Work from highscool

I had an assignment in my creative writing class in which I had to clip out phrases and work them into a poem. Honestly I didn't have anything else to write about this week, so here we go.

Rachel Dryce
May 9, 2007

Sometimes it appears there’s no rhyme or reason,
If someone says something amiss,
I feel like I’m falling out of that window,
You were, are still – A point of light,
An active member,
It’s magic.
Critics declared you a hit,
A cat-walk aided hit,
Telling jokes while cameras hone in on faces,
You see in their faces they so believe in the magic,
They no longer accept your death.
The 2 week period put things in perspective,
Because I had never known,
What was your most pleasurable experience?
You were always about fabulous storytelling,
They were great, I felt like I wasn’t here,
And I have you to thank far a lot of fond memories,
And after a brutal ending,
That old bat!
Her life’s dream was to meet Cinderella.

They're Everywhere!

Can anyone begin to explain that weird mix of feelings you get when you find out something new and then you see that thing everwhere? It is so weird when it happens, and depending on the type of information it is, a person either loves it or hates it. It has happened to everyone; you find out what car your crush drives and you see it everywhere, you hear a song you love and you hear it more than you ever thought possible, or you learn about a new animal, let's give an example of bonobos*, and you see the term or a picture more than ever before. Let's face it though, no matter how much you like your crush, that song, or that animal, it gets so annoying seeing that newly found knowledge everywhere! At some point don't you just want it to go away? The problem there is that, the reason it goes away, is because you have found something new to focus on, and that concept is even more frustrating. To get rid of an annoyance, anotherone has to arise? How discomforting. But, when does an annoyance become something a person looks forward to? When does it become the point when all a person does is look for that new thing to turn up everywhere? Another funny trick we play on ourselves. Exactly the moment we start looking for something random, we can't find it. Just when you think your crushes car is ubiquitos and just when you begin looking for it, it's no where. Just when you want to find an article on a bonobo, there aren't any. The car ride all you want to hear is that new song on the radio, it doesn't play. It is amazing the tricks our minds can play on us when we learn something new, and when you stop to think about it, how hard it is to control what our brain does! An old saying says that people are to "roll with the punches", and it looks like when our brain is in control, we might as well, or we could really end up going completely insane!

*A bonobo is a type of chimp, and yes, I see mentions of them everwhere thanks to Anthropology class.

Top Ten Animals

Black Rhino, Black Rhino
What do you see?
I see a Giant Panda looking at me.

Giant Panda, Giant Panda
What do you see?
I see a Tiger looking at me.

Tiger, Tiger
What do you see?
I see a Beluga Sturgeon looking at me.

Beluga Sturgeon, Beluga Sturgeon
What do you see?
I see a Goldenseal looking at me.

Goldenseal, Goldenseal
What do you see?
I see an Alligator Snapping Turtle looking at me.

Alligator Snapping Turtle, Alligator Snapping Turtle
What do you see?
I see a Hawksbill Turtle looking at me.

Hawksbill Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle
What do you see?
I see a Big Leaf Mahogany looking at me.

Big Leaf Mahogany, Big Leaf Mahogany
What do you see?
I see a Green-Cheeked Parrot looking at me.

Green-Cheeked Parrot, Green Cheeked Parrot
What do you see?
I see a Mako Shark looking at me.

Mako Shark, Mako Shark
What do you see?
I see Zoologists looking at me.

Zoologists, Zoologists
What do you see?
We see a Black Rhino, a Giant Panda, a Tiger, a Beluga Sturgeon, a Goldenseal, an Alligator Snapping Turtle, a Hawksbill Turtle, a Big Leaf Mahogany, a Green Cheeked Parrot, and a Mako Shark looking at extinction.

