We should every night call ourselves to an account; what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

When I get home I usually do this by just thinking about my day.  What did i do wrong and how could i improve on myself.  Did I do the best i could?  Was i patient enough with people today?  I deal with the public so patience is my biggest issue.  I tend to learn more and more patience the more people I deal with.  My biggest temptation is to just let me speak my mind about whatever I am feeling.  I have a couple co-workers that like to say things I don't agree with but get very upset if i question them.  I have to resist the temptation of just letting myself say exactly what I think about them and their beliefs.  

Patience and tolerance is the two biggest virtues that I am acquiring throughout my days.  It's much easy to blow up at people than bite your tongue and let them  just ramble on about everything that they want to say. 

journal 79 jan 28th 09

Gum's step mother's husband was an eccentric man who had three sons. The first was named while he worked as a pea farmer, so he named his first son "snap." The second son was named while he was sitting in front of a roaring fire, so he named the second son "krackle." Finally his third son was born while he worked at a cereal processing plant.  What did he name his third son?

Gum

journal 78 jan 27th 09

Mark Twain successfully predicted the day he would die.

If you knew how lone you had left to live, what would you do differently? What would you change? Would you go somewhere, or do something?   Is there someone you would like to meet? Would you live more selflessly or more selfishly? Why?

If i knew when I was going to die, I wouldn't change most of how i live now.  I would just want to spend the rest of the time with my finacee and my family.  I would like to travel the world, japan and ireland being the main points i would like to see.  Mainly though, I would just want to spend what time i have left with the people i love going to the places i haven't seen yet.  

journal 77 jan 26th 09

Two ladies took their daughters shopping.  Each lady and each daughter bought two dresses but each returned all but one of their dresses before leaving the Mall. When they left, they only had three garments with them. why?

it was grandmother, mother, and daughter.  so only a total of 3 ladies. 

journal 76 jan 22nd

Outside knowledge can enhance an idea

Why do we sense danger, hope, fear, love, anticipation?

How can you show it in your 2D designs?

Our senses are just our perception of reality and all the things going on around us.  What some of us fear others do not.  A good example of this is, I can not wait to grow old and live my life.  Old people have such awesome stories about everything that's happened to them throughout their lives.  I want to be like that.  My co-worker that is 18 she dreads getting old, she doesn't want to become senile or stuck with a cane.  She sees aging as a bad thing.  Perception is a big part on how we sense things.

You can show this in designs by placing images in a certain way.  In the example picture on the board there is a girl walking down the railroad track with a train behind her.  Some people may see this as she is about to get hit and needs to move.  Others might see it as a train broken down and her just happily skipping down the tracks.  

Another example would be having maybe a sick child with a mother cradling the child in her arms.  Some people might percieve this as death or despair, whereas some might see it as hope and love.  

journal 75 jan 21st 09

write the colors of the words below (don't say)

red blue orange purple 

orange blue green red

green red purple blue 

blue red green orange 

red green orange purple

orange blue purple green

purple green orange red 

blue red green orange 

journal 74 jan 20th 09

ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

it's human nature to want to figure things out.