Indian Epics

During week 6 of this semester I learned how useful prioritizing tasks my tasks are. This semester has seemed to be a lot more work than I have ever had. This semester marks the first semester of my senior year, which is too crazy to even think about.  For me, it is important to remember that even when I have a busy week and I feel like I am drowning, a simple "To Do" list can help organize my life and make me feel so much better. Normally I make lists every week with what I need to get accomplished every day of the week, but during week 6 it was important that I got everything for the week and weekend completed by Thursday.  On Thursday I had a friend coming in town from six hours away to spend the weekend with me. I knew I was going to be stressed out if I had to think about my homework I was not doing of the homework I needed to get done before week 7. Luckily, I know how to prioritize my work and I was able to finish everything before Thursday night! ...

During the first week of class I subscribed to the announcements email because Laura suggested that we subscribe. The subscription to announcement emails are really helpful because the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is check my email. I check my email in the morning because it starts to get me thinking about everything that I need to do for the day and sometimes that includes tasks I need to complete for Indian Epics. Since I work a week ahead in this course it is helpful to look at the announcements double check and make sure that I completed everything that I needed to do the week before and double check that I turned everything in that I was supposed to turn in. ( GIPHY )

UPDATED Version of this story can be found here . February 9, 2018 Hi, my name is Ravana. Some might know me as the demon king, because that's my nickname. I don't like it when people call me that though. It triggers the rage that lives deep inside of me. Some people say I live with multiple personalities disorder. I don't see it though. My therapist says it's like I have ten different brains all telling me to do different things and twenty arms grabbing in different directions. Sometimes I have bad days and sometimes I have good days, like today. My therapists tells me that when one of my others brains take over the main personality of Ravana, me falls into a deep sleep so I don't know what my body is doing. My therapist told me to keep a journal of my thoughts when I'm me. Or rather when the other brains aren't taking over. So here it is. Today marks two weeks since I served my 10 year penance in training to learn how to control my personalit...

In this blog post you will read my notes from part B of the public domain edition of Mahabharata . Below you will find the link to my notes from part A. Part A Vidura (brother of Pandu and Dhritarashtra) is not able to become king because his mother was a servant, but he is loyal to the Dhritarasthra court The Pandava brothers have escaped and are now living in the wilderness again like when they were young boys living with their mother Kunti Hidimbi (sister of the chieftain of the rakshasas) was sent to kill the brothers but instead fell in love with Bhima After defeating Hidimba, Bhima will now fight with an asura (Baka) The Pandavas continue to live in hiding as brahmins but the birth of Draupadi brings them out of hiding but they still go out as brahmins Arjuna (Pandava) wins Draupadi as his bride and all brothers become husbands of Draupadi Yudhishthira is king of western country of Khandavaprastha Arjuna messes up the marriage arrangement with his brothers an...

In this blog post, you will read my notes from Mahabharata from the public domain edition. This is part A notes. Author of Mahabharata = Vyasa Satyavati = mother of Vyasa Brahma (a god) told Vyasa, Ganesha would be his scribe  Devavrata = son of King Shantanu and goddess Ganga possesses powers of the 8 gods, the Vasus  Satyavati (Vyasa's mother) becomes new love of King Shantanu after Ganga leaves him Devavrata take an oath so his father, the king can marry Satyavati so that makes Vyasa and Devavrata brothers The oath is what gives him the nickname "Bhishma" Bhishma fights a battle to capture the 3 daughters of king Kashi to become brides of Bhishma's blood brother (son of Satyavati and his father king Shantanu) Brother's name = Vichitravirya Two of the women (Ambika and Ambalika) become Vichitravirya's wives. The other woman Amba will become important later to Bhishma Vichitravirya dies before he can have sons so there is no heir S...