5-5:10: Ideas you had today…. Ideas that made you stop and think more about hat idea..
5:10-5:30: You idea for the semester…. Where are you with it? Some ideas of what you want to build….
5:30-5:50: Build an idea now around this question – “Does Sedaris provoke more questions or answers?
OTP: Questions offer more stories than answers ever could.
5:50-6: Close…..
OTP: Time isn’t your friend, or enemy. It’s only time, and it’s only as relevant as you determine.
ASSIGNMENT: Finish Sedaris’ book by May 3, 2021 – Have a 3-page singular idea, TYPED, submitted on or before we meet that day.
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Hey everyone!!!
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One idea I had today… Don’t do your job so much… Live more.
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Hello Everyone!
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One idea I thought about today was that not allowing yourself something makes you want it more.
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True!
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True! me with ice cream
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Hello everyone! One idea for today dogs are expensive!
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An idea I was thinking on a lot today was self forgiveness. I’m a very forgiving person, I love to grow with my family/relationships. So why do I have such a hard time doing that with myself? I’ve been reflecting on moments in my past that I might hold resentment towards myself for and what I need to do to let them go.
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Hello everybody! One idea I had today was to forget about plans with my friends, instead, hang out with my siblings all-day
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Hi there…My idea was if I don’t like something, change it.
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I like that idea!
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Yes! Leaves you feeling empowered and full of possibilities.
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i should have just said this- ha! thank you for summarizing my paragraph 🙂
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One idea I had today: “what am I being blinded of because of any bias I have”
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I work with kids and I’ve been trying to instill honesty, active listening, and patience with the kids but they haven’t took any of my motivational words and examples into consideration. I haven’t seen any changes in their actions and so today while I was thinking of the idea how I have been preaching this for weeks with not much consistent change it led me to the idea well okay what else can I do to shape this habit?
Instructional videos or perhaps certain mini projects that really revolve around what I am trying to instill. Perhaps the help of my encouraging words, videos and hand on projects combined can really help penetrate what I have been trying to do over the past couple of weeks.
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Hello! One idea I have had today is don’t worry so much, sometimes you have to let things take their course.
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Hey everyone, an idea I had today was to stop procrastinating and do some work as I will feel better when everything is done.
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Good evening. One crazy idea I had today was to enlist in the U.S. Army.
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Wow!!
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Why Dais? And good evening!! 🙂
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Hello MikeyMike! I talk a little bit about it in my 4-page story.
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Looking forward to reading. Hope you had a great day!!
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One idea I thought about was that you’ll receive the same as you put out so if you have a negative attitude of course you’re going to get a negative reaction.
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True.
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An idea that I had today was about a hypothetical question. If you could have one question answered and it could be about anything what would you ask?
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An idea I had today was about a study I read yesterday. It was about how sexist people have less activity in a portion of their brain where we identify a human as having emotion and thought. I was thinking about this today and how this could be the case for a lot of different things as well. What else is determined by brain activity and how can we hope to change the way our brain activates to make people less sexist.
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Hey everyone! an idea I had today was to believe in yourself more.
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Always.
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Good afternoon, some ideas I had today were about my plans for this week filled with positive self care things such as working out, going on a hike and meditating.
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Hi everyone,
I had an idea to delete all social media for now to work on myself and see how much I can improve myself.
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YES!! Great idea, for all of us.
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It’s worth it. Even if you don’t do it forever.
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This week I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandma. I saw her for the first time in exactly a year. It was really hard. I’m really upset with my family for not telling me it had gotten this bad. I had seen the effects of her dementia before, and it seemed to progress very slowly back then. But now it’s exactly one year later, and the pandemic has taken more from her than seems **fair**. She doesn’t remember most of our relationship, or even how we’re related.
Despite that, she’s exactly as gleeful as she was when I was a kid. It makes me remember parts of my childhood that I assumed I had forgotten years ago. She was a co-director of a preschool and was always hands-on with her activities with the kids. She loved stories, and “critters”, and she always bragged about how good she was at getting loose teeth out.
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Sorry guys… had to do something. I’m here. Love the ideas so far… Tell us about your plan to build the idea, the architecture behind it.
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An idea I had today was based on recent events like the trial of Chauvin and in the European soccer world, really shows how much power the people can have if they take advantage of it, and that we should utilize that more to make the world better.
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one idea is to not let one thing overtake your life, to take over your own life.
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Where are you with it? Some ideas of what you want to build…. SPECIFIC ANSWERS. Focus on the building, the COMPOSITION of the idea, its circuitry and shape.
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honesty,character, being good with your self!
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Nice.
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Where y’all at?
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I’m forming more concrete ideas for my final paper. I just need a good time to word vomit out some coherent stories. Sedaris is helping and bringing me back to my narrative roots so to speak. He was one of my first favorite authors and I’ve been reading his books since I was really young. But readin g Sedaris is also super raw and making me think about death a whole lot so whoops
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How so?
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Reading Sedaris makes me think about how he illustrates his main points with story. They are usually succinct, and his narrative voice is definitely THERE. But after reading long enough, the stories sound more like the characters of people/ideas around him, and less like he’s comentating about a thing he remembers. I like how you get immersed in his stories, but he has clear narrative control the w h o l e time
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At this point I just have a bunch of notes written on a page about things I have thought throughout the semester that supports my idea. From here on I want to build a formal idea and put all my ideas into one prompt that I can understand clearly while also not just having a generic idea/prompt.
