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August: Bronchitis in Bolivia
Oh August, thank you for welcoming me into this month with a nice dose of Bronchitis. What I thought was just a small cough and sore throat at the start of the month quickly developed into what I later found out was some intense bronchitis. Although …
Bolivia has a lot of different holidays that we usually get work off for. One of these such holidays was on the 17th of July and had the day off. Because of this, my gringa coworkers thought it would be fun to take all of Sunday the 16th to visit …
This month has been an amazing and exciting time of learning, adjusting, and exploring. I’ve felt so cared for by my new coworkers and fast friends I’ve made here already. I’m still in shock that this gets to be my life; living and working in a new and exciting country …
My fundraising profile is now up and ready to view! I will have it linked below and there is more information there about what the money will be used for and what I will be doing for my job in Bolivia. Please leave comments or contact me via email or …
Hello and welcome to the beginning of my adventure of blogging about my life for the next year! As many of you may know (since you are most likely family and friends wanting to follow my journey), in July I will be moving to La Paz, Bolivia to become the …
I jam the key in the lock …
It’s gotten to the point where my work neighbor asks me how my book is coming along on Monday mornings. Because she knows that I’ve spent hours of my weekend staring at a screen and resisting the urge to scream and tear my hair out editing the damn thing.
Today …
My cells will always remember summer as it was, before summer vacations vanished. The freedom, unadulterated time to write, and play, and reminisce, and look forward. Because of the interruption of daily life, they stand out as so much more special than any other season. Even in California, where the …
Well, the semester has come and gone, and with that has brought some different changes to my digital footprint.
For the most part, my social media has stayed the same. I mostly contribute to Facebook and Instagram. I’ve really focused on putting more out there on my Twitter page, and …
When I was younger, I would get the urge to write poems when I had particularly strong feelings about things.
I’m proud to say that I can now successfully suppress that urge.
Believe me, nobody wants to read the poetry I crank out when I’m actually feeling bad enough to …
As I mentioned in a post before, I took DS106 last semester. We focused on remixes and mashups a lot. I had worked on one particular project, mashing two songs together. I chose “Follow Me” by Uncle Kracker, which has a steady calm beat. Then, I chose “Where Is The …
Here’s some of the research I’ve found on both remixes and mashups!
Remixes: a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.
only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something…Nothing is more humbling than crashing through the bushes late on a Thursday night because you have to rescue your cat from certain doom.
We’ve discussed Koji before. He’s not super bright. God love him, he’s got all sorts of other fabulous qualities, like his crazy soft baby fur and …
While reading Neuromancer, I found myself interested in the direction that Gibson took the concept of “self”. In general, I’ve always thought the idea of a sense of self is what you do with the life that is given to you, and ultimately what you want it to be through …
This is my final blog post for the ds106 assignments but I’m sure I’ll be back!
For my final assignment I have to end on a light note, and what’s better than a funny gif of a dog?!
Animals doing funny things is the assignment i chose because who doesn’t …
** I just want to start of this post saying that I’ve been pretty sick for the last week, it seems to be some strain of the flu. Unfortunately I have been unable to make it to class many days. Because of this, I didn’t want to pull my …
I made two gifs! First, I made one with imgflip.com and then secondly with Giphy.com! They both ran pretty similarly, and were easy to use!
first gif: https://imgflip.com/gif/yn4v2
second: http://giphy.com/gifs/americanpie-4OScH8TOkPzKE
Some note-taking:
Gif stands for “graphics interchange format” It’s a bitmap image format Supports up to 8 bits per pixal…