Shelly Turner

I want to have “flow” more often.  I can’t say I feel that very often about anything.  Maybe it is because I am pulled in so many directions, I can’t ever be involved in something long enough.  Kids, job, school, housework, cooking, three cats and a dog etc…..do you think I can achieve flow with all those things swirling around me at all times????  You young ones should enjoy your freedom while you can….lol.  Flow might be harder later in life. 

Does any candidate have any idea how to get troops out of Iraq?  Does anyone think that any of the candidates actually answered the question?   Wouldn’t it be nice to actual hear a detailed plan about what each of the candidates would do to get the troops out and get them out fast!!!!  One hundred dead troops every month?   And this is a low number that we as a country think is positive.  One dead troop is too much for me!

Ok….I don’t like Hillary Clinton…..but I did like her point on the question about a woman or an African American in the presidential office.  Who cares if the “human” running the office is a man, woman, african american etc…..lets get somebody in there with half a brain and an ego smaller than the state of Texas and we will all be doing ok.  Are we still really that stuck in a time warp that the color of someones skin or their gender should even be a factor?????  I do not care who the human is, just make sense.   And does it bother anyone that white males are the ones we put in power in our country, but they are also the vast majority of serial killers, rapists and agressive offenders????

If anyone is wondering about my sudden disappearance last night…..I got a call from my ex husband stating that he got an early morning flight leaving for combat training and I needed to come up to Springfield last night and sign papers for the change of insurance for our girls and sign the papers so that our house can be sold in his absense for the next year.  I did not get home until well after 1am and am back up again working on everything I have due this week.  How interesting that the debate last night talked so much about Iraq and bringing the troops home as my ex heads over that way.  I have much to say about it, and will blog later today.  Just thought I would at least let everyone know I was ok and that my leaving early last night was not a reflection on what we were doing in class.  I was quite intrigued by the entire debate……

After hurting my knee on Thursday, I spent two days sleeping due to the pain meds I was taking.  I then wake up Saturday evening to find out that my ex-husband (who I have two children with) is being sent to Iraq for a year. And he is leaving today!  So….we spent the entire day Sunday with our girls, getting along for their sake and doing some really fun things with them.  Can I say YIKES!  I am soooo behind on my project!!!!!

There has to be some form of structure in schools.  Maybe there should be a balance of structure with room for adjustments and input from the students.  Certain things have to be structured due to the simple nature of our society and our world.  If we didn’t have some type of structure we would be walking around in circles like the zombies in Dawn of the Dead!!

I hate to admit this, but instead of being in class tonight, I am laying on my couch.  I got out of my forensic psyc class at 3pm….when it was raining heavily.  I slipped and fell.  I stubbed my toe, bruised my knee so badly that I am having trouble walking, and also have two fingers on my right hand that are swollen and black and blue.  I feel like an idiot.  I am not used to typing so slow nor am I used to being stuck sitting down.  I wish I was there tonight….my thoughts are with the class.  Please feel my pain and my embarrassment of having fallen in a place that I am sure several people saw me.  My clothes were also soaked and I am sure I looked ridiculous……..

Learning to use flickr isn’t as easy as I thought, the more I spend time working in it, the more I tend to not be able to narrow down what I want to do with it for this project.  I will be battling this for the next day or two and then will have to just go with one of my several ideas.  Using pictures of my dad is my central theme, but pinpointing where I want to go with those pictures has become a real challenge.

After a weekend in the middle of nowhere….I am home again and have computer access!!!!  I have thought alot about the conversation we had Thursday night.  Knowledge is like a ladder….we may already know what is at the top and have the power to get there, but we have to step on every rung in order to reach the top.  We have the ability to get to the top and the power is already within us, but we have to step on each rung, one at a time.  Computers are a few rungs on the ladder of our life!!!

The article we read by Bill Viola was really interesting.  For me, the most interesting part was the end….about the porcupine and the car.  It says to me that people can perceive an experience in their own way.  No matter what the actual experience is, it is all open to interpretation……what do you think????