Yesterday, I woke up at 6:30AM (math: 2 hrs sleep) and went to the Get Motivated Seminar. I saw amazing speakers like Lou Holtz, Colin Powell, James Smith (who was HILARIOUS,) Rudy Guiliani, Sarah Palin, and some more. Sarah had some amazingly cute, tall shoes on and she was still only a little taller than the podium. Never realized before that she was such a short lil' woman. Colin Powell was my favorite inspirational speech; he discussed making everyone in every job feel like they're the President. He said to lead by being a humble servant to your followers first, something I hold very strongly.
I got home about 7:30 PM. Both Hubby and I were incredibly tired, and I forced some dinner down my throat, and we went to bed.
Woke up this morning at 8. I once again ran outside to look at my plants. The cilantro looked like this:
When I wanted to plant some herbs, I looked at my top 3 herbs I use in cooking: basil, cilantro, and parsley. I normally have to buy these at the grocery store and they only come in one size: huge. I don't need an entire pound of basil, people! All I need are the two or so tablespoons the recipe calls for! And then it all goes bad within a couple of days so you never cook it all. So that's the reason I'm growing herbs and why I'm growing these specific ones. Not that you care. :)
So anyway about like, writing and stuff. Today I finished up my Literary Narrative for Advanced Writing class. I almost didn't turn it in; I'm one of those people who want to revise it to death. Call it unhealthy perfectionism. (I do.)
This essay was really tough to write, which is weird because it's pretty easy for people to talk about themselves (see entry #1) but I think the trouble comes from talking about oneself without sounding like all you're doing is talking about yourself...which you are. And then comes the knowledge that I thought it was MINIMUM five pages when it turns out it was MAXIMUM five pages. Mine's about 5 3/4 pages. It was at one time over 7, but I found out I was repeating myself a lot. No one likes to listen to me, let alone listening to me talk about stuff I've already said. :)
I kept veering off course during my writing. No, not on the writing page, but with distractions. I'm now caught up on every blog I read, every newspaper I read, every email I could check, and eaten pretty much everything I could have eaten in my house without much cooking. Because, after all, cooking is distracting, and we can't have that!!! :P I probably won't get the chance to do anything fun until Thursday, in which I plan to bake. I'm gonna practice baking the white cake I'm making Brian for Valentine's Day, and I'll probably practice making the gnocci that will be in Valentine's dinner. These two things, I've never made before. So Thursday is a practice run.
See, I've even veered off TALKING about writing! I started talking about cooking!
I just got a new job tutoring students in English at San Jac South. It's pretty awesome. I don't actually get to tutor yet; I'm still in training. Tutoring feels really good, though. Seeing the student come in to the center all nervous because their paper doesn't have any direction and guiding them to make their paper better is awesome. Too bad professional tutors make even less than professional teachers, because I'd be a tutor for life.
So in AW class, we talked today about citation. Citation is one of my favorite things to teach because it's really easy to translate into something people like. Lemme give you an example. Say you like Math and want to learn MLA citation for a book:
X, y. Z. A. B: C, D.
X=Author's Last Name.
Y=Author's First Name.
Z=Name of Book.
A=(Name of Journal if you're quoting an article)
B=Publishing City.
C=Publishing Company.
D=Date Published.
Fill in the blank.
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