Yes... I used to take notes in class

Have you ever looked at your notes from class? Like reeeeeally looked at them? OK let's be honest with ourselves, most "notes" are 50% educational mumbo jumbo, and the other 50%....well that's just your basic doodles, musings, and well, anything else that's not taking notes. As I sit in CSIS...well basically anything, I find myself drawing pretty swirls through all my notes that I did manage to take, or do other things... Like write a blog post, no joke, this is me in CSIS349. Today, just in case you doubt me or are especially curious, we are learning about how if you come up with something, they'll name it after you. For example, the Hamming Code, which was somehow related to parity bits...my notes are too scrambled to make sense.. Lol

I find that the notes' issue, for me, started in high school, when I copiously wrote down every single word of my teachers ever said, especially ALP. For those of you who don't know, as I suppose no one else does, ALP (or the Autonomous Learners Program) was a class in which I had two teachers, Mr. Gau and Ms. Pederson, who smashed Social Studies and English classes together and then did some really super hard interdisciplinary stuff. And yes, it's just as fun as it sounds. Back in those days, my notes looked something like this:

I'm not going to lie, this used to make my life really extra easy on test day, but those were the days that I didn't study before Foundations right before the test. In Maple Grove Senior High lingo, Foundations is the same thing as homeroom. I decided to include a picture of myself and my Foundations teacher, D. Nelson, but he turned to the side right before we took the picture... To all my foundies peeps, this next picture is for you.

 

Now, back to the task at hand, my notes, or lack thereof in my case. I think for sake of clarity, I should tell you all that this is the second consecutive class period that I've been writing this post...so it's obviously a riveting day. But I think that I should show you the whole point of this story, the coup de gras as it were: a picture (Microsoft Paint representation) of my notes. I promise, it can't be as bad as I make it seem... I hope.

I kid you not, this is what they look like...I even break out multiple pens and/or markers to make them this awesome. I think we should all take this time to answer my first question: have you ever looked at your notes? Answering only for myself, I have to say that I do. Not only because they have valuable information on the top half of one page, but they are quite interesting pieces of art.

So to all of my three blog readers: check out your notes. Got anything interesting?

My best friend in the whole wide world

First thing I want to address in this, my second blog post, is that I did in fact come up with the title to this blog with the help of my hilarious best friend, Rachel. She makes my life better all the time and she makes me laugh uncontrollably pretty much every time we hang out. I should mention that she has her own blog at http://rachelrebex.blogspot.com and everyone (i.e. my current 2 followers) should check it out because I love her!

My first real blog post shall be about the day we met, and what a day it was. As I recall, I was attending my older sister Mary's cub ball game. Cub ball, as I feel I should explain, is a little kids version of softball. In essence, your coaches pitch, and all you do is run the bases and hit the ball with zero aim because you really have no idea what you're doing.

To return to the story at hand, I was at my sister's game, and I was not about to watch the whole thing, so I, along with my little sister Sarah, decided to go play on the playground. An unremarkable decision to be made by someone this young (as far as I remember, I was like 5) but it would be one to change my life forever. As it were, Sarah and I were playing on the slide, but since she was so little, it took a bit of coaxing to get her to come down the slide. She was afraid of the slide, and she didn't want to go down, so I slid down before her to show her how easy it was, and to show her that she'd be safe. Alas, my attempts were for not because she still refused to go down the slide.

All of these problems became totally unimportant when all of the sudden a big meanie came and pushed my lovely little sister down the slide. As I watched in horror, I saw a little girl just nonchalantly sliding down the slide after her, and unbeknownst to me, this little girls older sister was on my older sisters team...and I was not a fan of her...or so I thought.

I met this girl later, and she became one of my closest friends in the world, because, she had a valid point. This valid point becomes the moral to my story: If you're going to sit on top of a slide, be prepared to be pushed, because it's meant for everyone's enjoyment...not just your own. HAHA Sorry, that's just a really bad moral, but it makes sense, at least it did in my 5 year old mind.


I, and I suppose Rachel will feel the same, hope you enjoyed the story of a chance encounter that would build a friendship that lasts a lifetime. :)

If I could only explain...

If only I could explain how much I didn't want to want to wake up today...but I did. I knew that it very well could be the worst decision ever, but I thought it was worth it to expand my educational horizons. Everyone who knows me knows that I love to learn. I love knowing how things work, why they are the way they are, etc. But all of this is beside the point. This is my first blog post, and I know all of my soon to be avid readers will love it! :)

If I could only explain what I was thinking when I started this blog. I'm working on what I want it to say; I think I might include some Target antics, but I don't know for sure. Basically, I just want it to be entertaining for me, and for anyone who may read it. I may include some super geeky computer things, but all things considered, that tends to bore people...

Anywhooter, that's all that I have for now, just a short introduction to what I want to do. I have some posts that I'm working on, and they're going to be amazement! Just wait and see...


To be continued.....

love,
Katie <3