Underage Drinking

My video is similar to my regular ones. I always have the same setup but that’s because it works for me. I think that it was not as good as my last one because I was rushing to get it done last minute. If I would have done something different I would have started it earlier rather than thinking I had all the time in the world. My videos theme was Underage Drinking and the topics were related to that.

twyla

I didn’t take a liking to The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp that probably a few people have, although there was some things I did “enjoy” reading. The book to me seemed like she was trying to get people to dig into their past too much and solve out more things to better their lives. Yes, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing but there were these exercises that didn’t seem so relevant and relatable. I guess maybe it’s me and I’m not interested in text like that so I probably wasn’t willing to open up to the lessons being taught. Besides all of the exercises I did think that the points she made were meaningful. For example, when she was discussing fear and distractions, both go hand in hand. You try to get over your fears but what is distracting you is that fear itself. There was some relevance to that. Also another point I agreed with was about balancing your life with you, by putting you first. You can get very far in life if you put yourself first rather than people you’re more focused on what you need to get done. If I had the chance to read the book again, I wouldn’t. 

Personal Autonomy..late :-\

Last inquiry class we met in the library to not only research autonomy but also to find out more about Buley Library. I’ve learned how to check out and find books, use the libraries website, and make the library more useful for me. It wasn’t hard to find a book once I found out its general location. Autonomy means having the right or power of self-government. So basically you can do what you please but I think to a certain extent. We were told to find a book and article relative to our subject. The book I chose was Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana. Now obviously I didn’t read the whole book to its entirety but I did come up with a conclusion to what Marina is trying to get at. She develops autonomy and how it affects a person’s relationships with others and also the absence of certain relationships socially. She argues against many things such as content, procedural and psychological accounts in regards to autonomy. Marina doesn’t believe that command over someone’s motives and their freedom to realize their will are good enough to secure the command over their life that autonomy requires. I believe Marina was the right person to publish this book because she is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. The article I found during the session with the librarian, “Autonomy and Submissive Behavior among Students at the College of Nursing” written by Leman Senturan was really helpful. Reason being is that it was research studied on nursing students currently in college and I found relevance to it because I am studying to be a nurse. The research was conducted to define and analyze the levels and relationship between autonomy and submissive behavior among nursing students. The result was that nursing students are expected to have high levels of autonomy and a low level of submissive behavior. Since I’m not already enrolled in the nursing program I can’t fully relate but I think it is good to be autonomous but better to have a submissive attitude because you’re more obedient rather than having an attitude about getting the job done.

Campus Safari

I didn't do anything really on campus this week. I was too busy catching up on my work and stuff to really do much and plus I went home. Even though I'm late with it yeah I didn't do anything special.

Twyla Tharp Exercise: You Can Observe a Lot by Watching

Although I felt like a creep doing this exercise it was alright because I wasn’t being spotted while in my zone of creepiness. Exercise 5 on page five was You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. The exercise was for me to go to a street scene and pick a man and a woman together and write down twenty things I’ve observed. I didn’t know I was going to have to casually follow them as they walked down Wintergreen which was so weird. Lol. I’m going to go in order with what I have seen.

11.   Woman looks at her reflection in her phone, possibly checking out how she looks

22.    Woman puts her phone in her back pocket

33.   Man reaches into his front pocket and takes out his chap stick then applies it to his lips then puts it back into his pocket

44.   Woman looks up at him and they both smile at each other

55.   Man nudges woman

66.  Man grabs the woman’s hands

At this point they are just walking I don’t see much for about three minutes

77.  They unlock hands

88.   They both cross the street

99.  Woman takes her phone out and then checks herself out…again

110. Man puts his hands into his front pocket

I’m pretty sure the woman asks him for Chap Stick

111.   Man takes out his chap stick and hands it over the woman

112.   Woman give back the chap stick

113.   They continue to hold hands

114.   Man reaches into his back pocket and answers his phone

115.   The two kiss each other and probably say their goodbyes

116.   They depart

I kept watching for a little

117.   The girl looks back at him

He doesn’t look back and that was the end. I suppose they were more than friends because they were holding hands and they kissed when they said goodbye. The second “couple” I noticed were different. I didn’t see them on a street scene but I followed them close by out of Engelmann

