Gettin' Ziggy With It

My favorite thing from the announcements this week was the video of "Tiny Hamster is a Giant Monster". I thought it was pretty funny how the hamster was literally just eating everything and stuffing its cheeks. Its impressive that with no words a video can say so much. I just imagined what people would be saying on the street or the guys the helicopters screaming when he started eating them. http://ouclassannouncements.blogspot.com/search/label/current Tiny Hamster is a Giant Monster; Link

It is starting to become real to me that I am going to be finished with school forever in less than two weeks. It still feels like yesterday I was starting High School. I have another huge transition coming and that makes me anxious and happy all at the same time. When I started Kindergarten I got to go to Miami and watch OU win a national championship. Now, Im graduating college, I think its only fitting that they have an opportunity to win it again seventeen years later when I am done with school. I hope they make it there and when. I have already bought plane tickets to Atlanta. (No worries they are refundable). I am a bit ready to be done with school but I have a stressful two weeks ahead of me and lots of more writing to do. I feel like it never stops! I am excited to start my career though and begin to perfect my craft. I have been through a lot in College and looking back at it, it has shaped me to become the person I am today. I have had to persevere many many times and that ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu I got to vishnu through the class twitter page. I have always wondered about vishnu and for some reason this weekend it got brought up. So when I saw it, it caught my eye.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga When I was reading through Vishnu on wikipedia it began to talk about the different positions the statues of Vishnu come in. One of them was a yoga sitting pose. Hinduism and these gods have a lot to do with yoga and yoga is important in many religions in the middle east and asia.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa As I was reading about Yoga and religions I came across the muslim religion where they issued a Fatwa for any muslims trying to practice yoga. I had never heard of a fatwa before I started watching "Curb your Enthusiam" where this season there was a Fatwa against Larry David.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang Fatwa can be used as slang and that is how Curb your Enthusiasm used it in there se...

I saw this challenge a couple weeks ago and decided to try it out today. I think it really helps with understanding the story better the first time you read it and just all around comprehension of stories. It was a little awkward because I felt like I was talking to myself but once I got over that it was okay. I noticed I have done this before without realizing it when I write papers for school. I have done it more in capstone class due to not wanting to make a mistake. I should start doing this more often! reading out loud; link

I started to realize my capstone professor kept using the term "growth mindset" a lot in class discussions and in different slides he would show us. I asked him if he used the same source as we have been using in this class all semester and he said yes! He is starting to prepare us for the real world and giving us tips on how to be successful and a lot of his ideas come from growth mindset. It is all about learning new things and chasing your dreams. Not getting down on yourself and learning from your mistakes. I thought "how great is that all these classes are tying in together and trying there best to help us as students be as successful as possible and providing us the knowledge and resources to do so". Chase your dreams! Link

The Google Timer is a good Tool. It has a countdown timer and a stop watch you can use to time yourself. I have not used it but I also did not know it was even available until now. I feel like since I am graduating in two weeks I dont have time to implement it into my every day for school but maybe I could use it for my job when I start in January. Time management will be a very serious part of my day to day activities. Hopefully I can use it.

  Europa's Fairy Book  by Joseph Jacobs; A visitor From Paradise;  Link The story starts as a women mishears a man who says he is from Paris and thinks he is from Paradise She believes that this is where her late husband was and asks the man if he knows him The man realizes she is bit senile and plays along She gives the man some of her late husbands things and he also takes a horse They go looking for the man and end up coming across thieves. The thieves get spooked by them and they take all the loot they had and live happily ever after Image from Link

The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales  translated by D. L. Ashliman; Rumpelstiltskin; Link The main characters of the story are the millers daughter, the king, and rumpelstiltskin  The millers father tells the king his daughter can weave straw into gold The king takes the daughter and asks her to fill a room with gold or else he will kill her She cannot do so, but a little man named rumpelstiltskin comes in He weaves the straw into gold three times for the millers daughter in exchange for her necklace, ring, and first born son of her and the king Rumpelstiltskin says he will not take her first born child if she can figure out his name She sends off a servant to find out all odd names he could find On the third day he came across a little man dancing and saying his name the queen (millers daughter) bested rumpelstiltkin and angered him so much he split himself in two I could change the story by changing what the millers daughter can do. Maybe she can ...