Entry #2 Spooky Season Enters the Building!

 Hello fellow adventurers! Today I thought I would talk about one of my favorite things! It is almost October and with this spooky season almost upon us. I have already started watching horror movies. I have been a horror movie fan every since I watched "Pumpkinhead" when I was 7.  It was made in 1988 and now is far from scary, but let me tell you as a 7 year old watching it at night, it is the scariest thing on earth.

    After that I was hooked! My next experience into the world of horror movies were the black and white universal studio monster movies. "The Wolfman" and "Dracula" were always my favorite. Now a days I love the conjuring universe. The Conjuring Universe is a well thought out and planned universe much like the marvel universe. All the movies are connected. This is the first time in horror history that I know of they have done this. I also love the old "Friday the 13th" series and "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. I guess they could be considered in the same universe as well since they did fight each other in "Freddy vs Jason". 

I hope anyone who reads this enjoys October and what ever fun things you do for spooky season!

Until next time, I hope you roll a high initiative

Christopher

Entry #1 Learning about Blogs... or am I?

 Hello fellow adventurers. If you have stumbled through some foggy woods or a deep cave into this area I foreworn you, this will be a place for my opinions mostly on topics of my English professors choosing and some of my own. Todays topic is my opinion on blogs. 

 As I read through a few of the recommended blogs by my professor I had that topic in mind. I have to say as a writer of one I am not a fan. I do not like putting my thoughts on the internet for the world to see, but I can see how it could be beneficial to the writer or the reader. 

 An example I found as beneficial for the reader was this quaint cooking blog Smitten Kitchen. I love cooking and reading cooking blogs. I learned a new recipe that looks absolutely delicious and I learned the history of eggplant parmesan. I think finding new recipes and learning what they mean to someone else just helps us who enjoy cooking to feel inspired.

 Now to benefit of the writer I read a blog called Katie did what. In this blog she talked about homeschool curriculum. It felt more like a paid advertisement. I think this one it benefited the writer because she got to feel pride talking about how she builds a curriculum for her kids and how proud of her kids she is. She talked about the website she uses to help build this curriculum and as I said before it felt like a paid advertisement, which in this case I hope she was paid for it because it was well articulated. I do not have kids and I wanted to use the website. 

 You made it this far I guess now I will go into more detail about my opinion of blogs. I think if you find the right blog for you as a reader it can be an awesome experience. As a blog writer maybe getting your feelings to the world or just written down for your own personal gratification is helpful. For me I dislike this. I do not think I will continue this blog past my English class, and that is ok, blogging is not for everyone! I do encourage you to read a blog and maybe try to write one. Who knows you could be the next big thing or find a new hobby.

Until next time, I hope you roll a high initiative

Christopher

Meeting me... Hello!

     This is my first blog. I don't know how one starts a blog so I guess I will start with a simple  hello. Hello, My name is Christopher. If you look deeper into my profile you will see a list of favorite hobbies, movies, and books. I think that gives a little bit deeper dive into who I am by what I like. The main take away is I love the nerdy self I have grown into over all my years of living. The thing I enjoy  most is Dungeons & Dragons, that is D&D for those that don't know. I have played D&D for over 20 years now. Its a table top game that you play with your friends in an imaginary world. The world the dungeon master builds can be very big or very small. D&D has become popular in the past few years, one of the best examples I can show you is Critical Role a D&D game run by popular voice actors you may or may not recognize. Here is a link to their Youtube you can watch at your leisure Critical Role. 

    My goals in life are simple. I am going to school for cyber security. It is a field I have always been interested in, and the more info I read on pen testers, ethical hacking, and protection of technological information just gets me more hyped up then ever before. I hope to get into this fascinating career field and move to Virginia. Virginia is my favorite state I have lived in. 

    The reason for this blog is my English 102 class for my degree. I find it interesting we are creating a blog. I am not 100% sure how it will help, but I am hopeful. I see myself as a writer in a few ways. I don't see myself as a write like Stephen King or James Patterson, but I enjoy writing campaign settings and creating characters in D&D, which is a lot of writing. Here is an example of just a small amount of writing that goes into creating a character.

        I feel like this makes me somewhat of a writer, but I don't write full books or research papers. I think that type of writing is overwhelming. Grammar is my worst subject. I hope you all reading this enjoy my journey of writing this blog and hopefully getting better at grammar and a few other things.

Until next time, Hope you all roll high initiative

Christopher