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Hey there,

If you are reading this, you are fortunate enough to be in my English 101 class. This is my very first blog. I'll introduce myself while trying not to sound like a personal ad.

Flagstaff, AZ

My name is Cari Jendrisak. I'm a Phoenix native and being such I am in LOVE with the desert we are surrounded in. I spent the past two years attending NAU and enjoying the largest Ponderosa Pine forest in the WORLD. 

Deceptive Chalk Art 

To say I like art would be an understatement, I love art. Other people's art mostly but not just the canvas. Creativity with everything is stunning to me, I focus on music, film, writing, and media that is unique. I do admit to having a Pinterest, however this site is my favorite, it's called Trend Hunter. It's not just art, it's media, it's technology, and everything that satisfies the modern conception of ADD. When I do a project normally I get the idea in the middle of evening, then stay up all night just to make it become a physical reality. I am now retraining my hands to do ceramics here at GCC. 

My goal at GCC is to earn exceptional grades to transfer back to NAU. I figure it will boost my ego and keep me on the straight and narrow even if the grades don't transfer.I am a bit of a slacker student. I believe the phrase I've heard is,

 "IF you would just apply yourself, you would be brilliant to others too." 

So this is me "applying myself," or trying to anyway. I have taken hybrid classes before at NAU, so it is a bit different but not by much. I have taken about four online classes, all which appear easy to begin with, but are very dangerous because it seems that the deadlines are far away. 

Part of the issue behind my apathy has been that I have no idea what I want to do in life. 

Many have told me to "follow my heart," to venture down the yellow brick road and unveil my personal wizard behind the curtain. This would be genuinely genius advice if I really had an application for the things I am passionate about.

Just in case you need to brush up on your geography.

 My dear Aunt Josie, now 89 years old, a nun and shrink, sent me a big envelope yesterday. I was expecting either a copy of her handwritten 300+ page memoir or a Kolache (a delicious Slovakian pastry), instead it was newspapers with circled titles and a letter in her beautiful cursive.

She sent me alternatives to attending school and living life as an adult right away. She's a bit eccentric at times but her wisdom is something I cannot pass up. We had what I call a "one on one" talk about how many possibilities one often overlooks simply for the reason, that in our small minds, they are not possible.

She says, "If you change your mind, you can change yourself."

I really believe her, crazy as it sounds.

The word "if" is an infinite black hole that will send the sane running for asylums but it's not necessarily the "If" it's the consequence of the "If."

Anything more creepy than old abandon insane asylums? 

For example... "If I die, _____ will happen." Or "What if I choose not to ______, will ______ happen?" The possibilities and alternative roads are what truly what drives us to our knees.

"If" I just apply myself, I will find out what is possible, what I can do, what I BLOCKED out as an impossibility.

It's raining 

outside, 

or rather 

sprinkling, 

which is the 

most we can 

hope for in the 

Sonoran.

Rain and COFFEE are the most amazing aroma together.
Coffee is another love of mine.

I will try to be consistent, and if I'm not, I hope you at least find me somewhat entertaining, and if not, say something!

If you don't say anything, I won't know what YOU think, and no one wants to feel like this...