So Close to the Weekend

So I guess a lot of my entries, or entry titles refer to me wanting it to be the weekend.  Because I do.  Thursday is always a long day, but luckily I only have two classes on Friday.  So, when Thursday ends, I get very excited.  Today my classes were spectacularly dull, and I worked the salad bar in the dining hall. Again.  Which is not so bad, considering other jobs I could have.  

It's going to be a pretty full weekend.  Saturday morning I'll roll out of bed to the Inquirer, then right on down to Yavits field, where I will desperately hope the Bombers win.  Then, I'll head back and type up my article.  Speaking of which, I'm published again!  You can see it here.  The Ithacan publishes Thursdays.  It really brightens my day.  I've got a sports meeting tonight.  Yay! Sunday, I have water polo and Gridiron taping. 

It was another beautiful day here.  I also got a package full of food from my lovely parents.  I suppose I should let Claire know that it included Easy Mac, and I'm officially a convert.  That stuff is great.  I wish I had something funny and/or interesting to say, but it was a pretty tame day.  Which is nice, I guess.  Oh.  Well, I washed my towels and such.  Um, let's just say that somehow, even though I washed bright colors on cold all together, some how my light yellow towel is kind of...moldish colored now.  So that's pleasant.  I've also discovered the amazing wonder that is the handicap shower here.  Basically, with that shower, you can actually exhale without fearing that you will get some type of fungus from the shower by touching the sides.  We might as well start the tally now:

Items uglified: 1

Items lost: 0

Items broken: 0

Let's keep it that way, shall we?  

Happy Things

So I've officially joined the water polo club team, and I'm very very excited.  According to the president, none of them really played before joining as a freshman, and she said they mainly get together and just have a blast.  Which is something I totally need, because I miss being on a sports team.  I will just have to RUN from there to Gridiron taping, but it will be so worth it, I'm thinking.  So that makes me very happy right now. 

One not so happy thing is that I believe the field hockey team is UNABLE to win when I don't attend their games!  Seriously! They have lost every single away game.  Badly.  Granted, two of the losses were to nationally-ranked non-conference teams, but still.  They need me.  Or they just play better at home.  They need to stop this losing thing fast, because I don't want to interview the coach saturday about a three game losing skid, especially if it includes a conference loss.  I really don't.  Last year their record was 6-11.  PLEASE GOD NO.  That's all I'm saying.  

So classes were busy today, I had three in a row.  I had about a twenty minute break before one class, so I didn't have time to go back to the dorm.  So, I laid on the grass and read some of my political communications book (one of the FOUR).  I kind of felt like I was in a college pamphlet.  I really thought no one did that in real life when I saw those things.  They do, at least at Ithaca.  We're all over grassy areas.  People live for that stuff here.  Mainly because weather like today's is rare.  But it was fabulous anyway.  

I was in a rough mood earlier.  Now? Much better.  

Nothing in Particular

Last night I had SO much fun watching the game, Cowboys vs. Eagles.  Of course, I didn't get the outcome I wanted but getting there was a blast.  I watched with about five football-obsessed guys, one was a die-hard Eagles fan from Jamaica, and there was the usual scattering of Jets and Giants fans.  One kid had Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb on his fantasy team, which combined for hilarious results.  DeSean Jackson is the biggest idiot I have seen in quite some time.  There were many discussions about whether it was getting boring to hate T.O, whether Donovan McNabb was too old, if the Eagles actually had a ton of talent that is just managed incorrectly, and finally, if it was true that all women have a secret obsession with Tony Romo.  That, I guess, was my area of expertise. The answer was NO.  If it was Tom Brady, well, that's another thing all together.  Tony Romo is dating Jessica Simpson.  Do you really want Jessica Simpson's leftovers?  I don't think so.

Today I did a ton of laundry and studied in the morning, and then trekked off to politics and then later mass media.  I had dinner a bit ago, and I'll be heading to the gym in a few minutes.  I swear I am not fat and lazy!  Tomorrow I have class from 10-3 straight.  What a party.  It's getting chilly here, and I may risk saying, "It's only mid-September!" and I will sound like an idiot.  I'm not sure if this is normal or not, here in the Fingerlakes region.  

Okay, off to the gym I go!

Oh, but if you're interested, here's something funny from my new obsession The Onion:

here

God Made Live Television to Give Me Ulcers

Okay so last night was the first episode of The Gridiron Report, for 2008.  I don't know how closely it followed the standard set by Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night, but it did have one of those little rooms where Felicity Huffman would stand, panic, and give orders, and it also involved lots of linear editing.  Which I learned how to do.  Which is good.  

