The Economy and My World

So I was thinking about everything that is going on nowadays and I wonder what will happen. In the future. It seems like it was only a few years ago that their was peace or at least it seemed that way. Maybe its the media that makes things out to be worse than what they actually are. Maybe things actually are as bad as they appear. Maybe our world is just falling apart. What I don't understand is why does everyone want to rack up a crap load of debt for kids like me and for my nieces to be left with. Does the Goverment think that the don't have to pay all this back? And the ones paying it back will be me....my generation. I'm sure they don't care because most in Congress are 40-50+ and they will be retiring soon. This Social Security thing needs to be thrown out the window because for one it only works until all the baby boomers retire. Which is now. So that means their will be nothing left for me when I get older and want to retire. Whats going to happen to my generation..just dry up and hope we don't get nuked. Everyone wants to throw down and Bush's war efforts when the war was only 1% of expences. Look and the 1trillion dollar plan that Obama is planning for heathcare. Universial Heathcare bullshit. I never go to the emergency room like ever. So why should I pay and pay and pay when I hardly ever get sick. People are going to be heading to the emergency room for a cold or runny nose. This will lower the standards for heathcare and innitatly destroy everything....ugh..Im just sick of it. I am tired to being promised for change when everything is just getting worse. Oh and by the way don't blame me when Obama Fucks up this country..I voted McCain.

This Summer

So. I was looking forward to this summer because this past year was a hell hole. It seemed like nothing could ever go right. Always struggling to make a better grade on a test or trying to figure out how to pay for classes. There was always something. So this summer was a good one not because anything happened, but because nothing happened. I worked a lot which wasn't much different than before. I just didn't have to bother with studying. I was making good money and getting things done. Then came the summer class. I didn't know what it would be like because I had never taken a summer class before. I figured it would be fast and hard. I found out that its actually not that bad. Yes it was fast and I had some problems along the way keeping up(why I am writing this). It taught me to get things done faster and not linger on them so much. I also learned alot of things in this class and that is how to write about videos and view the entire scope of things. I am so glad class is over, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. I am looking foward to the 30+ days till Fall semester. Gotta make that money. Later

The big dent

Ok so the other day I was heading back from Lafayette to go to class when just before I got to my street I got side swiped. Now for some background info. First of all I just got my truck like a month or two ago. It had been raining and I was in a hurry to get to class. So anyways I was driving along on Willow in Cookeville in the right lane when an old man pulls out in front of me..He can't make up his mind on what lane he wants to be in so after being in the right lane for about 2 sec. he viered into the left lane. I was like WTF. Typical old man who can't drive. So after thinking that he had gotten situated I decided to go on by him. I was still in the right lane as before and never switched. I then started going by him when in the corner of my eye after almost completly passing him he started comming back over. So I am just hopeing that I make it by him before he gets over or he will at least notice my big ass truck in front of him like most people would. NO. he just comes right on over. all this happening in like 5 sec. or so. I loose control and start swirveing all over the road and end up in oncomming traffic. So basicly I am staring at a car that is prob. 4 sec from hitting be when I go with instincts and swirve over just in time to miss them. Luckly no one what hurt and it didn't turn out as bad as it could have been. Still I was pissed. And if he hadn't been an old man I would have gone off on him. So now I got a big dent in the side of my truck that just screams shit. anyways it should get fixed in a week or so and it will be just like new.

WoodStock

Ok so I don't know if it has something with the fact that it was the 60's/70's and film was horrible or what, but this movie sucked. I found myself staring at my phone clock every ten minutes wishing I could fast forward like on "CLICK". The movie was just a bad representation of the time and I think they could have done a little better. Another point is that the artists shown in the movie wern't that great. I know more famous artists had to have been there so why the heck to they only film lame artist. I also felt that some of the scenes were a little un called for such as the nudity and what not. I mean really? I understand that is part of Woodstock, but everyone already knows that anyone that went to that is "One with Nature" and just weird. What I also thought was amazing is that everyone was on some kind of drug. Better hope they don't run out cause then the music wouldn't have any meaning, because I think the only way a person can enjoy it is by being on LSD or Mary Jane. Anyways I hated it not because of what the subject was, but rather the quality of film that was created

