Job Shadowing

Job Shadowing was awful. Absolutely awful.  I sat at school and did nothing all day. Absolutely nothing.  I should have just stayed home, or rolled over and died.  That would have been just as productive.  While at school I only worked on some of my AP chemistry homework.  It should have taken me about two hours to do the work I did, but I was just so unmotivated, it took me five hours.  Really I should have just died. Then I wouldn't have had to sit the the most boring and disappointing day of my life so far.  I also wouldn't have to be remembering the awful experience for this crummy blog.  Any thought of this event just makes me mad. I've also had an extremely frustrating day. I go on my spring break tomorrow, and I was totally expecting to do whatever I wanted and to not have to worry about school for a week. But no. Instead I am finding out that I have two full AP chem tests to take plus an AP chem lecture, a chapter to read for AP US with a twenty page packet plus an eighty question multiple choice packet, a five page paper to write over a book I haven't read, and now I learn I'm going to be assigned a group project in honors English.  In total that's probably 10+ hours AP chem, 5 hours AP US, 25+ hours reading and writing that paper, and at least 5 hours of English project. That's 45+ hours. Two full days with no sleep. My break is 9 days long. Assuming I only sleep for 8 hours every day, that is 3 days with no breaks for distractions or even eating. If I work as hard as possible with a realistic pace, that is 5 days of work. This spring "break" is broken. its not a break, its self driven labor.  The time required to do this work would fill the time of a regular school week. I hate everything. I would not be surprised if I wind up dead with a rope around my neck before the end of break.

Listenting to Blue Monk

Today we are listening to Blue Monk by Theloneous Monk and Miles Davis.  This song sounds care free, but something about it is restricted and holding back. I suppose it feels like walking down Beale St, Memphis, TN, but it doesn't exactly feel like Beale St. It has more of a New York blues feel than a Chicago or Memphis blues feel. So I guess we are in New York.  We are happy about something, probably just happy in general, but the bass line is blue. If I were to describe the solos, I would say they are a bright grass green and sunny yellow.  We are in a park. Central Park? We are enjoying life in Central Park. A bass solo is starting.  It returns to a more mellow tone, but still up beat. It has changed and felt like walking through a mechanized part of town.  A factory district perhaps.  The rest of the band joins back in and with the identification of the bass tone, I now get the feeling that this is taking a breaking during or getting off work after a long day at the factory. It is a blues because the protagonist has a hard job at a factory, but the happy-upbeat feel comes from the relaxation at the end of the day.

Comparison

I will be comparing my literary analysis of the Declaration of Independence to my literary analysis of Whitman's Self.  In comparison between these two, in both of my writings I provide reasonable analysis and support for my theses.  I do have applicable quotes in each work, and the quotes are from reliable sources.  Other than that, most of my writing has change. In my analysis of the Declaration of Independence, I am much less formal than I am in my analysis of Whitman's Self. I think this is mainly attributed to the fact that the Declaration of Independence analysis is written in a blog, and is therefore in a more blog- formal prose, whereas my Whitman analysis is actually written as an essay and is in essay- formal prose.  In my blog formal prose, I use the first person pronouns I and me to refer to what I found and how I feel.  A reaction was intended to be part of my analysis, so I forgive myself for those as they were only appropriate. However, I should not have said, "The only fault I find..." in the introduction.  Another difference is that I have learned to use more sources in my analyses than I used had previously. My Declaration of Independence analysis only sites the document, but my Whitman analysis uses three, and my comments site a criticism from another scholar.  Overall, I think my works have improved.