Mall Mess

There we were, sitting on the shuttle that takes usd to the mall. When we arrived, a plethera of stores awaited our money to be spent. We drifted for a while, looking for the perfect store to waste our money in first. After a while, boredom started to set in, afterall, how long can one spend at the mall just window shopping. That sucks. To top it off, we weren't on the mood for food court food, so we could skip on that delectable pastime. So, two of us out of the group decided we were going to bail, and head back to campus. We made our way through the unfamiliar mall, and headed towards the shuttle pick up point. We sat, waited, waited, and still waited, until my friend Andrew realized that the shuttle stopped running and hour and a half ago at five, the time at which we had arrived to the mall. So there we were, stranded at the mall on a friday night, and it was growing dark. Luckily I wasn't alone, or tears would've started pouring from my fearful eyes, but I contained myself, and preceeded to call everyone I knew at school who had a car. No one answered, and those that did were gone for the weekend. Andrew reccommended walking what would've been an hour and a half walk, and there was no way I was doing that in an unfamiliar place! So we decided to see what the city bus could do for our sorry souls. We found a bus that would take us to the Transit Station, and we prayed that a bus from there would take us safely back to the promised land of USF. Thankfully, there was one, and it was bus number 6 that drove us back to where we belonged. I was a little scared and nervous to take the city bus, considering I've never done that before without parental supervision, but it was time for new experiences, and this one I think should go down in the history of me. So what was the lesson learned? Yea, you're right! Don't take the shuttle to the mall after school of Friday's.

Mp3 Memoir Analysis

After listening to ‘Us and Them’ again, my perspective hasn’t changed a bit. This kid is a selfish kid who can’t seem to give up his candy to some people who live next door to him, simply because he thought they were weird and different than him. Not to mention, the basis of why he thinks his neighbors are strange is because they live life a little differently than he is accustomed to. It is wrong and selfish to assume people who are different than you aren’t worth enough to give even a little piece of candy. It is terrible that they are his new form of entertainment because of how strange they are to him and his personal life. In no way did hearing this memoir out loud change my opinion in the least, because it is still saying the same thing as when I am reading it. It still is showing selfishness, it still is showing that being different means you’re an outsider, it is still poking fun; none of that I take lightly in today’s day and age.

Memior Analasis

This is Emo:

What I’m getting from this is that stories in general that people hear, see, and know give us a false interpretation of what love is. There are certainly valid reasons as to why a person would feel this way, but I find it hard to believe that people as a whole base what they think love and life are on things they see and hear in entertainment. Children, sure, they have no life experiences to go on, but once a person has enough life journeys to conjure together, they can surely start to determine what is true and what isn’t. If the author of this memoir is going to blame the false telling of entertainment for his failed love life, then the author really needs to go out and explore the world more. It just all feels like they are looking for a way out of thinking that what happened to them was something unfathomable. Failed ‘love’ happens more than actual love does, and excuse the entertainment world for wanting to give a good story, not a lousy one most of the world is used to!


Us and Them:
In my eyes, this really just dwindles down to not assuming things about people you don’t know. The Tomkey’s were not what the author’s family was used to, and there for started a streak of curiosity in him as a young kid. When they bothered the author’s family the night after Halloween, the curiosity seemed to grow into more of a dislike, because of their odd habits. They also made the author angry because he had to give up their candy, and though it was quite selfish of the author to be so rude as to make a fuss about them taking some, it made them even more apprehensive to become friends with the Tomskey’s. In fact, after they had disrupted the author’s evening they stated that a hatred was now imparted on the Tomskey’s. They agreed they had been piggish and selfish, but they could never really get over that one night when they had taken the candy the night after Halloween