Poems...O the Poems

July 22, 2009. I begin my day having a wreck...but anyways lets fast foward to when I showed up late for class..I had already had some forwarning from Mr. Andy that we would be writing about Poems..or writing Poems either way it was about Poems..and God do I suck at them..or at least I think I do. Maybe its just the fact that I am not a fan of it or never understood Poems in general. As soon as I got to class I was handed 5-6 papers and I was almost sick...Great Mr. Andy has us some busy work since he is gone. But turns out after I started looking at the papers that each one was a different kind of poem and not exactly "busy work". We watched many videos and music clips which I thought we all cool in there own way..along with the fact that our teacher is an awesome blues singer..guitar player..exc. I was somewhat hateing this day simply because I have never liked Poems and never had alot of work with them. I also didn't realize untill then that rap has alot to do with Poems...I had never thought about it like that. Even tho I everything always flowed and had another meaning..It actually took me untill writing this blog to even somewhat like Poems..but now they arn't that bad. I think my favorite one was "Children of the Night" and "Black History" because they were straight up awesome in the videos.

Walk the Line

The Johnny Cash Film is one of my top favorite movies that overall captures to me the real people in his life. One thing I had never noticed in previous viewings was what happened to his brother and their life on the farm. Johnny or JR as he was called had a rough childhood especially after his brother died from a sawing accident. He was blamed in his dad’s eyes for his brother death. His dad would also show up drunk in many occasions and yell and his mother and claim that the devil took the wrong son to Johnny’s face. After growing up he joins the air force and enters the war. He later gets married to the girl he meets before he went to war. After struggling for money in their first home he notices a recording studio. Johnny and his band of mechanics go in for the recording and are denied after singing the usual religious tunes, but he mentions his songs he wrote while overseas and they get the record deal. It was after this that Cash’s lifestyle started to change. After running into June Carter literally at his first concert performance he falls in love. His band and other including June Carter go on a tour that plays a lot of the movie. The film shows the hardships that Johnny Cash goes through such and popping pills and his alcoholism. Finally after divorcing his wife he goes through the worst part of his life where he is in love with June, but she won’t marry him. Finally after asking her to marry him on stage she accepts. I loved the movie and I felt the actors chosen were great for the parts. The movie shows the behind scenes that most typically don’t know about.

Drugs..Homosexuality..and Kurt Cobain??

For starters I am not the biggest fan of Nirvana, but I know their music and a few of their songs are favorites of mine. The only band member I had even heard of was of course Kurt Cobain. Before reading the required story on the group I knew that Kurt was a strong drug addict and died of an overdose. I only knew of one song from the group called Teen Spirit. The members of the band all had a rough childhood in their own ways but all had things in common. One of these was that they all went through their parents’ divorce and didn’t seem to connect with others around them. Apparently Kurt had a hard time dealing with this experience. I myself have never dealt with my parents having a divorce, but I have half brothers and sisters that have, but they never used drugs that I know of to recover from it. Kurt also allegedly had a male friend that his mother thought was a homosexual “friend” that Kurt had that she eventually made him stop hanging out with due to her Homophobe attitude. The story is a good one that shows the struggle of a band that everyone mostly knew their problems, but didn’t know the details of the struggle. I am not sure if I feel sorry for Kurt or not. I do believe that someone shouldn’t just say he was stupid or ignorant, but should have put him in some kind of rehab if they knew about the drug issues. I believe the band was making progress and could have made it really big, but the lifestyle got to them much like other artists today.

Another Whittney Houston..??

While watching "Lady Sings the Blues" I was hating it, but loving it at the same time. Billy Holiday had not always lived the glamor lifestyle that she was living at an older age, but rather as dirt to some. She worked as a cleaning girl in multiple houses to pay rent and board...she later moved to Harlem where she started out cleaning for a woman and then becoming apart of the brothel ..if you know what I mean. She had a hard life, but a big dream of a singing career. Her singing career took off from a small club in Harlem where she realized that dancing would not get her anywhere, but singing would. She became more and more famous over the years for her talent, but this lead to a bad herion addiction. She was slowly going down hill and struggling to to what she truly wanted to do ...sing. She later went on tour with a small band hoping to make it big with Miss Billy Holiday along. The addiction continued to get worse and worse till finally she passed out on stage while performing.

