Ms. Hernandez

I always find these blog topics way easier than a random one. I hate having to babble on and on about something i dont have four hundred words to say about. I feel like I’m repeating myself. You also see more into your classmates personality by reading their blogs because peoples writing does somewhat tell you a lot about a person except when their page doesnt expose who they are. It kind of sucks that some people have disguised tumblrs be ause then you cant see who youre relating to but I guess I respect the privacy and mystery of my fellow classmates so I guess its cool.

PROCRASTINATION: Something everyone does no matter what anyone says everyone procrastinates, you know you have before at least once in your life. I've came to the conclusion that today is the last time I procrastinate. Realizing that you were trying to avoid the school work or whatever it is until last minute to avoid stress. While trying to avoid it you just create more stress and pressure if its last minute so why continue doing it. It just puts you off track. I'm focusing more the rest of the semester on school and work and some ball. Then once schools over work and ball and then comes VACATION. I cant wait until school is over. Im really trying to travel this summer. Maybe go on a cruise with my friends, or go to Cali. I really want to go on a cruise because the only place out of the country that Ive been to was Canada. The Caribbean or maybe Jamaica would be the cruises thatd be a must. Being in tropical weather and on a huge boat sounds amazing right now, especially because this buffalo weather is so unpredictable.

The sculpture that caught my eye the most was called Miscommunications by Magda Gluszek. This is a sculpture of a man and a woman standing back to back. Both of them have a dragon coming out of the center of their back and their turning to each others dragon whispering. The sculpture surely fits the title. They're back to back like an argument and they're both being indirect with each other. The dragons could also represent evil or anyone and their problems to who could even misinterpret information and that won't solve anything if their telling everyone else but each other the issue. This relates to logos because logistically most people would agree that men and women don't see eye to eye all the time. Ethos doesn't really apply to it, just the date and artist. Pathos relates to it because miscommunication is an emotional thing and its a mind trick and the more people misunderstand each other it eats at them. I like this because it describes people in general too. Another sculpture I saw that just looked funny and interesting was called The Boar Incarnation by Tricia Cline. Its a woman's body with a boars head laying with a snake under a lamp. I would think it means she literally laying with a snake that's just going to turn on her one day. But incarnation is a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality according to Google. So maybe it means you could be the boar in one life then the snake in the next. Or you could be a god/goddess in one or a spirit in the next. I'm not really sure of the message in this sculpture but I like how it gives you a lot to think about. Another piece I liked was the canoe. There were a ton of holes in it with the missing circular holes underneath it. The entire thing is covered in tape like the tape was trying to patch the missing holes up. The canoe is hanging from the ceiling. I like how its just floating there like its peacefully floating on water. This was my third trip the the Burchfield penny and I'd say that this trip had more interesting displays up so it was more fun.

Something I'd do to change this image would be to change a tank into a computer and one behind it a cellphone. Basically seeming like they are trying to take over. I feel like the internet is starting or seems to me like its taking over. You ever notice in a room full of your friends that everyone's on their phone more interested in that than a real conversation in person.

In life you quickly realize that not every part of it will be good at the same time. For example say school starts your doing well but then your arguing with friends. Or you're doing really well in whatever sport your playing then your boyfirend or girlfriend giving you relationship issues. Whatever the case may be there always has to be a downside. I'm starting to get use to this realization I've had because the downsides are what help you learn how to better yourself and deal with certain situations. Right now bettering myself and focusing on what I need to do, school and work, is the goal. The focusing on myself part goes with me officially being done caring about what people think. Everyone at some point cares or cared what the next person had to say. Not one person can deny that. Caring what others think usually only makes you self conscious and holds you back on things that you would never know could be huge opporrunites. Its just unwanted negative energy and best to not let an irrelevant opinion make or break you. But on to basketball. We ended up losing play offs on Tuesday. We played New Paltz. We beat them before so we knew it was possible. In my opinion we were the better team. They played dirty. Not as dirty in the play off game though, probably bc of all the regulations. We lost by like 24 and we were only down 3 at half time so it was basically zero, zero. Which means new half , they beat us the first half now its back to zero so it was our job to win the second half. We were obviously unsuccessful but we played a hard game and all we can do is try to get further for the seniors that graduate this year. I realize I talk about basketball a lot. Oh well ball is life. I just can't wait til next season. I'm not too amped about the beggining of the season bc of all the conditioning so I have to make sure I stay in shape because I can't go back to hefty Harriet. My least favorite conditioning was 8-6-4-2-1. Its running the width of the court back and forth for those numbers in a set time frame. The first is usually around a minute and 20 seconds. Goes down about 20 seconds each time. Just thinking about it makes me cringe ha!

This past week was somewhat a busy one. Much like the start of the new semester in general. This is the time where I've been most busy with school , work, basketball, and trying to maintain a social life. It may be annoying but I need to get things done. This week we had two games. Tuesday was against Geneseo and Friday was against Fredonia. We lost to geneseo. But Friday was a big day for the seniors considering it was senior night, and our pink game, and we needed to win this game to be in the play offs. We ended up pulling it off and getting the W. Both the men's and women's basketball teams won. We had a great weekend since our teams are kind of close. Then comes saturday, Valentine's day. I don't really care for it honestly, its just a regular day. I had plans to do mad things but it didnt work out so I spent it with friends. We went to Pano's for breakfast, just chilled for awhile, then went out later that night. There was no better way to spend it! Then todag , Sunday I had work from 10-7. A long ass day of making pizza dough and preparing pizza. I'm just glad we have these two extra days off for presidents day. Its definitely needed. Onto school, I like my classes this semester. I only took four classes so I wouldnt feel so flustered with homework. I rarely get homework at all this semester and most of it is in class work. Its just hard to organize yourself and time In college. It makes me miss high school but I like college and all the opportunities it brings !

This semester in writing I thought it was going to be horrible. Simply because of my high school English teachers. They'd always say "college writing is a huge step from this stuff so if you dont pay attention or try then you'll do horrible in college, because they don't care." They were wrong. This class was no where near hard, it was easy as hell. And Mrs. Sullivan cared about the reasonable things. From the beginning of blogs they were always pretty simple I just usually would have trouble getting 400 words because I wouldn't have much of an opinion Or much to say on some of the topics. I would say my writing got better though throughout the semester little by little With fewer minor errors. I just need to use larger, better words to have more mature writing but other than that I think I'm progressing well in writing I may not love it but I'd say I'm pretty good at it so I'm starting not to mind it as much.