Sleepzzzzzz

I hate sleep, but love it so much. Getting ready for bed, knowing you have to get up early the next day, makes me despise going sleep. It's such a drag to go to bed early and wake up early. It can't be healthy. I wish school started two hours later and the night was five hours longer. Every morning I peek open my eye and look at my alarm clock just before it goes off and just feel the agony of moving and getting up. The time I have left to sleep is ticking away like a bomb going to explode. When the alarm goes off it is a death sentence to my dreams. I must get up only to go to school where I must obey all the stringent rules and get yelled at for sleeping in class. Maybe if I had a couple more hours to sleep, I wouldn't be sleepy or too lazy to do work. 

along the influence

If someone is under the influence of something, they are lower than their expectations. And to be above the influence would mean to be higher than expected. So what would be along the influence? Can you be above and under the influence of something? I think you could. Say you tried a drug and liked it. You try it again, but you don't go out of your way to do it. You are still above the influence if you know you can't gain anything out of the drug and it can only worsen things. But still, doing the drug is under the influence. I think this situation would be balanced along the influence. I heard my friends debating about being above and under the influence and one of my friends said you can also be along the influence. That gave me something to think about and I thought I should blog it and see other peoples thoughts of being along the influence. Do you think there is a state of being along the influence?

skatboard

I skate to have a tremendous amount of fun. Whenever I skate, I get in to a mode where nothing matters except skateboarding. All my thoughts are gone and my attention is on my skateboard. There is so much thought of how to do the trick, that it takes all of your other thoughts away. This may not make sense, but when I think about what to do, too much, I can't do it. I have to not think about it at all. Skating keeps me doing good. With out it, I would be amazingly bored. 

Ismene

Ismene normally agrees with her sister Antigone, but when Antigone says that she wants to go and bury her dead brother, Ismene is absolutely against it. I can conclude that Antigone usually comes up with bad ideas when Ismene says, "What dangerous thing have you got in mind now?". And Ismene can be seen as a helpful person when she says, "How can I possibly help?" to her sisters dangerous idea. She would help her sister in most situations, but not in this one. Creon had sentenced everyone to leave Polyneices (her brother who wanted to burn down the country) alone, dead, and unburied. Ismene did not want to go against the kings commands. She is a coward when it comes to disobeying the king. She is horrified of the men that would punish them. She tells Antigone, "...we are mere women, we can't fight against men!". The men would do horrible things to them if they were caught breaking the king's commands. Ismene knows the consequences and decides to not be with her sister on this one. She is independent, she can go on with out her sister.

Oedipus

In the book Oedipus they say an interesting quote, "time alone reveals the just man-the unjust you can recognize in one short day". I think it is saying that it takes an extended period of time to see how a person really is, but it only takes a day to see some things about someone that aren't characteristics that they really have. They could be shy or having a bad day. What you would see in someone in just one short day isn't the same as you would see in one long month. People aren't their full self when they just meet someone. It takes a while to know how a person really acts and thinks. When I first met my friend Justin, I didn't know how he acted. After a while knowing him I can tell that he gets mad a lot and I can tell when he's going to get mad. If someone says the wrong thing to him he gets really angry. I see why he gets mad, but I think he takes it too far. What I also saw in him is that whenever he lands a trick he is trying to do on a skateboard, it completely withdraws all of his anger. Now that I know him so well, I kind of think similar to him and can tell what he thinks most of the time. I wouldn't know any of these things about him if i had only knew him for one short day.

My So-Called Life

We're watching this T.V. series in my english class. It's pretty interesting. The teenage girl is going through changes and is seeing the world for what it really is. Things aren't as they use to be. She leaves her best friend behind and hangs out with a girl that she admired. She dies her hair crimson red and quits her yearbook class. When her teacher talks to her about quitting, she says that all the high school stories are a lie and the real high school stories are horrible. 

1st blog

I just made a blog in my English Class.