Bug’s Blog

   Feature Blogging?

  What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you’ll die?

I knew what I would write about the moment I got the prompt from my teacher that read, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” 

     I would go on rollercoasters!  I have always wanted so badly to go on rollercoasters, but I am just too afraid.  The smaller rollercoasters I have been on I have loved, but when it comes to rollercoasters such as Superman and Batman and the ones that flip and do cockscrews and those types of things, I freak.  I know that if I was brave enough to try just one of them, I would love it, but the problem is that I get way too anxious and can’t handle waiting in line.  The waiting gets me so worked up, that I also have to get out of line and miss the ride.  I know it sounds stupid but it’s true.  Most people think of anxiety as something you get in school, but I don’t feel it at all at school, only in lines to rollercoasters.  When I was younger I would go on anything I was tall enough for and loved every ride I went on, but now that I’m older, I think too much about it and can’t do it.

     I am working my way up though so that before I die I will have been on Batman and Superman.  I went to a carnival with a friend and I went on my first upside down ride!  It was awesome, but it wasn’t a rollercoaster.  So now I am trying to go on some of the bigger wooden rollercoasters.  I’ve been on ThunderBolt, so next is Cyclone.  I still have to go on Boulderdash and WildCat.  I hope to have one day been on all of them!  

Person 1-  How did you spend your time differently without a computer?  My mom spends very little time on the computer when she is home, so her home time she does not spend much differently.  Her work time, however, has changed dramatically.  Ironically, she says, computers were supposed to make things faster and easier, and in many ways they do.  On the other hand, they have made her day longer since she now spends time responding to emails of parents, sending more frequent grade reports, and trouble shooting the problems that always arise when using technology.

What things were harder to do without a computer?  Her Christmas cards!  She now has all her addresses in a database and prints labels to put on the envelopes instead of addressing the envelopes by hand.  She can also send mass messages to contact many people at once for things related to her job.  Finally, map quest makes it much easier for her to get directions to places she wants to go. 

What was easier to do?  It was easier for her to come home from work and relax since the computer wasn’t “calling” to her to check to see if there were any new emails or to update her website.  The computer also takes up time and creates frustration for her when it doesn’t work right and she is counting on it to get some things done.

How has the computer affected the way you live and work?  As a result of computers my mom says she now has to multi-task more than she ever had to before.   She feels like computers make it easier to access the whole world, but when a person can access the whole world, it feels like there is a responsibility to do more for that world.

Person 2  - How did you spend your time differently without a computer?  My father watched more sports on t.v. before computers.

What things were harder to do without a computer?  My father’s job, especially the yearbook was much harder to do before computers.  He used to have to draw the whole thing out by hand.  Typing was also much harder to do without a computer.

What was easier to do?  My father couldn’t think of anything that was easier to do without a computer.  If it is something that is easier without a computer, he still doesn’t use it for that task.

How has the computer affected the way you live and work?  He found that he can be more creative at work using the computer.  For example, he now can manipulate photographs, change the color, overlap photgraphs, and change the size with the click of a button.

  Person 3-  How did you spend your time differently without a computer?  My uncle said that he read more books rather than going on the computer.

What things were harder to do?  He said that it was much harder to advertise for his business.

What was easier to do?  He said it was easier to remember to do things instead of being held up on the computer.

How has the computer affected the way you live and work?  As he said before, it was much easier to advertise for his business. 

Brand blogging?

How to make a rainbow salad!

Reds: Tomatoes, Strawberries, Red Peppers, Craisins
Oranges: Carrots, Cheddar Cheese, Mandarin Oranges, Cantaloupe                                        Yellows: Eggs, Yellow Peppers, Corn, Squash                                                                          Greens: Cucumbers, Peas, Kiwi, Celery                                                                                    Purples: Red Cabbage, Beets, Black Beans, Raisins                                                                      Whites: Cauliflower, Croutons, Parmesan Cheese, Almonds                            

Now pick one fruit or vegetable from each category and add it to a bowl of greens and chow down!Also, if you add sweet raspberry vinaigrette dressing to your mixture it will taste great!  Write me back which ones you would use to make your rainbow salad. Many of these ideas came from an American Girl Magazine which is a great magazine for girls that has many fun ideas.