Memior Draft #1

The drive from Anaheim to Burbank was only 45 minutes, but despite that, it was easily the longest drive of my life. A typical Californian summer’s day, the sun was shining and my family was playing cliché Beach Boys music in our rented Ford Taurus. Our GPS system (which we had named Phyllis) told us to make a left, and there it was, the WB Studio Walls, lined with humongous billboards of all the TV shows it films or had filmed. We parked, and I could hear and feel my heart pounding thorough my chest. We were finally here.
As we walked into the lobby-gift shop combo, every WB TV show or movie one could think of had a product we could ever want there. DVD’s, shirts, key chains, watches mugs, and more! But, despite my fascination, there was no more time to waste! The tour tickets my dad had preorderd read our names and times, and we were off! A quick movie about the history of The WB, and it was off to the trolley that was to take us around the studios in a timely two hour tour.
Out first stop, the set of ER, was an interesting experience, seeing the hospital that always looked so real now actually looking so fake. Then we saw a long stretch of road made to look like New York City, in which scenes of the movie “Vanilla Sky” with Tom Cruise was filmed. We saw the Harry Potter ford Anglia, The Batmobile, and the Mystery Mobile from “Scooby Doo”, and in that room with the cars, a quick glance at the oh so sexy leg of Brad Pitt. I was enjoying my time, but there was something missing.
As we climbed back inside of our trolley, our cameras at the ready, we turned a corner and my visit finally began. Since January 3, 2005 I had been mesmerized, in fact crazed about the Gilmore Girls, my favorite TV show of all time. The set of Stars Hollow was right in front of me. The sign that read when Stars Hollow was founded and its miniscule population, Luke’s the every episode diner, Lorelai Gilmore’s (my favorite character) house, Rory’s (Lorelai’s daughter) study tree, and the list goes on and on. How badly I wanted to get out and be part of the set, but I wasn’t allowed.
Every comment about Gilmore Girls that the tour guide made I knew the answer to, and I had to contain myself to keep my mouth shut. I was so awed and amazed that I was where so many of my favorite episodes had been filmed; I didn’t even realize my journey had only just begun. That May, the sixth season had concluded, and now the seventh season (and what I know now was its last) filming had started. New storylines were everywhere around me, I couldn’t contain it any longer. Then, when our trolley stopped in from of sound stage six, we were told we were going into the set of Yale, where Rory attends college. And to my disbelief, even more excitement took a hold of me.
In we went, and I was standing where I had only witnessed my favorite actress (Lauren Graham who plays Lorelai Gilmore) stand, where I had only seen on TV, and even seeing what was supposed to be outside was actually inside, everything still felt real. Remembering episodes that had taken place where I was standing was and still is unimaginable. As we headed out (much against my wishes) we were told to be very quiet, for the cast of Gilmore Girls was filming in the Gilmore Mansion soundstage right next door! As we passed by, parking spaces of the actors were seen, trailers were viewed, and I hoped with all my might that the actors I loved would walk out, so I could revel in their greatness! But we passed by, and though time stood still, no one was seen, and we left the set where I had been in heaven.
Our tour was wrapped up with a museum, where inside Gilmore Girls had its own display. Nothing was to be touched, but with Lauren Graham’s outfit from season four’s “The Fundamental Things Apply” (one of my favorites) how could I resist? I brushed the white collared blouse with my shoulder so indiscreetly if I saw someone do what I did I’d laugh. But despite the badly executed stealth, it was worth it, and I’ll never forget any minute of my Gilmore Girls trip.
When we arrived back to our starting point, I practically sprinted to where the Gilmore Girls memorabilia was and finally decided on a watch which had the Gilmore Girls logo on the face. I was so thrilled to now be the owner of an official WB Gilmore Girls watch only available through the tour I had just taken. As we left the Studios, I let the day settle within my, I took a breath, and hoped that this feeling would never subside.
Looking back I find it funny to think that I was that excited, but then I remember what an impact this show had on my adolescent life. I’m aware that not everybody can relate or even understand why this visit meant so much to me, not everyone has had something affect their life this much. I look back and wish that I had seen an actor from the show, and realize I might never have that chance again, and how close I actually was to meeting people I look up to. When my family traveled to California I knew we were going to be visiting The WB studios, but I didn’t know it would’ve affected my life as much as it did. Being with my family in a place that meant so much to me also helped my experience become what it is to me today. This trip to Burbank, California on July 25, 2006 was easily the best day of my teenaged life, and it will never be forgotten.