The Microphone that heard it all...

I absolutely loved the movie in all its aspects. The movie starts out with Dewey going to a prison to visit his brother and runs into the future main character Petey Greene who does a radio show in the prison. After make a pact that Dewey figures will never happen with Greene to possibly get him a job he leaves. Greene later gets out early after making a deal with the warden and starts to look up Dewey. Dewey is shocked when Greene shows up a WOL...a radio station that Dewey works at...looking for a DJ spot. His crazy little girlfriend and him make a huge scene and gets everyones' attention. Greene was quickly denied a job, but after a riot put on in front of the station Dewey has a talk with Greene. ...To make a long story short Dewey pulls a few strings and risk his job to get everyone in the station to see what the public sees in Greene. Eventually Petey becomes a major hit in D.C. and starts doing comedy routines and concert appearances. It wasn't until Petey screwed up at the Tonight Show that the two's relationship went sour. After once being Petey's manager, Dewey leaves and starts his own DJ slot at WOL and makes a career out of it. The two then later in life unite only to have Petey die at the age of 53. Over 10,000 fans and friends showed to Petey's funeral which was held in at a huge park/lawn to accommodate the crowd. I realized half way through the movie that I absolutely loved it. I think that each character was played as if it was then. Overall from 1-10 I would give it an 8.

Music Videos..MTV..and...Madonna?

Are you surprised that Madonna was mentioned along with MTV and Music Videos..well if not then we are on the same page. While reading the longest essay/blog whatever it is ever I realized that there is a lot more to Music Videos than I originally thought. The fact that Madonna was mentioned doesn't surprise me along with countless other artists such as Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and others than I knew the song but not the artist. Anyways the article was somewhat boring yet still interesting due to the multiple facts that I had no clue about before. I learned that videos are typically either of these forms: performance, narrative, and conceptual. The author explains this theory by showing how in the six different music videos how each one uses one of the three forms. Each artist represents a different genere of music from rap and hip/hop to rock and pop. These generes fall into 3 different models and they are: the Social Values Model, the Jungian Psychological Model, and the Ideological Models of Criticitism. I mentions how music videos not only helped the sell of records early on, but have now become its own section of the music industry. The music video crave was fueled by the MTV generation which I slightly missed...unfortunatlly. As the essay/blog continues and finishes out, it gets better and explains how each music video mentioned has a meaning to it that runs deeper than it title. Overall it was interesting, but thats it..nothing I would read on my free time....ok so to end on a good note..it was amazing...(cough..cough)..not

A whole new view on U2

Ok so after finding a copy of this film that I missed on the previous date I realized that I was not missing out on much. For starters I hated the film for one being that it was mostly black and white and another that it was boring as hell. I really think they missed the big point in the movie, because everything was just a bunch of stage performances that for me were not that entertaining. I did not have a lot of knowledge about the band U2 before watching the film other than knowing the lead singer Bono and his inspir(red) campain as well as others. Which to be honest thats pretty bad if you ask me to be more famous for other things rather than singing when your main career is singing..it makes no sense. I never really enjoyed much about the movie other than a few songs played. The interviews were very ..how to say...bland..boring.ect. I had a hard time staying awake during this movie and do not plan to watch it again unless forced. I personally think that no band should be aloud to make a movie about themselves because it will only turn out like this one I hope did and that is horrible. I will end this post on a somewhat good note and that I somewhat support Bono for what he is doing for the world today simply because he is doing more that I have and the majority of people in this world so even though you are a singer...rocker...performer..or what ever you want to call him..he is a good man, because of his actions.

