College Happenings

This is where it’s happening on campus

I want to go skiing. 1

I just saw a Bob Ward commercial for skiis.

I want to go.  I only got to ski once last year due to my 9 month condition.

I miss it.  I miss that first run of the year.  Riding up the chair lift feeling half nervous half excited.  Wondering if all of my skills will automatically return or if I will somehow forget how to ski and tumble under the chairlift. (that is the worst)

I miss that feeling of cold blasting against my face when I am going so fast and have such a high that the cold just adds to it.

I miss that feeling of boogers freezing in my nose.

I miss the burning in my legs that occurs after the first few runs.

I miss just being in the mountains, hearing the sounds of other skiiers muffled by the snow.

I just can’t wait.

I better go rent a Warren Miller flick.

Celebrity Feuds 0

Celebrity Feuds

Clay Aiken co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly in place of Regis the other day.  Everything went pretty good until the winners of Dancing with the Stars came on.  Kelly was talking and Clay must have felt that he couldn’t get a word in, so he covered Kelly’s mouth with his hand.

I personally gasped when I saw it.  I thought it was totally rude and disrespectful and it appeared Kelly felt the same way.  She tried to be nice and said, “I don’t know where that hand has been.”

It appeared that Clay was embarrassed by his action and realized he had done a no no.

Skip to ahead to this morning on The View and they are talking about it.  Now, let me say this first.  I like Rosie, always have.  I think she is funny and does a lot of good work for charity.  I could not give a rat’s ass about her sexual orientation.

BUT, when she was talking about what happened she took a nasty little stab at Kelly Ripa.  Rosie said that Kelly’s remark was because Clay is gay, or his sexual orientation is in question.

My very first thought was that Rosie only felt that way because she is gay.  I must say, I love ya Rosie, but that remark was not about a gay issue.  Clay was just rude.  Who goes on someone else’s show and does that.

I think the guest Sherri Shepherd was right.  She said Clay never would have done that to Regis.  Why?  Because he is a man.

She is right.

looking back 2

Sometimes I go to the Univerity of Montana website and check out the journalism page. 

It usually depresses me. 

During my last semester of school I became really, really disillusioned with the J-school.  I went into the school with big dreams.  I thought I was a pretty good writer and I really had a heart for the news.  The J-school slowly sucked it out of me. 

Day after day I saw teachers pick their favorites and help guide them.  While I chose my favorite teachers, no one chose me.  It didn’t matter that I had good grades or put together study groups.  No teacher ever took an interest in me and my studies. 

That really frustrated me.  I began to grow very resentful of the faculty, and even the students that were clearly favored. 

I wasn’t alone in my feelings.  I remember a discussion one time with a group of my friends.  We were very hot one day because a student whose parents had donated money to the new school got introduced to the people from National Geographic.  This kid sucks ass as a photographer.  He’s not so great as a person either.  But the point is.  The faculty gave him special treatment because of his parents money. 

I guess school really does reflect real life. 

Today, I am especially down about school and my degree. 

This morning on Montana Today there was a segment on a kid I went to school with.  ( A Hotty) He went to Afghanistan this summer and wants to be a foreign correspondent.  I am sure he will go far. 

That is what I wanted to do.  I wanted to travel to Africa and the Middle East and report on wars and genocide.  Now I just get to watch other people do it.  The sad thing is not that I am not doing that.  But that the J-school made me doubt myself.  It made me think that dream wasn’t even worth trying for.  Because none of the teachers ever saw in me what I could see in myself.  I listened to them.  I thought if I am not good enough for Professor A or B then I am not good enough to do much.  I found myself looking for an easy way out.  I found myself interning at the Ravalli Republic instead of trying for the Dow Jones and going to California.  I look back and I am sad because I didn’t even try.  I went in to that school with high hopes and big dreams and I graduated feeling like I had made a huge mistake.  But now, I can see my big mistake wasn’t choosing journalism.  My mistake was that I stopped believing in myself and started listening to people that didn’t have a clue about who I was or who I could be. 

I don’t want to sound like I am blaming the J-school for me not having the job I thought I would.  My life took a different course for a lot of different reasons, and I am happy with what I have.  

But, sometimes, when I see other people going where I thought I would, I have to stop and think; I think that when it comes to journalism, I made some mistakes and then just gave up.  

 

I heart John Tester 0

John Tester is in Washington DC testing the waters I guess.  Checking things out before the new session starts.

I saw him on the news at the white house with all the other newbees.  He looked so happy.

 I am so glad that he is fresh and new and seems very excited to get to work.  He kind of reminds me of the country mouse in the big city.

He had a sparkle in his eye when I saw him on TV and that is refreshing to see in a politician.

He gives me hope.

Barbara Cubin is Evil. 2

My mom needs to move out of Wyoming.

 Montana is all over the national news.  The race between Tester and Burns here is too close to call at the moment.  I am pretty sure Tester will win it.

I am happy for him…but wierd as it may sound, I am sad for Burns.  I hate election season because someone always has to lose.  I always feel bad for the loser.  It would suck to spend so much time and money and lose.  But it is time for a change and I guess Burns has had his many moments in the sun.

Montanas race should be a lesson to everyone on how important voting is.  One person can make a difference.

On two other notes.  It is raining so much here that the bridge at the end of my road washed out.

And for the really really important news. SHOCKER! Britney Spears is divorcing her loser husband.

Luella says they are both white trash and they belong together, but I think no woman should support a man.  And that is what she was doing, so good bye to him and good for her.

Vote! 0

Don’t forget to vote tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7th.

If you live in Montana, support John Tester!

 

 

Worry 3

Worry, worry, worry.

 When I was about 7 months pregnant I had a horrible dream.  In my dream something was wrong with Atticus.

I called my mom crying and she said it is ok and that it was just the beginning of years of worrying about my child.

Like always, she was right.

I read Discovery Health.com a lot.  So I can learn about baby development and stuff like that.

An article about SIDs was up the other day.  So, I read it and started worrying about it.  Then, yesterday a new study came out about SIDs, so that was another reminder for me to worry about it.

I know I have to put it out of my mind and not let my worry rule me, but that is easier said than done.