I am not going to lie and say that doing the teleprompter is all that challenging.  But I get to do extra stuff too, which usually involves me following people and learning how to do things, or  the other freshman and I stand there in awe and random things we have never heard of happen. Which is why I'm there.  

It's nice not to be the dumbest one of the group, and luckily most of the freshman have no idea (like me) what they're supposed to be doing.  One guy, a Strategic communications major (?) is there because he likes baseball or whatever.  Umm....

We also ate the greasiest pizza ever, and you could pick out the New Yorkers by whether they tried to find like the 9 paper towels it required to soak up the grease.  I felt a bit nauseous after one piece.  Maybe I will pass on having heart attack-inducing food next time.  

I didn't get to watch football yesterday, because I am pretty sure the world wants to fill up all my time.  I did receive Pats updates, and was very happy with the Redskins result.  So far I have resisted all the attempts made to stop me from liking the Patriots.  

In Professor Farrell's management lecture today:

"See, you can't always trust your leaders, your CEOs.  Look at ENRON!  Belichick!  ENRON!"

Bills fan.  

Today I slaved away in the Ithacan office with my editor Cory, tidying up my profile.  Luckily, he really liked it and the changes were minor.  Also, the cross country writer only had one source in his.  So basically, by comparison, I was practically David Halberstam.  

I have a paper due tomorrow for political communication.  Party! Oh and I also had my first quiz in journalism, and I believe I did fine.  I got a little extra credit, because I knew that Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy.  

Go me!

***Edit: Earlier in this post I used the wrong "to" and published it.  Seeing as that is one of my pet peeves, I'm very embarrassed.  It is now fixed.

***There are tons of grammatical errors in this.  Please forgive me.  I fixed a few more, but woah.

Blog Break!

Right now it's a typical shutdown-Sunday in the dorm.  Sundays seem to be designated as study days.  Or nap days.  I've just finished my field hockey profile (yay!), so I thought I'd take a short blog break.  

It was a fun, pretty low-key weekend, and it pretty much flew by.  Yesterday I had journalism boot camp, and got a little advice on writing features.  It helped.  It was a rainy weekend, so there was a lot of movie watching and game playing.  After the first full week of classes, it was just what the doctor ordered.  Today's my roommate's 19th birthday.  I guess I'm kind of the baby of the bunch.  There are a few other kids who've yet to turn 18, but most of them are boys.  That fact interests me.  Are people more likely to start boys earlier in school than girls?  

Who knows.  

Tonight I have a Gridiron taping.  I'm sure I will quickly master the difficult task of teleprompting.  I expect to be an expert very soon.  Anyway, I am really enjoying having a room to myself.  It's very productive.  But at the same time I'm glad I have a roommate.  

I wish I had something more interesting to say, but that's about it.  The upcoming week?  It's technically homecoming week, so there's a pep rally friday (and a 2012 one today, but I've got Griddo) but other than that, not much.  A paper or two due.  

How about Penn State yesterday?  It's great because my sports management teacher just loves to rag on Syracuse ("Akron? REALLY? AKRON?!!")  

PSU Students Know What's Up

  Penn State students added a little Obama support to their white-outs.  Apparently they call it the "O-Zone." 

The coordination there never ceases to amaze me.  Love it!  

Today, I've got journalism boot camp and a lot of work to do.  Some of that work will involve laying on my bed, maybe, or jumping around my room because I've got it to myself.  Then, I'll write up a re-cap of the Skidmore game and try to find somewhere playing the PSU-Syracuse game, because it will be hilarious, if all my expectations are met.  

Yay!

A Short Update

It's now the weekend, and since there is much fun to be had, I'm a bit pressed for time.  But I decided to squeeze in an update.  Here's the main points.

1.  The profile feature is going well.  I met with, well, the subject today and got to do my first real extensive interview.  She was really nice, and talkative, which is helpful.

2. It is raining and will all weekend.  Which is gross.  But it means I have an excuse to wear sweatpants for an extended period of time.

3. My roommate is heading home for the weekend.  I am mainly going to just revel in the amount of space and freedom this gives me.  I am also going to stay up very late doing nothing, being happy I have a room to myself, that is not pitch black.

4.  I plan on watching much football this weekend. 

5.  We are ordering chinese tonight.  Lots and lots of chinese.  

6. I like college.  

That's about it.