Modern Pirates....arrr...maties

I will begin by mentioning that while reading the story on the piracy of modern media, I had a neutral view on "sharing music and movies". I won't lie and say that I haven't "shared" a few songs in my day along with the majority of Americans or at least teens. I felt that the writer made good points that Piracy of this media is wrong, but at the same time never really proved that it was exactly wrong in every way. He seemed to say that some things are okay and other ways are bad. Some ways of this "piracy" he considered good. I personally could not make since of the story and wither or not he was against it or for it. I still have the same neutral view on the subject as before because this subject contains way to much grey area. Personally I think that most people would consider it wrong, but at the same time still do it because it is a lot easier to "share" music than buy it. Its kind of like drinking..not everyone does it and some do it a little and that's okay to do it a little, but one must not get drunk..but people still do it anyways. You are not supposed to speed, but if a cop is not anywhere near by people go crazy and the second one drives by everyone slams on there brakes. From the looks of things rules were made to apparently be broken. And the whole thing about China getting CDs at 50 cents or so..thats pathetic. So if record companies want to sell cheaper to other countries rather than in America..I say "share" all day. Now don't get me wrong it is wrong to take a type of media and burn it and sell it to others as yours, but "shareing" media files I see nothing wrong with it...especially when we the people of America are getting ripped off anyways. So go buy one CD and then you can download many others to make up the price difference. So I say share share share.

Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol. . . .Its the 70's

While watching the movie "Almost Famous" I realized that everything that I had imagined the 70's were about...ended up being exactly how the movie portrayed this period in time to be. The movie is about William Miller who, growing up, had a hard time relating to others because of his mother's strict values and opinions on life. William is a prodigy child that is way ahead of others of his age, but when his sister decides to depart from his mother's ways he is shown a new world through his sister’s music. He then finds an interest in Rock & Roll and a love for journalism. The majority of the movie takes place right in the action of the band "Stillwater" and their lifestyle on tour. The boy is given the opportunity to write for Rolling Stones about this up-coming band, where he is thrown into a world filled with sex, drugs, alcohol, and music. While sitting there watching the movie I found myself mesmerized be how William, this 15 year old boy, was able to somehow fit into this lifestyle that is so much different than his raising.At first I didn’t appreciate any purpose to the story until later, when I realized that a person shouldn’t be so involved with themselves because in the end those closest to you get hurt the most. This idea plays out more toward the end of the movie when “Penny” is tossed aside by the band to cover up girlfriends, when she was the band’s biggest fan and not a groupie. Another point is when Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of “Stillwater” and a friend of William, lies about the story that William had wrote to be false when everything was true. This turns out to ruin everything the William had been working for this entire time for Rolling Stone. They believe Russell, and the story becomes trashed as well as William’s reputation at Rolling Stone. In the end Russell sees everything that he has done so wrong to those closest to him and he decides to fix these “fack ups”.

A Musical Experience

Growing up in rural America as a young boy I wasn't exposed to multiple music types of the time other than country. I unfortunately wasn't a huge fan of country music so it was difficult to relate to this honkey tonk. I never really got in touch with music until I was a teenager and it was then that I fell in love with rock/emo/punk type of music. I had a lot of family issues with parents and never getting along during Jr. High and High School, so these types of music helped me to cope with my problems. The artists that perform this type of music had a lot of the same problems I had and wrote about it for others to relate. Many bands including limp bizkit, blink 182, Green Day, Creed, and many more. Theses bands had many songs that I felt so related with and some that were good stress relievers. I still to this day listen to many of these songs and artists not only because of there closeness to me, but because of their talent to write songs that others can relate to. I do believe that today many artists forget about writing something from the heart, but more less something that will make big on the top 40 list and make millions. I have never seen any of these artists in concert, but I would love to one day. Until then...back to the i pod

Writing Festival

So, I attended the English Writing Festival and I was blown away with the croud of people that were there and the amount of booths. I noticed that there wasn't one booth that looked anything like another. I know a girl that was appart of one of the groups that had a booth and they did an anti-essay where the group played games in the library and was very loud. To me it was very very complicated how all this turned into an essay. Yes, I thought it was cool and sounded fun, but in a way I kinda understand. Its like your writing an essay, but because its an anti-essay then tenically your not...your doing to opposite...like how they played games and destracted people trying to study rather than what students typically do in the library. I noticed others and many were really creative, but I didn't have the time to look at everyone of them. It was an exciting experience for sure with some of the people dressed in costumes and such. I look foward to the festival next year..and might end up actually being apart of it rather than just attending it.

