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English: Tonga College students performing a Kailao dance; photo James Foster 1988.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday I had my first English 101 class, and the first assignment was to start a blog.  We're supposed to read an essay in our textbook each week and post our reaction, and we have to write another post about our writing each week, too.  I think my writing's okay (I'm actually good at grammar, thanks to my mom-- she went over everything I wrote from the very first time I wrote anything, right up until two years ago, when she died), but I'm kind of nervous about blogging, since everyone says that anything you put on the Internet never goes away.  I don't want to put something on here that makes me look like an idiot for the rest of my life.
Anyway, if you want to know more about me, check my profile.

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It’s Later, so Here’s the More, as Promised

Ultron takes over Iron Man's armor.
Cover of Iron Man vol. 3, #48.
(Jan. 2002) Art by Udon.
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Only the second week of classes, and I almost fell behind already.  I forgot about this blog.  I remembered about 10 minutes ago while I was brushing my teeth.  Not sure if there’s any connection there.  Anyway, about the lesson I had in not naming names.  A person of my acquaintance (is that vague enough?) recently lost his (could be her, but I’m going with him for convenience’s sake) job because of comments he made about the business that employed him.  No, he wasn’t complaining about them.  He was kind of bragging, and gave away a hint about something new coming from them.  They took this as him giving away their “secrets,” and that was that.  I don’t think he knew that they were reading his blog.  I’m going to be very careful from now on.  And yes, this entry counts, because it’s about writing and audience, and I’ll get to my project in the next entry.  I’ve pretty much settled on Avengers:  Age of Ultron, but I’m not sure about my approach.

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4 AM Reflections on Writing, of all things

English: Scan of Ellesmere manuscript of
Canterbury Tales. The first page of
Knight's Tale. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I'm so stressed over my project and my other classes that I'm having trouble sleeping.  I woke up at 2:30, and I'm not having any luck getting back to sleep, which sucks, because I've got an 8am class today.  So I've been doing what I usually do, surfing the web, and I came across a blog posting on FlickeringMyth.com, which is a film site that is big on s/f and fantasy-type films, especially ones with a high pop-culture quotient, like The Avengers.  Anyway, they had a retro-review of A Knight's Tale that must have been posted by another insomniac, and I decided to comment on it.

This is a first for me.  I've never commented on anything before, and even now, it kind of makes me nervous, just the way this blog does.  I would never have started a blog on my own if it hadn't been a requirement of a course, because I feel as though I'm asking to be judged by others when I put my work out there.  It's uncomfortable, thinking about strangers reading what I write, but I guess doing this blog all semester has made me less worried about what other people think of my writing.

Still don't feel sleepy.  I'll try working on my draft some more -- no point in wasting this time. 

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