The semi-colon

One of these days I'm going to get some pictures up here--maybe. So until then, here is what I wrote about semi-colons.

Semi-colons are the bomb diggidy; they are the most awesome thing ever. In reality, I still don't completely understand semi-colons or how to use them. I suppose you can write much more effectively using semi-colons and their buddy the hyphen. I think the hyphen looks cooler; it stands out more because it looks so different from other punctuation--you can easily see what I mean. A semi-colon is better than a colon because a semi-colonoscopy doesn't sound as bad as the full thing.

Ah, Finally

So, things are finally getting better for me. My stomach flu is all gone. I ended up not going snowboarding last week because I didn’t think I would have the energy. I’m glad I made that decision because the next day I went to Salt Lake to play Laser-tag with my cousins and even that got me exhausted. Even today, almost a week later, I went to the gym to lift weights and I felt a little weaker than normal.

Laser-tag with my cousins was fun. I haven’t seen my cousins in many years and so I don’t remember them very well. Dad decided to help us all get to know one another better; so he set up this activity and sent me the money to pay for everyone to come along. It was nice getting to know my cousins even though fewer showed up than I expected. I only wish someone had a camera with them so we could take pictures of the event. I guess I had my phone but I even forgot to use that. Oh well, maybe in 10 years we will do this again and get some pictures.

Sick Sucks

This week didn’t go nearly as well as I would have liked. My brother just moved back to Provo and my dad came up to visit. Sounds like things would go pretty well for me. Well, I ended up getting the stomach flu Wednesday morning. Turns out my dad got the same thing so it must be something we ate at Café Rio. I missed all my classes on Wednesday and Thursday so that’s going to be a pain catching up in school. I also planned to go snowboarding at Brighton Friday night. I think I might be good enough to go, but I’m so exhausted from barfing for a full day that I’m going to have to take it easy on the slopes. My dad has it worse, he had to drive back home today, so he has to stop every few minutes because of his diarrhea. If you are reading my blog, I’m sorry you had to read this. Anyway, hopefully my blog next week will have a little less complaining.

Blog Numero Two

K, so classes aren't blurred in my brains anymore. Now I'm just at work; really bored. I have no idea if I just used that semi-colon correctly but I did it to make my teacher happy. He probably won't ever even read this. I'm supposed to have 150 words minimum for each blog I do, so I just need to find a word count thing on this blogger. So anyway, to fill up space, I'm going to write down an in-class assignment I did today. We had to write what our favorite punctuation mark is. This is what I wrote:

My favorite punctuation mark is the period. You can see that I already used it. That is how much I enjoy putting a period at the end of sentences. I can't seem to stop myself. The period means I'm done and can move on to something else, or some other thought. The only time I might not enjoy a period would be if I was a woman.

Maybe next time I'll blog blog away.

Blog Numero Uno

My first week at school has been a little more overwhelming than I first expected. I'm not taking a lot of classes but the ones that I have chosen have a large workload scheduled for me. The majority of my classes are in the business building on campus timed to be one right after the other. On top of that, two of my classes required me to get a book and a packet, but one of those classes said to hold off on the packet and I can't remember which class that was. So all my classes are starting to jumble together in my mind. I've talked to some people that have taken these classes and they say I'm crazy for trying to take them all at once. Apparently even the councilors strongly discourage it. After the second day of these business classes things have started to unscramble in my mind so I think there is a chance that I'll be okay this semester. Either way, I want to get these classes out of the way so I can hurry and find out if I'll get accepted into the accounting program. If not I can just move on to another school and stop stressing over what's going to happen to me in the near future.