I've been wanting to make a post for quite some time now, but it seems like every time I go to do so, I just can't muster the words I want to put on paper. In a way, I think, it's because I've been trying to write to a level that you'd find in an OO every single time I post - if not because it's organized, but because it's written with purpose in ( Read more... )

(This post is officially a work in progress. I'm looking now into making all of my posts into real stuff that isn't just completely off the top of my head, but writing that I've bothered to develop into an essay I'd be willing to share, or perhaps even convert into a speech. So, until I add something about this being a finished post, consider it ( Read more... )

The upsetting thing is that, this year at KFC, I didn't come home with this profound message to share. But the truth remains that it was still great, and my family group was Totally Awesome! Seriously, we were the Totally Awesome Pirate Krew of St. Croix in North Carolina! I'd Tap That... Service ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out which is true - whether I'm blind now or whether I've been blind for years.

(My apologies to everyone in Owen's AP English class; this has nothing to do with Flannery O'Connor, but the title worked for what I wanted to say ( Read more... )

For once, it'll be an entry without a planned purpose or whatever. Funky. (But, yes, this one doesn't have a planned purpose - that last one, though, didn't have such a disclaimer ( Read more... )

Mmmm, funky. My mind has apparently been hijacked again. I'll let you draw what you can from that.

I wasn't going to write this post. Seriously, I was going to give the benefit of the doubt and just ignore the post - I got a few lines in, and then decided it was way over the line and completely unnecessary. But, boy was I wrong. Once again, my feelings on this topic were stirred up and, well, I decided I had to mention it. Plus, it's kind of ( Read more... )

Ack ( Read more... )

So, a bit of background. In TOK, we're writing ethics essays and she suggested using the topics we had done for a logic exercise. Now, for the purpose of the ethics essay, I didn't want to do the topic I used for my logic exercise - which was, in a nutshell, measuring someone's intelligence objectively. I didn't want to write an essay over it - ( Read more... )