First year Freshman

Ok, so as this semister is comming to a close I look back on everything that has happened in this first year as a freshman. Starting out in the fall everything was slowly falling appart mainly due to haveing a hard time with the transition from being in high school and being takin care of by my parents to being thrown into College and have to take care of myself. After I had figured out what all was going on I found a job at IHOP where I still work and love. I had a hard time with classes and couldn't find to make myself go to class all the time. I figured that most students go through this, but later I realized how bad it really was. I told myself that I had to do better next semister, because I knew I could do better. Hoping that I could get ahold of myself in this new year by turning over a new leaf and being a better student. I started out great, but slowly began to fall into the same habits in some classes. As the semister went on the more drive I had to do good and show that I am a good student and not a drop-out. Now with there only being a few weeks left I am hopeing that the grades are much better and feel more confident about that then last semister. If I could tell anyone this is about to start college it would be to prepare yourself before you get dropped off and left at college and learn to study beforehand. I have found that the College work isn't whats hard..its making yourself go to class everyday and doing the work on time. I plan to use this summer as a time to catch up on what I left behind and forgot all year and prepare for anouther year at Tech.

The Dreaded Tests

I went to a workshop the other day and it was about how to not stress over test. This is one of my biggest issues, because I hardly ever do well on a test. I figured that this workshop might help me or at least give me ideas on how to supress this fear of testing. The speaker mentioned that a good way to study without stressing is make sure you know the material very well before attempting to take the test. Nothing is worse than going into a test feeling sick about it, because that is how the grade will end up. Another is use all reasources such as study guides and take notes during class and go back over them after class to refresh your memory. Also the speaker went on about never cramming the night before a test, but rather taking a break the night before and scanning over notes right before the test to refresh your memory. Its always a bad idea to kill your brain the night before thinking that you will remember it the next day cause ya won't. After this workshop I felt that now when I have a test comming up what to do and how to make the best possible grade without stressing out about it.

Evaluations

Craft, Care at Flatbread Company Makes up for Sparse Menu

So I read the evaluation and pretty much I am now starving lol. The way that the Flatbread was described made me soo hungry. I love how each item on the menu was decribed in great detail and made me feel as if I was sitting there looking and smelling the food. GAHHH ...Im most definatly getting something to eat after this lol. The evaluation was a great example in my opinion, because of the detail used for each menu item. I most definatly want to go eat me some now lol. This evaluation helped me to trully understand what an evaluation is.

Potter Power

Ok. So Potter Power is a good evaluation, but in my opnion not the greatest or not as good as the flatbread one. Craig really did a good job with making the Harry Potter series look good and make it more appealing to older people or more refined rather than younger kids. This is only because of all the large words and wording that many younger childeren, that the book was written for, wouldn't understand. Basicly the guy who was writing this talks way over the audience's head.

Dawson's Creek

I absoutly loved this evaulation. I feel like it truly hit the nail on the head. Ben Leever did an awesome job of decribing the TV show, but at the same time not telling everything about it. He basicly said just enough. The main focus of the evaluation was of how family and christian groups tried to get the program off air or get the show to not mention certian topics that many teenagers are obviously face everyday. I have never seen the show, but I now feel like it would be something worth my time.

Going Greek !!

So one of the Frat/Soritys had a doughnut breakfast event. I went and of course the doughnuts were good, but I got to see a little bit of what it would be like to be in a type of Greek house and I thought it was really cool. I had been considering this for some time now, but of all the people that they had to have met would be crazy. I def. plan on attending more of these events and maybe considering joining...

