How To Put Off Writing An Expository Essay, by Caleb Akers

Procrastination, which is postponing needlessly, is very popular among high school aged students. Most students, especially across the United States, are guilty of this action. Procrastination is most common on huge projects that are assigned many days before they are due and also on work that some deem undesirable to do. Procrastinating involves the procrastinator waiting until 10pm or later on the night before the project is due to start a huge project. This often results in only a few hours of work for the procrastinator. Although no one would ever do this on any English paper, especially one like this, there are many different tactics that can be used in order to put off writing a paper as long as possible.

In order to be a successful procrastinator, you must become an expert at the following delays. The first step to stalling is to get a gigantic snack when you return home from school. This can take up to a half an hour if you happen to be famished from the barely palatable school lunch that was supposedly meat. The next step, which is the most frequent stalling tactic, is to get on Facebook. This enables you to start conversations with other people, instead of working on the English expository essay. This can last up to a few hours if you are a popular person. Now, you are forced to start on other homework that is due the next day. Although this requires doing work, it is still delaying on doing the paper. There are many other possibilities that can stall a person, but there comes a point when you cannot delay any further.

When nothing else can be done to wait, you are brought to the inevitable, starting on the paper. There is a major problem for the procrastinator at this point. You are in need of an interesting topic to do for the expository essay. Brainstorming is necessary, but this does not always result in a decent topic to work with. You must then pick a topic and go with it. Unfortunately, this may end in unhappiness with the paper, and in most cases, you find a better discussion topic well into your first paper. This either leads to rejoicing in the finding of a good topic, or this can lead to disappointment in having to start the paper over again. If this leads to excitement, your next step is to be wary of desks that protrude into your pathway. This can end up bring pain if you are not careful and you run into them. Thankfully, you now have your topic, and you successfully procrastinated on your expository essay until well into the night.

Procrastinating is not the best working procedure, but it can still result in decent works for the student. Side affects from procrastination may include lack of sleep, minimal concentration, increased stress, and lower grades. However, procrastination can be enjoyable, up until the procrastination can last no longer. By following this, you will now be able to put the pro in procrastinate.


-edited by Sckpanhead

Here's the thing about boys...

Something strange happens to you right around the time you turn thirteen. It's called hormones, and for the rest of your life, they will DESTROY YOU!!!

So like I was saying, one of the things that happens to you, in case you didn't already know (cause I know there's some kid out there that is like, whaaaaa?) if you're a girl, you start liking boys, and if you're a boy you start liking girls. For some reason I'm giving you a life lesson, let's skip on to the good stuff shall we?

I have very specific views on boys. I didn't always see things this way, but my idea of dating, relationships, and marriage has changed so drastically in the past six or so years, and I bet it will continue to change until I reach a certain point in my life, whatever that may be.

I believe, and I plan to live by these beliefs, that you shouldn't date until you are (1) in a strong relationship with Jesus, (2) are in a strong relationship with your family, and (3) emotionally stable. If you're struggling in any of these areas, now is not the good time to get into a relationship.

I'm sick and tired of relationship drama, and between teenagers of all things! You can get so caught up in maintaining this relationship, that even if you do meet the criteria set by me above, you might fall away from one or even all of them during your relationship. You might be more concerned about that special someone in your life to give God the time or love He deserves. You might act differently towards your family. You might become emotionally unstable if something happens.

I know I'm not the best authority on this topic, since I've been single all my life (and I'm proud of it). But quite frankly, I'm not interested in dating at all. I don't want to have something special with a boy I probably really like, only to have that taken away from me for whatever reason. I don't want to have another thing in my life to have to keep up. I don't want to have my heart broken.

Yes, I still like boys. This is unavoidable in my mind. But there is a huge difference between thinking a boy is attractive and being in a relationship with a boy.

Some people might think this is crazy, but my dream is to meet that one guy God's set apart for me and me only, and give my heart to him to keep forever. I want to know for sure that I can spend the rest of my life with someone before I take steps beyond friendship. I don't know how I will meet him, but I want to be sure of him. "You'll never find that boy," you might say, but you know what? God has given me the task of keeping my heart pure, and loving HIM with all my heart until that dude comes along. He gave up so much to show me he loved me, and yeah, it's gonna be hard for a boy to take any of God's place in my heart. It's gonna be hard to find a guy who is all I want. But I'm willing to wait, or go on loving my savior for the rest of my life.

Basically, this way, I will never have my heart broken, I will always be in love, always be loved, and everything will be cool.

Reflection

"My God I see now what you see, my God what do you see in me? My God, crowned in glory. The lamb of God is worthy."

So what do you see in me God? What have I done that you love me so much? When I neglect you, when I refuse to spend time with you, still you love me. When you have to wake me up in the middle of the night with pain just so I will talk to you, you still care. When you have to watch me frantically try and make choices on my own, still you wait for me to give my life back over to you.

Why Lord? There is absolutely no one in existence that would love me like you do if they knew what I was really like, underneath all this pretending. I bury it all inside the darkest parts of my heart, and pretend like everything's all right. They don't know what's going on inside my head. All day long my mind is working, sorting through all the things that could go wrong, hoping things work out like I need them to, and mostly worrying about insignificant things. But at the end of the day, when I feel so lost and so alone, incomplete and broken, I almost physically feel God's arms around me, and his voice whispering to me to come back to my first love.

