PumpkinSeed
MERRY New Year!
I hope this doesn't steal from the spontenaity of the Blog with all the cool features it has (the smileys in particular), but I'm typing this on my PDA lying on my bed.....ok now I'm on the Terlit. Yes you didn't need to know either.
Journals...Why a Journal? My first Journal Started back in 6th Grade. Our techer gave each of us a Blue notebook. She said it was our journal, then she gave us a topic to write on. Ok...not bad. This continued on through the school year, making us write Journal Entries with and without topics. After that school year, I continued to add entries...you could call it my "Diary" I guess. I still have it and use it. I haven't filed it up yet. My memory isn't very great, so I found the Journal to be extremely valueable to me for remembering things. Perhaps I hold onto the past too much, but you'll get that low down in another entry.
So that journal has chronicled this seed for over 11 years! Eventually I started to address the journal to MOM cuz I figured some day she'd find it and read it.
...And mom, if your rading this now, take note, I'd appreciate you NOT reading my blue journal!
I don't think I've ever mentioned having one to her...thought it would reduce the chance of her reading it.
Hardy, you were in my 6th grade class! Do U still have your journal too? Do U even remember that thing?
No, I don't want U to read my journal either!
Anways, you may be wondering just how big this blue journal is....after all it's over 11 years in use, and has a ways to go! It has 96 10 1/2x8" sheets. The only time I really flew through the pages was the months when I had my BIG CRUSH on *****. (I Think i'll spare her (and me) any possible embasment for now by not using her name)
Point being? I haven't journaled much. Only 54 entries I write some entries many months...even over a year apart!
Then in 9th Grade, I bought a Mead "Big Little" noebook for a Journal as instructed by the Teacher of English 1H. (Yes, I used to qualify for Honors classes!)
Then again, in 11th Grade, different High School, same concept...got a 3rd journal. This was the first time I saw a teacher actually grade journal entries! Dude!! Rutherford HS was a trip for me! More on that in another Entry, I guess.
Enter: Fall 2003.
New semester @ FDU, first time I'm taking a Buisness Mnagement Course: MGMT####, "Human Motivation and Behavior" w. Mary Beaven PhD. (Great professor...actually knows how to profess properly!) She has us do group work (HOWDY GROUP C!), and keep journals of what we learn, what happens in the group and to apply it to what we learn, etc, etc.
I wind up mostly using the Journal for writing the "etc, etc." part. I ralize now I was using that journal the wrong way cuz I things I had to chronicle but had no where else I was writing at the time. I don't regret doing the journal that way tho....except it's not very useful tward my Term Paper...which I still have to start and hand in by the 22nd!! I leared lot from it...Iearned how I learn, and how I don't, and a lot of other priceless stuff. (more on that in another entry)
Enter: Psion 5MX, 1st week of November 2003
BIG PROPS to Hardy! During the summer break, Hardy had a good talk with me, got me determined to definately return to college for the Fall03 Semester, and knowing my difficulties organizing my time, insisted I get a PDA, like an affordable Handspring Visor (Palm OS). At the begining of the semester, I figure Hardy's absolutely right, and so I do a little Google search to find a website to help me determine which PDA is best for me. I find a little article, and it compares Palm & Pocket PC, etc...then at the end mentions PDA's with keyboards made by Psion being popular in europe.
What the heck is a Psion???
well Google helped me answer that, and I knew what PDA was for me. The Psion 5MX made in 1999.
Took me 2 months of unsucsessful bidding on eBay, but I finaly got one in my price range for $48.52 (rebraded as an "Ericsson MC218")
ok..I'll try to keep this brief (till a future Entry)
Inspired by my personal goal for several years, and by my "Positive Psychology" class, I began keeping a "Dream Journal" in my PDA.
Inspired by Napolean Hill's "Think & Grow Rich", Gavin de Becker's "The Gift of Fear", and my "Victimology" class, I began keeping another journal on my PDA, which I simply call "Intuition" which can be simply defined as "thoughts that come...whether or not I believe them or think they make sence."
THEN I begin to keep a 3rd journal in my PDA...the one for my MGMT class is now legible!!! I still may continue this for a week or 3...till I finish my Term Paper.
Now the Intuition Journal has been very liberating, and insightful! I think that one may be the most valuable. It's a place to totally let lose. Where spellings and grammar don't matter. Where politcal correctness isn't considered. Where there are no mistakes or regrets. Where I'm getting to know me. I KNOW it's the most valuable of the journals!
I find myself daydreaming less. I think it's because of these journals...the daydream has been transmuted into something of use, and value, and of reference!
Enter: BLOG. (weB LOG.....THIS Journal)
I guess it's the natural progression in my journey of self development, self discovery....natural or virtual...I'll let U figure that one out.
You're in it with me! I'm HONORED at your presence here! It mens a lot! THANK YOU for spending your VALUABLE time here. I won't take it for granted, and I appologize...I wish I could say all I want to say in less words.......of that somehow reading it wont tak so much of your time.
I know...I'll add information how to have your PC read text to you out of your spekersheadhones..
..or I can post mp3's I got from p2p that teach speed reading (which I haven't listened to yet)WHO'DA THOUGHT?
Personlly, I've know of Blogs for quite a while and never had any interest. I thought it was a cool idea but who would want to spill their lives with the world? Who would want to be that exposed and who the heck would want to read it anyway?
I had the same thoughts of WebCams....still think the same actually.
But here I am, sitting on my bed again (yes I left the terlet a while ago) typing away my blog...I'm one of THEM now
"Us....and them......after all, we're ony one of them..."
Well this is me. Hope you're getting something out of this. I hope to keep up all 5 current journals while at the same time getting out more, hanging out more, and experiecing people more!
In 1997, I created my first web page, "Pumpkin Seed's Lair" It was nice, but didn't really have much content. Tripod erased it, but I have a copy on my Hard Drive...It'll get resurected in some form somewhere someday. I always had wanted to add content (words and pictures) to the site...so now I guess that desire is now this Blog. I've yet to decide what pages besides the Blog itself will go here, or to a new website. Stay Tuned! (1:33pm)
Currently Listening to: Tori Amos's "Hotel" from the album "The Choirgirl Hotel"
Currently Reading: Theodora R.R., Gwetchie, & SubZero's Tabulas journals
Currently Watching:
Currently Feeling: peaceful
Whadduya feelin?
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