THE FINAL BLOG FOR CLASS!!

Okay well since this is my final blog for class, before I begin my story I will talk about my English Literature since 1800 class a little. So, I really enjoyed this class. I learned more than I thought I would and enjoyed the class as well. There were just a couple of things I did not like about the class, but for the most part it was great. The two things I did not like about the class were the following: first we had to do a group project and with a group project, the group really needs to meet in order to be efficient. However, because this was an online class we could not meet. Also the group project was part of an individual assignment and that made it difficult as well. You see we had to make a webpage for our individual assignment, but for our group assignment we had to join the pages together under a common theme and make a website out of them. Well we could not start on our individual webpage until the group agreed on a theme for the website. So even though that is a small matter, I did not really like the group project in the class. It was a lot of fun, but a little harder than it should have been. The second thing I didn't like about the class is that we had a couple of novels that we covered in class, however because the class was only eight weeks long an online we were not able to really read the novels completely. I would have liked to have spent a little extra time on the novels so we couple read them. Other than those two things the class was great. Okay so I know I have promised to tell the story on how I hurt my back so here it goes.

THE STORY: So I had been in the friend zone with this girl for a long time. We had been friends since sixth grade and once we graduated high school I decided to tell her how I really felt. Well I told her over the phone one night after she had moved into her dorm at OU and she tells me to come and pick her up the next day and we would go to lunch and talk. She had kind of hinted that our friendship was too good to jeopardize over the phone, but I still wanted to see her and talk to her. So the next day I get into my car and start driving to Norman. Well along the way somewhere on the turnpike I guess I ran over something sharp enough to mess up my front left tire. So I am driving along at 80mph, because the speed limit is 75mph, and my front left tire blows out. Well as you can imagine going at that speed I loose control of the car. I slid right, then left, then finally I was sliding sideways, but somehow my car straightens out to where I'm headed toward the median. So I hit the down slope of the grass median and when I hit the upslope I flip end over end and land on my hood. I continue to roll three times into oncoming traffic, until finally coming to a stop right side up on the shoulder of the other side of the road. Let me tell you, the whole thing might of lasted for 15 or 20 seconds, but it all felt and looked like slow motion. I was consciousness the entire time and when I was sliding on my roof seeing cars coming at me I thought I was going to die. Well I walked out of the crash without a scrape but I hurt all over. This is when my heart gets broken. I called the girl I was going to see, my best friend and the girl who I have loved since we first met. I get her on the phone and explain what happened and she replied, "Okay, well talk to you later" and bung up the phone. I was crushed. If the same thing had happened to her I would have rushed to wherever she was and stayed with her until I knew she was okay. So bam heart broken, and now my body hurts. So I let my mom take me to the ER. They gave me a pain shot a script and said I would be fine. Well turns out that wasn't the case at all. After a couple of weeks and the pain not getting any better, I went to see a specialist. I had an MRI done and bam what do you know I have a bulging disk and a ruptured disk. The exact locations were L4L5 and L5S1. So after a year or so of doing everything but surgery, I finally had to have a spinal fusion where they fused bone and metal into my spine and added two screws for good measure. That was supposed to fix me and it did for about four months. However, after that the pain returned and they did another MRI and found that the areas above where they did the surgery were now going bad. So to finish the story I still have metal in my back and now they want to do an experimental surgery on the other areas of my back that are screwed up. I have a bulging disk at L3L4 and the disk that was just bulging, L4L5, is about to rupture. They want to remove it and replace it with an artificial disk. Anyway, that is the story of how my heart was broken, as well as my back (kind of), all in the same day. Now you know why my motto is what it is and why my number one life rule is what it is.
So this is Silas Marner signing off and saying remember my motto and my number one rule to live by.
MOTTO: When a defining moment comes, you either divine the moment, or the moment defines you.
#1 RULE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY: Never bet money you don't have, on a dog race, with an ex-girlfriend who just happens to be a stripper.

Carpe diem,
The Real Silas Marner

Last Weeks Blog (2/24-3/2) LATE

Hey guys this was supposed to be last weeks blog and I was feeling ill so I will post it now. I will also post a blog for this week as well. Anyway Last week we looked at Virginia Woolf's book Mrs. Dalloway. I did not get to read the whole thing, so if you get the chance I recommend you read it. If not at least look at the Cliff Notes or Spark Notes. This is a really interesting look at the ways people view society, and the ways those views can be affected. I do not really have anything to post from class so I will just recommend the book and say that you need to read it carefully. It is a story that needs to be analyzed and read thoroughly. Well that is all for this short post from THE REAL SILAS MARNER so remember my motto, and never forget my number one rule to live your life by. Tomorrow might be my final post, or I might keep the Blog going I am not sure yet, but either way I will tell you the story of how I got hurt and my heart broken all in the same day.

Carpe diem,
Silas Marner