The writing life: June 2012

Just a minute ago I just submit my last post for my intersession class and finished the finial project. Good.

In my final project we have the choice to pick our subject like for example any piece of art or what considered as an art from other culture than mine. I chose the death mask of Tutankhamen and the coffins and the objects that ancient Egyptian people put inside them. Cheerful subject. Actually it is very very interesting subject and it is interesting to read about their believes. They spend time and effort preparing for the supplies they wanted to take with them for the after life as much as the time living in the real one, even more.

I wanted to post a picture of the conference that I went with my friends today but the cellphone is stuck. So his name is Dan Ariely, he is an Israeli American and he is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics in Duke University. He presented in Ted talk before. He told us about his experiences like for example, he talked about how to make something unpleasant practice more bearable. For example in his case, he had to take a lot of medicine and injections every day and it is painful.Patients with severe illness at some point, depression hunts them and they don't feel everything is pointless. So in his case while he was taking an injection he watched his most favored TV show, so he linked a horrible thing with something he loved. Even if this small detail and it is obvious to anyone but doing it, it helped him.

So today we went to celebrate Nam’s 27 birthday. Happy birthday Nam. Actually his birthday was at 23 May- but he just got back so we didn’t have the chance to celebrate his birthday until now. Then we passed by an Israel festival . And there was a great falafel; it is a traditional Middle East food. This falafel was the closest taste of the falafel I used to eat in my country.

So I didn’t post anything yesterday. The intersession is intense, but that is not the reason. For the past two month I am really glad that I am writing everyday and I enjoy it allot and I was surprised when I saw how it helped me in writing in the Intersession class. We write essays everyday and quizzes and comments to each other and I don't feel any difficulties to do that every day, it is annoying class but not difficult. But after I finish most of the philosophy questions that are possibly to answer in my blog, I feel lately I am writing in this blog as I am writing for a homework and I should post it before 12 am even if there is nothing to say. Razan that is not good. I want to write because I really want to write.

I think this conversation called” a person talking or thinking with himself loudly”. Interesting.

Another day

The ghosts, the geeks, and the librarians.

Okay today I will talk about the library. My school library here has very big collection of art books comparing to my college library in my country. I mean the magazine art section here itself is bigger than the section of all the art books there. One of my plans after 5 years is to have a house that has a genetic library that even extends and emerges with the kitchen and with the rooms. I am serious.

So I started to collect my own collection of books. One of the great things in San Fransisco that there is always book sales.

It was delightful when I saw some people shown high tolerance toward each other. While I was walking, I saw a policeman and a homeless talking. I thought at first that the policeman was screaming at the homeless or wanted to arrest him or something like that. I was just seeing the police man's back without seeing their faces, then it turned out that the police man was directing the homeless old man where to go or something like that. I didn't hear exactly, but I heard the sentence "you can get help there". He was like talking with him as he was talking with his friend and they shacked their hands. I like that. It should be like that.

A question from TOEFL exam preparation: What do you want most in a friend — someone who is intelligent, or

someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable?

Which one of these characteristics is most important to you?

My mini intersession course takes a lot of mini time. So I don't have very interesting subject to write about so I ended with answering this. Why these questions always have to make us choose the extreme boundaries of things. Okay let’s be realistic. No I don’t prefer a friend who has a computer brain, I mean very intelligent, and he is dried from any drop of sense of humorous. And I don’t prefer someone as a friend who is funny if his sense of humor is coming from being stupid. Now reliable which is very important but how I would know if he or she is reliable or isn’t if I don’t interact and spend a quality time with him or her, and I can’t spend long time with this friend without the two other characteristics . Friends really have a great impact on each other, and close friends you always find something similar and share the same experiences that you have. Close friends' influence can get you to a higher point( mentally, the way of thinking, spiritually, attitude) or lower. So the three are important, no exception.

I think if I had this question and I wrote this answer in my TOEFL exam, they wouldn’t let me pass.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

A late post. Slept again while I was writing.Because I didn't write yesterday it kept nagging inside my head while I was asleep. It is almost two month since I began to write everyday and even though sometimes I just write couple of sentences but it became a habit and I have to do it.

Three objects in your childhood bedroom:

1- Colors

2- Comic books

3- Lego and puzzles

What’s stored in your closet?

Clothes, books, bags, skate board, my paintings and colors.

The next sound you heard and what cause it?

The next sound and after the next and it continues is a sound of the firefighters alarm and I don’t know what is the cause? Maybe a cat stuck on the top of the tree. Who knows.

The toy you must treasure?

Dabdob, He is living in San Fransisco. He is a teddy bear, and he is eleven years old.

TYPOS

Can we say to drink your sugar? It is like saying how much salt you drink, though everyone use the one on the wall. Is it more right to say : How much sugar in your drink? or how much sugar you have a day? but defiantly not drink your sugar. Drink your salt.

Can we say that: Have your now however you want it. I think it is Have yours now however you want it.

The biggest typo ever my name. Lisette

my finger slipped mistakenly and covered the image but imagine with me, it was a sign of the back of a truck written on it: Safety is our goal.but that means that all the purpose of him driving is safety. I think it is better to say: Our priority is safety. I don't know maybe they are the same.