Fantasy!

I can honestly say that I will miss this class, although I am looking forward to next semester because of the HARRY POTTER CLUB!!! My friends and I have been thinking of some cool ideas for it so you should definitely join THE BEST CLUB EVER!

I really enjoyed everyone's presentations today at the student conference, although I did not see any of the videos because they weren't playing either of the times that I went to watch them. :( But I'm sure they were awesome!

I just wanted to share some fantasy related creations that I made in pottery this semester!

Saphira sculpture:


Hogwarts relief sculpture:

And Now for Something Completely Different

So since this is my last blog I really don't know what to write. However, I was laying in bed listening to DBSK (bottom left) and JYJ (bottom right photo) who are Korean boy bands... (yes boy bands) and I was suddenly struck with a desire to actually write a poem or song or something so I did. They are a major inspiration to me in multiple aspects. They show me what real devotion is to do something that you love and stick with it no matter what gets thrown at you (JYJ used to be part of DBSK but due to record company complications they are now separate). Their music is the purist I have every listened to and I have never seen a band perform so emotionally and passionately on stage as they do (even out right crying at times) and they care for their fans as much as we care for them. This ode to JYJ and DBSK is random and my first ever attempt at writing poetically... so enjoy!

Touch the center of the sky
reach with all your might
hold it close, keep it tight

I have found my center within you
You will always be held close and kept tight
right next to me
You will never be afraid again never be cold again
you will always be worm I will always stay by your side

Touch the center of the sky
reach with all your might hold it close,
keep it tight touch the center of the sky
your love is as wide and pure as the ocean is blue
you are my center you are my shining star

breathing in everything that is you
taking in everything that is beautiful
I fell like I'm at the center of the sky when I'm with you
never give up never give in

until you Touch the center of the sky

This is my destiny!!!!!

Just in case you wanted to watch it over and over and over again...






Have a great break everyone!!!

Philosophy: Rediscovering and Analyzing Common sense

So after the class that John Z was all like "Time is like a pendulum," which I thought was a really cool idea, I started thinking that hey if that holds truth than our lives are predetermined and we do have a set destiny. For if time is like a pendulum, then after it comes back and starts going forward again the same exact set of events will happen all over again. In fact, this could be our millionth time living this life. I could have written this exact same thing at this exact same time a million times before. And for who ever is reading this (I'm sorry) you've done so a million times. It is my destiny to write this for the rest of forever. I continued to think about this when I suddenly had an "oh for Christ sakes" moment and realized that this was a Futurama episode where Fry gets caught up in one of the professors crazy experiments and goes through time in a time traveling vehicle (great episode).
My next really short topic, (short because my brain has been fried by finals week and all I can manage to work up in my imagination is Chemistry equations) Will be about god. I think it's wrong to consider that we can do anything wrong. If we are the creation of god, the all mighty, all knowing, can't do anything wrong created us in his image god then it would be insulting to think that we would have flaws. There is no such thing as playing god. For example when Victor Frankenstein created his creature thing it was not an act of playing god, it was an act of god himself.

This Concludes my Philosophy in fantasy Lit and the rest of my mental power.

Happy Holiday Season Everyone

So this is going to be my final blog for the semester. Im putting in something slightly different, I know we have been talking a lot about destiny in class recently but I think I will spend this blog and talk about something that is more related to this time of the year. Everyone is getting extremely caught up with stress from finals, projects and finishing up the semester. Some people are nervous about going home and others excited. But no matter how we all feel we are all going back to our families and friends for the holiday season. Each holiday season we all do crazy fun holiday traditions. Our traditions include anything from cutting a Christmas tree to singing Christmas carols family. My little sister and I each year always make gingerbread cookies together. We blast the Christmas carols as we dance and sing around the kitchen while we bake the most amazing cookies in the world. I can remember as a little kid, thinking that the cookies were taking forever to bake, but now I realize that is really is not too bad. The house is soon filled with the beautiful smell of gingerbread and everything is cozy. Now by this time there might be some flour on the counter and dirty dishes in the sink, but the kitchen has not become a disaster zone yet, that is for later. Once the cookies are done we wait for them to cool, as they cool we start to hunt for what we want to put on our cookies. Well my mom is a health freak so it was always weird things like raisins, organic M&Ms, and almonds. Once cookies were cold enough to decorate the fun would begin. I have always felt that the more sugar on the cookie the better, while my little sister is the complete opposite. My cookies would be a crazy mess and hers nice and neat. There would be frosting and powered sugar everywhere, I would be laughing and she would probably be grumpy because I had gotten frosting on her. But it was always good fun and happened every year. It is one of those traditions that makes the holiday season special for me. Now why do we have these silly traditions? Well these are what create the holiday season special for each of us. Now I don’t really know why I am writing about holiday traditions . . . I realize that it is not completely relatable to our class. But I guess I just want to say to everyone that it was a great semester, travel safely, and have fun at home during our wonderful holiday break.

Oh Nuggets!

Well I guess this is it, no more discussing crazy philosophical ways of life with the lot of you. A sad day indeed. Though I must say it will give my brain a bit of a rest; thinking about the meaning of life and other dimensions is really quite frazzling! But it was a good time all the same. I leave you with an assortment of pictures that I feel represent the semester we shared with each other.

http://portent.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/odd-statues.jpg

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/57500/Odd-Tree-Incident-57872.jpg

http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Gross/strange-toilet-candy.jpg

http://mydisguises.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/strange-kids-costumes-2.jpg

Some food for thought

So this is probably a horrible idea that I'm writing this at 1 in the morning. But! I noticed that I was slacking on my blogs, so I decided that I needed to write one. And what is on my mind right now is why during the holiday season everyone decides to get happier and nicer (generally speaking).

I've been putting this through my head and tossing it around a bit and have come to the conclusion that humans need to have a reason to get us through our lives. We need something to get us through day to day situation and something to look forward to at the end of the year. The holiday season is just that. Every time it comes around we spread cheer and joy because we have made it one whole year, we have fought through whatever struggles we have over come that year and we have made it to be reunited with whoever it is that we spend the holidays with and we can celebrate. Life sucks, it's a rough things to go through. But we go from year to year, looking forward to the end just so we can start all over again and say 'that's right life, I made it through 2010. Bring on 2011 and give me your best shot.'

If not for looking forward to the end of the year and saying we have just made it through one more year then what else can it be? Honestly I'm kind of curious what everyone else thinks. I'd throw out the aspect that Santa Claus is (of course) going to make all your wishes come true, except.... I'm 99.99% certain Santa isn't real. So that kinda takes out that option.

Or maybe it's just that we need to believe that we have a purpose in life and that purpose seems to come out during the season of giving. Which society has deemed (silently but unanimously) that we all need to be nice, giving and go out of the way to help strangers at this time of the year. This therefore gives us purpose.

*disclosure* I am not as evil as I sound during this. I love the Holiday season. It's my favorite time of the year except for the fact that it's cold. I just really was trying to pick a topic and I couldn't stop thinking about Christmas.