Personal Statements equal failure for me. My undergrad entrance personal statement was the same way. I mean I don’t really remember writing it but I did somehow and then my dad totally re wrote it. I mean the basis of it was still my thoughts, just not the words. But that was like five years ago when I still held to the idea that I hated writing. Now I have no other excuse other than I suck at writing personal statements. But what does that mean? I actually had to look up what a personal statement was…cause I guess I just didn’t know. I mean yeah it might seem simple, a personal statement is a statement a person makes about them. But what the hell does that mean? To be honest I still don’t know. :/
So I’ve been trying to hack something out but I just get stuck after every sentence and right now it just reads like a list of things. And that’s not gonna cut it. I know I can b.s. like the pros, but that’s on subjects that I know something about or at least something related to it. My senior capstone paper was pretty much b.s. for a good 10 out of 16 pages. I was thinking of trying to treat it like a short story of my life but somehow I don’t think that would be right. I mean I’m suppose to say why I want the Library and Science degree, but event here I’m not sure if that’s what I’m suppose to do. I wish I could look back on my other statement. But that file is lost…on one the many desktops I’ve gone through in my college career.
*sigh*
I’ll get it soon enough.
So yesterday my internet crapped out on me. We have wireless…well Clearw’re, and for some odd reason it only likes to connect to my laptop when the bill is due. And a week after that it refuses to connect. So I’m more or less using the leasing offices wireless, and sometimes it gets funky when there’s a storm coming about. So for a good four hours I had no internet and I tried working on the personal statement but I got a total of two sentences before I gave up. So me and my mom watched a movie during that time. Hide and Seek, it came out a couple of years ago. I don’t like thriller/horror movies, well I don’t like gore fest movies or movies where a lot of things are popping out on to the screen. If the movie has a lot of gruesome scenes or the killer is a humanoid count me out. I have to much of an active imagination as it is, I don’t wanna to over stimulate it. Same goes for books. Which might be a problem since The Book of the Dead is a thriller apparently.
But Hide and Seek, was one of those few thrillers that didn’t bother me. Overall it didn’t make much sense and I more than sure that I won’t be watching it again. But because of the drama that has happened in the last few months it was nice to do something with just me and my mom. In truth I’m a Momma’s girl, and I don’t really like sharing her. After that I still needed something to do and she was going to watch regular t.v., which I avoid if I can. So I picked up His Dark Materials, the plan was just to finish chapter 2 but I managed to read to chapter 4 and then had to force myself to put it down. I’m really getting into the story. And it feels good, feels normal. Well normal for me. It has been a while since I’ve had a new book to read. Really Guildwars has been the only new thing for me and that has worn its appeal away for me. And plus with the sucky internet connection I disconnect a lot and that’s irritating.
Once I got done reading my internet connection was back and I decided to wander around you-tube. I was gonna do another Project Runway marathon but I came across Season 1 of Project Runway Australia. I know that theres a Canadian version to, under Catwalk…or something like that. But I’ve never been interested in checking that one out and I think its in its second or third season. But for some odd reason I decided to check out episode five of the Australian one. The similarities between that one and ours is great, I don’t think they were even trying to change it up. The hostess is a blonde model, the other judges are a male who wears nothing but black and a brunette women who can be a bit mean, and a guest judge that’s random and sometimes includes celebrities. Tim Gunn is replaced with a Aussie version who is a little bit more stiff. And the challenges are reminiscent of challenges that have happened in the American version.
One thing I did notice however is that the designers are more willing to comment on the others work in a good way. Like every episode so far the designers have said about each others, “Oh that one is the winner for sure” The camaraderie is so high there, even though its a competition. There’s been five episodes so far and only one episode had some drama in it. The challenge was to create a sexy racy outfit using materials from a racing car. They had to work in teams of two and two designers would be coming home. What happened was one of the designers apparently used one of the other designer’s pattern block that they spent 2 hours making for a pair of pants. The first designer was really pissed because the other designer didn’t ask. And by using the block they had shaved 2-3 hours off their work time, and were getting some really awesome pants as well. Well by the end of it the second designer’s team leader was like we’ll restart the pants and it ended up being the guy who took the block to begin with went home cause the second pants he started were horrible and ill fitting.
So I guess I’ve found another show to watch. Although now I can’t remember anyone from the American show for this season so I’m gonna do a marathon of that one tonight.
And that’s all for me…
B.J.
Bianco Jade