ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

Music is my life. I have to admit it. If there was no such thing as music, I don’t know how I would cope with certain things in my life.
When I workout, the music that I listen to, gives me motivation to train harder and longer. If it weren’t for my CD player, I don’t think that I would have finished some of my runs or some of my exercises.

Its incredible the way our minds tend to think and produce weird things like dreams. Ive always had the most awkward dreams but nothing like last night.

It started off with me standing alone watching these two people. We were on a pier, overlooking murky green water. I saw a grandmother and her grandaughter standing in the middle, towards the end. All of a sudden, her granddaughter fell off of the pier and into the ocean. I ran over to see if she was okay and when I looked down, the ocean had turn into flames. It looked like a bottomless pit with fire and smoke everywhere. It almost resembled hell.

This whole ordeal with my roommate got me to thinking. After analyzing her, this is what I've come up with.

One of the hardest things a person can encounter is– themselves. That’s what I believe. Obviously because, no one can control your story, except for you.

This is the first poem I've written in years, so here goes...


I’ve never been in this kinda slump before
Keep yearning for, the one I adore

I’m embarrassed...by my ways
I’ve been like this for too many days

The story behind my hat is kind of funny, because it is like the replacement for the original one I had. My original hat looked exactly like the one I just described but it was lost. The old hat was like my must favorite hat of all time, I wore its everywhere.

Football is a game full of different opinions on points of the game, play calling, players, management and other topics to this extent. My friends and I no mater what when ever we talk about football the controversy over what player or team is better or the coach should have called this play or that play. One topic we end up on a lot is who is the best running back of all time. Between me and my friends we have narrowed it down to 3, Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, or Barry Sanders. Me personally I think Barry is the best but all three have different running styles.

I cant believe that this will be my last journal entry for this class. I had such a great time talking about my life, and whatever is bothering me and such, and having people respond and give me input.

I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this but it seems like the film director, Quentin Tarantino, has an obsession with feet. In most of the movies that I have seen him direct there is always a clip that has the camera soloey fixated on someone’s feet.

I was so happy to find that finals are coming up, and once they were over I could enjoy a nice long winter break at home. But first, I would have to survive all of these papers. Why do teachers insist on giving us papers to write, when they are giving us a final as well.

Thanksgiving break was great, but it really messed with my head. I was totally happy here at FSU, I had settled in to a great routine and was just cruising along. I probably could have stayed here for another year straight living that way.

Last night, I watched the trailer for the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King for about the 20th time. I don't think that it's possible for anyone to understand just how excited I am about this movie.

I am sure that all of you have heard of Aderol. It is a powerful drug prescribed to those suffering of Attention Deficit Disorders. I first heard of it from a friend who attends the University of Central Florida. He told me that his friend has ADD and he gets it for free whenever he needs to study. I questioned him and said that if he needed a drug to help him study then he needs to try harder in class or he needs to go to a doctor and get Aderol prescribed to him because he must have some sort of Attention Deficit Disorder. In a previous blog I stated my theory: “you attend class, you pay attention in class, you do your assignments, you pass your final.” If he needs Aderol to get through this then he must be suffering from an ADD.

This Wednesday I had my final PT test of the semester for ROTC. We are tested on three things, 2 minutes of push-ups, 2 minutes of sit-ups, and a 2 mile run. I was really worried about it because i had been working out like crazy to get ready for it, then I went home for break and did not do 1 push up or sit up the whole week, and only ran one time. I returned to school figuring that I had set myself up for disaster.

My first semester at Florida State University has finally come to an end!

At times it was easier than I thought, other times it was extremely difficult. All-nighters, coffee, study sessions, group project... You name it and I did it this semester. Even though all of this happened It still feels like the beginning of the year. Everything is so new and unpredictable that it makes my life here at Florida State just like a box of chocolate, full of surprises! Good surprises.

Tonight, I was talking to my mother about my depressive withdraw about not being able to surf in a while. Her reply was great, as always. It was short, but just what I needed to hear.

She was saying how my sister, Jennifer, went to deliver gifts to some under privileged children today. She preceded to ask what they wanted for Christmas and all they said was a bed and a home. She asked me, "Kris, Do you have a bed and home."