:)

i love this.

KATE JONES

my one loyal fan. 

thank you for reading my blog.

maybe i should let some other people know about my blog. then i might have more fans. 

does this post creep you out at all?

haha. love ya kahtay!

Cadbury Cream Easter Eggs

are the best. yummmm. 

Love People Hate Distractions

Ok, so I absolutely love people. I love hearing their stories, their thoughts, and their personalities. People are cool.

However, the fact that I am so interested in people is driving me crazy right now.

I'm trying to write yet another paper, but my mumsy and daddy and friends are talking downstairs. I am trying my best to tune them out, but I want to be a part of the conversation, too! How can I be expected to work when there are people within a one mile radius from me, much less within earshot! Houmonumnymn. (That's a sigh, but it reminds me of the horses in Gulliver's Travels).

I need some earplugs.

Carrie Likes (in no particular order)

bluebonnets
chocolate
kittens
organization
grassy fields
Jesus
people
randomness
egrollvia
books, especially old ones
vocabulary
thumb twiddling
flowers
watermelon
high fives
group hugs
campfires
pandora.com
mr. alligator
macs
summer
sunscreen
planning
young life
the letter Q
sesame street
coffee shops
my green walls
pictures
old pictures
postcards
snail mail in general
cool boxes
candles
lamps
smiles
laughter
cute old couples
tying people's shoes together
being pharaoh
pinatas
fountains
fiji water
chacos
the dollar tree
water fights
long beach island
3X5 notecards
warm breezes
lightning and thunder
playing in the rain
chicken and dumplings
getting things accomplished
lists
name tags
super mario brothers
piggy banks
being crafty
hot glue guns
europe
history
language
binoculars
singing
running errands
ice cream
scotch tape
bandaids
adventure
national trekking
phrases that only make sense to friends
pot roast
onions
life

My lips

have been chapped for about four months now.

Just in case you didn't know...

The Lord is good!

Don't be so specific!

Ok, Carrie has decided that professors should let students write general survey papers rather than honing in on a specific aspect of the topic. Why? Because there are no broad papers already written, outside of Wikipedia! I am trying to write about 10,000 research papers right now, and they all have to have a specific topic. That's all well and good, but there are no general articles,  or really even books, that give me a broad synopsis to go off of. For example, I am looking for an article about nonverbal communication, but everything I find is way to specific for my needs. I am writing about Jesus's use of nonverbal communication in John 8:1-11, so I need an article to explain some basic nonverbal ideas. (I have long since given up on trying to find anything specific about Jesus and nonverbal communication. Every search engine I have tried comes up blank.) Anyways, I keep finding articles like, "Grammatical tense deficits in children with SLI and nonspecific language impairment: relationships with nonverbal IQ over time," or "Relations among linguistic and cognitive skills and spoken word recognition in adults with cochlear implants." Maybe I just need a lesson in how to research. But it's frustrating in the meantime. 

So someday, when I am a teacher, my students will have at least one broad research topic to write about. That way, future generations will be able to find a handful of general papers to glean info from.

The end.