Rob's Workshop

I really like Post Secret. I haven't liked anything as much as I like Post Secret in a long time. I just spent two hours looking at the whole website. So this is what people are like.
I have a lot of secrets, I'm realizing. I wrote down a bunch. I want to send them all. It was surprisingly easy for me to choose one today in the workshop though.
I wonder what the world what be like if people said everything they felt. If I were God, I would make that the first commandment. Maybe not. If everyone told everyone their secrets, there would be no Post Secret, and I really like Post Secret.

Books- Day 4

I didn't do much in the workshop yesterday. I think I went into it half knowing that I wasn't going to get anything done. Firedrill Fridays are always pretty lazy. I did enjoy sitting around and talking, though. It's true; it did take me three quarters to get completely comfortable in Stac, but now it's so sad to think that it's going to be over. I guess I can't fully appreciate this group of people since it was my first year, and I have nothing to compare it to, but even without comparison, I know that this year was pretty awesome.

Karl 3

We finished our first books today. It was awesome! They look like real books; I mean they are, but they came out better than I'd expected. Now, we're onto coming up with our own big book projects. I know that I'm going to put my poems in it, but I also want to make my book really fun and be able to go a little crazy with it. My mission is to come up with an idea for a book that is challenging and interesting but doesn't overpower or contradict the actual content. Good news: I think Karl will actually remember my name now that I kind of yelled at him a little, in a nice way. I always see people not remembering my name as a reflection on me and my tendency to be all quiet and shy. Maybe it's just a hard name to remember.

Project

I am going to write a short play, and I want it to be performed at Stac Night. I really want to see something I write performed; I'd love to see what other people can bring to it. I haven't written a play before, but since I saw Stac Night last year, I've wanted to see something I write there. This week, I'm going to start, but not finish, a play or two each day, and at the end of the week, I'll choose the one that I'd like to keep working on.

Workshop 2

I'm getting really excited to put some of my poems in my own book. It would feel like ten times bigger of an accomplishment to put them in something that I make. There's something amazing about having a book I made filled with content that I wrote. I can't wait to finish the first book we're doing for practice and to figure out what I'm going to do for the bigger project.

Books With Karl

I find this workshop to be incredibly useful. I know I'm going to be writing for the rest of my life, and being able to make my own book and organize my work in it as final pieces, even if it's just for me, is so much better than just having loose scraps of paper and messy notebooks laying around. I can see that once I get the hang of it, it's going to be a pretty quick and easy thing to do.

Book Presentation

I was much less nervous about giving the presentation than I thought I would be. I was pretty comfortable talking about it because as I was reading the book, I would usually talk about it after I finished a chapter or two with whoever was around and tell them what I just read and what I thought about it, so I felt like I had kind of done this presentation before. I didn't go up as prepared as I might have wanted to as I didn't have a powerpoint or index cards or anything, but I think that that helped me to focus on the things that I actually wanted to talk about. Had I had more time, I definitely would have spoken about Wittgenstein himself because I found him incredibly engaging just by what the authors wrote about how engaging he was. I know I probably talked about myself more than I talked about the book. Other than that, though, I'm happy with how my presentation went.

Giving up Facebook

Today, my friend told me that her sister gave up facebook for lent. Therefore, I am initiating my own lent; I'm not going to go on facebook for forty days. I know I can do it because I don't have a choice; I had a friend who won't give in to my begging change my password. I figure nothing bad can come out of my not going on facebook anymore. So I'm writing this for two reasons: alternate form of procrastination, and making it official. In forty days, I'll be a new gal.