8/27/20
7-7:10pm: What are you writing in your journal? Haven’t started? All good…. Please try it!!
7:10-7:30pm: Sedaris findings… Share your thoughts. What sources did you find?
7:30-7:50pm: His character…. How would you describe it?
7:50-8pm: Before we read, what do we want from our read? That is… do you have certain expectations? What do you like to read? How do you like to feel after reading something?
8pm-8:15pm: Tell us about how you read…. Do you take notes? Write in the margins of your book? In a journal? WHAT?
8:15-8:35pm: As a student, we are constantly challenged, and show new approaches to working on our projects. We are “taught”, yes, but we also self-educate. How do you teach yourself to do something new, or improve at something? ‘Cause really, in the end, it’s all you and your efforts. And, how you study your efforts and the production from your productivity.
8:35-8:40pm: Think about how you use your time, be as efficient as possible. Any suggestions for us?
8:40-8:50pm: Closing…. What’s in your notes for tonight/on tonight’s page?
Assignment: Read the first four essays in Sedaris’ book. Please also read the “Author’s Note”. Be prepared to discuss and offer ideas on Tuesday. And as with every assignment, WRITE IN YOUR JOURNAL. Let me know if have any questions. Enjoy your weekend!!! Find Happiness and Humor, EVERYWHERE.
#professormikey 
Good evening!!!
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Hello!!!
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Hows it going
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Well!!! Busy day.
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I feel that, I’m taking 18 units this semester!
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Cheers to you, Julia!!
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Hello everyone!
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good evening everyone!
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Hello!!!
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Good evening every one! How is everyone doing?
I can’t wait to start reading the book!!!
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You’ll love it!
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For some reason I am having trouble logging in…
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Your comments are posting… Keep trying.
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Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well! Today in my journal I wrote “My cat learned how to turn on the faucet and I found her with her head under the water running. My water bill is going to sky rocket, Nebby why are you like this”
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hahaha!!! that is so cute!
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hahaha
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I’m tired…. y’all gotta bring it and wake me up tonight!!!
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Do you guys have to type in your email every time while posting comments, because I am to sign in once every time I want to post a comment. 😭😭😭
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I don’t think you should have to do that..
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log on to wordpress, you can access the blog through there
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Thank you.
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It did that to me when i tried to do this on my phone, on my laptop its a breeze
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hi everyone!
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Hi Cassandra!!!!
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Hello Everyone!
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evening everyone!
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Good evening!
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hey everyone!
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Hey Claudia!!
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Hello everyone!!
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In my journal I am narrating my life at the moment in a way that I would let my future child read it.
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A lot of people write with that in mind.
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Hey guys hope everyone is having a great evening.
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What’s your full name, and can you please change your profile to reflect it so I can give you credit?
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I have been writing about how I been feeling better about exercising and about work.
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Hello I hope everyone’s doing fine!!!
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You as well!
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In my journal I have so many thoughts on how to be more like David lol
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Be more like YOU!!
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YES! BE MORE LIKE MY AUTHENTIC SELF!
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🙂
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Recently, I have been writing down my prayers in my journal instead of saying them out loud.
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I love that, definitely something I’m going to try out!
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Thats a great idea! I am going to try that! I feel like if you read something out loud over and over agin you can manifest it. Love it!
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Hey everyone!!
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Something I’ve been writing in my journal is ways I have been distracting myself during these times such as drawing or cooking.
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I have been righting my workouts and what I eat in my journal. It helps stay on track and also have been righting what I need to buy from the store. Also weird interactions with people that I have.
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Honestly, I haven’t written physically in a journal yet, I’ve kind of just been jotting things down in my notes on my phone and then I was planning to revisit them and write an actual journal.
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Start, and enjoy!
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I have been using my journal to write anything that goes through my mind that takes more than like 5 minutes to think about. It has actually helped a lot with figuring things out that are troubling me. It also helps keep my mind on one topic.
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Today I started writing about how I feel and everything going on in my house.
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I’ve been writing about the changes that I am getting ready to make in my life.
