Poetry Everywhere?

I know we were supposed to do the poetry everywhere thing last week, but my computer is not letting me watch them. I have no idea why. So I decided I'd try again this week, and it still didn't work so I figured I'd post about it because I don't want to seem like a slacker! ;)

As for reading (Since this is, kind of, my reading blog) I have about 5 books, mostly borrowed (a.k.a she's forcing me to read them) from my friend, waiting on my nightstand for me to read. I can't wait to get through them all this summer!

But I'm so sad that PATH is almost over! I'm gonna miss you all soooooo much! My portfolio is all printed and ready--except for my TAE. It's been a long, hard afternoon creating my works cited pages and in text citations. Hopefully I did it correctly...

See you TWICE more at path! :/
~Monika

National Poetry Month!

I've read a lot of poems this month, and I've discovered some new favorites. I think my favorite poem is probably Silence, mostly because I spent so much time memorizing it, but I actually do like it. I was looking in the "Most Popular" section on poets.org and I found the most popular contemporary poet, Billy Collins. I read a few of his poems, some of my favorites were: Some Days, Introduction to Poetry, and Forgetfulness. I've also read a lot of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry is definitely not my favorite thing to read, but I might continue reading poems then and again. It was fun to read a different poem every day via poem-a-day and creating my own poetry notebook, though.

ONLY ONE MORE MONTH OF PATH :'(

~30N!K@

More Poetry...

This week I haven't been reading very much poetry, but I have read a few examples for the 3 poems we were supposed to research and write our own of this week. I didn't particulary like any of them though. I did add a few poems on poets.org, and I've been reading the poem-a-days, but none really stuck out to me this week. Also, I think I've read my sonnet at least 50 times, if not more! I have it perfectly memorized now, but somehow I bet I'll suddenly forget something tomorrow! :/

~30N!k@

Poetry

Wow, almost all of our homework is about poetry! National Poetry Month! Yay! So I just went through and read about a week's worth of poem-a-days since I don't really check my email very often. And I have to say, I REALLY like 'My Love is as a Fever, Longing Still.' I added it to my notebook right away! I don't actually like most of the poem-a-days so that came as a surprise to me. I find it challenging to randomly find poems at poets.org that I like enough to add to my notebook, but I read a lot of spring poems and a lot of Robert Frost--who is now one of my favorite poets, maybe even my most favorite. The more I work on memorizing my sonnet, the more I like it. I'm doing Silence by Edgar Allan Poe--I've been reading a lot of his poems too. I really like A Dream Within a Dream.

Also, this is kind of random, but a lot of my friends and I are into "epic rhyming texting battles". We "fight" over random stuff but we always have to rhyme. Some of them are really awesome, and some of them don't even make sense. I felt the need to share, since this post was about poetry. ;)

~30N!k@

Spring Break Reading!

Hello from Florida! I'm having a great spring break except I got sunburnt REALLY REALLY REALLY bad so today I'm not going outside at all or doing anything fun so I decided I might as well do my path homework, not that path homework isn't fun...;) Anyways, a couple days ago I finished reading Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was one of those books where the first couple of chapters are sort of a drag to get through but once you have your background information, the real story starts, and you just can't seem to put the book down. I know most of you hate Twilight, but I actually like it and this book sort of reminds me of it, but it's better. The second main character, Lena, is a spell caster and on her 16th birthday turns light or dark except it's not her decision to make. Most of the story is about Ethan (from his POV) and Lena trying to reverse her fate. Also it kind of reminds me of my own novel because the two main characters have the same dreams and are often in each other's dreams. It's hard to describe the plot because there are several "mysteries" throughout it. I very much enjoyed it, but if you absolutely HATE Twilight, you probably wouldn't like it. I was hoping to get some more reading in this week, but I don't have any other books and I don't really want to go to the library now since I'm leaving on Saturday.


As for poets.org, my username is monika_d. I've read a lot of poems already, some of my favorites are: The Hand by Mary Ruefle, A True Poem by Llyod Schwartz, I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale, and I Measure Every Grief I Meet by Emily Dickinson. I really like poem-a-day, but I was wondering, does everybody get the same poem every day? Or is it just random? 


Hope you're all having a great spring break!!! :)
~Monika.

Even More Trend Reading & Beautiful Creatures

So this week, after researching, I've decided to change my thesis more towards the angle about how Facebook can help boost your self esteem. I've found quite a lot of information on the topic, and even a few studies from colleges. Also, I made a poll on my Facebook about how many of your facebook friends you consider to be really good friends. I made it about an hour ago and so far one person has vote less than 25%, six have voted 25-50%, three have voted 50-75% and none have voted 75-100%. Please, please, please vote if you're my friend on facebook! It would be greatly appreciated! :)

As for free reading, I'm currently reading a book called Beautiful Creatures. So far it's really good, it starts off kind of like Twilight, though. There's a boy whose lived in a small town his entire life and there's like never been a new person, and all of a sudden there's this amazing new girl he feels he's in love with. He gets haunted by a song called Sixteen Moons that seems to follow him everywhere, along with the girl. He dreams about her every night, and it's always the same dream where they're falling forever and he can't hold on to her any longer and is forced to let go. When he wakes up, he finds dirt under his finger nails and in his bed and a whole bunch of other creepy stuff. That probably didn't make any sense, but oh well. I'm really stressed right now with about 3 tests coming up tomorrow and I haven't had much time to read yet, but hopefully I will over spring break!

Only 3 more days until freedom!!! :)

~30N!k@

More Trend Reading

So this week I've found a TON of statistics! There's actually quite a few good stats on the actual facebook site before you log in. I even made a graph with the information I found, but for some reason it's not letting me put it in this post. In December 2004, facebook just reached the 1 million active users mark and in July 2010, it had over 500 million active users. Almost all the information I've found has pertained to facebook, saying as how it is the largest social networking site. Two interesting facts I found interesting were the average facebook user has 130 friends and about 70% of facebook users don't live in the United States. I also found a lot of information about how social networking sites are a big way of advertising for companies. One article I found was published on Friday, it said that social networking sites have "Reached Their Saturation Point" and users are not going to be as easy to get engaged with companies/products. I haven't been successful in finding information about social networking giving a new meaning to the word "friend" yet. Also, I'm hoping to watch that movie about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, it sounds interesting.

I hope you've all been finding some good information about your trends! :)

~Monika :)