Day 39: This is a Declaration

Today...I carved a tree. Yes a tree. Made of paper. But it looks like a tree. So I made a declaration. Get excited.

1.2.3.4. I DECLARE A THUMB WAR 5.6.7.8. WE BETTER START NOW BEFORE IT'S TO LATE!

This was the first thing that came into my head. So I went for it.

See ya tomorrow! (yes I know that its Saturday, but its October 1st!)

Anna :)

Day 38: This is a Recording Device

Challenge: Record the events of your day in the point form here:

• RHA staff meeting
• Breakfast with Lindsey and Amy
• EDSE 442
• Lunch (my room, by myself)
• EDSE 327
• Meeting with EDSE 322 group for project
• Meeting with professor
• RELAX! (I was not feeling good)
• RHA office hours 
• Dinner with Amy (in the office)
• Group project with Trevor
• Attempting to play volleyball with Emily @ Rec Center (horrific)

• Blog writing 

I ran out of the provided dots, so I had to use my own.

Challenge 2: Make a mark for every time you enter a room:
I entered a room 45 times today. That is a lot!!

That is it. Not too exciting. The more exciting ones are coming. :)

In the words of Liz: LATER GATOR!!

Anna :)

Day 37: This is a Material

It is official, after 37 days, my book is starting to fall apart. Oh well, I guess that is the point. Today I made it worse.

Mission: To conduct experiments to find the properties of paper. Then, make a list of everything. What happens when you add stuff to it?

Result:

• Page is not water proof (oops)
• I want to burn part of the page, but I live on campus.
• Holds my turtle (see photo)
• Holds glue, paint, and stickers (every teacher's favorite things)
• FRINGE
• Glue with confetti
• And I crinkled the page, which caused a problem. 

Well here are some photos:

Hold my turtle from Tanzania.

How my book looks now. The binding is coming undone.

I am getting prepared for October, which brings the best page. So if you would like to be a part of it, send me your mailing address. That is all I am saying right now, but check back on October 1st for more. :)

See you tomorrow!

Anna :)

Day 36: This is a School

Well today I get to pretend to be a teacher, which is great because I am 2 semesters away from actually being a teacher. So for my "school page". I was to explain what lesson I would teach if I could and what it would look like. So I picked geography, because I love geography. Yes I know that I am going to be a special education teacher, but I have always wanted to teach geography. Come on...who does not like coloring maps?? Well I attached the picture below.

Sorry that it is going the wrong way. I can't seem to find a way to fix it.

Adios!

Anna :)

Day 35: This is a Mystery

Task: Figure out why there is no page 42. Write your responses in the book, and then go to www.thisisnotabook.org to submit your responses.

My guesses:
A dog ate it
42 is a bad number
There was a page 42 and then it was removed
Keri (the author) was 42 at the time and didn't want people to know her name
Keri forgot
Someone can't count
It is her favorite number
Keri liked the direction page so much that she didn't want it to compete with page 42

I posted them all on the website (link below). Other people have some pretty cleaver ideas. But I guess we will never know....

http://www.thisisnotabook.org/page_42.html

See ya tomorrow!

Anna :)

Day 34: This is a Scavenger Hunt

So...I know that I was supposed to post this on Friday. But Homecoming has gotten in the way. But here it is. I completed the scavenger hunt on Friday, I just have not had time to post.

I needed to find:
A seed pod (9/21)
A definition of a word you don't know (9/22)
A secret code (9/23)
A scientific theorem (9/23)
Something red (9/20)
Something that was alive (9/21)
A map (9/22)
A footnote (9/23)
Something that was lost (9/22)
A piece of thread (9/22)
A ticket stub (9/20)
Something with a circle on it (9/21)
A palindrome (9/21)
A piece of toilet paper (unused) (9/23)

Here are the pictures of the items. I forgot to add the something that was lost to the picture but it was a bag that I lost and found it in my closet.

Ticket stub thanks to Tana Wolfe

 Footnote. Get it...well I could not find an actual one. 

The rest of the things that I found. I enjoyed the hunt. But it was hard!!!

See you tomorrow! Start of week 6?

Anna :)

P.S. Thanks to Aubrey and Courtney for helping me with the puzzle.

Day 31: Scavenger Hunt Update

Holy Moly!! I have been so busy that I have not even had time to post updates!! I am working on the scavenger hunt. Which is proven to be difficult. But I have gotten nearly half. So listed below are the things I still need to find:

1. A definition of a word you don't know
2. A puzzle to complete
3. A scientific theorem
4. Something that was alive
5. A footnote
6. Something that was lost. (which I think I actually have)
7. A piece of toilet paper.

