Tats

Once again, I surprise myself! I seriously did not think my presentation would go over as well as it did! I had everyone laughing, they were engaged, and when I was done; one guy said "I'm not following that!". LOL. I don't get it, maybe it's the way I presented it, I don't know. But yeah, another score for me. My only concern is the actual slide presentation, ironically, I didn't get all techy with it like the other guys. No animated text, or flipping pictures. The emphasis, I thought, of this assignment was to keep your presentation simple and on point. So that's what I did, in my head anyways. :)

The other presentations were interesting, I thought. This one guy did his on a Tattoo artist named Paul Booth, I think. His tats were weird! I think it's called "dark tattooing", or something like that. Nothing as hot as these though! Enjoy! ;) peace

Follow The Trail Of Yeast

This is for my new troofer pals.

And this is my video BTW

Not RAMs. Mine.

How did they know Orange is my favorite non-primary color!

Also this-

Tease

So my presentation is whack. Like, it's bad, I don't even wanna hear that it's not. I know, I didn't put the effort into it. Here is what happened. Last week, we were told to write down 3 topics, a person (could be fictional), a place or event, and something abstract...like, glue. So I picked, Red Cloud (Lakota Chief), Sturgis Rally (event in the Black Hills, I've been), and golf balls. Right? All stuff I'm in to! Well she asked that we hand them in, so we did, and then she re-distributed them back to us randomly!! ugh! I got Matt's, which was Luke Skywalker, Pearl Harbor, and sunglasses. *sigh* We were to pick one topic. I have no interest in any of those! If you don't have interest, it's hard to get into research. So anyways, I thought I'd be creative, and I touched base on all 3 with an emphasis on Pearl Harbor, the city, not the event...because that's just been done too many times. And, I don't know, I don't think it came together at all, and it's lame. Our grading is mostly how WE present it, as opposed to the actual slide show, so we'll see.

Thanks to Becullen from Twitter, it turns out I have a certain pair of shorts that um, well...they represent my "junk" quite well. It's my Twitter avi. *sigh* This blog has just went in a whole new direction. I had no idea, but now that I do know, I'm using it! In any case, so I'm wearing those shorts tomorrow, a tight t-shirt, preferably a bit see through, and will flirt shamelessly with my teacher in the hopes she loses focus on my lame presentation while I'm up there! It's a desperate bid, but my presentation calls for desperate action!

So enjoy the tease I hope to give tomorrow! Hope everyone had a great holiday and has an even better week! ;) peace

Songs of Sunday

Rolling in the Deep - Glee version. Jonathan Groff's voice, holy crap!! I liked this version a lot! I think they did a good job. Hope everyone had a great Sunday!
;) peace

Shut-up Stupid Sunday: Parajournalism and arms length fiction

I doubt there was ever a time when fiction and non-fiction were ever truly separate forms of writing, but there was a time when it was considered the norm to try. Parajournalism, using fictional techniques to set up a non-fiction story wasn't considered real reporting. Walter Cronkite's “You were there” series was a teaching tool, not reporting. Michael Moore's “Roger and Me” was an art film about the emotional impact of GM's outsourcing not a report on the outsourcing itself, Tom Wolfe's books were rightly considered fiction about real events. I don't even want to get into “fictional memoirs”.

Fiction used to have Donnee, or an unwritten assumption, and looked out from the main characters worldview even if the character was flawed or outright deranged. The trend is now towards standing back and watching the main character, more like a movie camera following the action than the writer being god of the world they have created.

Now reporting has turned into the host telling people of their opinion and using the guests as props and in fiction the omnipresent voice is considered bad form. So the tones have completely crossed to the point where fictional situations are viewed objectively and actual facts are viewed subjectively.

The reason is laziness. In reporting it's easier to form the story first and pick out the facts that support the story than to go through all the facts and find the story. In fiction it's easier for the reader to follow one voice than hop in and out of people's heads and have someone speaking over their shoulder as well. It is really easy for an writer to leave the reader baffled as to whose head we are in.

So to all the parajournalist and arm's length writers, I say, “Going the easy path is a fine start, but reporting and writing are professions that means you must be constantly improving your skills. Reporters have to learn to report not give editorials on the events and writers need to learn to write, not report the images they see in their heads. It's not easy but truly worthwhile things in life never are.”

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Today's Weather...

...started cold and gray, and ended sunny and cold. :) Works for me!
Was a lazy day, I did try and go work on my presentation, but didn't feel too motivated. I did get it started though, so I'm happy about that. I'll finish it tomorrow, or at the very least, get it halfway done. The cool thing is I'm not all that nervous about presenting anymore, while at least in this class. Probably because it's just 7 of us, and I have Matt. Who btw tries to freak me out before I present, because he knows how much I hate public speaking! lol, ass! He doesn't do it to be mean though. He just teases me. Plus all the other guys are tech guys, except for 2, but they're hella cool. So yeah, this class isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Plus the teacher (the one whose husband flirts with me, and which is why I think she hates me) is hella cool this term. Turns out, we both are not morning people, so we have that in common. Just a few more weeks and I'll be done with my first year! Awesome!
Enjoy! ;) peace

Quickie

Enjoy! ;) peace

Belen Sogliano - Miss Mundo Uruguay 2011

NAME : Belen Sogliano
AGE  :  18 (pageant year 2011)
HEIGHT  :  1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
HOMETOWN  :  Montevideo

TITLE(S)  :
* Miss Mundo Uruguay 2011

MAJOR COMPETITION(S) :
* Miss World 2011 
* Miss Uruguay 2011 (Winner - Miss Mundo Uruguay 2011)

courtesy photo of Aureliano Fernandez , neturuguay.com

Fernanda Semino - Miss Universo Uruguay 2011

NAME : Fernanda Semino
AGE  :  18 (pageant year 2011)
HEIGHT  :  1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
HOMETOWN  :  Montevideo

TITLE(S)  :
* Miss Universo Uruguay 2011

MAJOR COMPETITION(S) :
* Miss Universe 2011 
* Miss Uruguay 2011 (Winner - Miss Universo Uruguay 2011)

courtesy photo of Aureliano Fernandez , neturuguay.com 

Famous People - Chris Hemsworth

I went and saw Thor today. I highly recommend, there were a couple cheesy parts, but so worth it for this god who walks among us! Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, it was worth it to see him shirtless! Seriously, he tried on a pair of jeans in the film, and I about lost it. Also he has hot legs (hospital gown scene), and his biceps are as big as my head! Here are a few pics of him, and the trailer for Thor. The 2nd pic is from the movie, I don't think I took a breath during the whole scene! Enjoy! ;) peace

The Trailer for Thor.

Oooh, the shirtless scene is in this trailer!!