The lombrices

 Hello Lombrices!  Hope you all had a great day!  It's been such an emotionally draining month for me, I hope your month was a little better! Now, I apologize if this post is a little all over the place, I unfortunately am dealing with severe covid symptoms, so my brain is a little scattered, but bear with me! Now, my rational argument...where do I begin?  I struggled to find a question to research, but to be honest, I'm glad about what I ended up with. "Why do we see rejection as a negative thing?" To be completely honest with you, when I first came up with the question, I myself was dealing with the negative emotions that come with rejection. Not getting into full detail about what happened, but it sure did knock me down! The feeling of giving up, or not feeling good enough, or even just blaming yourself for the rejection, it's all just exhausting!  I see myself as a pretty positive person, but just dealing with the emotions that come with rejection has made m...

 Good day Lombrices! Hope all is well with you all! Can you all believe Thanksgiving is nest week already? Time sure does pass by fast!      Yesterday we went to the library for my Card 101 class and learned about trustworthy research, including scholarly research!  It's pretty easy to just google questions and click on the first website that comes up, correct? We all do it, don't lie to me. Well, did you know that in order to figure out if a website or article is credible you need to run it through a check list? I'm not going to go through it all, but the main points that really stuck out to me was to make sure you can find the publisher's name! Not that a website without a publisher's name isn't useful, but having a name makes it a little more credible! Also, checking to see if a scholar journal is credible also includes seeing if the information was peer reviewed! Very interesting, right? These are the kinds of things that I didn't know about w...

 Good morning Lombrices! This will be a short post, sorry for the inconvenience!     Yesterday my Card 101 class went to the library and let's just say I feel way more comfortable in this space. At first, the library seemed so overwhelming to me because of the idea of not being able to find what I need for research, but actually learning about the different things we can use on the library's website automatically made me feel better!     I learned about how the library's website can help you with broad research and very specific research. So specific, that you can even put down under what major or minor the question relates to. That's crazy! This was information that will definitely benefit my peers and I in the future! Learning how to navigate the website in general is already a process in itself, but to be honest, I don't mind how many clicks you have to do in order to get the information you need.   Definitely excited to continue using thi...

 Good day Lombrices!       This whole week has been weird. Now approaching the end of the haunt season, I've realized how much I haven't been paying attention to my feelings, and I should probably start doing that before it turns into a huge problem. Speaking of feelings, I feel like I have very little ideas for my rational argument.       The moment the topic of finding a question came up in class, my mind kind of went blank. I could do my rational argument based on my microtheme from the beginning of the semester. It was about how we as people always try to have a perfect body and compare ourselves to this image that society put in our minds. But I feel like that topic isn't relevant to me anymore. So, I'm still left without a question.       I've been trying to find my question in relevant feelings that I have towards situations in my life. Like: Why do we call people who we're interested in romantically called crushes?...

 Good day Lombrices!  I hope all is well, and that you are all having a great Halloweekend!  I am about to leave for work soon, but first things first, I used AI for the first time to revise my paper! It was only an experiment, but it was a very interesting experience. I find it kind of creepy that AI is super advanced nowadays to the point where it can take your average paper and turn it into a high-level paper. I understand that it's not an ideal resource to use when writing your paper, but to be honest, it isn't all that bad. I find it very useful to help get my message across but with more "pizzazz" in the sentences.  I'm excited to continue experimenting with AI in the future!  Now... it's Hell Week everyone! (*Insert "Dun Dun Dun" sound effect*)  Hell Week is pretty much the haunt days (starting from Thursday) leading up to Halloween. The haunted house I work at opens on Wednesday, but it's isolation night, meaning there are no actors. Thur...

 Hello, Lombrices!  Hope all is well! My weekend was a very busy one! I've been working at Basement of the Dead for 2 years, yet I can't get used to the long nights. It all started on Friday, I had to get up at 5 in the morning in order to arrive at the haunt at 6 a.m. CBS News was coming out to review us, so it was important that most of the actors were there. Trust me when I say we were all a little cranky and stressed that morning.  Afterward, my sister and I decided to stay at the haunt with two other actors since if we were to leave, we would've had to return in a few hours regardless. So, one of our bosses told us we could stay and that they would order us lunch. That was one of the best days, considering the fact that it was Friday the 13th, all we did was talk for hours on end and we went ghost haunting. So much fun!  Saturday was a stressful day... considering the fact that it was our first 6-11 night at the haunt. BUT it was my sister and I's first time wea...