Halloween

For Halloween, I am being a Kroger employee...Mostly because I'm working tonight. I'm actually at work right now while posting this blog. I have never seen Kroger this busy-except for Thanksgiving weekend. Not to mention the air conditioning is broken so we're all roasting in here!

Recently, the FDA banned flavored cigarettes known as "cloves." This ban comes attached to the FDA's new tobacco law. I believe this policy was created for the wrong reason and is combating underage smokers in the wrong way. To write this persuasive paper, I plan to research further into the entire new tobacco policy. The FDA's reasoning behind this is flawed and unfair. It is not treating adults that are of age to make their own decisions regarding smoking like adults. I plan to send my argument to a magazine or maybe even the FDA.

Public Writing

Public writing is when an author writes something for an audience, intended or not. I think our class blogs are an example of public writing. Our intended audience is usually our classmates, but anyone around the world can read them. Since the writing is open to the public, I think responses are welcomed and those responses have a lot to do with how the author writes.

Snapple

Personally, I believe that the Diet Snapple Peach Tea is better tasting than the regular Snapple Peach Tea. I think it has more of the peach flavoring in it. When I compared the two side by side, the Diet Snapple just outperformed the regular Snapple in so many ways: Texture, taste, sweetness, deliciousness, and even appearance. And with this test, I confirmed my preference for Diet Snapple Peach Tea.

Test

I just about forgot to schedule my test for my telecommunications class. When I tried to schedule the appointment in the computer lab for Sunday, there were no available spots. By this point I was worried because I am going back home for the weekend and we can only take the test on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I am leaving tomorrow after my last class so I ended up taking the last spot available tomorrow...at 8:00 am.

Sister

This weekend I get to see my sister that lives in England with her husband. I also get to see her son, my nephew. I haven't seen them since Christmas last year. My nephew's name is Tristan. Hopefully Tristan will remember me from his last visit, but he is pretty young. I am bummed that I won't get to see my brother-n-law. The United States Air Force cut his leave short, so he won't be able to come visit us. I won't see any of them until Christmas next year, so I hope this weekend is a good one!

Multimodal

Last night, I finished my first draft of my multimodal assignment. I made a video about protecting endangered species and their environment. I know I still have much to improve on, but I believe it is a good first draft. I am especially fond of the music in it. The song is called "Adiemus" by Karl Jenkins.

Conference

Yesterday I had the one on one conference for our English class. I found to be very helpful. We worked on my rhetorical analysis paper. I plan to make many of the changes we discussed to my paper for the final portfolio. Professor McArdle and I also talked about the upcoming multimodal assignment. We pondered the idea of music as my topic, but more specifically the question "What is music?" However, before I do a project on that topic, I think I need to do some more thinking on my personal stance.

Multimodal Assignment

I have begun brainstorming ideas for the upcoming multimodal assignment. I have not given much thought as to what my topic is going to be, but I know I want to create some sort of video. I am already very familiar with iMovie, so that should make this whole process easier. I have also thought of creating some sort of audio project. Perhaps I could incorporate and audio project with the video. I still need to figure out what my topic is going to be. I would like a topic that I am familiar with, but would like to learn more about.