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Apples to Apples

The game I chose to play was Apples to Apples! This has got to be one of mine and my friends favorite games...and it just so happened that last night we had enough people to make the game interesting. The more people the better! We can play this game until everyone gets tired of playing because you really don't keep tract of winning, which is exactly what we did. It really interesting to me because this game helps you learn a lot about the other people by the cards they choose to show. This is a guessing game, if you haven't figured out yet. To see how people react to the different cards put down is strange because you learn what other people think about and are use to..., just a glimpse into their everyday lives and how they live. All games have different strategies; however, they all prove the amount of knowledge a person has at any given subject. It is truly fascinating to me to learn so many little details about my friends and the things they know...things they deal with in their everyday lives!

Five seconds of video

So, the group I was in today did a really good job checking things off our list...we got everything but the motorcycle in motion and the two strollers w/babies. All of our videotaping seemed easy...all while I was learning how the video camera worked. That part wasn't so bad, but that sense of anxiety starts setting in because now that the fun part is over and I've taped the stuff, I am required to post in on-line...this is where my anxiety starts. Does anyone have any helpful tips?
If not, it's ok...I am slowly learning all this stuff one mistake at a time.
It really is good for me! I've done more in three weeks than in...WOW!

Quoting from "Everyday"

The first 47 pages of "Everyday" were very thought provoking. There were actually a bunch of things, or quotes I thought of using in my blog. There were many great descriptions of what each individual "thought" everyday life was; however, I think Maurice Blanchot in his Everyday Speech from 1962 said it best on page 38:

"For the ordinary of each day is not such by contrast with some extraordinary; this is not the 'nul moment' that would await the 'splendid moment' so that the latter would give it a meaning, suppress or suspend it. What is proper to the everyday is that it designates for us a region, or a level of speech, where the determinations true and false, like the oppostions yes and no, do not apply-it being always before what affirms it and yet incessantly reconstituting itself beyond all that negates it."

It is with this idea of a "level" that has me convinced that he knows what he's talking about... a level of life lived differently by each individual, never to be relived or the same again.

Blanchot also ends his piece nicely by summing up everyday life as he says, "For in the everyday we are neither born nor do we die: hence the weight and the enigmatic force of everyday truth." pg.42

I will leave you with that to chew on...it's pretty heavy stuff, yet thought provoking!

I think I am confused

So, I started putting together my powerpoint slide show, which by the way is very new for me...but I like it! What I wanted to ask, is what are we basing our slide show off of?
Is it the readings...Debord, Smithson, ect? Some clarification would be great!
~Thanx

An agonizing Friday

Today has been a tough day to stomach. I had to take my car into the shop yesterday
and am still waiting to get it back. I got the call last night that, unfortunatley for me, my radiator
needed to be replaced on top of the other work the shop was doing...ouch!
I am staying inside from the rain, trying to make the best of the day. Dreading the bill that is coming my way... man...I haven't even paid my tuition yet! I guess that's life...hopefully not everyday though.