When I’m not reading text messages or status updates on Instagram or Twitter, I am typically more of a war novel kind of guy. I’m a big fan of learning about the World Wars and the context that revolves around them. For example, Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes was one of my favorite war books growing up. It is cool to see the wars from different perspectives of different countries. Nonfiction or fiction, the drama that surrounds the war setting is just interesting for me to read. Although I do love these war books, I find myself more inclined to get on twitter to read funny and entertaining posts from people. Sadly, a lot of the news that I read comes from twitter (yes, I realize that can be bias), but every now and then I find myself going through the Daily Mail on my phone to read about different news stories.
When it comes to watching tv shows or movies, Netflix is my go to. Since I’ve been in college, I rarely watch tv unless it is a sporting event. Nowadays, Netflix has consumed my life when it comes to watching shows or movies. One of my favorite movies of all time is The Social Network. This has been my favorite movie for years. My second favorite movie of all time would have to be The Other Guys with Will Ferrell. This movie can make me laugh every-time I watch it, and it’s the same jokes. Not to get cliche about my favorite tv show, but it would have to be The Office. I’m not kidding when I say I have watched this show over twenty times all the way through. I watch the show before I go to sleep, as background noise, on planes and car rides, etc. It is hands down my favorite go to show. Although a lot of tv shows have captured my attention recently on Netflix, I would have to say Game of Thrones is my next favorite show after The Office. Game of Thrones is your classic violent medieval plot twister that leaves you wanting more. This show isn’t really a watch more than once show for me, YET, but I can without a doubt say that it is one of my favorite shows of all time. There’s no shortage of The Office and Game of Thrones fans so it isn’t hard to strike up a conversation with someone about these shows. As a matter of fact, in our READ 3400 class at GGC, there are numerous people with whom I talk about these shows with.
I am not much of a “write for fun” kind of guy these days. Outside of the numerous essays that I have written for school, I would say texting is my closest thing to writing. I actually have a group text where we will just tell hilarious stories that make no sense every now and then. That probably sounds dumb… and you’re right, but we definitely get some good laughs out of them. I used to be a big Twitter guy constantly posting stuff on there, but the past few years I rarely tweet. If I do tweet, it is usually to support a sports team or retweet something that I found funny. I am not much of a writer it would seem, but I can definitely write when it is needed of me or there is an audience to appease.
When it comes to work-related literacy tasks, I use it occasionally for my current jobs. I work for a catering company where we use certain forms of literacy. For example, I am constantly collaborating with my colleagues to fill orders and get them delivered on time. I also make conversation with the customers. If I am serving the food to the customers, rather than dropping it off, I am constantly making conversation with people and getting them to come over to try our food. One of my previous jobs at Skyzone, probably forced me to use the most literacy skills. Before getting hired, I had to watch training videos and read the list of rules for the indoor trampoline park (which is a lot of rules). I had to learn these rules and be able to tell all the kids that came to the park what they were. On a weekly basis, we would have meetings about new facilities or sports that we were adding to the park so there were a lot of videos and documents that we had to go over.
It’s weird to think that literacy plays such a vital role in our everyday lives without us even noticing. Even sending and receiving a message is using literacy skills (if you’re not using the “texting language” that everyone does today). I guess it is pretty important to master literary skills because it seems like I use it a lot more than I thought (wait, watching a movie or tv show is really a literacy skill?).
Ace Baloosh 
This is a super entry, Clay. Tons of details in response to each part of the prompt. I feel like I have a clear window into your literate world.
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