Blogging?!

For me, trying to think of something to write about in my posts is frustrating, almost as if I have A.D.D. (which I am pretty sure I don't have, which kind of sucks because I could get more time on tests and such ;P ). I sometimes have a topic on my mind but then it slowly fades to the back of my mind as I struggle to put what I want to say down in readable thoughts. I guess what I am saying is that for our english class, we should have more of a structured posting. I am not saying though that we should be limited to very specific subjects like, for example: "post your thoughts on this reading from pages 'blah blah blah' to 'blah blah blah' and come up with a thesis on why 'blah blah blah-blah blaaaah balhhhhh'." What I mean is that we should be given a choice on broad subjects like "respond to a current event" or "recall a childhood memory" and stuff like that so it would be easier to think of something to post. I liked our teacher's (Mr.Watson!) idea of having a cycle sheet with objectives to complete by the end of a school week instead of having us do homework on specific days. I think having a "slightly structured post" could work well with this idea.
With blogging I agree with Elise's thoughts on blogging: http://timtimestwo.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-want-to-know-what-i-think-my-take.html
Its interesting to read some of my classmates posts although some of them are just shout outs. It is true, like Elise said, that a lot of us forget the usual standards of "English Class Quality" in these posts and go off in all kinds of random thoughts that don't really help us get closer to answering the essential questions (What kind of world is this, and How should we live in it?). I truly do feel if we utilize this blogging in the right way, we could get our answers to essential questions through comments or posts of others, preferrably those of people not in the same school as us.

I haven't really gotten to address my essential questions at all through any of my posts. So here are a few:
-Where will the future take us?
-Is living for the benefit of you or others?
-What should our strongest beliefs, values, and morals be?
And here are the two essential questions that is this year's english class is trying to cover:
What kind of world is this?
How should I live in it?
About answering these questions, I don't feel a step closer to even want to try to. Through my posting, I have discovered a little through the reflection on Singer's essay and some others, but not enough to answer any of my questions to 100% satisfaction. I am not sure how I should find my answers to these questions. Hopefully in the near future I'll discover more through expressing myself more through this blog.

In Reflecting about my posts, I feel some what satisfied with them. Like I said, I don't get many ideas into this blog so I am sorry if I don't have that much personal thoughts. One of my posts that I like a lot is my Parent pressure one. It was somewhat interesting to write and it got some pretty good commenting back. I guess I should try to write posts like that one more often. The one sentence describing a place or object (mine was a book I was reading while trying to think of something else other than the homework I had to do that night) was pretty fun to write although I admit my writing skills isn't so great. The rest were mildly satisfying, and they were not as easy to write. Right now I am trying to get my "This I believe" Podcast up and running, but I can't seem to get the recording right, like I couldn't get it right with the ipod. Hopefully that post will be up and running soon because it was quite fun writing the essay.

Well if you read all that, congrats, you made it to the end. Go visit my fellow classmates blogs, they probably have more entertaining thoughts than I do. ;P