Well, I may as well ramble extensively anyway. I just sent in my field hockey recap, which I didn't mind doing, because THEY WON. That always helps. A lot. Never mind that the team, SUNY Morrisville (yeah, I'd never heard of it either. How many are there?!) was a considered a junior college team until 2006. We will ignore that fact. We won brilliantly, 4-2. It should have been 4-1, but she put in all the non-starters at the very end to give them a chance (nice!) and it...ended badly. Oh well. Maybe I will try to cover women's tennis next year or something. They're SO good.
It only drizzled a little during the game, enough to get me all frizzy and my notebook a little more sad looking and crinkly. Never mind that it was gorgeous and sunny and NOT windy, drizzling and cold until I got to the game. Let's not think about that.
I aced my journalism quiz again, even without my failure to gain extra credit through my limited knowledge of baseball. YAY ME. Now I must absorb media law and formative libel court cases allllll weekend for my midterm monday. Oh wait. I have 3 midterms, ALL on monday. So this weekend will involve little merriment. So media law, financial and league formation, management structures, finance, marketing strategies, cultural linguistics, essentialized identity, and theories on evolution shall crowd my brain these next few days.
Speaking of sports marketing (oh yes, it was buried in that last terribly-formed sentence), I love that class even though it is finance week. Because this is what you get in ANY Annemarie Farrell (and yes, I do write notes along with all the funny things she says.):
"The Perfectly Competitive Market does NOT EXIST! We take entire classes in business about something that...it's like unicorns and mothers in Disney movies, it does NOT EXIST!"
"And here we have Adam Smith's concept of the economy's 'invisible hand,' Doesn't that phrase creep you out a little? Invisible hand. It's like that Clay Aiken song where he wants to be invisible and watch you in your room. THAT'S creepy, not romantic. That's disgusting. Oh yes. I did just go from macroeconomics to Clay Aiken in 10 seconds flat."
And then, you realize, you have to read about economic impact analysis for an hour or so, and you remember why you are not a sports management major.
Today I also wrote a paper about what's good and bad about most teenagers getting their political news from comedy news like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, if there's any value for the audience at all.
We all know what I argued. I love political communication. I love everything about covering politics, even if most of what we discuss in class is how badly it's done by the mainstream media. We watched the documentary The War Room about Bill Clinton's campaign. It was really interesting to see how they actively engaged the media, how the campaign managers pounced on every opportunity to work the press. Both candidates did it. Fascinating. It's something I knew went on, but to see it in action was interesting. I also think James Carville is a crazy person. But a really cool crazy person.
See? I can fill up a lot of space while talking about nothing. It's a talent.
