chas's blog

2005-11-28T09:38:00.000-08:00

thanksgiving break was pretty sweet. it was great seeing friends and such. the food was obviously amazing. while i was back on break our family decided to set up our fake xmas tree. this has become a lesser priority. for me i just wanted to go out and chill with some of my friends. i did stick around though. i felt that as a part of the family it was only right to stay and help with the tree. when my roommate and i returned back to geneseo, i found out that he had brought a small xmas tree for our room. later that night we went out and bought lights to string around our room. i would like to think that we have a very festive dorm room now.

2005-11-18T12:46:00.000-08:00

we had our first snow recently, that was kind of exciting. the one thing about winter that i enjoy besides christmas is basketball. i recently watched my favorite team, the Duke Blue Devils, win by 53 points on tv, it was quite exciting. i think that the idea of a secret santa could be something fun.

a christmas carol

2005-11-14T09:51:00.000-08:00

i havent read or seen a christmas carol in some time. i must say i am thouroughly enjoying reading it again.

another blog

2005-10-30T20:46:00.000-08:00

i was a little worried that i might be one of those people that dont have enough entries. here are some thoughts i have. i cant wait for christmas so i can get some great gifts. i also cant wait to get a good long break from school. one thing in nissenbaum that was kind of intersting was that he said that christmas gifts were for pure pleasure and shouldnt really be gifts that will actually be useful. something like that. anyway, it doesnt really work that way in my family. my siblings and i do recieve our fair share of great gifts but we also recieve gifts that will be more useful to us. an example being for my birthday this summer i got bed sheets and a pillow for college. not exactly a great birthday present. im not gonna complain though. i guess its the thoguht that counts. my favorite parts about the winter are probly the xmas season and basketball season. im not really a fan of the cold weather. sledding and stuff is always fun though.

the 4th paper

2005-10-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

i found it pretty hard to write that 4th paper. im hoping that there are some useful comments on my paper because im gonna need them. i was one of those people that were taught not to use "I" in your paper. im finding it hard to adjust to that.

fourth paper

2005-10-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

im finding it really hard trying to find a good source for this fourth paper. the article that was given to me in class just isn't doing it for me.

Chapter 4

2005-10-19T09:40:00.000-07:00

I thought it was interesting how the idea of the presant started to change. The gift went from being food and drink to more material gifts. The idea that books were an ideal gift was a little hard to believe. It seems that it does make a good gift, as well as being a presant it also helped the literacy in America. It was very interesting that advertising was a big contributor in the market as early as it was. It really took off in a short couple of years. It was also interesting that even in the times of depression, gifts were still bought for your loved ones.

class cancelled

2005-10-01T15:05:00.000-07:00

yea so class was cancelled. i was able to get my paper in on time and through the inbox. i was having a little trouble with that. this week was a little rough with multiple tests and the paper.

pronouns

2005-09-26T14:57:00.000-07:00

i think that the pronoun lesson was key. personally i think that i do a pretty good job with making my pronouns agree but i can see that there are times when i have or will probably screw up. i also never knew that there were so many different types and such.

second paper

2005-09-19T20:42:00.000-07:00

not really sure what to write about for this paper. its gonna be interesting writing in this style of writing. i hope i dont get too far from what hes looking for.

first paper

2005-09-18T14:28:00.000-07:00

yea so i handed in my first paper. i hope it does well. my partners paper seemed really good. i hope that my paper can be even half as good as what she wrote. i had some trouble trying to send it to the inbox. still not sure how to do that. yea thats bout it.

thoughts on the first reading

2005-09-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

i thought the early stages of Christmas were just out of hand. All the over drinking, sex, and violence just seemed crazy. I guess if you were one of the lower class people it had to be one of the best days of the year. if you were one of the more high class people though i would have been kind of scared. it's kind of hard to believe that Christmas has come from something like that to being what it is today. I thought it was kind of cool how the writers of the almanacs were able to change peoples perception of christmas just by saying writing certain things in there. like basically ben franklin or somebody would write that over drinking would not be a good idea. i think that people were really influenced by that and Christmas began to change.

my first post

2005-09-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

im not very good at writing but ill give it a shot