1. Technology is in our every day lives. It is almost impossible to escape some form of online social network such as blogging, Twitter, Facebook or Youtube. In each of these networks technology effects the writing that takes place. There are diffrent places where certain writign takes place so I feel like technology does effect my writing. I think that when I write online I am more informal than I would be in a academic paper. It is almost like a conversation between friends becasue I use a smaller vocabulary and I do not watch my grammar the same way I would if I werent online.
This informality on writing effected the place I chose to write about because my tweets were informal and about my family instead of an academic topic like something from the news or history. I think online forums gives people a chance to write about things on a personal level. It seems safer to write a blog about your family problems than to expose that out loud to a group of friends. It is less judgemental therefore safer.
2.  I feel as though my online identiy is slightly different than how I am in social setting and in class. My classroom identity is a composed, reserved and even down right quiet person who does not contribute to classroom discussion unless she is absolutely sure she has the right answer. In personal/social settings I am more "unplugged" in a sense and I am not afraid to be wrong or be creative. My online identity is a informal/formal person who is highly aware of her life and personality. I think being online gives me the confidence I cant muster up in a classrooom.

1. Do you think I have a consistant theme/overall idea?
2. Does my twitterive flow well? do all the seprate parts work as a whole?
3. Is there any point where you are confused with why I felt a certain way? should I make things more clear?
4. Should I change my "place" to something else? is family the wrong "place" for this piece?
5. What parts/ genres work and which dont?
6. Does it end well or is something missing?

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Patience

its running thin,

paper thin.

see through like

the veil you wear on a

wedding day.

as opaque as

wet water paints

with no consistency

or solidarity.

my patience is

disappearing, into a

vapor that is

evaporating,

forming clouds

above my head;

that hangs low, hiding

among the lacey thin

mess I call patience.

Dee Light
Age: 20
Wieght:
Hieght: 5'8

Old injuries:
 broke wrist at age 5.
 healed, but could pose a risk in her fights.
over use of the wrist may result in permanent joint damage such as artheritis or tendonitis.
this will result in a loss of JT flexibility and use of wrist.
It is dangeruous to overuse any muscle/joint in a sport.
Dee should ice it regularly and do wrist workouts with her trainer 5 times a day in order to promote full healing and overall wrist mobility.

Possiblity of  performace enhancing drug use: Dee Light has been training to be a fighter her whole life, but there are some concerns among the doctors in my practice because her forearm muscles have grown larger in a short period of time and her diet is not acceptional.
She should be gaining weight with the foods she eats, however she only gains muscle.
Noted N/V
DDX being evaluated
overall Ad Lib

Overall Evalluation: Dee light is fully able to participate in this fight. She is healthy and there is not yet proof of performance enhancing drug use.


Phil Stonethroat
Age: 20
Wieght:
Hieght: 5'11

Old Injuries:
old injuries include dilated/ weak pupils
may cause blindness/ nearsightedness or farsightedness
ability to see is impaired
needs protective googles/glasses for fight

Possibility of performance enhancing drug use:
tested for muscle building steroids before able to enter in fight
came back neg
no drug use

Overall Evalluation: Phil is able to fight.

"This ones for all the marbles! We have got the mecca of fights going down right here!  The tension can be cut with a knife! Our fighters both have something to prove! This is the true underdog story of boxing!"
"Boxing in her 58th fight we have heavy weight champ DEEEEE LIGHT!!!!!! She is 5'8 and hails from Flourence, Italy. Not only is she defending her heavy wieght title, she is the KO champ with 31 of her 49 wins being a KO. Fighting against this tough as nail chick is newcomer PHIL STONETHROAT!!!!! He is new to the game of professional fighting with no real experience other than being grade school champ back in Hammonton, the blueberry capital of the world.This will be a good fight everyone! Be prepared to see the heavy weight title fight. WHO WILL BE OUR NEW CHAMP?"

These next two blogs will be focused on an in school project called Heavy Weight Title Fight: this time it's for realsies. Each student was assigned a character that goes along with a boxing match. I was given Ringside Doctor and Ring Announcer. I will be posting blogs from each characters point of view.

My place is "family" so far because I have noticed that my main focus in life is family. I feel like my place is more of a mental place branching off of my family because it is not about my house, it is about the people I live with.

1. Who: The characters in my story are my dad, me, my sisters Belinda and Ally and my brothers John and Dominick. There are a few other characters such as my mom, who is mostly "gone" from the place of my family and my step mom who plays a role in my families past, but is not there in present day. However, the effects she had on our lives is lasting.
2. What: The connection I feel to my place, or family, is a strong one because I am very family oriented. I have always been there to protcet my family and help them grow.
3. When: It is present tense, but mostly done in flashback form. Like I am looking back on the things that made my "place" so important to me. Starting as far back and whe  I was 11 and my parents got a divorce.
4. Where: The place as I have said is my "family" it is more of a mental place instead of a tangible place.
5. Why: This story happened becasue I was rambling about the pressure I feel as the oldest child and from that ramble I found that my place, where everything in my life is centered and familiar is my family.
6. How: It was on my mind so I wrote it out after noticing that many of my tweets were of a "mental" place, I decided that my twitterive would be

After reading Anzaldua and choosing the line from her work I created a story from it. I think my story is diffent in tone at least, but similar in content. I used a line that was in spanish that translated to "And you know what he did?". The tone of her work was more serious and my story was more pensive and curious. Her main character was strong and intense, but the main theme was the boundary language can set between people. Also when I made my micro fiction from my tweets, the tone completely changed from idle information into a story about distraction and white noise. After completeling these two micro fictions, I began work on the found poem and the haiku. The haiku from my microfictions, is so different from the stories becasue it is shorter and more intense. I found using less words made me think more about the meaning I was trying to convey. I wanted the reader to get a sense of open, emptiness and the narrator was okay with this. Also in the found poem I feel like from my tweets I created a jouney from the place of a jeep. Its like a road trip but more focused on the raod trip of the realtionship. I found it was hard to arrange my thoughts into  a poem.

I used some of the titles of my favorite Paramore songs to make a poem, just for fun.

Hallelujah

I caught myself,

brick by boring brick.

Conspiracy.

Faces in disguise,

feeling sorry.

Here we go again.

Just Like Me,

misguided ghosts

never let this go.

When it rains,

we are broken.