hi blair!

so summer break has started...not sure how much blogging i'll be doing...i guess we'll see what happens...i'm also pretty sure i'd have to actively tell people i'm blogging again since no one reads this anymore...or just keep it all a secret...

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i was waiting at the bart station today and a fellow with an accent asked me how to get to a certain stop...i always like helping people so i walked him over to a display of the bart lines and pointed out where we were, where he wanted to go, which train to take, etc...then i hopped onto my train and sat down content that i did a good deed ( Read more... )

time for my last story...i'm not sure if i saved the best for last but it is the longest...at the end of the quarter, we had to submit a portfolio with our favorite things we wrote, reasons for why we chose them and a reflective essay...we also had to do a second draft of one of our two longer short stories taking into account the critiques from ( Read more... )

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i was cooking the other day and some drops of oil splattered out of the pan and onto my arm...usually that's not a big deal and just stings for a bit before i brush it off...this time though, it must have been a large drop of oil because it ended up burning me...it even caused a tiny little blister for form...so now i have a thin red mark about a ( Read more... )

ever since my sister moved out of our house, i've picked up some of her duties and have been cooking more...my brothers both work and come home relatively late so i have to make dinner pretty much every night...as a person who didn't really cook before, i wasn't too worried...over my lifetime, i've watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of cooking ( Read more... )

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story time again...halfway through the quarter, we stopped having reading and writing assignments and moved onto writing longer stories...everyone had to write two stories in the following weeks...before everyone's designated discussion day, the class would receive a copy of the stories, take them home, read them and write a one page critique... ( Read more... )