Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Blog Post 1
About Me
Hello, my name is Emily Russell, the perpetually late, lazy, tumblr addicted nerd. I live with my little brother and aunt in Chickasaw, which is just a twenty minute drive from South. I am constantly surprised at how many people who attend our school have no idea where Chickasaw is, but it is a small city, so I really should be used to this by now. Whether I actually do become used to this is another story. I went to Satsuma High School, and attend South because it is conveniently close to home and they accepted my application. There is honestly no other reason, except maybe that my parents went there.
Though I am majoring in Secondary Education with a concentration in English (which I just switched to from Elementary Ed.), being a teacher is just a stepping stone to my real goal--librarian. Unfortunately, at South, there is no Library Science major, so I have to choose something else, then come back and get a Master's in Library Science. Which, by the way, makes not a lick of sense, but there's nothing I can do short of going to another school. So I chose education because my mother was an English teacher and I would like to spread my love of reading to others.
So by now, I'm sure you've guessed that reading is a big pastime of mine. I love books, but I don't have any one favorite. A few I hold above the rest, though, would be the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein, and The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
Besides reading, I enjoy watching cartoons and movies, reading comics, playing video games, and being lazy. Some important facts: my favorite movie is Disney's Treasure Planet, I love Speed Racer (Yes, the 1960s cartoon with the cheesy dubbing and old animation), I am currently obsessed with the BBC show Sherlock, my favorite song is "I'm Still Here" by Johnny Rzeznik, my favorite video game is Nier, and my favorite video game series is The Legend of Zelda. Of course if I named all of the things I loved we'd be here for a very long time, so I'll just leave it at that for now.
There's not much else to know about me, I think. I'm cheap, a fangirl, and pretty silly when you get to know me well.
Randy Pausch on Time Management
Randy Pausch on Time Management is a short, but very informative video on how to get things done on time. One of the first things Randy Puasch talks about is how we think about time in comparison to how we think about money. You wouldn't waste money, would you? He is saying that time is equatable to money, and maybe just by thinking of time on the same level as money, you'll be less inclined to waste time doing things that don't matter. I know that if I thought of time like I thought of money, I'd never be late for anything and never miss a due date.
After that, he moves on to "Goals, Priorities, and Planning," advising that you should question why you're doing something, what the importance of it is, how you should do it, and whether you should even do it at all. You've got to prioritize what needs to be done, that way you won't get mired up in doing the wrong things perfectly and doing what needs to be done sloppily.
But he also says not to let yourself use how changeable plans are as an excuse not to make plans at all. Having plans, and having a to-do list is important, because even if your plans change, you will have something to base these changes on.
He also tackles the monkey on our backs we all carry when faced with something particularly unpleasant but that we must do--procrastination. His solution for this is probably the most obvious, yet still pretty brilliant: do the worst of it first. Get it out of the way. How simple is that?
Though I have never heard of this man before, Pausch's advice is solid, I think, and I could definitely use it. Could go a long way towards that "perpetually late" and "lazy" problem I have going on. So I'll put that planner I bought to good use (after all, I need to be as cheap with time as I am with money), and try not to procrastinate too much about making that to-do list.
Hello, my name is Emily Russell, the perpetually late, lazy, tumblr addicted nerd. I live with my little brother and aunt in Chickasaw, which is just a twenty minute drive from South. I am constantly surprised at how many people who attend our school have no idea where Chickasaw is, but it is a small city, so I really should be used to this by now. Whether I actually do become used to this is another story. I went to Satsuma High School, and attend South because it is conveniently close to home and they accepted my application. There is honestly no other reason, except maybe that my parents went there.
Though I am majoring in Secondary Education with a concentration in English (which I just switched to from Elementary Ed.), being a teacher is just a stepping stone to my real goal--librarian. Unfortunately, at South, there is no Library Science major, so I have to choose something else, then come back and get a Master's in Library Science. Which, by the way, makes not a lick of sense, but there's nothing I can do short of going to another school. So I chose education because my mother was an English teacher and I would like to spread my love of reading to others.
So by now, I'm sure you've guessed that reading is a big pastime of mine. I love books, but I don't have any one favorite. A few I hold above the rest, though, would be the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein, and The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
Besides reading, I enjoy watching cartoons and movies, reading comics, playing video games, and being lazy. Some important facts: my favorite movie is Disney's Treasure Planet, I love Speed Racer (Yes, the 1960s cartoon with the cheesy dubbing and old animation), I am currently obsessed with the BBC show Sherlock, my favorite song is "I'm Still Here" by Johnny Rzeznik, my favorite video game is Nier, and my favorite video game series is The Legend of Zelda. Of course if I named all of the things I loved we'd be here for a very long time, so I'll just leave it at that for now.
There's not much else to know about me, I think. I'm cheap, a fangirl, and pretty silly when you get to know me well.
Randy Pausch on Time Management
Randy Pausch on Time Management is a short, but very informative video on how to get things done on time. One of the first things Randy Puasch talks about is how we think about time in comparison to how we think about money. You wouldn't waste money, would you? He is saying that time is equatable to money, and maybe just by thinking of time on the same level as money, you'll be less inclined to waste time doing things that don't matter. I know that if I thought of time like I thought of money, I'd never be late for anything and never miss a due date.
After that, he moves on to "Goals, Priorities, and Planning," advising that you should question why you're doing something, what the importance of it is, how you should do it, and whether you should even do it at all. You've got to prioritize what needs to be done, that way you won't get mired up in doing the wrong things perfectly and doing what needs to be done sloppily.
But he also says not to let yourself use how changeable plans are as an excuse not to make plans at all. Having plans, and having a to-do list is important, because even if your plans change, you will have something to base these changes on.
He also tackles the monkey on our backs we all carry when faced with something particularly unpleasant but that we must do--procrastination. His solution for this is probably the most obvious, yet still pretty brilliant: do the worst of it first. Get it out of the way. How simple is that?
Though I have never heard of this man before, Pausch's advice is solid, I think, and I could definitely use it. Could go a long way towards that "perpetually late" and "lazy" problem I have going on. So I'll put that planner I bought to good use (after all, I need to be as cheap with time as I am with money), and try not to procrastinate too much about making that to-do list.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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