How I feel about sweating the small stuff

I first want to say that the fact that Mark Bittman wrote this while he was in Seattle makes me super happy because I'm going there in 49 days.  I love that he's on book tour and he writes about how it is to be on book tour.  I often go to see author Ellen Hopkins when she's in town and this made me realize how she must feel while on tour.  While Mrs. Hopkins was in town last year, I went to her book signing and she answered the questions almost exactly to how Bittman answers them in this article.  The harder questions she answered shorter, while the simpler ones she had more fun with.  I believe this is because, as authors with a wide fan-base, they don't want to offend anyone with their opinions.
Mark Bittman talks about how we should worry about changing the smaller things, rather than the larger ones like war, poverty, and other things of that nature.  While reading this, I thought about how girls in schools are being given harsher and harsher dress codes because they're being "distracting" to the boys in the classrooms.  With the fashion industry basically forcing girls to wear tighter shirts, shorter skirts, and tops that show their shoulders, girls don't have several options of clothes that are "dress code friendly."  In order to change girls getting called down to the dean's office to change every day because of the clothes that they're being forced to buy (let's be honest, a LOT of girls would rather have shorts that cover their butts, rather than the ones companies are selling now), the clothing companies would need to change their clothes.  Instead of making thousand of companies change, why don't schools who feel like this is an issue enact a program that teaches boys and girls about things like sexual harassment and rape.  I've heard people say boys should be taught those things, but girls need to be taught as well.  It's a small thing, compared to boycotting companies that sell "inappropriate" clothing, that can change a lot.
I really enjoyed this article and completely agree that we shouldn't focus on changing the big things, but rather the small ones.  With little changes, our lives can change drastically.

Looking back...

I really enjoyed this multimodal project.  The fact that I was able to work on several different things and put them into one project made it more interesting to me than just writing an essay.  Not being in class last week because I was sick definitely made this project a little more difficult.  I wish I had been able to be in class and get more feedback on some of the things I had in my project.  I also wish I had more time to work on the project, there are things I would have liked to add.  Overall, though, I'm very proud of my project and how it turned out.  I worked with a new movie editor, but I loved it way more than Window's Movie Maker.  I had to buy a one year subscription, but I think I'm going to use it a lot, so it's worth the twenty dollars.

One thing that was brought up after I presented was the last text slide: "One things for sure, though, kids aren't going out and playing hide and seek like they used to."  This was one of my ways to connect the video with the song I used.  The song title is "Hide and Seek" and those were also the first lyrics that were sung in my project.  I picked this song because I found it almost ironic with the theme of my project: technology and kids.  After being a nanny, babysitting, and watching my several younger cousins play, I've seen that kids are still playing outside, but, in my experience, they spend more time showing each other things on their electronics, playing games on their electronics, or doing other things with their electronics.  Two weeks ago while I was watching twins, the daughter wanted to go outside and the son wanted to stay inside and play video games.  This was something that was strange to me because the son usually always wants to go outside, while the daughter usually wants to go watch television or play on their parent's iPad.  I often ask them if they want to go outside, play tag, or play hide and seek and they often tell me no and that they want to play with their Wii.  This is one of the main reasons that I chose this song and theme.

Oh hi, multimodal project

This multimodal project is really interesting to me, but I'm not a hundred percent sure of how I'm going to make my final product.  I guess I'll just need to go with my gut and hope it turns out the way I'm imagining it to in my head.  I have a feeling it could go exactly as I plan and be amazing or it could go the complete opposite way and be horrendous.  In my own opinion, I felt that the project where the people were interviewed was awkward.  Interviewing people was my first idea, though after seeing how I didn't like that one project, I decided to go a different route. Hopefully it turns out how I've been planning it and I might need to redo my entire plan if it doesn't turn out how I want it to.

My social life

Just kidding, I barely have a social life because I go to school and work, then when I'm not at school or work, I'm studying for school or doing something else for school.  I'm lucky because I get to do homework and study at work, but I don't talk to people unless it's saying "hi, how are you?" to the men and women who come in.  I've always been one of those kids who barely needs to study for things in order to get good grades, but I've learned that that isn't the case anymore.  With anatomy last year, I had to teach myself how to study, which sounds silly.  This year, I'm doing much better than I did last year and I'm so grateful for that.  I've been procrastinating things a lot less than I used to.  I realized this tonight when I started looking up information for our multimodal project.  I had a few different topics in my head, but I picked one that I think will be something that can be debated.  I'm actually really looking forward to doing the rest of this project and seeing my final product.