January 2011
1 post
Thank you, Chicago Bears "Fans"
First and foremost, I’d like to start off by thanking the Bears “fans,” who have inspired me to once again write - something I haven’t done in close to one year. You are the ones publicly denouncing Jay Cutler, the ones who also believed the Bears would be 4-12 on the season, the ones burning jerseys in front of your kids (classy, by the way).
You blame Cutler on the...
May 2009
2 posts
Finally!
Finally! Scumbag, I mean former police sergeant, Drew Peterson, has been taken into custody. He has been charged with murdering his third ex wife.
It is about time. The death looked suspicious from the beginning, but nothing happened until his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared. An autopsy was conducted on the third ex wife’s body and accidental death became murder.
Stacy is...
So, so soon
Less than one week and I am done with classes for the semester. Being a transfer student, I have many senior semesters under my belt. At the end of this one, I’ll have four, to be exact.
I like school, I enjoy learning, but I cannot wait to graduate in December. I have my dreams and aspirations, and they can’t come true without that little piece of paper. I haven’t been this...
April 2009
6 posts
Oh the Slaughter
This Saturday marked the first and only lengthy road trip with the Chicago Slaughter pro indoor football team. I intern with the team, and on April 18, we took the team bus to play in Fort Wayne, Ind.
I’m not sure how long the road trip actually was. The bus driver first took the wrong way to pick up players from Hammond, Ind., so we had to backtrack a few miles. Then, there is that pesky...
EveryBlock
I currently live in the suburbs, but last year I had my own place in the city. I looked up my former zip code, 60625, to see what I could come up with.
Less than one block from my former apartment, I found an aggravated assault crime report. That floored me! The case was domestic, which sadly makes me feel better, but that was such a quiet little mixed neighborhood, complete with young...
Chicago Slaughter
Well, as many of you know, I intern with the Chicago Slaughter pro indoor football team in Hoffman Estates. I spend all day Tuesday in the office, along with Thursday mornings and the occasional Saturday, provided the team doesn’t have a game.
Game days are my favorite. Gee, I wonder why?! I plan to devote my post-college life writing about sporting events and players, so attending games...
Podcasts
To be quite honest, I’ve never listened to a podcast on my own. At Illinois State a few years ago, one of my classes involved us listening to “This American Life.”
The class was an introductory course to journalism. It was an elective just to see if i enjoyed journalism and if I should completely change my major from education.
It was over 18 months ago that I took this intro...
Interning
I intern with the Chicago Slaughter indoor football team, based out of Hoffman Estates. I am a sports writing and reporting major, and I intern in the media department. It’s pretty much perfect.
The internship is extremely time consuming. I spend about 15 hours per week in the front office. On game days, I spend about seven hours at the arena covering games and doing whatever...
March 2009
5 posts
Spring break??
Today marks my official end to spring break. I feel as though I have accomplished nothing. I spent the first weekend of break on the road with the football team I intern with. The team played up in Madison, Wisc., so I took the team bus up to the game. The game was quite an experience, and not necessarily in a good way. That is a whole different story though. During the week, I worked at both...
I Need a Break
Wow, what a semester this has been. I realize now, a little too late, that I’ve taken on way too much.
Well, I didn’t choose for it to be this way. I could have changed it. I could have dropped a class.
My advisor put me into a class and I didn’t know. I could have and probably should have said no, but oh well. Live and learn.
I have 15 credit hours - though I believe I...
Finally
Thursday, I went back to that same doctor who made me wait over an hour for my appointment. Apparently I left an impression because when I walked in, the nurse recognized me and I only waited 15 minutes this time. I was even called back before others who had been waiting longer than I had been.
So I got back into the room and got ready to get cut open. The doctor came in about 10 minutes...
Twitter
I’m still not sure what to make of Twitter. I’m not even sure I am replying to people’s posts correctly. I haven’t really been able to mess with it, as this has been week No. 2 from Hell for me.
I’ll be able to better judge the site when I can play with it more… whenever that may be.
Right now, it just seems like it’s kind of a waste. I’m on...
Some People..
So I’ve got this bump thingy (cyst or lymphnode or something) near my collar bone. It’s been there for a while and has slowly gotten bigger. I know I shouldn’t have abnormal growths on me, so I finally went to my doctor. He told me he wasn’t positive what it was, but referred me to someone who would remove it.
Well, today was the day to get it removed. When I called to...
February 2009
8 posts
Worst Group Experience
A few years ago, I was a student at Illinois State University. I was in the process of leaving the school - it was my last semester. I was still in the education program at the school. For one of my classes I was required to work in a team-teaching group.
I explained to the professor that I was no longer interested in teaching. I was in the class because I had to take it. I was leaving the...
What a Pain in the...Tooth
This week is quite possibly one of my busiest weeks. I had to rearrange my internship, my work schedule and my homework schedule because some of my best friends from all over the place are coming to the city for the weekend. I’m not complaining at all. In fact, I’m thrilled to see some of them because I miss them dearly and don’t see them nearly enough.
This past Friday was a...
The Internet... where would I be without you?!
I used to be such a little active child. I would definitely consider myself a tomboy back then. Even still, I definitely have my tomboy tendencies. Boys in the neighborhood used to ring my doorbell and ask me to play football, baseball, basketball… you name it, boys were asking me to play.
My poor little, uncoordinated brother. He sat inside while I played with the boys. I...
Free time...
Or, in my case, the lack thereof. My life is revolving around school, work and my internship. I have virtually no free time anymore. I used to have a life and a schedule that included this little three letter word… f.u.n. Now, not so much.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining about it. It’s pretty much my fault that I don’t have free time anyways. My...
Illegal Drugs in Sports
This seems to be a common theme of the week. Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod, A-Fraud or now A-Roid) has admitted that he used performance enhancers during the years 2001 and 2003. His name was slipped from the list, and he came clean. As for those other 103 names on the list, no one knows who they are. How is it fair that names keep “accidentally” slipping out?! Either the list should go...
The Best Day of 2009 Yet...
I can now say that I had an incredible day. Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, was the best day of 2009 thus far. I woke up ridiculously tired and not wanting to get out of bed. I dragged my butt out of bed, got ready for the day, and left for the front office of the Chicago Slaughter Pro Indoor Football team, where I have my internship.
I began the morning by transcribing interviews of two new players...
Journalism
Journalism is heading in a completely new direction. Newspapers are folding left and right, while new websites and blogs are popping up out of no where. Recently, a Columbia College student stumbled upon something he didn’t like. Someone from a company was paying others to write good reviews about products from the given company. This student then blogged about it on his personal site. ...
Super Bowl Thoughts
The Super Bowl has come and gone this year. At first, I was worried the game was going to be a blow out. The Arizona Cardinals looked terrible throughout most of the first half, while the Pittsburgh Steelers stole the show. Then, at the end of the first half, Warner and the Cardinals began to show signs of life.
These signs carried into the second half. I thoroughly enjoyed the second half of...
January 2009
1 post
First Text Post
Yay text post!