Megan Frankowski | Introduction

I know this may sound crazy, but I don't like to eat over at other people's houses. You may be thinking "what is wrong with eating over at someone's house?" and well technically . . . nothing. The food and company are usually enjoyable, there is no mess to clean up, and you save time and money by just showing up. My problem comes with the dishes. I am a bit of a germophob, and this is especially true when it comes to dishes. I will not eat off of anything if it looks even remotely dirty. When I am at someone else's house I don't know how they washed the dishes, and my eyes are usually attracted to something that looks like stuck on food. It's disgusting. This fetish (I guess that would be a good term) does not just apply to other's houses. At home, I usually won't let my husband do the dishes unless I am completely swamped with other things and don't have the time. When I first buy new dishes at the store, I have to go home and wash them before I will use them. I like to do the dishes myself because that way I know they are clean. Now for the crazy twist. I don't have this problem when I go to clean-looking restaurants or when I go to my parents house. I don't really know how this started but it has been very sharply pounded into my brain that other people's houses equals dirty dishes. So I try to avoid eating at other people's houses when at all possible.

Welcome 2020 Students | Fall 2007

I know it doesn't seem like Fall, but here were are. It's great to have you, both classes of you. In this space you'll see the work of students who are not in your class. I have two sections of ENGL 2020, and you'll be working right alongside each other in anonymity, except for in this virtual space.

Please take a look through the posts that have come from other students in other classes. This will give you some idea of what we're going to be doing here in this online space.

For your first post, go ahead and introduce yourself by expanding on that "interesting thing" you shared with us in class.

In the title window, write the following (ignore the quotation marks but pay attention to the capitalization): "Your Name | Introduction" The little mark between the two items is called a pipe mark, and it's usually above the backslash. Remember that you're publishing this work, so be careful. Spelling and punctuation are important in public writing.

In the body of the post, write away. I'd say that 200 words or so would be enough. Don't short change us. This is a a writing course, so write. Be descriptive and entertaining. I'm officially giving you your storyteller's license, if you don't already have one. Thrill us. Some examples of the interesting fact can be found in the August 2005 Archive.

I think it is really useful to write your post in a program like Notepad, then save it before copying it into this window. Strange things happen in computers, and you'll need some form of back up.

Use the label function and include the labels: "Introduction", "Your Name," and "interesting thing" with commas between them. This will help me find your posts later on. Labeling (or tagging as it is sometimes called) is a very important part of computer use these day. Please get used to it.

Good luck and have fun with this blog stuff.