Things on this side of the world are awesome right now in alot of ways, but not so much in a couple others. Last weekend was the lambda chi formal and it was really a great time. How often can you get really dressed up and go have a really nice dinner and dance the night away with an amazin guy. Then go out on the patio with all of your friends and get a great view of the city of columbus over the water, plus it was actually warm and not rainin at this time so it was aweosme. My parents came that weekend and got to see us play some rugby. How awesome is it that brian and grahm showed up at Ohio northern to see us play. It only takes like 2 1/2 hours when we get lost (yes thats right, we got lost going there and back, dont know how). It was an awesome time to see the fam. I miss them alot when they are away. PS, getting back to rugby, Wittenburg girls team are pieces of shit that play dirty to win. They beat us by 3 i think, but i have never seen a team play so diry and disrespectful in my whole time here on this planet. I would like to say that these people should be ashamed of themselves for the way that they acted. YOU the girl with the blus scrum cap on, yeah, threatenin to kill someone because you dont like the way that they hit you, well guess what, i kicked you ass when i ran straight over you. That was for June, yeah june, we dont let people treat us that way. BOOO WITTENBURG. we would have played them today in our tournamnet only if they didnt get kicked out for starting a fist fight with another team beacuse they were loosin 49- 0 hahaha. They even sent their guys team out there and tried to fight the girls team. Now i know the OSU girls, and sometimes they are a lil tough, but never in my life have i ever seen them try to start a fight with anyone. BOOO WITTENBURG

Now, You ladies and gentlemen are looking at the womens rugby team who after four hard hard games this weekend came and won the ohio classic tournament. YAHOO for us. We have been pushed so hard this semester that we deserve everything that comes with it. I made my debu at flyhalf. Not going to lie, its a lil hard and scary to be playing. I mean im trying to fill a pair of Kendricks shoes....... not that easy i promise you that. Yeah so the sad thing to this whole weekend was it was the last time that our seniors would play a real game against us. Yeah, its a lil wierd trying to come back next year with the best of the best leavin us and movin on to big and better things. I will miss them all.



Here is to the ladies that are better than the anything in the world, they are my inspiration and big sisters that i have always wanted, thank you guys for everything

Hello all. I know it has been a really long time since i last wrote, but things have been all over the place and what not with the year started to come to an end. How sad it that, in less than a month, i will be away from Denison and back on the homefront of Buffalo, N.Y.. Speakin of Buffalo, the fam came up this weekend, all of them. I loved every second of it. I really miss them when we arent together alot. (ps Today is Mama Reese's b-day. I cant tell u how old she is or she said that she will kill me). My sister is lookin older and older as the days go on and it sort of scary to think how she is getting to be so long. WOW
Other things that have been going on..... We lost our game on saturday to wittenburg 5-0. I am more than pissed that we lost because they sucked hard core and we were better than them. Plus we dont threaten lives when we are playing like some wittenburg girls. You know what i say to them, fuck you as i head butt my way across them, ( that really happened and it sort of hurt). Well we have Ohio Classics this weekend and we are going to KILL the first two teams that we play and then have another match against this many wittenburg team where we will distroy them hard core distroy type thing. FUCK UM UP RUGBY as katie bush likes to say sometimes.
Even in the mist of all this emotion of anger and saddness from loosing, my family was there and i got a lil special visit from Brian and Graham who suprised me and gwenn by commin to our game. What nice guys they are. And just leave it to me and brian for him to get lost on the way there and me to get lost on the way back where we had to rush to get ready for the lambda formal that was that night. That was interesting. HAHAHA
No no no i didnt want that to sound bad, i had an amazing time there. The building was awesome as well as all of my friends and date that i went with. Cudos to Charlie shmitt for putting it all together and the amazing dance that he set aside for me in the middle that somewhat made me uncomfortable. HAHAHA. But who cares, we all still had fun ALL NIGHT LONG and im done hahaha.
Anyways, well its off to 3 on 3 basketball for me on monday's and wednesday's IF ANY GIRLS WANT TO PLAY PLEASE COME DOWN AND JOIN US. . Also as i start to talk about playing sports.....


