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Greetings Humans

Hi. I was told to create a blog and introduce myself, ergo here I am.

My name is Jessica and I am currently 16. I tend to be very extra in everyday life and writing, but prefer simplicity on the whole. There are people who have described me as being "chill" to which I question because I am extra extra. Not dramatic extra, but extra loud (sometimes) and extra expressive. On the other hand, I can also be an emotionless and motionless vegetable, so...I guess "chill" does somewhat apply to my personality.

Some things I enjoy are: sleep, exercise, video games, music, and art. What I do in my spare time consists of wallowing in a pit of despair, making stuff, questioning human existence, philosophically questioning the world, and watching Youtube videos. However, most of my available time is now geared towards passing eclass this session.

If there is anything interesting going on in my summer, it is that I will be away at two camps during the first session of eclass. Great. The first is a day camp where I will be acting as a counselor for a bunch of little kids, the second is an overnight camp which I am going to as a camper. I feel excited to go to camp again, but then I also feel dread because it means I will have to be productive with my time so that I can complete eclass.

I am writing this blog and reading the memoir for the discussion at the same time so please pardon my brain for being all over the place. On the subject of the memoir, the memoir that I am reading is A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Once I got past the fully first-person point of view, I noticed that this man writes a lot. Specifically reading the chapter where Hemingway meets Scott Fitzgerald, I see a wall of text. The second thing I noticed besides my apparent unwillingness to read so much text in html format, is that Hemingway paints Fitzgerald to be a problem character or confusing to some extent.

While I try to wrap my head around paragraphs and paragraphs of words, I hope you guys are having a good summer so far, or a good one planned.

P.S. Can someone please let me know if these blog entries have to be formal, semi-formal, or whether they can be informally typed but literate. Thanks in advance.

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