Perception Filter

   I don't know if anyone noticed, but I took all of the links from our first posts and put them in on the sidebar. Not all of us have links, because not everyone gave some, but I did a bit of detective work and found a few extra things. I couldn't find Campion's YouTube channel (hard as I tried) and Adam didn't leave anything.

   I was looking at a discussion on the Ning this morning, and I want to know your opinions on it. What do you guys think of literary 'classics'? Are they classic only because of their age, or are the stories within classic? Do you enjoy them more than other books, or do you think they are just regular books that have been sort of over glorified?

 That's my perception of them. The few I have read have been good books, but nothing so good as to place them above or beyond anything else I have read. I don't really think they are timeless or anything like that. Maybe it is more because of their age, and the fact that they are still being printed and read today. I don't really know.

   Another thing I discovered this morning is that Gibberish is apparently a real language that you can learn to speak, with different dialects depending on what part of the world you are in. I tried to read a few sentences with it, but I think it might be impossible. Give it a try, you sound insane when you 'speak' it out loud.

   One thing I did in the past week was get my hair cut. That may not sound like much to you guys, but with me it's kind of a big deal. Since about first grade, my hair has been past my shoulders, and worn in a ponytail every single day. And I mean every day. So finally, I decided it was time I changed things. It's now only about 2 inches long in most places, and sort of puffy at the top. There is a picture on my blog, if you want to see.

   It may look and sound like a big change, but to me it hasn't been. I guess since I always wore my hair up, it doesn't really feel different; there was never really any hair blowing in my face or anything like that. Everything is just more, light.

   Anyway, before this post becomes as long as forever, there is one more thing I want to say. Today is July 7, 2011. (I almost wrote 2010.) On this day, in history, sliced bread was sold for the first time, back in 1928, by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri. Now how is that for some perspective?