Earliest Memory.

My earliest memory would have to be dancing to the song "I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher. I think I was probably five-years-old or so and all four of us girls dressed up and danced with rings from our playground, because my dad was building our play ground for us, and we were in inter-tubes and had noodles for a pool. We were random children, but I remember dancing for our parents, which we did often, but this was for their anniversary or something special; otherwise we would have danced to The Backstreet Boys or something.

Men and Woman's Insecurities aren't so Different.

Men will never ask one another if their pants look good on them, but that doesn't mean that they aren't just as insecure as woman; they just don't talk about it. Men worry about their looks just as much as woman. They can be worried about their weight and how much they're sweating. They're generally just worried about what other people think. Once they get their self confidence up, though, they wont be as worried.

Migrates vs. the Police Department

Does it bother you that migrates are in your community? Well, it bothers Sherriff Gus Dicesari. He thinks that the community should be spending less money on migrate workers and more money on the Sherriff’s department and law enforcement. Commissioners Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne support him. Shenuski said in a heated discussion with Anne Chenn, the commission president, “ We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work. They are a problem for our law enforcement, our schools and our healthcare system. They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet it is one of them that’s taken it. We need to protect local residents from them.” Chenn shot back with, “Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don’t want to do. They add a great deal to the local economy and they pay taxes. You are being a hypocrite when you try to blame those people for everything.” The county commissioners estimated that there are 5,000 migrate families in the county and more migrate workers become permanent members of the community.
The county’s budget for this year was $127 million. Dicesari says that the police department needs eight new police vehicles to replace the eight older police vehicles that spend more and more time in the shop. Chenn made the decision that they officers would have to make do this year because the county did not have the extra money to supply the new vehicles and the five extra deputies. Chenn told him that the officers would just have to not drive those vehicles home everyday; it would save on gas mileage. The ending vote was that 5-2; they sheriffs department would just have to wait.

My First Day at ARCC

My first day at ARCC, I was a nervous wreck. I'm not really sure why; I was just scared. My class was a computer class -- I'm not the best with computers -- so I was also nervous about that. Over-all, it was a good class. My fears were soon over come and it just turned into fun.

Teen Acne and Depression: Related?

Have you ever noticed that as a teen, you get acne when you're in the worst of moods? Studies have shown that bad acne and depression are related. Teens that go to the dermatologist for horrible acne were found to have serious emotional and social problems.

Two tractors cause a major accident on Interstate 790

Two tractors collided early this morning on Interstate 790 causing an enormous accident.
Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department said that this accident looks like something from a war zone. Involved were four tractor-trailers and fourteen cars. One tractor was hauling diesel fuel and was very lucky not to roll over or catch on fire. This would have made the accident more-so like a war zone. Tony Sullivan, who is the fire chief, said that in his 18 years of working with the fire department, he has never seen anything like this.
Two people driving cars were killed and twenty were taken to the hospital. Only four out of those twenty, though, were seriously injured. Those four are at a life threatening stage. A
“Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital was called to come to the scene of the accident to take away the two worst injured civilians.
The police department is not done investigating the accident. The police officers found it hard to figure out what people are from which vehicle and who the drivers were compared to the passengers.
It was said the accident happened in the northbound lanes closed the whole highway. People had to take Interstate 690, which is on the eastern side of the city. This backed up traffic for 3 hours during rush hour traffic.

Bedtimes.

Setting bedtimes for kids can make the whole house hold a better place. Parents have been letting their children stay up and watch T.V. until the pass out. It has been proven that setting bedtimes for children makes the morning a lot better and there's less chaos. Besides that, it teaches them discipline.

Cafe Caffeine

Cafe Caffeine is a coffee shop in Cambridge and I don't really like coffee so I haven't been to many coffee shops in my life time, but this one interested me; I'm not really sure why.

From the outside, it just looks like a coffee shop next to a book store and an organic shop, which the setting in itself seems like something I would like so one day I decided to go with one of my friends. I got hot chocolate and she got a latte and it was very good. They don't rush to make things because it's a family business so there aren't lines and lines of impatient people waiting to get coffee. They also stand there and talk to you about life and how everything's going; they're just really friendly people and the environment's amazing to me. So I would have to say that this is the best experience I've had and in some weird way, it makes me feel a little more at home.

Dos and Don'ts of leads.

With writing leads, I need to work on not stating the obvious, because I generally do that. I also need to work on keeping it to the main point of the story, I don't know why this is so hard for me, but it is. I also feel like I forget about the readers. I just go off on a tangent, so I go back in a lot of my writings & revise.

I have learned a lot about writing leads. I learned that it's bad to use unfamiliar names & to opinion-ate, which I knew, but I'm not very good at keeping my opinions to myself. These are only a few but it's nice to know these things for the future as well as this class.