I tried my best

 Well, I made it!

If you're a Sunday Scaries super-fan, you may notice that this and 4 other blog posts were all uploaded today! To be honest, not only did I get incredibly burnt out, I think I just put an unnecessary amount of pressure on myself to be the best when it came to writing these blogs that led to my downfall. I got this paralyzing fear that my blog wouldn't be very good when I posted it and because everyone else would see it, I felt that everyone would suddenly realize how horrible of a writer I am or how much of a fake English ed major I am, or something like that. Soooooo I hid. I pulled myself in and in and in until I just got so overwhelmed and didn't post anything else until today. And that made me very very anxious in and of itself, and so it all just collapsed. 

...and here I am! I made it! I felt so much less pressure posting these blogs almost knowing no one would see them and they'd just be submitted for a grade and that's all, and then I'd be done with it. This semester has been difficult, to say the least, but we're almost there! So, if I had to pick, here are my nominees for my cool awesome blog:

1: Professionalism
I don't really think of myself as a very professional person, I keep it easy breezy and push against the professional mindset, but my book talk, blog 6, has to be my most professional one. I wasn't as silly goofy as I usually am in these posts, and I kept it more in line with what I was talking about without straying from the path as much. The assignment itself was designed to be a bit more professional as we were talking about more civil engagement ideas, but I felt more like I was actually creating an assignment as opposed to freely writing in a blog post, and it worked out for that post! Of course, I let some of that silly goofy stuff slip in because that's just who I am.

2: Multimodal Design
...obviously I'm gonna pick my multimodal design project, right? Yes! Blog 7 was really fun! I felt really like I was playing around in photoshop and just messing with settings and making it feel more real, and I had fun making it! All the other blog posts had other aspects of multimodal design, like photos and other articles being uploaded, but this one was my most multimodal post! I really felt some of my experience with composing other than writing was really able to come out here, and I was happy it did, because it exercised my long dormant photoshop muscles!

3: Creativity
I think the blog post I'm most proud of is blog post 3! I felt super proud of what I was writing and showed my family some of the lines because I really felt like I did a good job. Maybe I didn't actually, but I was really satisfied with my own job. With my little intro paragraph, "In the age of AI we as a society have been thrust into, it's hard to avoid it. On my drive to and from work I see billboards about AI, I get ads everywhere about Google Gemini, and most disappointing of all My AI Girlfriend ads are all over the place and that's how I found out my AI girlfriend was cheating on me." I felt so funny. I really tried, and I succeeded myself and I succeeded in the creativity I was going for.

4: Civic Engagement
...Blog post 5? I think? If repeats are allowed I would probably go with blog post 6, but the next best thing would be 5. I really think empathy and compassion are civic engagements, and people don't really think of them as such. I talked a lot about how we need to build better relationships and approach them with compassion, because these make the world go round. I really try to preach compassion and empathy as much as I can, and I think that's what has lead me to be a teacher, so if you were to take anything away from my blog, it would be please be kind and compassionate.

People's Choice (late...):
I always had Emily's blog Em's Nook in mind as my choice! She always put in a lot of effort and care into her posts that I want to be recognized as much as possible! She really cared about her quality and it was always fun reading her posts, I'd absolutely have to go with hers! A+++

Thank you for reading my silly little posts and going on this emotional adventure with me. I'm relieved to be done, but sad it's over. I have complex feelings about my Sunday Scaries blog, but I had fun, thanks for joining. See ya, hugs and kisses, love ya!!