Beastly Creature; Blog 3

“…Boom…” that’s the sound I heard from my bedroom that dark, and cold Saturday night. I was home alone, lying on the couch, lights off, with my pink and grey sweat pant suit on watching Criminal Minds; I had the television high enough to distract me but, low enough to hear anything suspicious. But this noise was so loud, I’m sure the neighbors heard it; it was so loud and excruciating that my ears burned from the sound, it was something I had never heard before. I contemplated on whether I should go check on it or immediately call someone. My instincts told me to check, I hopped off the couch and grabbed the closest, sharpest object I could find; a knife from the kitchen and crept my way up the stairwell. What was once 12 steps seemed like now 5. As I lurked up the stairs I saw a something I had never seen before. It was like something out of the wild, something straight un-real. It was tall, with big red eyes like a vampire, it had long hairy arms like some wild beast and it just stared at me with those big red eyes. It smelled like death, like some foreign animal had just gone to my room and died. I suddenly had no sense of connection to what I had just seen. Instead of trying to fight this beast I ran downstairs and just as I got to almost the last step, I tripped. This beastly creature had grabbed my pants they ripped in half; my ankle was completely sore, and pounding with pain. My pants were ripped in half and my mouth was drenched with blood from the fall. The creature wallowed over me and just breathed, breathed with a vengeance. As if I had betrayed it or hurt it, it growled and barked like a dog at me I just lied there and didn’t move, maybe it wouldn’t notice me. Just as I thought my life was over, out of nowhere I see another beast trampling down my stairs, and attacks the original beast as if it was angry with it. I got up and ran, ran like I had never ran before to the closest hiding place I could find, the living room closet. All I heard while sitting there was furniture being torn in 2, loud grunting noises like 2 hungry lions fighting over a piece of meat, than all of sudden silence struck. I slowly opened the closet door, turned on the lights to find blood all over the living room floor, and 2 beastly creatures nowhere in sight. When my parents walked in and I explained to them the whole story and catastrophe that had just struck our home but, nobody believed me.

Cyber Etiquette

“Hey what’s up, what are you doing” … “Nun much jst chillinggg, wby.” So the person who started this conversation is probably thinking in their head right now; what is “jst” and why does chilling have so many “g’s” at the end of it. Or even sounding out “w-b-y”, at least that’s what I assume they’re probably thinking if they don’t know proper text-slang.

            The idea of text messaging, at least the first thing I remember about it is much more modern/common than it was whe­­n texting was first introduced. I can remember having to connect to the internet, type out a message, and practically pray that the internet would stay connected so the message would send and I wouldn’t have to start all over again, well at least for sprint phones that’s how it was. However now communicating via text is as simple as tying a shoe, if one knows how to tie a shoe of course. Type a message, hit the send button, and almost instantly the other end has already received and replied to the message. But with text messaging comes text slang, or text language, just as Americans speak English, Canadians speak French everyone speaks a language. With texting, it however has its’ own language with short abbreviations such as “IDK” meaning I don’t know, or “LOL” meaning Laughing out Loud indicating that something is funny, or “IDC” meaning I don’t care and many more combos and abbreviations. Also with text slang comes emoticons, such as a smiley face(: or a wink face(; and even an angry or upset face/; as you can emoticons are the use of one or more symbols too indicate some type of facial expression or emotion. Emoticons and using the term “LOL” can change just about any conversation or tone of a conversation. For example, “Hey” too “Hey(: lol” I’m sure if somebody sent me a text messaging with “Hey(: lol” I would feel a whole different about the flow of the conversation. But the questions that lead me to this topic start with do we as “texters” overuse emoticons and text-slang? Well in some sense we do and at some times it can be inappropriate. For example while conversing with ones parents via text messaging it would be inappropriate to reply to a parental figure with the term “IDK” for the fact they may not understand. Because most of the older generations rarely use text messaging and if one is lucky enough to know how they definitely do not understand the lingo, or even conversing with a co-worker/boss it would be inappropriate as well. It is very simple too type out “I don’t know” instead of “IDK” me being teenager/young adult I would definitely know seeing how much I communicate via messaging. Abbreviations are helpful but not always appropriate in all situations.