OWW!

1. Students are fairly familiar with all-nighters. I haven't slept since two nights ago and feel like death, yet some people seem to get next to no sleep and do just fine. At what point does sleep deprivation become detrimental to the work? What hazards does it pose on wellbeing? Maybe look at the balance between sleep and good grades?
2. I used to have a heart condition called mitral valve prolapse. One day, the cardiologist said he didn't hear the telltale sound of the condition. Apparently, a decent part of the population has some minor insignificant for of mitral valve prolapse. Might be something worth looking at.
3. I got some hypothermia on the wilderness survival overnight at Boy Scout camp. That night it rained. After some scouts' shelters collapsed the counselors brought us back to the tents. I was unable to feel warm and to fall asleep after getting back and wearing all the dry clothes I brought and making a human cocoon with my sleeping bag. Could look at dangers posed by overnighters.

so sleepy...

Flooded Moat or Flooded Motor

Arthur W. Frank's "Tricksters and Truth Tellers: Narrating Illness in an Age of Authenticity and Appropriation" is frightfully awesome. Not being familiar with the reference, I am reminded of Jawas by Frank's depiction of Levi-Strauss' bricoleur metaphor. In a world striving for uniform personalities and consistent streams of consciousness, readers are allowed to appreciate their multifaceted being in his observation of the complex union of trickster and truth teller. The prospect of saddened author Audre Lorde in view of outraged woman Audre Lorde allows us see the mutual greatness of the sides. Storytelling is the remedy, Jawas rule, and the "one-breasted Amazon warrior" is a bamf.

Periodically Despaltercated

Hey there again. 

Confession is admission of an individual's action to another body. It focuses on exactly what has been done and places emphasis on the individual's decisions and the factors contributing to their decisions.

Apology is the expression of remorse for an individual's actions to the victim and/or affected parties. It focuses on the effects of the action on the victim and the individual's regret.

So what? What is the value of a confession or an apology? An apology is generally only of value to the parties affected by the action as a means of solace. Thus apologies are generally kept private. However, if through confessing, the individual finds that commonly held beliefs and expectations are what prompted the need for the confession, their confession is valuable to their society. It allows outsiders to look in on the individual's and realize the shortcomings and pitfalls of some of their own beliefs.

Banana Sunshine

Hi. My name is Will. I know this is boring and sucky, but we could learn something about writing by reading each other's junk. Who knows? Maybe you or I will learn to write something worth reading.


I read a few of the class's autobiographies and realized that I really don't care where you come from or which school you went to. So although I could tell you where I'm from or which high school I went to, I won't because it just seems like some unnecessary formality.


I can tell you that I'm pursuing a major in Studio Art because it's awesome. I'm looking for another field of study with more stable job opportunities to double major in, but really have no clue what that would be. I like to draw and am getting better at playing the guitar.


My writing in high school never received high marks. Ha! That's an understatement if I ever saw one. It usually got the lowest ones. But back then, I was solely concerned with following the the rubric and never straying from the hamburger model. I believe that through this class, we may learn to create valid arguments free from these restraints. But then again who knows.

"fired a bullet through his right temple" (Salinger).

Things in life don't end neatly. People move, friends change, people die, and 
relationships end with things never being said. In movies and sitcoms, the story 
caters to the general public. The feel-good endings with nary a fault are 
unbelievable! Heaven forbid there would be unresolved conflict. By tacking on 
that Salinger line, I have introduced the reader to an excessively violent scene 
that is completely irrelevant to the previous story. The last line is so shocking 
that to think of my post as a unified work seems ridiculous. It forces the reader 
to conceptualize the bio and ending separately and look beyond the short and 
sweet conclusion they're used to seeing. The reader should determine the two 
are different, and find that the bio is not the same as the ending. By addressing 
what the bio is not, the reader must inevitably ask what the bio is.

So there you have it. The final line spikes people's curiosity and encourages 
readers to take another look at it to find the meaning. Yeppers.

Salinger, Jerome David. Nine Stories. Boston: Little Brown, 1953. Print.