Sunday, January 22, 2012
You Learn How to Take Criticism Instead
"You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices." - Ray Bradbury
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Top 5 Reasons Why My Professor Should Not Make Me Create a New Blog
5. I already have an established audience. If I have to start a new blog, I have to bother my already too-busy friends to join yet ANOTHER of my social media pages. I'm already wearing them out as it is.
4. I want to maximise the AdSense account I have now. Why should I have TWO poorly performing AdSense accounts?
3. The other blog-building assignments can easily be applied to my existing blog. My header can be customized, and I am more than happy to add the bells and whistles he wants to teach us about.
2. My established audience knows that I am in school and would like to see my new skills on my blog. Readers only want bloggers with good skills.
And the number one reason why my professor should let me keep my current blog and not make me create a new one is...
1. If I don't have to spend unnecessary time making a new monetized blog because I already made a monetized blog two years ago, I can spend more time helping my classmates who are new to the idea, therefore saving my professor lots of time and frustration!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
It's Just a Needle. It Won't Kill You.
I donated my 24th pint of blood today.
I am now a 3 gallon donor with the American Red Cross.
This is not much, since one can donate up to about 5 pints of blood a year, and I started donating blood 20 years ago.
If I had begun donating blood at age 17 and donated every 56 days until I reached 76, I would have donated 48 gallons of blood, potentially helping to save more than 1,000 lives! (Although since I was pregnant twice and you can't donate when you're pregnant, it would have actually been slightly less)
I wish I would have been donating all that time, but I haven't. Still, it matters.
I have Type O positive blood, the most common blood type. This is a universal blood type, which means most anybody can receive it in a blood transfusion. Type O blood (positive or negative) is the type most requested by hospitals.
When you donate blood, it is divided into three parts: the red blood cells, the platelets and the plasma. This is why donating one pint of blood can help save the lives of up to three people. Three of the five million people in the U.S. who need blood every year.
The red blood cells are used in trauma, surgery and sickle cell disease patient transfusions. Every 2 seconds someone needs a blood transfusion. A single car accident victim can require up to 100 pints of blood. There are over 80,000 people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease, 98% of whom are African-American.
Platelets are used in cancer treatments. This includes children with cancer.
Burn patients receive plasma, as do people with bleeding disorders.
You have 10 pints of blood in your body. You only need to donate one. Your body will make it back up in no time.
Donating blood doesn't cost you anything but time - about 45 minutes to an hour, once every 56 days. That's about 5 hours a year. Donating money is no substitute. Blood can't be manufactured. It can only come from donors, and less than 38% of the U.S. population are eligible to donate. If you have O negative blood, you are one of the 7% of Americans who do and your donation is especially important.
The two most common reasons cited by people who don't give blood are: "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles."
The number one reason donors say they give blood is because they "want to help others."
So if you want to help others, think about it. I hate needles as much as anybody, but the thought of helping to save three lives, including the likelihood of helping to save a child's life, gives me the gumption I need to look away and breathe deep until the initial sting goes away and I just keep not looking at the needle until the nurse says I'm done.
You can read more about it, find a donation location, and make an appointment to donate on the American Red Cross Web site.
Last October
I am now a 3 gallon donor with the American Red Cross.
This is not much, since one can donate up to about 5 pints of blood a year, and I started donating blood 20 years ago.
If I had begun donating blood at age 17 and donated every 56 days until I reached 76, I would have donated 48 gallons of blood, potentially helping to save more than 1,000 lives! (Although since I was pregnant twice and you can't donate when you're pregnant, it would have actually been slightly less)
I wish I would have been donating all that time, but I haven't. Still, it matters.
I have Type O positive blood, the most common blood type. This is a universal blood type, which means most anybody can receive it in a blood transfusion. Type O blood (positive or negative) is the type most requested by hospitals.
When you donate blood, it is divided into three parts: the red blood cells, the platelets and the plasma. This is why donating one pint of blood can help save the lives of up to three people. Three of the five million people in the U.S. who need blood every year.
The red blood cells are used in trauma, surgery and sickle cell disease patient transfusions. Every 2 seconds someone needs a blood transfusion. A single car accident victim can require up to 100 pints of blood. There are over 80,000 people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease, 98% of whom are African-American.
Platelets are used in cancer treatments. This includes children with cancer.
Burn patients receive plasma, as do people with bleeding disorders.
You have 10 pints of blood in your body. You only need to donate one. Your body will make it back up in no time.
Donating blood doesn't cost you anything but time - about 45 minutes to an hour, once every 56 days. That's about 5 hours a year. Donating money is no substitute. Blood can't be manufactured. It can only come from donors, and less than 38% of the U.S. population are eligible to donate. If you have O negative blood, you are one of the 7% of Americans who do and your donation is especially important.
The two most common reasons cited by people who don't give blood are: "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles."
The number one reason donors say they give blood is because they "want to help others."
So if you want to help others, think about it. I hate needles as much as anybody, but the thought of helping to save three lives, including the likelihood of helping to save a child's life, gives me the gumption I need to look away and breathe deep until the initial sting goes away and I just keep not looking at the needle until the nurse says I'm done.
You can read more about it, find a donation location, and make an appointment to donate on the American Red Cross Web site.
Friday, December 16, 2011
What I Learned in School
I learned how to make a web site.
The class required a personal web site as a final project. I decided to make my web site a digital clipbook, with samples of articles that I have written over the years (I've written far too many to include them all).
Check out my new digital clipbook, by Cyndie Todd
The class required a personal web site as a final project. I decided to make my web site a digital clipbook, with samples of articles that I have written over the years (I've written far too many to include them all).
Check out my new digital clipbook, by Cyndie Todd
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