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1. Example
2. Definition
3. Classification/division
4. Compare/contrast
5. Narration
6. Description

I am in misery

1.) Maroon 5 knows the feeling of misery well since they have a song all about it. In the song, Adam Levine is miserable because a girl emotionally hurt him. He describes the unpleasantness of the feeling with the line, "There ain't nobody who can comfort me." The hurt he is feeling is so deep that it can't be alleviated by anyone, not even a good friend which usually does the trick.

2.) Misery is the feeling of extreme unhappiness and emotional distress. It can be temporary or permanent depending on the context of the situation. Temporary misery can come from small loses in life that can be gained again or moved on from. Permanent misery can come from the lose of something important to a person; the lose can't be moved on from, only coped with. A person who is in misery isn't just unhappy, he/she is extremely unhappy, he/she is in misery. There's quite a difference, especially since the person took the time to think of another word to perfectly describe how awful he/she is feeling. 

3.) The feeling of misery can be felt in two different ways, emotionally and physically. Emotional misery is the feeling a person gets when a personal situation has a negative outcome for him/her. The person is emotionally hurt by it, and they can become sad. Physical misery is experiencing physical pain from an injury. The hurt part of the body sends a signal to the brain to feel pain. Both, emotional and physical misery, make people unhappy since they negatively affect them.

4.) Despair is listed as a synonym for misery on Dictionary.com, but I feel like they share more differences than similarities. Misery can be used to describe how a person feels when in emotional pain or physical pain. Despair can only be used when talking about emotional pain. It is a feeling felt from hopelessness. Compared to misery, despair is a more extreme feeling felt from an unfortunate situation. It can only be indirectly connected to physical pain. If someone has incurable cancer, then the person could be in despair because there is no hope in the situation. 

5.) If you go through a bad break up, you may experience misery. The guy was the love of your life. He was your everything. You guys had already talked about the wedding as if it already happened. You planned what your kids' names would be. He was the peanut butter to your jelly, the straw to your juice box, the light to your darkness. Everyone thought you two were the perfect couple. Until he decided he liked some other girl more than he "loved" you. In this decision he broke you, sending you into a world of misery.

6.) Misery is that pessimistic weight on your shoulders. It makes your shoulders feel heavy and your body lethargic. There's an emptiness inside your stomach even though the licked-clean bowls of ice cream stacked next to you tell you otherwise. You feel too bad about yourself to go out and do something. Nothing more than curling up into a blanket bundle on your bed with the romance section of Netflix and a box of tissues would please you.

I Think Winter's Here.

Sweet-smelling candle burning in the corner.
Computer softly singing calm music to my room.
Warm fuzzy socks with grippies on the bottom to keep me from slipping.
Glasses continually needing to be pushed up to their proper position.
The pond still, powerless to the weather's ice cold grip.
Wind whistling with every blow behind the music.
Little specks of white whizzing past my window.
This is winter.


I love the start of a new season. This is when there's the most beautiful weather that showcases the best of it. I find that almost all Kodak moments of the season are found at the beginning. When it gets further, the beauty has faded. Leaves have disintegrated, snow is no longer white. At the beginning, I appreciate the season the most. For the rest of the season, I'm just bitter and wishing for a change of scenery and weather.

The start of winter is my favorite time of the year. There's something about the jolly atmosphere and being able to wear mittens that make me happy. Snow is always a plus too. The first real snowfall of the year marks the day that it is finally socially acceptable to wear Uggs without getting looks of disapproval/disgust since there is snow on the ground to justify wearing the hated-by-some/loved-by-some boots (although I've been shamelessly wearing mine since the end of September). The only downfall of the winter and the snow is that I hate driving in snow. The accident prone conditions make me nervous to drive during this time of year. But this is a small price to pay for a winter wonderland!

Abbrevs r totes sew adorbs! (X^2 pg 133)

Every generation keeps getting dumber and dumber, and the language of each generation exemplifies this. When you listen to conversations between people of this generation, you'll probably hear them using abbrevs (abbreviations, ex: presh, supes, totes, adorbs), texting talk (ex: lol, btw, omg, wuts up?, u r kewl, <3) or words without the true meaning to express their thoughts. It's ridiculous, isn't it? My auto-correct in Safari is going crazy with all of these crazy ways to spell things. If someone older who was not well-versed in texting language heard people of this generation talking to each other, they would probably not understand much. Abbrevs are sweeping the nay-sh (nation), as someone I know would say. And this is, sadly, true.

Text messaging seems to be the culprit. People have become too lazy to type out the whole word, so abbrevs and txt talk were born. They make life simpler for those who aren't tech-savvy. For example, my mom is a frequent user of this kind of language when texting me, but I understand that typing out the whole word for her is too time-consuming because she struggles finding the letters for the word in a timely fashion (even though the keyboard is the same as a regular computer keyboard but smaller...). Try not to hate on me too much since I may seem like a hypocrite in saying this, but I have also conformed to using this kind of language. But, most of the time I use it when I'm joking around with my friends. Or when I abbreviate what I say in text messages, I do so because I don't have time or two free hands to type out whole words.

I would NEVER talk/text like this in normal situations. That wud just be totes ridic! Kidding.

To add to the madness, our generation has twisted words to have new meanings, such as sick, tight, ill, and beast, to name a few. These words are often used as synonyms to words like: cool, amazing, or awesome. But in reality, those words are not even close in meaning to cool, amazing, or awesome. When people say something like, "That movie was so sick!",  I cringe. The movie does not have an illness. And what about the word "beast"? Every time someone says "That was totally beast!", I just shudder. "Beast" is typically used when describing a monster... So no, that was not totally beast because it's not going to cause you harm or eat your innards.

Silent Halloween

This Monday was my second annual Silent Halloween. It was silent because my doorbell was, thankfully, broken, and it was the second year that my doorbell didn't work. You may think I'm cruel for not wanting to give out candy to little kids in cute costumes, but I am perfectly fine not doing so. I was quite content with having no distractions from homework and not spending money to buy candy that one kid will end up taking about half of. 

In my opinion, Halloween is a pointless holiday. Sure, it's fun for the social aspect, but other than that there's no real purpose for it. It's a holiday devoted to scaring the snot out of people. And unless you're a thrill seeker, getting scared is not something that you go looking for. The only benefit of Halloween is that it puts some money into the economy. People spend large amounts of money every year on decorating  their home and buying Halloween themed clothing and/or costume. It provides business for some stores and the Halloween shops that pop up around town every year. However, other than that the holiday is just 'there'. It lacks the meaning or significance behind it that bigger holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, have. 

I may sound pessimistic, but Halloween is just really not my favorite. At least we'll start to hear Christmas music soon!