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same!
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Some ideas I want to build up are the ideas characters, honesty, simplicity, being okay with yourself, and the person you are
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All good ideas, Nina!!!
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I love this! I love how you condensed your thoughts into single words. I’m def not there yet lol
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You will be.
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Thank you! I got some of the ideas from our colleagues!
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Nice!! Make them your own…. 🙂
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OTP: You’e building when you’re writing, thinking… there is pieces that fit together and those that don’t. What’s essential is that you’re constructing something.. playing, assembling.
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some ideas i want to build are engagement with those around you, helping others and being more than just a normal person
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Careful with that term “normal”… 😉
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OTP: Our own styles of Composition need more attention. With essay writing, there is no model.
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I want to talk about self growth and being comfortable in your own shoes. I would want to talk about working to the point where you feel satisfied with where you are. Work to make you happy instead of working for what others may think.
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Some Ideas I want to build up are the ideas of discipline, control, honesty, personal growth. If you’re not improving your dying
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Maybe not dying, but certainly not tending to your story…
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My idea is to talk about self growth and on the journey of self discovery and who encouraged that and who discouraged that.
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I’ve written down 3 “chapters”. 3 different stages from my life, nothing chronological but that include people who play into these stages and how they have formed me. this should help me to reach my writing goal of *trying* to give you a 360° view of my life.
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Do you have a singular idea? You don’t have to tell us now, just curious…
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To show the reader that lessons can be learned from any person/situation no matter for good, bad or dirty.
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The main idea I have is how I grew up in the Arab world (mostly talking about Kuwait where I lived for 17 years) and how it differs, but it’s kind of the same. I think it would be really interesting to write about and read and talk about mental illness in the Arab world. Another thing that I would want to touch on is freedom and how you can feel stuck as I live in a really small country with not a lot of opportunities.
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Working on connecting an idea about making change happen in my life. I think about doing this a lot even when Im deeply uncomfortable, and make no changes. Then in a heated second “move mountains.” How can I move mountains all the time?
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If you decide to.
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I get it…but its easier said than done.
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Yes it is. Which is why it’s galactically rewarding when you do.
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This is off topic but did anyone invest in Dogecoin?
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Please only relevant questions and discussion.
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The idea I wanted to build upon this semester is doing things for yourself instead of others. By this I don’t mean you shouldn’t help others but you shouldn’t have to change yourself or your goals to fit what someone else wants you or your life to look like. I think integrity goes hand and hand with this, you shouldn’t have to fake certain beliefs to get along with people. The books we read taught me that if people see who you are and don’t accept or like it, then they aren’t worth your time anyway. Even Sedaris has a way of viewing the world that not everyone can understand or see eye to eye to, but he’s proud of it and he finds the people who do understand.
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Yes lily!
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I like that as well..
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An idea I like that I might build on is the changes in perspectives. This can be with our authors, such as Sedaris or even more real world
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OTP: Know that your writing is musical… study all the beats and notes said by your sentences, paragraphs.
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#hornzout
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#hornzoutalwayz …. You got it, boss lady. We need to see the quality of our work more, and enjoy its BEAT. #kerouacslaps
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Older I get, when I have an answer to something I’m a bit bummed…. The questions and the tireless inquiry is the intoxication, the music, the seduction…
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a complex puzzle
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No… I’m overthinking it. My bad. Cheers Laura… 🙂
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One idea I have is…. like Sedaris, perhaps “family,” its value and undulating moments that landscape my life.
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Family is a formidable climate and contour for personal essay writing..
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I feel Sedaris could leave me with answers or asking questions at different times. Sedaris to me sometimes jumps to one topic to another all in a page in a half leaving me asking questions about something he mentioned but never delved into. I feel it is up to the reader and how they view the writing to depend whether or not they are left with questions or answers.
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I like this perspective…mine always tends towards the literal
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My idea that I think has been building up even before this class but this class has definitely helped me recognize it is confidence, my writing being one of the prime examples of where I lacked it before this class and worried too much about other opinions and things like grades and fitting certain restrictions.
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I think Sedaris can answer some questions but can also leave me thinking.
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to build around the question ” Does Sedaris provoke more questions or answers?” is he wanting to leave us question some of is writing for the suspense and us figure the answer later or is was it something he just didn’t finishing developing more into detail.
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Explain.
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POP-PROMPT!!!!!!! Write and post 50+ words here on your definition of Sedaris’ style of essay writing….
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Humoristic, mischievous , challenging to make me write and think. His way of writing . The way he starts normal sentences and turns them into something controversial or humoristic.. mischievous. Sedaris is like an thought controller. The way he formulates his sentences he guides you a certain way and then completely rips you of the way you’re going.
I like sedaris.
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ME: Sedaris is something of a shape-shifting cosmos when it comes to form. He adheres while concurrently staying clear from any obedience. His narrations walks lines that haven’t yet been defined and may never will be…. He’s addicted to the diarist lean and truth-painting of several varying Now’s. Each page is a plain of inquiry…
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In my opinion I think through Sedaris answers questions, in showing the experiences he has faced, especially the ones where he did not have the answers going into them, he provides some guide and knowledge to those reading. We get to experience his experiences throughout after they have already happened, even though when they originally occurred he was answering questions. So I guess he’s kind of asking questions to find answers for him then and us now until whenever.
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