speeches and papers

not too much is new. i suppose i live a relatively boring life, or a blur. i just got out of class a couple hours ago. wednesdays are definitely long days for me. i go to school from 8-3, then from 3-6 i have my speech class at the college, then from 6-9 i have english 1102. i had my rough draft for my first term paper due tonight for english. i had to write a research paper on one of the aspects of william faulker's "barn burning." i chose to write about critical reviews that talk about an omniscient narrator in the thoughts of sarty from the past, present, and future. that was a hard paper to write because there was a very limited resource of critics that had valid information. everything i googled all came up essays that i could buy so i could only use a source through the community colleges called linccweb. it turned out ok. not my favorite paper to say the least. the short story was pretty good though.

on the other hand, i am working on a series of speeches for my communications class. we all had to pick a broad topic that would be the basis for all of our speeches throughout the semester. i chose fiber arts. i am very excited about this class. i like the professor a lot and even though i had a full schedule as it was, i'm glad i picked up the class at the last minute. the only thing is the professor can be a little boring and very repetitive. our first speeches are informative. we have to have two main points so i'm gonna do spinning and knitting and talk about different aspects of the two. then in a couple weeks from that speech we are doing a demonstrative speech. i'm really looking forward to that one. i think i'm gonna bring in a wheel and show the whole process from roving to yarn. the first speech only has to be five minutes. i think if i had to do a spontaneous speech on knitting and spinning i could do it in over ten. it should be a breeze and fun. plus, most of the people in my class don't even know what fiber arts are. how naive can you get. but maybe i can educate them on the joys of working with fibers and creating something by hand.

a couple days ago i sent in the deposit for my tuition at the university of florida. so i am officially a florida gator now. then on monday i filled out the housing information and signed the contract which i sent off with a check for that deposit. i'm getting very excited. now i need to start really working on scholarships and filling out my fasfa forms and stuff.

this is my first choice for a dorm. it's murphree. it's in the historic part of campus. also while it's pretty like the others, it was renovated in 2005 which is nice. my friend who lives there now said it doesn't make that big of a difference, but what my thoughts were if i'm sharing a bathroom with a floor of other girls, i would want new pipes for the plumbing as opposed to one with old plumbing.

i have the next two days off of school which is really nice. the county fair has been going on. we basically have school off because all the students who are showing cattle are given the two days to get them ready and over to the fair. so they put two different teacher work days for the next two days. i haven't stayed at my dad's house since i started working on saturdays so i'm gonna go spend the night there then with my mom on friday morning. it works out well cause now my mom will have company coming back home.

i haven't had any time to do any knitting or spinning lately. maybe over the weekend i will be completely caught up with all my classes start working ahead some so i'll have time for the joys in life.