WE ARE LOOKING FOR WOMEN'S RUGBY PLAYERS TO JOIN OUR TEAM IN THE FALL. IF YOU LIKE TAKING OUT YOUR AGRESSION ON ANNOYING GIRLS, GETTING GREAT FRIENDS AND DRINKING JOIN US AND PLAY RUGBY

Today is friday, yes that s right. But the problem with this is that almost everyone is going home this weekend........ yeah. Its ok, im going to round up all the people on campus and have a HUGE cookout. Maybe. I mean if everyone contributes that is. Its starting to finally get nice, but i guess its going to drop once again next week. DAMN

Nothin really to talk about. So just have to make a comment that Kerry has fallen to the bottom of the latter with her new catch phrase for herself. "What's cooler than being cool, ICE KERRY" wow thats all i got... have a great weekend people and talk to you later

When you want to fix something, such as a telephone, don't you think that you should throw it against a wall and miraculously it will work again? See that's what I though, but I guess that my phone didn't like that. These past couple of days since I last wrote to you have been really interesting. Well lets see, I have to take summer classes because I don't think ill have enough time but its only going to cost 1,800 dollars for two classes. So you know welp guess that idea is out the window. But the funniest story of the week happened at 5a.m. today. I woke up in the middle of the night to see my roommate Beth standing between her bed and the wall flipping her mattress over. I couldn't figure out what she was doing so I asked her. So she said that she got her "package" for the month and it was bad so she had to wash her sheets. So I was like ok cool cool whatever. So I wake up at 7:30 and Beth is just looking at me. I asked her what was it and she told me that the whole story about the sheets, well she was sleep walking and it didn't happen. That's right, she took her bed apart and thought there was all this stuff of the sheets, but no there was nothing there. WOW

I get to choose where I live tomorrow with Katie, June and Julie. We are really excited but im not all worried like a lot of the girls here seem to be about it. IF it doesn't work out ok whatever, but already I have seen crying, bitch fights, guys throwing chairs, and everything else that you could do when u are pissed off. It's such a sad time of year when this lottery thing comes up for housing. Out of the four of us, out highest number is 71, but that's ok, im still not worried about it at all.

So yeah this summer, I am going to work at the YMCA summer camp and be a camp counselor. Its going to be really really awesome. I really hope I get the job and then I can work with lil kids and have some more experience if my whole teaching career thing works out.
Its been a really weird time lately here, I mean in a good way. Rugby is awesome and we are still undefeated. YES ! We play wittenburg next weekend and if we win, then we will be the champions of the division III bracket and possibly be moving up to Division II, it will be awesome. We still have the fam together. Its sort of a polygamy type thing in a sense because there are like 8 of us, but its ok because me and Evan will be taking care of all the old farts when they are in their wheelchair's and we are running marathons......... Yeah that's right ! We named it the P.C. fam (penis convention). I know its childish but most of the members are men and those who aren't like penis anyways so I mean its awesome. Peter congratulations on being alpha, while Brian got kicked down to Omega after his really bad joke that he had brought to the table. I forgave him after he told me about the drug cocktail he had for breakfast. Our immediate family is B2K (Kerry got that one all on her own). She is a lil creative gal, I love her very much hahahaha.

Well, that's all I know is that we have a rugby suite next year so when the 9 man shep lambda room isn't having a party, these girls will and you are all invited once we get it set up, unless someone else wants to donate their room to a party room ?


~Quote of the day: "Being Popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you"
~Funny/ Stupid quote of the day: "We weren't having sex yet while Beth was is here" " Yeah they were just pre-loading" - Brannan
~Best movie this week: Office space with the cankle mate yeah hurd.......


Gotta go now.: BEER TIME

Well guys, its Wednesday and once again I am swapped with work. The budget thing sucks. Why do u have to write a proposal for every single item u want? Honestly a page about what u want, who is going to read all that crap. Well anyways, I am having a day.......... U know those days were u think of the old days and sometimes wish that things were still that care free and u had no worries other than getting out of work ontime so u can go and party with all your friends. God I wish that was still the case. Things are good at school, but my friends from home are going to be missed a lot this summer when they aren't living here with me :( its ok though because I know that they are moving on to learn how to be on their own. Im just not at that stage yet. I like being sort of dependent on the fam and want to hold on to them for a lil while longer when its still an ok age to live with them. Well, I don't know, things did look up today though when I found out that our comm class 228 is cancelled for Friday and the rest of next week.. YES !! Not that we don't love u Prof. Gilbert, but no class is always good class....

