Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Happy Halloween!

I'm going to Purdue for Halloween. A majority of my friends go there, and they are excited for all of us to get together and have some fun. I usually take my sister trick-or-treating, but this year I thought I would take a break from that and dress up myself. Being a college student, I don't have a lot of money to spend. So I decided to raid Goodwill. I ended up finding enough items to complete the Tom Cruise Risky Business look.

Yes? No?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

I Love Fall

Research Paper Cont...

We came up with a topic. We decided to go with Smoking In Public Places. Pretty much our arguments will center around why smoking should be banned in restaurants, bars, etc. We are also going to include an opposite point of view as to why it shouldn't be banned, but we will counter argue these points as well.
My sources will include articles written by doctors about the harmful effects second-hand smoke has on a person. I still need to do some research to have a more powerful argument.

ALSO; check this out
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Research Paper Assignment

So far, my group and I haven't started on our paper. I don't think any of us know what to do yet.
I need to read on the wiki to try to get a better understanding of what's going on... I sound so lazy.


But anyway, I'm sure we'll get started on it today and in class. I have a few questions and I need to start thinking about a topic. I honestly wanted to write about the legalization of weed, but I guess that's not relevant.. lol

Friday, October 8, 2010

Over the river and through the woods...

I know that homecoming is this weekend, but I would rather go home.

My grandparents have several apple trees that are ready for harvest, and I just can't miss out. Every year my family gets together to pick apples and make apple cider. Quite a few of our friends join us as well. We spend most of a Saturday climbing, picking, mashing, and (best of all) drinking and eating. We drink so much apple cider that our stomachs hurt and eat so many candy apples that our teeth stick together. The weather is usually perfectly mild, so we don't mind staying outside all day. It's nice because around this time of year the leaves are changing color, and it's all so beautiful. By the end of the day all of us are dirty, sticky, and tired, but we all know it was worth the work. For the following months we have enough apple cider to supply an army, and plenty of apples for delicious Thanksgiving apple pie. I'm going to take pictures tomorrow and post some here on Monday!