non-humans should experience.......

Things I would want non-humans to experience would be:

shopping
making friends
building a snowman and/or a igloo
swimming in a pool, lake and ocean
eating a candy bar. (especially a reeses!)
all the holidays
rap/hip-hop music
television
going to school
family
snowboarding
dance!
having a pet dog or cat
falling in love
applejuice!
going on a rollercoaster
Disney World
playing basketball
traveling around the world
ice cream
bowling
going to a theater
eating at a nice restaurant
Casinos!
partying
strobe lights
the internet
catching a sunrise and/or a sunset
smelling flowers
star-gazing

extra credit blog- my sleeping disorder

Freshman year of highschool I started to get tired more than usual. After awhile, all I was doing was sleeping. No matter if I was at school, home, or anywhere else, and no matter how much sleep I got, it was never enough. It became impossible for me to stay awake for more than an hour at a time before I'd feel the need to sleep again. I would have sleep fits during every class where the extreme tiredness came over me. I'd try my hardest to stay awake and pay attention, but I never won. I would normally only pass out for a couple seconds up to a minute and then I'd somewhow snap out of it myself, or a teacher would wake me up, which made me feel pretty embarassed. My parents brought me to doctors in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but no matter how many tests were peformed on me or how much blood was drawn, none of the doctors could give us an explanation on what was wrong with me. We all started to worry, espeically my parents who feared I had a rarer disease that could possibly kill me, but they couldn't know for sure. Finally someone recommended that I go to a sleep hospital in the cities. So we decided that we might as well give it a try. We went, and after staying there for a day and night, and all the tests that were performed on me, they concluded that I had Narcolepsy. Narcolepsy neither has a known cause nor a cure. The only thing doctors do know about it is what it's symptoms are and that medication can help a person deal with it. I was put on riddelin first, but like many people say, Riddelin made me almost zombie-like. I wasn't feeling any less tired, and found myself zoning out more often. Since I had to visit my sleep doctor every few months, I waited until my appointment to talk to her about it. She then put me on Adderall. Since then I've noticed a big difference from the medication and it defiantly helps me stay awake. It sucks because I'll have this for the rest of my life and I don't even know what caused me to get this in the first place. I'l always struggle with it because I'm always going to need more sleep than most people in order to function. But I'm doing good and as more and more time goes by, I get more used to dealing with it.

Next Semester

Next Semester I'm defiantly going to work harder and be more prepared for everything because I am struggling right now and I don't want to go through the same thing again. This means I'm going to make sure I do ALL my assignments and turn them in on time. And I'm going to start studying for the tests ahead of time instead of within two or less days of the test. If I do good enough this semester and get the 2.8 thats required to start my social work classes then I'll be taking different social work classes along with some main courses like Bio, or Economics. And for my math class I'll probably be taking Social Statistics instead of the general math that doesnt give you a credit because it ties in more with my major plus I do get a credit for it. I think it is common though for freshman to struggle for awhile when they first get here but now that I understand how much hard work is really involved in college, and how everything depends on yourself, like making it to class and turning in assignments on the correct date, I feel i am more prepared for the new semester and a new start to do really good in college like I've always wanted to do.

names and nicknames

To start off, nicknames that have been given to me are : Laney, Shaloon or Shaloony, Shalaney, and a few other similiar ones. These were given to me by both friends and family members. But I can't say why they have given me those nicknames because I'm not them, but they basically just took a part of my name and added something on to it that makes it fun to say. I have nicknames for a lot of my friends though, some are just shortened parts of their name and some of the nicknames don't have anything to do with their name. Their's my friend Christina who I call 'Tina' just because I cut off the first part of her name and it's easy to say and remember. Just like my friend Samantha who of course is called 'Sam', this time just cutting off the end of her name. Or Mitchel, who we all call Mitch. And sometimes the nicknames are from changing around their last name. Like my two friends who are brothers and both have the last name Paulson. We call one of them Paulzy and one of them Peezy, just because it's different and fun to say. Sometimes it can even come from their middle name. Like my boyfriend's sister Samantha who everyone calls Jojo because her middle name is jo and she doesnt like her first name. But then Dan, who we all call 'Jose', is kind of tan and his favorite alchohol is Jose Cuervo, so the nickname was just made up from there. I also have a friend, Marissa, who is bigger and some of her friends nicknamed her 'Moose'. I don't refer to her as this because it's mean even though she doesn't care.
Nicknames are overall pretty cool and are fun to use if they arn't mean in any way.

This semester

As of now I don't know what my grade is in this class but I think that I've been doing pretty good. English is probably my best subject and my favorite too because writing usually comes easily for me and most of the time I enjoy it. I'm glad I took this class because I've learned a lot but at the same time I still had fun. And I love that we don't have tests! As for my other classes, I'm not so sure how I'm doing. I know my first year experience class is going good but it's a really easy class so it's almost impossible to do bad. My urban studies class isn't too bad either. At first I didn't do the best on tests buts that's because I didn't take good enough notes. But I've caught on and I think I'm doing pretty good in that class also. Then there's sociology and ethnic studies which to me are the hardest classes and probably the ones I'm doing the worst in. That's because theres so much note taking and so much that we have to know for the unit tests, and the tests are really hard because they are based on so much information. Overall I think I'm doing ok. I need a 2.8 Gpa this semester to be able to start taking classes that involve my major in social work and I'm a little nervous that I won't make it, but I'm just going to work extra hard from now on to do my best because I will not let myself fail.

have you ever noticed....

Have you ever noticed how so many things that may seem ordinary for some people can be a totally new thing to others. This could apply to basically anything. like people in wisconsin who have an overpopulation of deer and see these animals as plain and boring and hunt them as a sport. This may totally shock someone from say, Florida, who rarely sees a deer and if they do they find it to be an amazing experience. But for the person in Florida, seeing a peacock run around is expected and may even find the creatures tendancy to follow a car around in order to see their reflection, as extremely annoying. But if a person from Wisconsin experienced this, it would be highly amusing and defiantely a time for picture-taking.
Weather is another example. People in Minnesota, Wisconsin and all other states that experience the four seasons see the beautiful colors of fall and get to participate in many winter activities, but hate the weather and would love to live in a place where its warm all year round. Then people from California and other states where it always seems to be summer could travel to wisconsin in the winter and be amazed at the site of snow alone.

Criteria on 'A Modest Proposal'

My oppinion: I neither liked his idea that he discussed, or the way he went about explaining it.



The author speaks in a way that is hard for readers to fully comprehend. He seems to stray away from his topic a couple times, and he uses a lot of Old English which both make reading it rather difficult.

Once I began to understand what the author was actually talking about, I also realized how he approached the topic in a sort of joking matter. He made it sound as if eating poor, innocent children was almost an amusing way to solve the problems for the homeless and hungry people living in the streets.

The authors idea is overall disgusting to me. He speaks of selling and eating children to make money as if they are animals. In a way he is almost promoting the United States to practice cannabilism, which is something that I defianetely dont approve of.