Agh....

Yesterday could have been the worst day of my life. For about a week, I was anxiously waiting to hear the news from my mom about her biopsy results -- she had an irregular mammogram. Sunday night, subconsciously restless lying in bed, I couldn't fall asleep until about 1 AM. I woke up at 5AM from a nightmare, the first I've had for at least a year. During lunch I fell asleep in a beanbag chair in the library and woke up about 10 into the second half of 5th period, Algebra 2 with Lamping. He was rather pissed upon my arrival, I could tell. After he finished lecturing, he approached my desk with a rumbling voice, "Where've you been?", he asked.
I could have easily told a lie, such as: "I had an emergency and had to go the bathroom", etc.; Rather, I told the truth, as I'm cursed to always do, and admitted to have nodded off in the purple beanbag chair next to the children's books in the IMC. Tilting his head, he told me I was truant.
So, now I have a 2-hour detention sometime soon. But luckily, the day got better when I talked to my mom and she told me that her test results were OK. The petty truancy issue melted away.

Mr Lucky Duck

Great Job!

Snow day

Spent the entire day inside with my mom. Accomplished nothing other than making some memories and saving a ladybug's life when I was in the shower. The ladybug had what looked like eggs on her back, all the more reason to let her crawl onto my finger and place her on the windowsill. There were a couple of instances today when I thought, "Hey, I should put that in my blog!", but then forgot what my idea was. One thing I do remember was when I cut open the seed pod of the mango I had for breakfast and tried to plant the seed. We're out of soil, unfortunately.

Into the Wild Finished

Just got done reading Into the Wild. I loved it, to say the least.

Into the Wild 3

Read for about 2 hours last night. Almost done! I loved Krakauer's story about his journey to the summit of Devil's Thumb. I laughed loudly too when Chris's insurance forms he filled out in South Dakota read, "Iris F***you" for the first and last name.

Into The Wild 2

Second post for John Krakauer's "Into the Wild". So much has happened so far I can't even differentiate one detail from the next. Chris is just heading for Alaska now from South Dakota. My favorite part so far in the book is when he is canoeing across Mexico into the ocean. This part, I think, has the best imagery, and I also love how Chris's journal entries are in 3rd person. Such a adventurous book, though. Planning on finishing it either tonight or tomorrow in detention...... From last semester's tardies. Haha.

"Into the Wild" 1

This is my first post for my reading of "Into the Wild"

So far it's really interesting. I read it whenever I can in school, even though I've gotten myself into trouble by reading it a couple of times. The plot, to me, is an idea that has always been genuinely interesting to me. The book is basically an look into the very true stories, travels and eventual death of Chris McCandless. Chris, who changes his name to Alex, decides one day to completely abandon his sheltered, middle-class life in Atlanta and treks west. His intent was to live off of the land completely. He burns his money, leaves his car in a park with the keys in it and sets off on foot with only a 10 lb bag of rice, a field guide to edible plants and the shirt on his back. He didn't have a direction, really; However, immensely inspired by Jack London's "Call of the Wild", his goal was Alaska, where he dies. The book began with an account of the last person to see him alive then the next chapter is the finding of his body, which only weighed 67 lbs at the time of the autopsy. So far, again, it is an amazingly detailed and original story.

Taken in the gardens behind the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Really beautiful place in the fall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bomkgXeDkE < Probably one of the funniest things ever

"Creativity": Another 11 pages

a whopping 7 pages really doesn't sound like all that much, i know. it would, however, if you knew exactly how potent this book is. each paragraph, no, each sentence is enough to make you think for a little bit. i realize now that i'm probably going to have to take the reading of this book into moderation; for it just requires more mental endurance than i am willing to dish out every school-night. i'm probably going to start reading "into the wild" tomorrow, just to help balance it all out.

"Creativity" log #1

I have begin to read "Creativity: the magical synthesis" for my Etymology class and have come to find it extremely intriguing. This book basically covers every aspect, idea and question of the psychology of creativity. So far I've read an overview about the difference between spontaneity, originality and creativity. As it went into the explanation of spontaneity it mentioned a technique used in psychoanalysis called 'free association'. This is what really made me want to keep reading. Free association, as it explained, was where the patient would lay down and completely relaxed his/her mind and simply say absolutely that came to mind; Any images, ideas, sounds, theories, etc., would pour out of him/her as pure, raw creativity. The process, to me, is one of the most interesting things I have ever come across, and it was only page 7. More to come, for sure.