         One of the comments that was left on the The Top Ten Scariest Nightmare Themes said that they thought falling off a really tall building and waking up just before you hit the ground is the scariest nightmare they ever had.  Well just this week I was talking with my friend and we somehow got into talking about dreams.  Without me even bringing up that nightmare he said to me, “I think the scariest dream I’ve had is falling off a building and waking up before you hit the ground,” I was shocked when he said that and he continued with, “because  my science teacher told me that when that happens it means that you are in such a deep sleep that you are near death and your body wakes you up.”  So Tayzo, I hope you don’t have that dream again because I love you!  The same to everyone else who has had that dream.  Fortunately, I have never had that dream myself and I hope I never do.

        Hundreds of elementary school children crowding into one room.  Teachers yelling, panicking, and trying to hold it together in front of the kids.  Children scared, some even crying, but none really knowing what was going on.  The television is blasting, but a little second grader in the back couldn’t see it and was trying to  get around people to find the front of the room, and her big brother.  A teacher shouts,”Oh, my God, the other one has just been hit; it’s coming down,” but she doesn’t know what’s being hit and coming down  About halfway through the crowd she spots her brother.  She yells his name and runs toward him.  He spins around and quickly lifts her up.  She can finally see.

        You have probably already realized this, but if you haven’t, that girl was me.  Now, I don’t think that I have to tell you what I saw on the tv that day.  If it had happenened two weeks earlier, I probably woulldn’t have been as shocked as I was.  But it didn’t happen two weeks earlier, and I was at the twin towers the week before they came down.  Another thing that keeps this memory so fresh in my mind is that one of my friend’s moms had taken a plane flight that  day, and the girl was crying, worried sick that it was her moms plane that had crashed.  My parents are high school teachers so they couldn’t come pick me up from school like everyone else’s parents did.  But I didn’t mind too much because I had my brother and I wasn’t as much scared as I was upset that all those people died.  But I should have been scared.  At the time I didn’t know what to be scared of.  Now I realize that it’s as simple as one word-WAR.  It is hard to believe that the war has been going on for that long too.  It is not a happy memory, but I think that it is a memory that I shouldn’t let go of.  If don’t remember it, soon it will be like it never happened, or like it’s not important anymore, but that’s wrong.  September 11th should always be remembered, no matter how bad those memories are.  So no matter how hard it is: REMEMBER.   http://www.91101.com/view_91101_stories.phtml  http://www.september11news.com/ 

This is an example of list blogging:

1. The classic “I forgot my pants this morning.”

2. Running.

3. The color red.

4. Seaching but not finding.

5. Possessed dolls.

6. Imposters.

7. Betrayal.

8. Icky snakes.

9. Crawly bugs.

10. Being chased.

Reply to me which you think should be number 1.  I think it should be being chased.  I got this top ten list from http://bin.baylor.edu/top_ten/index.php?id=143

Wow, this was a really hard question.  I’ve been thinking about this one question for days.  I’ve been thinking about people and problems that they have that I could fix with a simple wish, and while I was thinking about this I realized that there are so many people that have all different problems that make their life either mildly hard, or even extremely hard.  So by now I bet you’re wondering who my wish is for and what it is.  I’m now almost positive that I’m making the right choice but giving my one wish to my brother.  I would wish for school and every aspect of his life to be easier for him.  He has dyslexia and putzeager syndrome.(I didn’t spell that right but I wrote the way it’s pronounced.)  His dyslexia make school extremely hard for him and he tries so hard in school that he still earns A’s and B’s and the occasional C.  You probably don’t understand how incredible it is for him to pull off these kinds of grades.  Let me just put it this way, He has the reading and writing ability of a first grader and I’m not exaggerating.  My brother is 15 going on 16.  His putzeager syndrome means that he has trillions upon trillions of freckles and he needs to get a colonoscopy at least once every year.  The freckles make things hard for him because he has been made fun of countless times for them.  It is hard for me because I’m good at school and dance and piano and just about everything I try so it makes him feel bad that I can help him with his homework and I’m better at most sports than him so it’s emmbarrassing that his little sister is smarter than him and can beat him in sports.  I get so much attention from my parents because I’m smart and the way they see it, good at just about everything and I think that sometimes my brother feels bad when I get so much attention.  So I think the wish I made for him is the best possible wish I could have made.  Most people don’t have putzeager syndrome and they’re lucky, it’s a really hard thing to deal with, and so is dyslexia.  My brother has both.