Moving

Why is it that moving any kind of furniture usually ends up in disaster? This past Saturday, spur of the moment, my roommate decided to re-arrange to room. So the rest of day (and night) was spent moving with my roommate, and my friend. I'm really surprised that no one was killed in this process, by the moving was really just a crisis. First off, after we had moved the biggest pieces of furniture, i.e. the fridge, the t.v., and the beds to the complete opposite side of the room, they decided to change everything to almost entirely how the room was set up before we moved anything. Second, all of us ended up injured in some kind of respect, whether it be physically or emotionally. So I suppose the moral of the story is that moving heavy objects can bring out the worst in people.

Sore winner

This past weekend, my high school's cheerleading squad won their first competition of the season. Now, I was a part of the team for four years, on varsity as a sophomore, and a captain my senior year. Also, we won state my sophomore and senior year. Therefore, by all means, I should be nothing but happy that they won on Saturday, especially since I still know most of the team as well as the coaches. But for some reason, I was more or less angry that they won. I don't know if it is just that I feel like I'm left out, or that they just aren't allowed to win without me. I think if you are a part of any kind of team or activity like that for so long, that you feel that it is so much a part of you, that to have successes without you is like a cheating lover.

Gossip Folks

Why is that within your group of friends, people feel the need to keep tabs on your life at all times possible? I don't mean your close best friends, I mean those friends, semi-acquaintances that feel the need to more less just gossip about you. Lately, I have been experiencing this in the third degree, as I have started dating my ex-boyfriend again, and of course this caused an uproar among my friends. Is it because of the new technology like AIM and Facebook that just forces us and allows us to be extremely stalker-ish? Or is it just that all of us have some kind of creepy voyeuristic tendencies inside of us? I think it is definitely a mix of both. For one, I can't name to many college students who wouldn't consider themselves a "facebook stalker," and I think this ability to keep tabs on everyone you've ever known, makes any one's gossip tendencies to come out. So I suppose in this day and age, it is very important to watch your back.

Christmas and all that jazz...

It seems as though every year the Christmas season comes earlier and earlier, given it's a holiday with a set date every year. So of course it isn't actually any earlier in the year, it's just the insanity of the retailers, etc. This year I noticed that 99.1 started playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. Is that really needed? I think these insanely early starts to Christmas takes away any "magic" that the season might have had. I noticed now that it starts so early, that I have trouble actually being excited for the holiday when it comes. I think it just boils down to the fact that anything that gets that highly anticipated, can rarely live up to the expectations.

WCCX

So here at Carroll, I work at our radio station. I host a two hour time slot every Monday 7-9pm. Now don't get me wrong, this is probably the some the best two hours of week, however, it's hard doing a radio show that you know a few of your friends and your parents are listening to. If the radio station broadcasted farther than Catholic Memorial High School, that would be nice, but I suppose beggars can't choosers. So why is it that we feel that we need everyone to hear our voice in order to be heard? Why is it that nearly all humans don't feel comforted by the idea of reaching out to that one person, that they only validated if everyone cares? Maybe it's because we don't realize how much changing one person, can change the world.

College Life Part 2

Now that it is later in the semester, I begin to see how much of college lives up to the stereotypes that have been set out by movies like "Animal House," and the footage of kids on MTV's Spring Break. Well I'm beginning to realize that most of those stereotypes are just in fact hoaxes. And I'm not saying I wanted my life to be insanely wild, but college is definately much more tame. I can't say that college is place consisting of wild, fighting frats or wild house parties...but they are definately there is you search for them, maybe just to a lesser degree. So is this how most people get this ridicilous picture of college life? I guess it would be boring to make a movie based around real college life-going to the library, working out, and writing papers.