Open Letter

Dear Netflix,

I have mixed feelings about our relationship. One minute you are filling my down time with entertainment, and the next you are trying to compromise my health and schoolwork. When I am given the option between you and homework, you always end up using your sneaky, manipulative ways to make sure that you are my first choice. You also manage to eat away at my sleep, which is a very important thing to me. My relationship with sleep has always been a strong one, until your jealous butt got in the way. You demand my attention and before I know it an hour has come and gone.

Maybe I want to do my homework and get to bed at a reasonable time. You don’t know me. All you know is that I occasionally enjoy watching seasons of shows that are not on TV anymore. You use that one fact and try to control my life. You need to get a grip on reality and realize that you are not as big and bad as people make you out to be. Sure, everyone watches you all the time and you are kind of popular, but that is no reason to be so cocky. And just so you know, people talk about you all the time behind your bad and blame you for insomnia. How does that make you feel?

I’ll probably see you sooner than I’d like to admit,

Sam

spelling

I will be the first to admit that I use the phrase “I’m a bad speller” and I realize this may sound ridiculous to some people but I don’t think that it is a false statement. Just like some kids are talented at sports and some are not. Obviously those kids that are bad at sports and practice and potentially be good, but sometimes certain things just don’t come naturally, and spelling, or anything to do with English, does not come naturally to me.  I will also admit that I am very hypocritical of this situation because I do judge people who have poor grammar but then I have to remind myself that mine is nowhere near perfect. There is a lot of pressure on spelling which sometimes seems a little unnecessary. The fact that people get judged on how smart they are based on their spelling would be a little crazy. Don’t get me wrong though, the “creative spelling” that some schools are doing is a load of poop, but I do think in certain situations it shouldn’t matter. I also blame the school that I went to for my bad spelling because it seems like (and this is totally not actually true) that everyone who went there is a bad speller. I guess we just didn’t focus on it very much and I am far too lazy to start now. I’m kind of an awful person (:

handwritten letters

The last time I received a handwritten letter was on my birthday a month ago, however I didn’t receive it in the mail. It was just given to me but it was still awesome. I personally love letting letters. Actually, I get really excited any time I get mail that is not from the bank or a college. I don’t know why but it is just a great feeling. I also keep all handwritten letters because they are fun to go back and read. I also enjoy writing letters to people sometimes, only when I feel like it though because it takes a lot of work. This is probably why people don’t do it anymore. Also, when I am writing a letter I feel like it needs to be the greatest thing ever written because, lets be honest, that’s what people expect when they get one. I have never actually exchanged more than like two letters in the mail between someone because…well I don’t really know why, but it happens. I don’t think that they will ever come back into popularity because people are lazy but that would be awesome if they did…well, maybe not because they require more work than emails but………. It’d be cool for a while. 

Beloved

Even though we have only read the first 60 pages of Beloved I don’t like it at all. I don’t really know why but it just doesn’t appeal to me. The story line is okay but the way she writes is not. She jumps around way too much and I don’t like it. I also don’t see the point of why anyone would write like that, other than to confuse people, which isn’t very nice. I feel like every year in English we read something about slavery and it has gotten really old. Obviously this one is a little different but it still annoys me. Hopefully it will get better but so far it is not looking good. I liked The Road so much better. McCarthy wrote in a weird way to, but I actually liked the way he wrote. It makes sense to me, where as Morrison writes in a way where it makes me want to punch her in the face. The article we read that the book was based on made me think that I was going to like it because it was a really interesting plot, sad but interesting. So, maybe the book will get better.