Heart Day and President's Day Weekend

2/1/10- The Horror of Dracula- The movies of the late 50s were so different from those of our time. It’s amazing to see how filming itself has improved so much over the 50 years. But it was a good movie!

2/3/10- Getting a letter- When it comes to getting a letter, today it’s a rare thing. I myself haven’t received a little in years and even the one I did was from my grandparent who doesn’t own a computer. It’s interesting cause when I receive a letter from her, it’s expected to be in letter form and come in the mail. But if say as we talked in class, a boy was to write me a love letter, it would be different. It would depend on the person from which I received the letter on my reaction to the letter. The time and effort that goes into writing a letter is more than sitting down to a computer and typing your thoughts out. With computers too, it’s really easy to go back and change little things such as grammer, spelling, or even delete entire sentences or say it in a different way.

But then again it’s still kinds weird to receive a “love” e-mail from someone or even a printed out love thing. Our generation is in a confusing position on how to show feelings. Telling someone seems to be one of the only options, but that seems intimidating and a little scary.

216/10- History class- I was sitting in history today, just after turning in huge mid-term portfolio which I have spent the last two weeks of my life completing, but now done. But my professor began talking about our roles and how in different situations we carry on different expectations and identities. I’m sure we have talked about this in our English class, but this professor put the topic into a different perspective for me. I guess I more thought that we are different people through “screens” I guess, but when actually thought about, in every situation we have different roles which bring out different identities. While in class, I am student and my role is to sit and learn what I can while there for the hour or two I am supposed to. Then as the role of the teacher, they are to come in and teach us, as the students, all they know and think we should know about the subject of the class. But then if you take the student and the teacher and say put then in church, they then share the role of say “sinners” and there is now a new person in from that takes on that’s teacher role.

Then it’s interesting to think about your life in one day how many roles or identities do you take on. You have your home, most comfortable and relaxed self, then the attentive, goal focused student, but then there is also the little less attentive student that is walking on campus from class to class. Then there is work self and depending on the job would dictate the way in which you would present yourself there. Then online is a completely different identity. Even from facebook to myspace to plurk you could be a different one in each one of those.

Funny, but even as I sit here in Tony’s Café on campus, the different drink orders that come through and seeing those people that order those drinks. It’s really hard to tell the venti Americano people apart from the short hot chocolate, to the Chai people. There’s no true distinction that labels people. And it always amazed me the people that get the 16oz Mocha, no-fat but with whip. WHY??? If you’re going to indulge yourself just go all the way and enjoy the real taste of actual milk. Also, it’s quite cold outside, and still people come through and order the ice drinks. There’s nothing wrong with it, I just don’t understand sometimes. Maybe there is something about these people that they can’t enjoy the taste of coffee unless it’s surrounded by ice cubes. The wishful hope that they are someplace that this type of refreshment would be preferred. Ha! Yeah, but don’t most of us. But you don’t see me ordering an iced beverage.