creepy.
Overall
I think this site, the idea being a nf, what nfs stands for and what it has created is amazing. In high school my group of friends were definitely nfs and we knew were were awesome but I think having the idea nfs to reinforce that for younger generations is really good. I think anything that promotes being active in your community, reading, celebrating being smart, being active in things like KIVA, and hank dressing as Carrie Bradshaw and hankrolling us all is something so positive and so awesome that is just blows my mind. I also think it is important for the 40 something year old nfs to tell the 30 something year old nfs about life, and the 30 something year old nfs to tell the 20 something year old nfs about life, and most importantly the 20 something year old nfs to tell the preteen and teenager nfs about life, high school, love, and to just be a mentor. My high school life would have been way better ( though it was pretty much an awesome experience) if I had a 20 something year old teach me about their experiences in high school and simple things like how how to get a male nf to like you, a female nf, because male nfs are a rare breed and really shy. So, basically I look at it from a less creepy place and more of an awesome big sister/ mentor role. Though I do wonder what Hank and John think about starting what some could consider a cult primarily of 15 year old girls. ;-)
And if any nerdfighters out there, male or female, would like some advice on life or high school feel free to message me because I'd love to help increase the level of awesome in your life.
DFTBA
Danielle
Friday, April 03, 2009
Day three and drunk skanks
I haven't gone to bed yet, so I am counting this as day three.
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing a ton of drunk freshman dressed in barely anything tonight. I feel like it is up to the juniors and seniors to say hey, ladies--that is not classy, it's just trashy. There are so many things I've learned and wish I would have know as a freshman. As an RA I can't help but think of my girls as my girls. This year I'm not as attached to my floor so it is less of a big deal but last year I would always just want to beat up their crappy boyfriends and say hey lady, this guy is an asshole--why are you putting up with him? But then I remembered, they are freshman and that is what they do until they learn themselves what an asshole is.
I'm le tired.
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing a ton of drunk freshman dressed in barely anything tonight. I feel like it is up to the juniors and seniors to say hey, ladies--that is not classy, it's just trashy. There are so many things I've learned and wish I would have know as a freshman. As an RA I can't help but think of my girls as my girls. This year I'm not as attached to my floor so it is less of a big deal but last year I would always just want to beat up their crappy boyfriends and say hey lady, this guy is an asshole--why are you putting up with him? But then I remembered, they are freshman and that is what they do until they learn themselves what an asshole is.
I'm le tired.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
BEDA II
The thing that I don't like about this whole BEDA thing is, I never know what to say. I'm a firm believer in shutting up if you don't have anything to say. That is one of the problems I think the world has today. Everyone just talks to hear themselves and no one listens today. I think this is a problem with our generation--if anything this is the main problem with our generation. But, instead of talking about this, I'm gonna go spend time with some friends. Perhaps I'll update this later.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
BEDA classes!
So, I'm doing this whole BEDA thing! Blog Every Day (in) April!
I finished enrolling in classes today! I'm taking Oceanography, GPS application in environmental research, remote sensing, field ecology, climate and climate change and western civ!
Gross! However, I will not be an RA next year, so I'll have a lot more time... God I hope so. It's only 17 hours, which is only one more than the most I've taken. I'm a little scared, it's gonna be so intense classes. However, hopefully it'll be awesome.
Until then, I'll sit and watch trash TV with Allison and think of something better to blog about.
DFTBA
-Danielle
I finished enrolling in classes today! I'm taking Oceanography, GPS application in environmental research, remote sensing, field ecology, climate and climate change and western civ!
Gross! However, I will not be an RA next year, so I'll have a lot more time... God I hope so. It's only 17 hours, which is only one more than the most I've taken. I'm a little scared, it's gonna be so intense classes. However, hopefully it'll be awesome.
Until then, I'll sit and watch trash TV with Allison and think of something better to blog about.
DFTBA
-Danielle
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