Davey Jone's Locker

      Hello boys and girls and everyone else. This has been some rainy weekend, huh? I personally love the rain. Not being out in the rain or anything like that, but sitting inside listening to the rain with a candle going, it's very somber and relaxing. The downside however is that it makes me feel extremely unproductive. I just want to sit around all day and essentially do nothing, just laze about and enjoy the experience of listening to the rain.     This year I have decided to do things differently than I have in the past, I used to put academics above everything else, especially my mental and physical health. I have decided that from now on I'm just not gonna do that. I push myself so hard all the time that I don't really know when to stop until I'm completely burnt out, then I have to take a vacation to the grippy sock hotel. I am no longer going to try to be the best because I know I am not. I am not the smartest or the most hardworking or any of tha...

      Hey everybody how are we doing? Listen, lately my time has been consumed with getting a speech done that I had procrastinated. Okay, well I also took a long time picking my topic. It was really hard to find something that interested me enough that was informative and not controversial in any way. I finally decided to do the history of beekeeping. It ended up being quite an expansive topic.      Why didn't Harvard say anything about how they were making robot bees (Robobees)? I just looked them up right now and.. hm.. They are just little sticks with wings. I don't know what else I expected.. I thought they would look like bees.. I don't know why I thought that. Maybe because of the name Robobee I expected it to look more like a bee, this looks like it would be in some Spykids movie or something.      I learned another really important thing with this project, and that is that I hate giving speeches. My mind instantly blanks the sec...

           Alright, I went into this documentary completely blind, and knowing I hated cults, and I left the movie hating cults even more. The scene that is stuck most in my mind was the last video Will recorded of Andreas to show the group. His cold piercing eyes staring directly into my soul, is quite honestly bone-chilling. I saw no soul, not a single thought was going on in that mind. What a complete sociopath. There is no way that man has any empathy for any human beings.      I sat there going in waiting for things to start going wrong. It took around the halfway point for the darkness to start creeping in. This documentary does an amazing job at starting off making this place seem like heaven on earth, but then slowly drags you down into a disturbing hell.      One of the main questions I have are about the "The Knowing" rituals. I wonder why these people felt like they had actually met God. I know Andreas was not r...

             When I first jumped into the assignment of writing the personal essay, I wanted to write something exciting and inspiring. Then I soon came to realize how much of a struggle it was to remember and write about it for 4 pages. Now, that isn't to say I've never had a good memory every in my life, I surely do have people and things in my life that I enjoy, but I also wanted to use this assignment as an opportunity to share a bit of myself that I don't normally do, just for the sake of it not really being important to getting to know me.      I always try to be personable with my writing, and I'm happy I was complimented on this blog for my excellent writing, but I don't think I'm as much of a good writer, more-so my brain works differently than others. There are good and bad things to that though. For example, a bad things is that there can oftentimes be miscommunications in my life (like in my personal essay) because I express...

                This week has been kind of hard for me. I don't know, life is always hard huh? When is it supposed to get easier? When I'm back in a diaper and can barely remember my own name? Yup, that's when I'll finally be free from the shackles of capitalism.      It has been a long time since I've had this many writing assignments at once, and it can be mildly overwhelming. It's hard to keep track of everything from this personal essay to a couple speeches I have to give. It's a lot of writing for someone who prefers math. I'm very surprised to be considered a good writer, because it feels like I'm never doing any of this right and I'm just winging it.      I do think that all of these writing assignments in such a short amount of time will hopefully speed up my productivity. I take forever to do writing assignments, I just want to make the piece of writing perfect. However, that is nearly impossible, s...

       I am somehow struggling with this personal essay (is that surprising at this point?) For some reason I find it hard to think of what I want to write about.      I'm sorry to stop so abruptly but I am trying to get my work done in a coffee shop, and of course today of all days  some people are deciding to host a trump rally "for freedom". I don't understand what's free about honking your horns and screaming at the top of your lungs in everyone's faces about what you think they should do based on your interpretation of a religion most people don't even follow. This country breeds such a specific type of entitlement in people. No, you are not out here doing the lord's work by telling people they're the same as Nazi soldiers for simply wearing a mask. I'm sorry WHAT are you even talking about. these people haven't read a single scientific article but think they know more simply because they don't "follow the norm". Then tho...

      Hello, welcome back. Let's just jump right in, redrafting this microtheme has proven to be quite a challenge. I knew it would be from the start though, no matter the length of the piece. It's hard to simply analyze things, as I feel as though from the beginning of my time at school, I was constantly told the importance of problem solving. The problem with that, is that we can't solve every single thing we come across. I was in quite a few classes in high school where I simply wasn't allowed to say "I don't know", but there are some instances where I genuinely don't know. That is why with this assignment it's practically the first time I am told to leave the paper open-ended. No resources, no evidence, just simply speculating. I sort of enjoy it, it being the ability to let my brain open up to multiple different reasonings. A lot of my school-work has been more so absorbing certain information rather than interpreting things and thinking for m...