Lets Get Cookin

Ok so one of my friends/roommate/fellow co-worker/ decided to get involved in a chili cooking contest for engineering. Me and him went to the grocery store to see what all we could put in it. After about an hour of going from one side to the other he made up his mind and we had 10lbs of meat in the buggy. The chili had chicken, beef, and pork. We went back to the house and he experimented with alot of things and different flavors all day and night. Finally he found it. He decided to call it "3 Meat Texan Man Chili". That night me, my brother, and my roommate went to the Engineering Building hoping to win, but not getting hopes too high. After a few hours and everyone tasting all the chili it was looking good for us. We stood there and watched one of the judges write in 1st place....3 Meat Texan Man Chili. We were all dazed that we won. It was pretty cool knowing that I was part of something like that. We got our picture took..so now just looking for it to be on the main web page of Tech.

Profiles...and Movie Reviews = I

I read the “Cookie Master” and at first I said to my elf “Cookie Monster”, but realized I read it wrong. I enjoyed it a lot. I thought that having a job as writing fortunes would be cool. I had never really thought that someone actually had a specific job of doing just that every day. Of course I knew someone had to write them, but I had never really thought about it. The man named Donald Lau seemed like he really knew what he was doing and actually wrote books about the topic. I honestly can’t imagine thinking of all the fortunes that are out there. Personally I would run out of ideas quick, so I have to tip my hat to the man for the patience of his job. I felt that this was a really good profile that described him without words but through his actions.
I read the Johnny Depp profile and I felt it was ok. I enjoyed all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and felt he did a great job with them and I think he is a good actor, but I felt the profile spent way too much time and detail in the movies rather than on Johnny Depp himself. There were times were it seemed that I was reading a movie review that had little to do with him, but more with the movie and his success with them. I just didn’t feel that the profile captured the audience and really taught the reader something about Johnny Depp other than what could have been read in a gossip magazine.

Possible Topics for Memior

First Topic Option: My First Soccer Tournament Championship Game.

As I lay there in bed at 6am I am thinking of what a day that it is going to be. My mother has been up for what seems forever and has been trying to wake me up for the past hour. This is not just any other day and no I don't have school. It is a Saturday and a day that both my team and I have been working toward for the past few months. Today was my soccer tournament and our team was in first place for the event. I was really excited about it, but not the fact that it started and 8:00am. I slowly got up from my warm bed that seemed to grab me and throw me back down every time I attempted to get up. I brushed my eyes and scratched my head and proceeded to stumble toward the bathroom where I planted my face in the sink and ran the water. The water was warm unlike the twenty degree weather outside, which I was not looking forward to later. I took a quick shower, dried off and threw some clothes on as I smelt breakfast in the kitchen. My nose knew this scent and it was a good one; the biscuits and gravy, eggs, and sausage were pouring under my bathroom door. I was most definitely awake now as I ran to the kitchen to see a table full of food. She insisted that I eat a big breakfast so I have energy for my game today; I took her up on her idea.


Second Topic Option: Prom 2008


As a young teenager in High School one looks foward to the one night of all nights and that is one's Prom night. The night starts out with pictures with family and their date and more pictures with family untill either the camera breaks or one just leaves. Typically the couple will go to a some what fancy resturant and on too the actual prom. This is usually how it goes for me at least. This prom was a little different for me and not because something completely terrible happens but because of how everything went exactly right. Here it was though a month or so before prom and I didn't have a clue who I was going with. I had thought about it and thought about it untill I finally asked a girl to go with me that I had wanted to ask for sometime. She said no at first because she wanted to go alone but eventually accepted. The group that I was going with had gotten a car limo, but on the day of the prom a SUV Limo rolls in and to our luck someone canceled so we got their car for the same price. We all got in both me and a second date that had apparently hopped on the bandwagon because she didn't have a date decided to go with me as well or at least walk down the senior walk. So after an awesome meal the crew headed to the school where the prom was being helt. Later on in the night the senior walk took place and I was the only guy walkin with two girls.