11.       Woman greets man with a hug

22.     Man takes out cigarette

33.      Woman offers lighter

44.      They both sit down in front of the Student Center

55.     Passing the cig back and forth every three drags

66.   Woman puts cigarette out

77.    They both get up

They’re both walking towards the dorms

88.      They are walking fairly close towards one another but no sign of hand holding/touching

99.    Having conversation the man looks down at the woman

110.   The woman looks up and they both smile

111.   Laughter

112.   The boy puts his right hand in his right pocket

113.   They depart

This couple wasn’t interesting at all and I think they were just friends. In comparison to both couples I think the first was like I said more than friends and were interacting with one another more too. On the other hand, the second couple was friendly but probably knew each other for a while.

Fears

Just like Twyla Tharp I have fears as well and my top five are:

1.       Being in the dark by myself

2.       Never finding a true love

3.       Becoming blind

4.       Losing my brother or mom

5.       Zombie apocalypse

I know they seem rather extreme…but I don’t fear just regular old things. Nothing simple puts fear in my heart besides the whole being in the dark thing but it’s more like being in the dark in an unfamiliar strange place where I don’t know my way. I came a little bit out of the darkness fear this weekend because I went to a supposed to be haunted placed called Under Cliff with a group of like five friends including myself. I was scared mainly because it was already dark outside. So anyways it wasn’t even haunted but I remembered the assignment on the blog so I told my friends to leave me with a flash light just in case I couldn’t find my way and they walked away. I was left in the dark all by my lonesome and for the first like five minutes I wanted to run but I realized I’m only running still in the darkness. I couldn’t hear their voices just their footsteps. Then they footsteps became silent and I thought I was hearing things. I was so scared for someone to just come out and grab me! After about fifteen minutes went by I stood up and turned on the flash light and my friends were close. They never left in fear that I would be too scared. I’m not too sure if I’m completely over my fear but at that moment I wasn’t so afraid like I would normally be. Maybe I will know for sure if I’m stuck in that position of being left in the dark but not by choice. I never had a bad experience in the dark but I always sketched myself out as a child thinking I would hear noises or felt an odd vibe and that kept me from wanting to get over my fear.  I learned that I should probably stop overreacting and just get over it. 

campus safari

The Forum Theater Troup from the CAMFAMI came to SCSU and I thought it was good. Even though it was spoken in Spanish there was English subtitles that helped me understand. What I liked about it was that the women aren’t professional actors but they did a great job at showing what a struggle it is for woman in Mexico. Even though I am not from Mexico I do believe that it was an eye opener for me to see that women were still struggling for justice and equality. I wish there was something I could do for the families in Mexico. It was cool I attended this to see how the views of other lives.

Twyla Tharp

When I first got to reading Twyla Tharp’s, The Creative Habit I actually took a liking to it. The first chapter was an introduction to what the book is going to be about and what aspects that people give to what makes creativity. “Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.” That is a quote from the first chapter and the habits are pretty much rituals. The rituals in this sense aren’t all religious and what not but is taken from a religious thought in some way. For example, Twyla wakes up every morning at 5:30 and goes to the gym. As she keeps doing that the ritual isn’t waking up but getting into the cab and telling the driver where to go. Rituals are good practice because by the time you have completed the first step, you aren’t then going to question why you’re doing what you’re doing because you are already doing it. That is probably a confusing way to word what I’m trying to say but it all makes sense in comparison with the book. As I kept reading I didn’t really vibe with the second chapter. I felt like when she was giving examples of people she knew and their routines such as a composer, chef, painter and writer friend I couldn’t relate to them so I wasn’t getting too much out of it. Although, what I did take from their routines, as a whole, was that in order to really stay on task with what you’re into, you have to find something that gives you motivation to do so. I didn’t give up reading though because she then turned to make some valid points about subtracting things that are distracting you from getting to your own creativity. Hopefully, further into the book the chapters will be more relatable to me, if not, and then I should at least get something out of reading.