the collins corner

so i was asked to write for the unversity newspaper, the royal decree, this semester. the first publication was today and i hadn't had time to write a new article so i submitted a piece of writing I did last semester for fun on the American perception of the label "Christian".... how its used sometimes to describe people who 'do good' regardless of their faith. if you're interested in reading it then click here.

thursday afternoon i strolled over to the darling pavilion to pick up the published paper so i could find my article tucked back in the bottom corner of some page near the end. but too my complete surprise, amusement AND embarassment, my article was featured in The Collins Corner. ha- yeah i really wanted it to be small and hidden - ya know, to just fill space and go unnoticed... but no no no, im designated a "corner". cute alliteration. i guess this means i can't submit mediocre pieces... they need to be well researched with credible interviews and written as objective as i can manage =). I wonder if "The Collins Corner" will sustain... after this current article i have lots of improvements to make - but, hey, i have nowhere to go but up, right?

Coaching. Today was my last La Mirada game. We ended the season with a victory over Bellflower to earn 2nd place in league, losing only 2 games. It's been a great experience, my girls were tons of fun, BUT IM GLAD ITS DONE. my roomie shaunna coaches for Fullerton high school and she feels exactly the same way... i can't really explain it, but its wearing - physically and emotionally. her season is over as of today as well. tomorrow I check my players out of their 6th period into another sport or another class OR they get to stay with me for the rest of the semester. I'm technically still coaching because Varsity one the league and is going to CIF, so i get bumped up as another assistant coach... im confident that they won't make it past the first round - pessimistic?? nonono REALISTIC. =)


gamers, hardly. shaunna hooked up the nintendo 64 and everyone is getting ADDICTED to Doctor Mario. No surprise, really, because it is the most brilliant game ever imagined: so simple an objective, yet so difficult the execution. i still wax everyone - soon enough they won't let me play anymore (just like at home). seriously though, whatever is i come home from: class, a meal, soccer, softball, work... SOMEBODY is plopped on our couch, eyes glued to a bottle of red, yellow and blue vitamins on the tube with a controller in hand. add 'picture in a picture' with a new gilmore girls episode playing simultaneously and it sounds pretty perfect to me =)

my finger. so it isn't until you hurt a part of your body do you realize how important its function once was.... my WPM definitely went down the toilet, anything handwritten is completely illegible, putting my hair up is little tricky, opening bottle caps is an annoyance, taking my key out of the ignition, climbing up to my bunk, and anything that requires both hands to carry is definitely out of the question.... and during all these activities my finger finds some way to cause me incredible pain. THE ABSOLUTE WORST is the ice bucket... i cry like a little baby, i'll admit it - its one of the worst physical feelings that i have ever experienced. ...yeeeeeees, this would be the "hand-in-the-ice bucket facial expression"