I am having a lot of problems with finding a scientific theorem. Ideas?

More to hunt down....

I hope I find them all.


Anna :)

P.S. I am back on track with days again.

Day 25: This is a Scavenger Hunt

This week I am doing something a little different. Instead of doing a page everyday, I am doing one page that lasts all week. This is because Homecoming is consuming my life currently and I do not have time to do a page everyday.

This weeks page is "This is a Scavenger Hunt". I have this week (until Friday at midnight) to find all of these things:
"A seed pod
The definition of a word you don't know
A puzzle to complete
A secret code
A scientific theorem
Something red
Something that was alive [a leaf counts]
A map
A footnote
Something that was lost
A piece of thread
A ticket stub
Something with a circle on it
A palindrome
A piece of toliet paper (unused)"

I have not found anything yet. But I will post later this week with an update.

Happy Homecoming!

Anna :)

I realized that I may have screwed up the days. Liz is on 27 and I am on 25. So I'm confused. Oh well. 

Day 24: This is an Interview

Today, I interviewed my lovely friend Tara. Please see below. I copied EXACTLY what she said, so sorry if it offends you.

"What is your full name?
Tara Danielle Schoenherr

What is your favorite thing to eat?
Kidney beans and Starbucks

Describe the taste of your favorite food without comparing it to other foods.
It tastes like the earth

What are your favorite things to do?
Run, read, master bait, sleep, drink alcohol, surf the internet, hang with friends. 

Who are your favorite people?
 Colleen, Whitney, Nina, Taylor, and Ellen

What was your favorite thing to do when you were little?
Play dress-up

Describe your favorite outfit.
Nike Tempo shorts and a hoodie

Where to you see yourseld in five years?
Hall directing; "Putting bitches in there place." "

Well there you go! Words from the great Tara Schoenherr, T$

Adios! See you Monday.

Anna :)

Day 23: This is an Outlet

Today's page was much needed in my crazy hectic life right now. I got to write down all the things that are going on in my life. Like venting. I wrote in the pages of the book the things that were bothering me. It was therapeutic. It also instructed me to scribble if I felt mad and stressed. And well, since homecoming is taking over my life, I am the definition of stress. So I scribbled all over the page.

Well, that is it. Kind of short, no picture today.

Tomorrow is Friday!!
YAY!

Anna :)

Day 22: This is a Moment in Time

"This day will never happen again. Document its passing."

Well today after reading this blog, you will understand just have stressful and busy my life is. I recorded everything I did for an entire day.  So enjoy. And welcome to a Wednesday in the life of Anna!
5:40am - woke up (ice skating practice)
6am - left for Greeley Ice Haus
6:30am - practice begins
7:15am - practice ends
7:30-8am - STARBUCKS
8am-9:45am - Nap (I overslept though)
10am - shower (yay clean!!)
10:50am - e-mails for Homecoming (story of my life)

11:15am - lunch with Krystal Duff at the UC :)
12pm - looking for an ID holder at Bookstore. No luck :(
12-1pm - Homework :(
2pm - Walked to TK with Lindsey Yost to pick up housing truck

2:30pm - Home Depot shopping for Bonfire Supplies with Lindsey (yes someone took our picture)
3:30pm - Parsons Hall for wood pallet pick up (lots of splinters)
4pm - Lawrenson Hall to drop off pallets to storage
4:15pm - Harrison Hall for RHA office hours (Made a giant W out of wood)
5:20pm - Ordered Jimmy Johns (I was hungry) and attended Nina Askew's Diversity program (which was awesome)
6:30pm - Library to work on a project with classmate Tana Wolfe

7:30pm - LAUNDRY, homework, to do list, call home.
10pm - Went to desk to drop something off and ended up staying there for a long time talking it up to my desk buddies (Tara, Adam, Nina, GA Todd, Ricki and Haley)
10:30pm - Writing this blog and eating a snack.

Well that was my day today, crazy huh? Well tomorrow is just as bad. I should probably go to bed now.
Bye!

Anna :)

Day 21: This is a Souvenir

Wow. Today has been long and tiring, not to mention stressful. But This is Not a Book has helped with dealing with my mounds of stress. But today's page was kind of odd, and rather depressing. It asked to make a list of all the things that you enjoyed about being on earth. It felt weird because it was like I was writing all the things I was going to do before I died, but unlike a bucket list, I already did them.

So this is what I said. Some were funny and some were serious. But I tried to make it fill the whole page.

Enjoy!!

Anna :)

Day: 20 This is a Currency

Today I created my own money system. Yes that is right, there is now Anna money in the world. However, it does not really work...

