2020: Hannah's Blog

https://www.slashfilm.com/hook-honest-trailer/ Hook is on Netflix now, so guess what I'm watching! Ahh, nostalgic comfort. I've been quite pleased with the reading material and progress I've made thus far. It's definitely a much different style of class than I'm used to taking, so I'm still learning! I would definitely say I want to up my game in personalizing my blog and website to express who I am. Perhaps I can use it to my advantage when doing some of the extra credit assignments. As for my project stories, I have such big ideas, but it's been so long since I've done any kind of writing that when I read back on some of the stories I wrote, I cringe. It's very piece-y and scattered. I remember in grade school there's a ton of methods to organize and plan before you write. I tend to stray from that completely and just dive in. In that case, my new goal is to plan a little better before I write my first project story in hopes to create so...

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-sites-to-download-weather-widgets-for-your-blog-or-website/ This week couldn't have come at a better time! After seeing a lot of the other blogs in the class I noticed they're quite elaborate compared to mine and it always made me want to add a little bit of my own flair. But as of right now I've just been managing to stay caught up with the class work.  This week gives me the opportunity to do that, though! I now have a nifty little weather widget added to my blog showing the daily weather in Norman thanks to Accuweather!  Comment if it's visible or not! I can only view it as a link on my end and although the website instructions assured me that's just how the wireframe is, I want to make sure I didn't do it wrong! 😅

My favorite picture of my 12-year-old sister, Sophie, as my continuous mood.

https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/12/02/lucid-dreaming/ I'm typically a sucker for science podcasts and articles especially those medical or chemistry related. Sleep studies are such a fascinating mystery that I would love to participate in for research both on myself and in general.  My father struggles with insomnia and sleep apnea, of which I can't be sure he's had all of his life of developed it later in life. I definitely have sleeping problems. I can't be sure it's one thing exactly or if it's just because I have the typical college student sleeping schedule. The article I read was a transcript of an interview with sleep researcher from Harvard, Berkeley, Northwestern, and Mayo Clinic (we got the big boys out here). The discussion was quite lengthy to read but I was completely immersed in the topic range. The interview caught my eye because it presents how memory if a function of sleep. However, once you dive in, the experts touch upon a wide ...

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-pet-imagery-tells-us-about-social-anxiety-disorder-4104157 This week I chose an article called Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind for growth mindset. I struggle with perfectionism for as long as I can remember. I used to believe that it was simply how I functioned and that I actually required an environment of high stress as a driving force to succeed to my standards. Now that I've matured some since then and have been exposed to extreme cases of poor mental states that I realized my mindset could actually be sabotaging my efforts.  Dr. Nair points out that perfectionism goes hand-in-hand with performance anxiety, which is interesting because it made me reflect on all the early signs of performance anxiety I had. As young as three years old I've been a dancer. I performed often in many styles including ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and modern. Then as young as four years old, I started playing piano and performed often at recitals. I...

A Kiss Like No Other A newly wed couple went to Fuji for their honeymoon. For one of their planned activities, they planned to go bungee jumping off of Lover's Leap, a well-known geographical cliff. The wife was nervous and not as brave as her husband, so he stepped up to go first. He made it down safely and called up to his wife, "Come down and you shall receive a kiss like no other." The wife shakily peers over and stepped off the cliff. The bungee cord never pulled taut, and with a deafening snap , the wife's body laid crumpled at the foot of the cliff, feet away from her husband. The staff member on duty looked over the edge in horror with the safety clasps for the wife's harness in his hands. She received a kiss like no other, the kiss of death. The Tooth Fairy There were two sisters 10 years apart in age. One had all of her adult teeth, the other just lost her first baby tooth. The mother explained the phenomenon of the Tooth Fairy to the youngest. Ju...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_YB2FedY_o Once upon a time, there were two roommates and they had a platinum laptop. It was a special laptop, with immense power and can operate without Wifi anywhere in the world. But this they did not know, and sold it for a decent price to buy tickets to Lollapalooza. No sooner was the laptop gone than they began to grow dumber and dumber, and at last failed all of their classes that semester. They became stressed out and financially low since they had to pay for another extremely expensive semester to retake classes and ultimately miss Lollapalooza. They had a cat and a dog who suffered from this as well. Their owners were paying them less attention and food started running scarce. They two animals brainstormed ways to fix the problem. Finally, the dog hatched a plan. "They must get their laptop back" he said to the cat. "The laptop is in a safe guarded by the government, how will we manage that?", asked the cat. ...