Week 8 Famous Last Words

BOOMER SOONER!

I am so pumped about OU/TX this weekend! It is going to be so much fun and hopefully we actually win. Okay, okay… yes I am still harboring a grudge about our loss to TCU this past weekend, which should not have happened let me tell you! But I think that we are in it to win it for the rest of the season, hopefully. My favorite part about OU/TX is the fact that my father went to UT. It is probably the only time of the season when our love and passion for football really comes out! We attempt to keep it friendly and civilized but what can I say, we love our teams and we love to win. Last year I actually went with my parents (they are the coolest and most fun people to watch football with, don’t judge) and it was hilarious! I sat with my friends for the game on the OU side while my parents sat on the UT side. I met up with them after the game and I could hear my dad whistling “Texas Fight” before I could see him. When we finally did meet up, the man was so happy he started saying “BEER FOR EVERYONE!!” Obviously we did not buy beer for everyone, but it was just so much fun how happy he was… but that does not mean I want to see him that happy for this weeks game! Not even a little. I’m hoping they are all boo hoo –ing.

Beat the Hell out of Texas! (Source)

In other Jess related news, I have been having more and more people tell me that I remind them of Jessica Day from “New Girl.” I am thinking that it is just the name but I am actually very much of a silly person (when you get to know me). Just for funzies, last weekend my roommate and I decided that we would have a bouncing party on the couches in our living room and then ran around our kitchen island. It was a good time! We have also started cork wars! I have no idea how this came to be but we like to try to hit each other with wine corks from across the room. It turn into a while running/chasing thing, with strange hiding ideas involved. Fun and painless way to have a battle. 

Week 8 Reading Diary

While looking back at my reading diaries I found that their main purpose for me was to compile a list of my favorite stories from that unit, write a summary over those stories, and sometimes I even discussed over all themes and ideas. This allows me to see the stories that I generally have ideas over, or that I enjoy, or that I want to talk about later on in the week. Occasionally I will include ideas on how to do a storytelling over one of the stories in that reading unit. This is incredibly helpful especially if I am working a week or so a head because it is a little reminder of the ideas that I have for telling that story and often jogs my memory or gets my creative juices flowing. My reading diaries are really just the notes I take while reading the stories from each unit. It allows me to compile a list, in a sense, of what I though, how I felt, ideas I had, and so forth. Generally I refer back to my reading diary when I am writing my essay for the week. At some point in my essay I like to discuss something about the reading I did for that week or about the story that I read. The reading diary is more of what the story is about and what I saw in my readings, while the essay is more how I felt about the stories. By including the summaries of the stories that I like I am able to use that summary in my authors note for my storytelling. Being able to know the summary for your retelling is a very important step and should probably be the first one so that you have an understanding of the retelling. All in all, I think I am doing okay on my reading diaries. They are not perfect, but they are not horrible. Sometimes they are a bit messed up, but my brain thinks of a million things at once so that is to be expected.