October 31

Tonight I am working on a homework assignment for my History of English Language class and also will be polishing a poem to turn in for review tomorrow.

October 28

On Friday I did some note taking for a paper I have due for Psychology.  It is just a small response paper but I wanted to be able to back up my opinions with facts.

October 27

On Thursday I worked on more poetry.  I feel as though being able to push myself to think "slower", clearer,. and broader has made me a better writer this semester.

October 26

On Wednesday I worked on my Teach for America application.  I had to write my letter of intent, this took a lot of thought and had to stop a few times and rewrite before I got to something I was comfortable with sending in.

October 25

On Tuesday I worked on poetry with my professor.  It was a different experience sitting down and just tearing my work apart!  It was actually fun once we got to the end result.

BDS Monday October 24

Tonight I have been doing quite a bit of writing in various forms.  I am currently working on completing my application for Teach for America.  I have been trying to think of how to write my letter of intent, so far I have had zero success.  I also am working on a poetry presentation but am getting frustrated because I can't find information on the poet. 

October 21

Today, I did some catching up on reading and note taking for my genre's class, as well as worked on some poem rewrites.

October 20

Today, I critiqued classmate's poems and worked quite a bit on my own. 

Wednesday October19

I spent all of wednesday both working on poetry and studying for a Middle English exam.  I had to put together a study guide that took quite a bit of time.

October 18

I spent the entire night studying for psychology.  It was a rough week thus the lack of posts, I definitely kept up with the writing process though!

Monday Octboer 17

Today I am working on a new poem that I have to turn in for tomorrow's class.  I am trying to work on it in little increments and then go from there.

BDS Thursday and Friday of last week

On Thursday I worked on editing a few of my poems. 
I have been finding stopping being a really big key to getting my work done in a manner that I am happy with.


 On Friday I spent my BDS time working on studying for my upcoming Psych exam.

My Little Game of Catchup... The Mindful Brain pg 3-9

Here we go!  I think the section of this reading that spoke most to me was the part about the benefits of mindfulness.  I already knew that it was good for relaxing but aside from that I wasn't really sure (when reading this) that mindfulness would help me in the ways that I needed but when I got to this section I was sure that I heard a big HALLELUJAH!     In the beginning of this section, where it introduces the ability of mindfulness to help regulate emotion, I was sold.   I am a very emotionally in touch person.  I invest a great deal of myself in the things I do and when I don't receive the reaction I expect, whether it be from people or from a project, I tend to feel a personal  hit from it.  Mindfulness, along with this section, have shown me that it is okay for those feelings to be there but it is also okay to let them go and move on.    The next part about the ability to maintain stress and recovery were so interesting to me because since the beginning of class I've noticed that although I have had a ton of stress on my plate I have dealt with it in a better manner than I normally would.  I find myself actually able to go talk with professors without feeling like I'm going to die right before it.  (I'm not sure why I have that fear of professors, but it is there!)

I think that being aware that these benefits may be there has helped me be more open to the mindfulness practices, which I am thankful for! 

Playing Catchup once again!

I am playing catchup on all of my blogging for reading posts.  So, bare with me!   I was in a car accident a few weeks ago... Actually, exactly a month ago today.  Let me just tell you, it has not been easy trying to get back on track.  Although I was not injured, it took a huge mental toll.   A lot of my class work has fallen behind because I have been working more to pay for the accident.  So, to stop my rant on how bad life has been, lets get to Boice, because I'm sure he would not be very happy with me focusing on the negative!  So, the first post I need to catch up on is the last section of Chp 1 of Boice.  I know, that was forever ago!

Something that really stood out to me when I read this was his exact reasoning behind doing BDS.  In particular, number 1: "Bds reduce warm-up time to near zero; the usual prospect of warm-up time (usually spent trying to reaquaint oneself with material no longer fresh in mind) often undermines motivation; when we approach resumption of a project knowing that we must begin with hours of review and rethinking, we may put it off." (Boice 34)  This is something I find myself doing quite a bit.  I don't want to have to think to thoroughly through a subject but I know I have to and that is when I become uneasy and don't feel like I want to do it, so I set it aside. 

The negative emotions and moods section also kinda of shouted at me because I always see my mood effecting the way I work, whether it be writing or even at my job.  If I'm in a negative mood it definitely shows through my work ethic and also through my writing in general.  So I am interested in seeing how to deal with those issues rather than set them aside. 

BDS October 11

I wrote a new poetry yesterday.  I'm not sure what category of Boise it would fall under but I definitely wrote, then rewrote.  and then rewrote again until I was happy with my final project.  I would take notes on the things that I liked and dispose of the things that I didn't.

Bds October 10

On Monday I worked on a homework assignment for History of English Language.  I had to undoubtedly include a lot of stopping because it was a very frustrating assignment. 

October 7

I worked on writing that turned out to have a few lines of about 3 different poems.

BDS October 6 *Dates on previous posts are wrong*

On the 4th I spent my night finishing up the paper that I was writing and also was preparing readings for my genres class.

Makeup BDS October 3

On the 3rd I spent time working on my paper as well as critiquing poems for class. 

BDS Makeup October 2

On Tuesday I was writing my paper for genres of poetry.  I tried my best to use mindful practices but I had a hard time that night.

BDS October 1

I spent my entire night studying for Old English while also adding finishing touches to my poem that was due the next day.

September 30th

This day was spent beginning to study for the Old English exam that I had on Last Tuesday. 

BDS September 29th

I spend my night preparing my Paper that would be due in my genres of poetry class.

BDS Catchups

I have had a couple of hectic weeks these past couple of weeks, between school, work and band.  So I haven't had a very clear head to remember to blog.  So, that being said I plan to play catchup here.  The week before last I was working on a poetry project to present on a literary journal in front of class.  This involved finding the specific submission guidelines and a poem that came out of that journal.