Metacognition: The Kite Runner

My thought process goes something like this....
"Food, food, drink, oh good song,read something...nah it's not due, hungry...wait trying to eat healthy...oh screw it, text text text, stop texting....paper time."
After that my thought process is something like a hum trying to find something that sounds like me. In this paper, I used the angel and demon concept just because it's so relatable and something on the surface just like how I pictured the book. Sure the book had some deep thinking parts, but only because we were looking for them. I wanted to create a surface feel to a surface book. After the surface appeal and something easy to read did I get into the deeper connections, at least that's what I thought I did. This was the first paper of the year, so i'll need just a little slack on my deep connections...I didn't exactly write papers over the summer. In my paper, I would make everything a little more distinct and give more structure to it.
What surprises me about my thinking is that I can't just sit and think about how i'm going to write something; I have to sit there and type a few words, then delete them and type stuff over just so I can't get my juices flowing. Also, because i'm so easily distracted, I find that listening to music actually helps. The words in the music give me something to start on and I end up finding a song/rhythm that I like. But with that, I'd like to make it so I don't have to listen to music to get my academic self to show up. I like to keep it underground a lot because I like just soaking things in and this doesn't help me. Overall, my thinking was a little shallow this time, but I thought it was portrayed in a way that was similar to what the book showed me.

Blogging Around

Darrell's post hits close to home in a way that I can't explain. With technology so close to us at every minute of our life, we're evolving to be a more dependant culture and with that we lose who we are. His blog talks about what we're becoming with technology. I even heard that in hundreds of years, our thumbs will be bigger because we use them to text and flip channels so much. With that, I connected Facebook to cell phones.

It Matters: Facebook and our Identity Crisis
Everything you just said scares me. Although I don't have a facebook, I still understand everything you said in a personal way because at least I have a cell phone. Cell phones now are almost the same thing as Facebook, but in a very watered down version. People don't use cell phones to call anymore, rather we text people. I find texting useful and my phone bill could back me up. I can answer when I please and I can go back to see what I had said before, plus I can talk to more than one person at a time, but I don't really connect with any of them. I don't actually hear the person's voice and I find myself having a lot more courage and stamina when I don't have to say it in person or actually on the phone. Like Facebook, cell phones build a wall between the real you and someone behind a screen of any kind. I still want a facebook though. Grant it I haven't really seen my turnabout pictures yet and I can't talk to people over seas, I really really want one, but am I willing to risk building another wall in my personality? Great job Darrell!

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Meghana's blog post talks about the relationship of Hassan and Amir while connecting it to one of my favorite Disney movies. Her blog post got me thinking about what my life is and not just my friends, but the future and how I see mine ending up.

Connection: The Kite Runner and The Color of Friendship
Just for starters...I loved that movie! I basically loved everything disney until they took off Lizzie McGuire and put on Hannah Montana.For "enders"...What is a friend? Is a friend someone you absolutely tell everything to, but won't admit you do so OR are they someone you talk to in class, but the public accepts them? I think Amir is going through that situation in the book. Obviously he knows that they can't socially be accepted as friends, but if he actually thinks they are or not is another story. He really needs to go through the Happy Machine to figure out his own thoughts. Your blog also made me think about my own life. In the movie, Mahree comes from a white community. I come from a mostly caucasion community, sadly. She finds herself a little racist. I'm not racist, but it's harder for me to see my life anything other than what it is because of what I've grown up in. I've grown up in an architectual, law, business community and I can't exactly get that out of my head. Everyday I try to think of what is coming up and I can only think of my town and the people in it. Like Mahree in a way, I can't see anything different. I as well need to go through the Happy Machine to open my mind about my life. Unfortunately, it will take a while to build mine, (the directions are in sweedish...).