For this challenge, I was asked to do the following:
"Use this money to begin your own economy and barter system. Trade this page for another item of equal or greater value. Draw your own version of money."

It also instructed me to add a picture of myself to a This is Not a Book dollar bill.

For my task, I traded my "Anna dollar" for a copy of the RHA Agenda from Lauren Koppel. This is my first agenda as a RHA executive. Which is rather exciting. Lauren has my dollar. But I think I will barter for it back, you know for keepsake.

Well that is it for now!!

See you later Alligators!


Anna :)

Day 19: This is a Customizable Object

Today I got to decorate my This is Not a Book. The page for today was "This is a customizable object", it instructed me to decorate my book. I put stickers on the pages, created fringe on one page, created a envelope to carry things, and a new bookmark. I did not do too much yet, because I wanted to add to it as I go. I added one picture, but if you want to see all the customizations you should come find me to look at the book.

Not the greatest picture. But oh well.

See you Monday!

Anna :)

Day 18: This is a Friend

Well today, through this page, I made two new friends. They are not really, but they are really cool. These friends are from today's page, "This is a Friend". I was asked to cut out different eyes, noses, mouths, etc. and make a face out of it on This is not a Book and something else. Here are my new friends!

This is the first one, it is on the cover of the book.

This is on a yellow sticky note above my desk.

Well,  my new friends and I are tired. So we are calling it a night! See you tomorrow!

Anna :)

Day 17: This is a Blank Space

So today's day has been extremely hectic. I nearly forgot that I had to do a page, until dinner when I nearly freaked out. The interesting thing about today's page is that this morning I randomly selected a page (like I do everyday), I landed on this page, but I was not thrilled and picked a new one. Hours later I went back and I lost the new one I saved, so I randomly selected a new one, which just happened to be this page, so to get to my point, this page was meant to be.

This page was easy. It had nothing on it, and asked you to do nothing. So I did nothing. Which is great because I am tired. End of story. Enjoy my picture.

So that is it. See ya tomorrow.

Anna :)

Day 16: This is a Conundrum

Hello again! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Mine was wonderful. Today's challenge was rather difficult. It was called "This is a Conundrum". It asked you to read a paragraph and figure out what was wrong with the paragraph or what was different. It took me FOREVER to figure it out. I read the paragraph over and over again to try and figure it out. But I finally figured it out, witht the help from Nina, which was kind of cheating, but I don't care because I was lost.  If you would like to know what it is, I will post it below. But first, here is the paragraph:

"This is an unusual paragraph. It is a conundrum for you to sort out How quickly can you find out what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it, until you actually match it against most paragraphs this long. If you put your mind to it and study it hard, you will find out. Nobody may assist you - do it without any coaching. Go to work and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck!"

So you want to know do you?





















Welll....here you go.............(LIZ DON'T LOOK)



















There are no E's


See ya manana!

Anna :)

Day 12: This is a Plot to Rule the World

MUAHHHHAHHH! I rule the world now!!!! Well...not really...but today I got to pretend I did. For today's challenge I had to describe what I change if I ruled the world. It was rather fun. Here are a few of my changes:
1. Accessibility of rainbow sprinkles to all people
2. Make pigs a legal household pet
3. Education for all!
4. SHOES
5. Cheaper college education
6. Less hate and more LOVE!
7. More puppies
8. Diversity (and acceptance) (shout out to my diversity mentors!)
9. Vacations for all
10. Donuts (because I can!)

So look for those in the coming future. When I rule the world, it will be a grand time, filled with lollipops, pigs, and peace and happiness.

Have a fabulous three day weekend and HAPPY LABOR DAY!

Anna :)

Day 11: This is a Window

Well Howdy Folks!! How are we all doing today? Well I am doing good, I just finished making my radio show debut ("RAW" Radio on UNC Student Radio). Today's challenge involved a window. The directions are as follows:
"1. Cut out hole
  2. Place in front of desired view
  3. Sit."
 Well the hardest part of this challenge was cutting out the window. I ripped the paper a few times, and had to tape it. But it worked. I decided to make the view I looked at my Betta fish, Francisco. He is an awesome blue fish that dances, and parades around his bowl. Many people say that he is the most active fish they have ever seen. He is also very excited to make is debut on the blog. He is currently watching me write this. So I am going to stop ranting now, so that you can get on with your day. So here is a pic.

My fish is quite the model. hehe. So...see that intricate cut-out job? I know I am pretty hot stuff. 

Well that is it for today. Oh and by the way...curious about what I said yesterday??? Well it said "2014 WAZ HERE" as well as "Go Rockies" and "can anybody see this." Were your guesses right? Sorry no Stomper this time! 

Bye for now...well until tomorrow!

Anna :)