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Good for you!!
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good evening everyone.
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I do not know what to write yet. Tonight I might just write a song. :p
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Do you play an instrument?
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Yes the guitar and I am learning the piano.
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Good evening all
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Hi Michael!!
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I have been trying to write a journal every day, but some how I just can’t motivate myself to write more. I probably need to give it more care!
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Good evening everyone! Can’t wait for tonight’s class
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Thanks for being here!
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I did finally get something to write in. But today it was mostly organizing my thoughts for the writing
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That’s good!
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In my journal I have been writing about how my life changed through quarantine.
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Full name, please.
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Note for your notes…. The journal should be FREEING.
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I have been writing about my day! its very liberating!
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Good! You teach yourself a lot about self in doing so.
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So far in my journal, I’ve been writing a little bit of everything! The most recent one was about a dream I had where I was an only child which is super random to dream about and also made me realize how thankful I was to have my siblings!
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Writing dreams in your journal can help to actualize those dreams.
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That sounds fun! I’ve always have trouble trying to remember my dreams haha.
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A note for your notes….. Liberation comes more with your own literature than others’.
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What’d you find on Sedaris?
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I think Sedaris is a very openminded and inspiring person.
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Why? What’d you find?
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For one he’s a very funny guy and I really liked his interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
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I love that interview.
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I started journaling kind of recently and it was nice, helps me just take time from the day to think and reflect which is highly underrated and quite freeing/fun. But I haven’t recently because I felt out of my usual groove and have been quite busy. So all in all I need to stop procrastinating.
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Don’t be too hard on yourself. We all do it.
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Where y’all at??
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I found that I love Sedaris and so does A LOT of people. I watched a youtube video called “David Sedaris: On Being an Open Book” and I totally recommend it. I also watched others, but that one stuck out to me. People feel like they know him through his essays.
He does make humor out of situations instead of getting mad and you can observe that in the videos and writing. I am excited to read his work!
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Sedaris writes in his diary everyday and that is how he writes his essays.
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Yes!!! A valuable practice.
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Sedaris is very interesting to say the least.
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Why?
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The way that he writes really intrigued me, the way he uses humor while writing about “dark” topics such as his sisters suicide, is something ive havent seen. Instead of focusing on either humor or “dark” he combines them nicely.
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🙂
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I found two interviews that really caught my attention. I found that at first he comes off a little shy but once he opens up he is like an open book. He truly is so real, with everything. So transparent, so full of happiness and humor. His personality is quite honestly very humble. He seems like he wants you to feel what he feels so that you can relate to him and that draws you in. He makes his expeiriences so “normal” I can’t wait to learn more from him.
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Well said!
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He’s also very funny. I like him.
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I found some articles about his past and success as a writer but I found the YouTube videos to give me a lot of insight about what his relationship with his father was like and their family dynamic more than than the articles.
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I was intrigued by a particular quote David Sedaris added in a video on YouTube called , “David Sedaris teaches Storytelling and Humor | Official Trailer |”. He said, “Write something that stinks, try and fail. Failure is fantastic, don’t underestimate failure”. I will definitely be applying this to every aspect of my life.
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This is great! Thank you for sharing!
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I wrote that quote down too! I love it.
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I know that Sedaris is into homosexuality (no offense).
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He is an openly gay man, and I applaud him for his strength, as do many. No need to apologize.
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My findings on Sedaris were interesting. I just watched a couple of youtube videos of him being interviewed on late night shows, and he seemed like a positive funny guy. I liked his style, he had a cool suit on when he was on Jimmy Kimmel. Every time he would say something, it’d always get a laugh out of the audience.
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I think Sedaris is very funny. He is very open with a lot of his life and he seems like a very happy person. He talks about situations in his life and reflects on them in a funny way. I really like him
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Just a really funny guy. Obviously very intelligent and it is quite fun to be taken along a narrative through his point of view, he does such a good job painting a picture in your head of stories he tells. Quite looking forward to reading more of him.
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Enjoy!!
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