I have family and some friends who don't even believe that God exists. This confuses me to the point of pain inside my mind. It's as if me and a friend were to observe a drum set, touch it, stand in front of it, view it from all different angles, and then decide that it doesn't actually exist, that the drum makers are just trying to make us think it does so we'll buy their product. See, we can't choose to "Believe" in God, because He IS. He's not in a position to exist or not.

In actuality, you have two choices: Reject God or accept him. There is no believing in his reality.

Look at these pictures! I demand you! (Rock and Worship Roadshow Pictures)

Hey guys! Editing this post to make it more efficient. I had to limit my posts per page down to one so that my video and music wouldn't crash. That problem has now been fixed, with my first ever Sckpanhead Productions presentation! Here was the original blog, along with all the pictures and video I took at the Rock and Worship Roadshow 2011 in Fresno, CA:

"It's now time for part two of the rock and Worship Roadshow 2011 in Fresno! (clap)

I made a really cool video of all my pictures and videos I took at the concert, but they won't upload to blogger. Sorry, but I have no choice other than to post them, one by one, slowly, slowly, ugh. The videos are at the end, strategically placed so you won't just watch them and not look at the pictures. *wink wink* Please do not use any of the pictures or videos without my permission! Thanks, and enjoy."

And now, here is everything that was underneath that, rolled into one. Enjoy!


Please clap for the Roadshow!!!!

Ya'll look like muppets

The last stop on the Rock and Worship Roadshow: Fresno California! There are no words to describe how awesome this concert is. To all my Nevada people, I'm sorry it doesn't come close to you, but trust me when I say it is worth the drive to Sacramento. Plus, If you're willing to drive an extra two hours to Fresno next year, I will reward you with one free night's stay at my house, complete with couch and blanket! Pillows are extra, sorry.

Anyway, enough of that. The Fresno show is the best show on the tour, and I'm not just saying that because that's the one I go to. In fact, here's a quote from MercyMe's Bart Millard from the show, "All those other people on the tour thought they were the best dancers, but in the back of my mind I knew there was still Fresno..." The Savemart Center is a huge place, and it was full to the top. This was my first concert where I actually wore earplugs the entire time, with the exception of a few TFK songs. It was loud in there.

If any of you even read my news feed, you may have seen my pre-show judgements about the bands on the tour. Well, here's the way things really went down:

Vira Avenue: These guys were a local band that won a contest or something like that. Reguardless, they were very good, and I hope to see more of them in the future.


Anthem Lights: I don't even want to talk about this band. If you want to know about them, type "Anthem Lights" into Google and leave me alone. Just look at them! Do they look like the kind of people I would want to talk about? Yeah, I didn't think so. Excuse me while I barf.


The Afters: They were OK, not my favorite but at least they weren't Anthem Lights.


Matt Maher: I thought he would be boring, just another band before TFK if you know what I mean, but I really liked him. I think I will be buying his album soon. (It just took me like five trys to type the period after that sentence)


Thousand Foot Krutch: Clearly the best. Need I say more? What is there to say? Nothing, that's what. (That right there is code for "I'm drawing a blank here and I have no idea what to write")


Lecrae: This guy was fun. Good and fun. Plus it's always nice to listen to rap music that doesn't have all that junk in it, you know?


Jars of Clay: Well, I don't honestly know how JOC was because I made good on my word and left during this part of the show. What I did see of them was through half closed eyes, because by this point in the show I was exhausted.


MercyMe: I love these guys. I don't listen to MercyMe all that much, and when I do it's involuntary, but I love seeing them in concert. It makes me feel good. They are now the band I've seen most in concert, a grand total of three times. They were tied with Hawk Nelson, who I've seen twice.


This is part one of a two part blog, and part two is the pictures and video I took. Stay tuned. (Stay tuned? What's wrong with me?)


Where is Thousand Foot Krutch? Oh my, where are they? Why don't they show up? What kind of tour is this???!! Wait, is that, no it's not. Oh my oh how could this happen? Nooooooooooooooooooo never!!!!!!

Let me explain the blog title before I go. During the concert, Bart Millard had us all do a side step, starting with our right. Somehow, on one side of the arena, every other row did NOT start with their right, and they were going the opposite way of the row in front of them (how does a whole row of people get left and right confused? It must be the heat...) Bart said, "Ya'll look like muppets," hence, the title of this blog.

My Second "Foreign" Language Blog

Yo vivo en California, y un montón de gente de aquí hablan español. Deseo con todo mi corazón que yo podía hablar español, creo que es una lengua tan impresionante, y que encajaría en una mejor dirección. Estoy tan harto de ser llamado a la muchacha blanca.

Soy medio mexicano, como he dicho antes. Yo tengo un acento español muy bien, pero no puedo hablarlo. Puedo leer, puedo escribir, puedo decirlo, pero no puede hablar. Es muy molesto. Me gustaría poder escribir blogs en otros idiomas, por lo que mis lectores podían leer mis palabras en su lengua materna. Así que aquí va, mi primer blog en español.

Es perfectamente se puede estar triste, estar deprimido, a llorar, porque le ayuda a entender un poco mejor. Si estás triste por algo, ¿por qué nada te impida dejar que se fuera? Cuando pensamos que algo es divertido, lo que tenemos en nuestra risa? No, lo dejó escapar. Lo dejó escapar porque es socialmente aceptable hacerlo. ¿Pero por qué, le pregunto, son las emociones frente a menudo ocultos o ignorados?