Third Option: The Greatest Experience of my life

I was 7 or so years old and was experiencing many things in my life that I was not used to. I had been going to Antioch Missionary Church my entire life and that is all I knew. I had been taken to all kinds of churches all throughout my childhood and was learning many things about God and what had taken place in our past and what the future would be. My brother was playing the piano and my mom was singing church songs at my parent's house one day and I was listening. I had never really been scared like I would in a few minutes or ever think about what had actually happened or what had been said in church before, but everything I had heard hit me all at once. I was scared and not like normally one would be, but I was scared for my life because I had just realized then that I was lost. This term is what I learned in church as a child and it means that a person is seprated from God. All I really knew to do was to pray. I had prayed for hours and hours and nothing happened; I was still scared out of my mind for my life. After a while this feeling went away, but I still was unsure for my future. This process went on for over 2 to 3 years and I had almost given up. Summer after summer there were revivials and I would go down and pray every night. Then one night in a summer revivial when I was ten years old I went down to pray because I had this same feeling of being scared. I didn't get anywhere and I had been preached to time and time again that I had to give everything to God including my life. This I just couldn't reach. I just couldn't give everything up, but I wanted to have peace in my soul. After hours of praying I finally got up and went to the bathroom to wash my face off. I put my face in the sink and felt lower than I had ever been in my entire life. I prayed for want seemed to be 10secs. Then suddenly I just couldn't cry or pray anymore. My tears just dried up and I was happy. This feeling though I had doubted about for about a week, because I didn't see lights or figures like some had claimed to have seen. Finally I prayed over it and God showed me that he had saved me and included me into his familly. I finally told this a week later and it was the best feeling I have ever felt.

Thoughts on the Assigned Memiors

So pretty much I read both and I wasn't a fan of either...I just didn't connect with either, but I have written what I got from them and how I felt about them.


Ok..so The memoir "Mike Jager Wants Me" is about a teenage girl that has this weird, but typical obsession with a rockstar....this is not much of a shocker for many simply, because anyone would love to have some type of relationship with a famous person..right?? Me personally felt that yes..dating a famouse actress would be sweet..but dang..this girl takes having a crush on someone to a whole new level. The girl basicly stalks the guy with her friend and waits on street corners and entrances just to get to see him. She constently talks about the things she likes about him and everything..I was totally appalled by the memior..as true and as real is this is today I think the memior was played up a little more than what could have happened. I thought it was a good story and gave plenty of details to make you think you were right there with her..but I would have to say I personally think it would be something a girl would enjoy more than a guy..even though a guy could relate, but would have to totally turn it around to where a girl wouldn't like it as much...so pretty much I think it was a good story, but not for me.

On the other hand I enjoyed "Us and Them" even though I thought the memior was a little weird. The story is about a young girl trying to figure out this family...the Tomkeys...the story makes out that the Tomkeys don't have a TV as it is weird..as a view from the young girl..I simply shows how closed minded the girl is. I don't know if the family didn't have one because of some religion or money issues..either way it doesn't matter. I just feel that the story was good, but had a weird way of expressing the moral of the story that life isn't easy and that one should treat others equally as they would like to be treated..but isn't leared at first but later in life through choices made.

The Little town I am from

The town I am from is nestled in the middle of no where...seriously everything is at least thirty to forty five minutes away. Most people are good ole country people who usually hunt fish and gossip. Lafayette, TN ,where I am from, is all about sports and mainly football. There is always a homecoming parade for the team and every game is packed with hard corr fans. The team hasn't really had a good season in years and when they did it was years before that. The Town has two sides to it , one is on Hwy 52 which is where Wal-Mart is...and yes it is mainly the center of the town. Recently we have gotten some fast food places other than Hardees and Mc Donald's. When Krystal's came in..it was the largest grand opening that the town has ever seen. Cars were lined up for more than a 100yds in the road ..just to get a burger..like they had never been there before.

The other side of town is more of the older side of town and has more mom and pop type business. Most people have nothing better to do on Friday nights than to ride around town and honk at each other and circle sonic a hundred times and waste hundreds of dollars in gas. This unfortunately I am very guilty of tho. because it is actually fun until you realize you have to refill. This town is a great place to live and I haven't appreciated it until I left. I would like to move off to a larger city, but this town will always make me want to come back even tho I hated it in High School. So, if you ever wanna swing by somewhere on the scenic route then just go through Lafayette Tennessee ...it won't take long..Trust me.