homesickness: Homesickness hits me when I'm suddenly caught in the unfamiliar. Back home, life has simplicity in routine, the native, and the domestic. Also, everything I need is with in a confined, habitual area that I know in and out. Home also holds a web of connections that don't follow me as I travel out of houston. These connections are trusts I've build with family, freinds, co-workers, educators, and parents over the years; people I can rely on. I do live in Austin, Texas now which doesn't offer all of these comforts of home. When I'm suddenly in a situation where I need one of these alliances or would just feel better with some neighborly commonplace, I become homesick. I realize how much I unintentionaly valued these aspects of my home life. Homesickness comes in all forms. For example, when I just don't feel like cooking, and I'm sick of fast food, any one on my mom's homecooked dishes haunts my psyche. This is a small example of homesickness. The larger forms come at times when everything seems to be getting me down. When work gets touch, schools is consuming all of my time, and I'm not managing my time well I feel as though I'm in a strange place. I begin to yearn the familiarities of home because it is there I know deep down things will work out. In the familiar I have to nightmare all my plans my actually crash and burn. Ulmer adds to my confidence of venturing out into the unknow, and heading out of the recognizable to pursure things for example in my case, education. Ulmer says, "This homesicness that within literacy is a distraction, a side-effect that interferes with education and success, turns out to be the most important qualification of the jump into electracy." He says that it's absentmindedness that help us with our writing. It's a, 'reversible bereavement.' This is a prime way of looking at it. It means homesickness is not only natural, but helpful. If I can use moments of homesickness as distractions that assist me in furthering my thoughts or ideas for writing and journaling, it woudl really add extra charisma to my style of discourse.

boredom: Bordom for me is relaxation. I have way to much on my plate and too many things going on to ever be bored, so if I do ever get a glimpse of what some may call boredom, for me it's an opportunity to enjoy doing nothing.