my topic

My topic for our first essay is going to be about my mom's old, brass, annoying clock that currently sits in my parent’s front living room and how the ticking of it reminds me of wasted time. I came to this decision after sitting in the front living room and waiting for one of my family to come home so we could go to dinner, since i was starving!, and i started hearing the tick, tick, tick, of that clock and realized i, honestly, never paid any attention to that thing until i was bored or just waiting for something while i was sitting on the sofa just wasting time and not being productive.
Questions i have...questions i have... umm... i would say my question is why do i only seem to notice that clock with it is taunting ticking when i am bored or waiting for something. Also, why does it bother me so much when i hear it do that stupid ticking! So I guess I need to go and look back at all the times that I was plagued by this clock and how many times I was forced to listen to it or allowed my self to listen to it tick and me and point fun at the fact that in some way I was just wasting my time and not doing anything productive at all.

So after sitting and staring at the mass amount of papers set in separate piles and my white cell phone screen full of text messages for a while I realized that I really do have totally different styles of writing depending on the person and the subject matter.
I looked at the text messages and the letters that my best friend and I write back and forth and realized I do not write everything totally out. Most of the sentences are open ended, knowing that she will be able to finish the inside joke and they are in very excited, fast, some what sloppy writing as I my brain and my hand both attempt to rush and work together to get everything that I want to say on paper. Then I looked at the text messages of random “I miss you!” and “I hope you have a great day my dear!”
Also, I have my text messages to my friends and roommate. My text messages are full of “hey, lets get lunch”, “let’s hangout”, and giving them advice about random dilemmas that come up through out the day. They are all either really short and sweet or long typed out sentences. Also, I have the little notes that I leave for my roommate to inform her that I have not disappeared but have ran out to do something like the one informing her I was going to pick up my sister from school who managed to get pink eye.
Then I have my notes that I use as a student. The notes are written in short hand and I have many little words that I use to shorten the sentences and relieve the tension on my hand as I can tell I am writing in a hurry due to the very messy hand writing. Bullets and side notes cover the page and sides of the paper in an attempt to make me remember every bit of information that I believe is important and I should remember.
I am a daughter with parents who just learned about text messaging. I have random texts answering their texts of “how are you doing” and “call me!”all typed out perfectly so they can understand and a quick text to my father answering his question of if it was my birthday on the 23 or my sisters.
Then last, I am an older sister. My texts are very short and I attempt to do the “hip” text lingo as my 16 year old sister does even though I have no idea what she says to me half the time. Also, I have the text messages I send back to my little brothers typed out fully in short sentences calling them dorks and to stop prank calling me because I can assure them my refrigerator is not about to run down the street!

i believe i can learn to write well through constant writing and expressing my ideas through writing. i can continue to write in my little cream colored journal and just fast write as i am doing here and in class. Because, as we all know, practice does make perfect! Also, attempting to allow my self to release my mind from the chains that all my english teachers from first grade and beyond have installed in me so i do not sit and think that my paper must be set up perfectly before i can even start to write. I can learn to write well when i can break away from the spider maps, webs, and essay layouts that are branded into you to make you write the PERFECT paragraph. Instead, i need to let the juices flow and write down everything that i feel in the moment and learn to organize it after i find out exactly i want to say. But, of course, i need to find some thing that i focus on and want to learn more about to make the essay more personal and narrow. i need to learn to focus on one thing that stuck out to me like the sunshine that shone through my bedroom window when I was a child. One other thing to do is read over others essays and pick up little ideas and things that they did on their essay and incorporate or build off of that and use it in your own paper.

About Me...

About Breann...
This is my first year at TCU! GO FROGS! I am from Euless, TX and was on my high schools drill team. My major is Early Childhood Education! I can't wait to be a teacher! I am a waitress and I love it! I love being around my friends and family! This is the first time I have ever been away from my 4 brothers and sisters, so it is kind of lonely without all of their noise and not always having at least one of them around me at all times. I am actually the oldest and my baby sister is 4 while I am 19 so I feel pretty old compared to her. Just think by the time she is 15 I am going to be 30 yrs old! Wow! I am also very over protective of my brothers and sister. But besides that, I am an outgoing girl that can talk way too much at times and be kind of loud. I was born in Maine then at the age of three started moving with my family. I moved my whole elementary school life, so I went to a million different elementary schools!
I am taking this course because I enjoy writing and this course was highly recommended by my advisor. We had talked about other alternatives however it was decided that this was the best choice in the long run. I have always liked writing in my journal so this was an easy choice for me! I have had a journal since I was 6 and it is a way for me to relax and get things off my mind. Writing has been very influential in my life and has allowed me to express who I am and helped me to develop my thoughts and actions. Writing for research is not my favorite thing, it seems to be boring and dull, I much more enjoy writing, things with more excitement and that are interesting for me to read. I love that I can add personal stories and experiences to stories in this class! Especially, since my whole high school career I was taught to never do that. I tend to be very wordy when I write and I am not a very good speller, I received that trait form my mom, so if I could fix that I feel like I would be a much better writer and would be so happy! In my opinion, the hardest thing about writing is just getting started; it takes me a while to think of something that I can build off of. But, once that idea hits me then the juices keep flowing. My high school English teacher, Mrs. Williams, was my greatest influence for writing. She was the first teacher I have had that really pushed me and made me want to do even better because it was a very challenging class and plus I didn’t want to feel dumb in the class. (hahaha)
I enjoy reading poems and novels involving mysteries, not only are they exciting and entertaining, but the thrill of guessing who the killer is a rush (I usually guess it right!)

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