Famous Last Words: Week 8

We are finally half way through with this semester!  I never thought I would live to see the day, but here I am.  I am so glad this week was short, but the three day weekend was not long enough.  I was planning on getting so much stuff done and work ahead in this class, and of course I didn't.  I did write my statement of intent for one of the grad schools I liked so I guess that's good.  I'm taking the GRE this Saturday, the 18th, and I do not feel ready whatsoever.  My new plan is to take this one and if I don't do well then to take it again in February and take a prep course beforehand.  It's probably not the best idea, but it's definitely helping me to not stress out too much.  I wish they had a testing center in Norman since driving to and from Oklahoma City on Saturday with an 11 o'clock game is going to be really annoying with all the traffic.  I hope that it's not too bad and I'm not stuck on I-35 forever.  I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

I really enjoyed reading all of the storybooks this week.  They are all so good!  Everyone has a different theme and writing style so it makes it really fun to read and see how they progress week to week.  I really liked all of the storytelling posts I read this week too.  There are some really talented and funny writers in this class.  It definitely makes me want to improve my writing and storytelling techniques.

As for my other classes, I really like them but some of them are kind of stressing me out.  My one hour class only has one project that was supposed to be due tomorrow but since no one had anything done the projects are now due next week.  Even though I would rather be done with it, I definitely appreciate the delay.  Once we finish the project we have to do a short presentation and then we are done with the class.  Can't wait!

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Reading Diary Week 8

I have noticed that as the weeks progress, my reading diaries are shorter and much less detailed.  I am still reading the full thing but just not writing as much notes as I had been.  I think it is partly because the stories are longer and some of them because I have no idea what the moral of it was.  The Aesop ones were very easy to write about because they were so short and you could relate in some way.  The Persian Fairy Tales were in no way relatable.  I enjoyed reading them because they were so different and the weird endings were pretty funny, but I didn't know what to put in the reading diary.  Another reason my reading diaries have gotten shorter is because school and my other classes have really picked up and have been going nonstop.  I feel like I have learn how to write the diaries each week or for each new unit.
I think if I wrote all of my reading diaries as well or as detailed as my one for Aesop's unit, they would be much better and I would be able to look back on them and actually remember that part of the story more clearly.  That unit I think my diary was just long enough and with enough detail.
I usually take the notes while I am reading but maybe writing them after would be helpful so that way I have more time to think about the ones I liked and why.  It might also help me to remember them better.  I can remember readings sometimes, but a lot of the times I feel like they all tend to run together, especially in some of my other classes.  In my capstone, we read a lot about dystopian theories and ideology theories and it was difficult to remember who said what because they all kind of overlapped and ran together.  That's how I feel in this class too sometimes.