Week 12: Famous Last Words

(These are personal pictures of my boyfriend's cat, Link, and me and my cat, Lucky.) Well, it's been a great semester in this class. I've really enjoyed myself in this class. I am really sad that I ave very little left to do to get my A. After this post, I just have to edit my last portfolio story and then I am done. Yay! I am really happy to be done with a class a few weeks early. It makes it much easier for me to focus on my other classes....

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Week 12: Review

This week's favorite announcement came from Sunday, April 17. It's a really good growth mindset image about how we all struggle. I can agree with that. This week seems to be my struggle week because all of my classes are starting to come to a close. You know what that means... a lot of deadlines. ...

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Week 12 Reading Diary A: Epified: Mahabharata Vidos

 (A screen shot of The Blind Bride video.) This week I decided to watch the Epified TV videos of the Mahabharata. I don't have much to stay on the story side of things because we have all read the Mahabharata and really know what has happened. I like to speak more about how I felt when watching it in a video format. I liked how everything seemed much more real. Reading a book allows you to imagine everything, but sometimes it is hard to...

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Week 11: Review

Hi guys. This week's favorite review item came from Sunday, April 10. It is Ninja Cat v. Zombie Dinosaurs post. I know that I need to focus on improving my typing skills by typing without having so many errors. I played this few games and got weirdly hooked. You don't realize how much you're learning until you notice how much better your typing skills get. I will definitely keep using this to practice my typing. Until then, I recommend you check...

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Week 11 Storytelling: Rukmini's Issue

(Rukmini and Krishna running off to get married.) Where is he? I cannot believe he is not here yet. He promised me he would be here at 6 am. It’s 8!! I am so pissed. Two days ago…. Hi! My name is Rukmini. I am the daughter of Bhishmaka, the king of Vidarbha. While I love my father, I am rather annoyed with him right now. Why? Because he made the worst decision of his life a few weeks ago. My kingdom is in dire need of help financially....

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Week 11 Reading Diary B: Tales of Ancient India

(Indra wielding lightening in a battle.) This is a continuation of the Tales of Ancient India by Edmund Charles Cox. Section B was more focused on the Gods. I was really excited to read this section because I feel like I have spent a lot of time on Krishna on the first section, which was cool, but I was so ready to move on to more characters in the reading. I am going to save the reactions to Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Rama. I feel that I have...

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Week 11 Reading Diary A: Tales of Ancient India

(Krishna and Rukmini looking very much in love.) This week I decided to read Tales of Ancient India by Edmund Charles Cox. The first half is all about Krishna and his adventures. I was really interested in learning more about Krishna because I feel like I didn't give him as much attention as I did other characters that we have read about in this class. The story that interested me the most was Krishna and Rukmini. I am intrigued at how he basically...

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Week 10 Tech Tip: Embedding Soundcloud

This week, I decided to add some music to my blog to make it more fun. The way you add soundcloud is very similar to how you add the weather widget. Check out Josh's post for step by step instructio...

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Week 10: Review

Oh hai. Diz week'z review maded meh laugh so hard. I actualleh had to try it out for diz post. It is from Sunday, April 3.  It is none other than the Oxford LolCat translator. I got quite the giggle playing around with this and sending texts to my boyfriend in the lolcat language. You have to try it out! Heres to fun and giggles this week! ...

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Week 10 Storytelling: Brahma's Tweets

                                                                              Author's Note: After watching the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art, I decided to do a twitter story...

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Week 10 Reading Diary D: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(An image of Brahma with his four heads.) I am a bit sad that I am almost finished with the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art. The first video this week featured the Ramayana. It was pretty cool to see how things that we have read in class appear throughout other works. I know this happens all the time, but I was impressed with how quickly you notice things like this in this class.It's a bit weird because the narrator refers to Rama as Ram. This...

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Week 10 Reading Diary C: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(Balarama) This week's "reading" is a continuation of the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued. I am on part C. This week I decided to try something new and write the most interesting things that I learned in the videos. First thing that comes to mind is the merged form of Shiva and Vishnu: Hari-Hara. It's kind of crazy because these forms, even though they are merged, represent complete opposites of each other. In my mind I pictured...

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Week 9 Tech Tip: Weather Gadget

This week I added a weather gadget to my blog. Follow instructions here and add one to your blog t...

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Week 9: Review

My favorite post from this week came from Sunday, March 27. I was a bit late to hop on the Star Wars fan train, but boy have I turned into a big one. Kudos to my boyfriend, I bet he is proud. Anyway, this was was about how to Yodify Your Language. It is brilliant and I had to share it. I hope you get as much joy out of this infographic as I do....

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Week 9 Reading Diary B: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(Shiva depicted as the destroyer) There are three videos for this section, but I think I will only embed one in this post. I was excited about these videos because it included Shiva. I watched the Shiva videos last semester and it was fun to watch them again and get a new perspective on it. One of the most interesting things that I picked up from these videos is how God is embodied in three human couples for Hindus. Those three couples are: Brahma and Saraswati, Vishu and Lakshmi, Shiva and Shakti....

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Week 9 Reading Diary A: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art

(A depiction of Narayana) While I did not technically "read" this week, I did watch some youtube videos about the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art.  I will include the videos below because they are super fun and interesting. I was drawn to them last semester while in Myth and Folklore. One was posted in the announcements and I watched quite a few then. I love how in the narrator explains why the gods and goddesses in Hindu are...

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Week 8: Blog Ideas

Originally, I had a completely different layout for my blog. I scrapped it for something more simple, more me. I am always open to a new look or a redesign. I feel there is only so much I can edit in this HTML because I didn't write the whole thing :P There are three blogs that had small features that stood out to me. Morgan's and Thomas' location of the labels really changed the blog. One simple feature changed everything about how the blog looks and the feel it gives. To me, Morgan's emphasized the use of labels for navigation and Thomas'...

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Week 8: Time

I have been pretty terrible at keeping the schedule I created at the beginning of the semester. I find myself spending time on other activities when I should be doing homework. I haven't been too terrible at doing homework for this class or other classes. I managed to get them done on time, but I know I can be doing better. I had a perfect time schedule set up at the start of the semester, I just really need to follow it. The second half of the...

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Week 7: Review

This week's favorite post comes from Thursday, March 3. I love that this cat looks so serious with a newspaper. It's both informative and funny. Here it is below in case anyone missed it: ...

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Week 7: Reading Diary Extra Credit: Mahabharata Cont.

(Bisma on the bed of arrows) I AM FINALLY DONE WITH PART D!!!!! AND THE MAHABHARATA!! I just had to share my joy with everyone. As usual, I read the public domain and below are two of my favorite stories from part D. The Pandavas and Bhishma: I thought that this was super noble of Bhishma to tell others how to rule after his death. I also found it interesting that he was able to choose when he died and chose now. When reading this, I felt like...

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