Well today is Tuesday...... NASH BASH was the best tournament ever this year. Some of the highlights: 1. Dawn and dickie wanting to go swimmin in the water fountain, but Barnes actually going in naked and it only going up to his knees. 2.Barnes and Joann both getting necked by a guy dressed in a Hookers outfit then the same guy giving wittmer an ass rodeo, 3.Jon Bon getting tackled by the EKU girl who stole all of his tacos that he got by walking through the drive threw, 4. Casey puking on the bus yet still denying the fact that he ever pukes, 5. the hotel having to drain the hot tub because a lot of us decided to go skinny dipping, 6. Bates ripping out a duck crossing sign, throwing it in the pond and tackling wittmer without remembering any of it the next day, 7. Wolf getting kicked out of the hotel for public display of nudity ( which we had to sneak him back in at 4 in the morning), and 8. Of course a lot of amber bock on tap (way for June, Gwen, Phil and I to be the first ones in line).... WHAT? YEAH..... As Phil would say. There was of course more but that's all that is ok to write about right now. I have never seen so much tacking outside of a game, naked people, illegal events and people getting kicked out of hotels in one weekend. But it was really a good time all in all. If there are any girls out there that are reading this, or even boy for this matter, and you LOVE BEER, TACKLING AND A LOT OF ACTION, join the Rugby team because we can all promise a lot of those things.
If anyone went to battle of the bands, you all might have heard a band called American Cherry . This is a new band that I discovered to be really awesome and I know for sure that they are playing at relay for life on the 17th of April here at Denison @ 1 so I would suggest that you all go to support them. But yeah, hopefully the Lamda's here will have a concert that a certain Jeremy Heartburg has gotten my hopes up on. Dont disappoint Jeremy. Things here at Denison are really lookin up. This year is going amazing and I think that I have actually learned how to make the best out of a situation which is something that used to be a problem for a while. Hahaha.
Even though I don't get to be as cool as all those other school and live off campus, but I am going to have a sweet rugby room with Karen, Finkle, June, Katie, Julie, and I. Its really going to be awesome. This is a change that I am really looking forward to. I don't know what it is about today, but I feel like I am in my own world where I just cant stop smiling. It's a good thing, but anyways everyone good luck with everything these days weather it be work, looking for a job, dealing with something that isn't as easy or whatever, but good luck all.........

Bye the way people............ today is DANIELLE ZAWODZINSKI'S 20TH BIRTHDAY...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANNY !!!!!

Today is thursday and yes, it is one day before we leave for NASH BASH. The best fuckin tournament in the history of rugby, well that might now be true, but u know waht i mean. Nashville, Tennessee where all u can do is drink alot and play rugby, which pretty much sums up my weekend that is commin up. Nash Bash is also a key for the start of the spring season so every weekend till the end of the year, i will be playin rugby with my girls. I am sooo happy for that. YAHOO...... well now its off to finish preparing for this event... Everyone have a great weekend........ i know i will :)

Today is usually always a good day for me. You know, no classes and we have rugby practice. YESSSS. Practice was just what i needed ot realize how much I missed Rugby we played 5 on 5 and 10 on 10 today. It was really fun, but my coach wants me to play this one postion where i need to learn to run in a straight line and its not easy. I am used to running sort of to the side so i can follow the back line, but i have to lead them so its a lil different and hard. But anyways that not really important............. its just a tiring day where i am really really sore and dont know really what to talk about so yah tada........ peac and love

Well its the first day back to school and things are already back on track, the Tridelts are havin a party upstairs and the Sig Eps are havin a st patties day party downstairs and the D chi's are havin a bar party tonight. Its college once again and i cannot complain. Well Denison is just the way that i left it the first time. I miss home of course and i miss spring break where my brother threw up all over the side of my friend Natalya's car along with some other great stories that i would love to share, but this is a PG-13 page in a sense or at least im trying ot keep it that way. One song that ALL people need to look up, The Darkness: I believe in a thing called love.... good good good song. But right now thats all i can say. I am taking a night off of drinking and moving to chocolate milk...... peace and love

just so everyone knows, yes i am home for spring break but its awesome........ tonight is sunday but yet we are going down town of the st. patties day celebration irish style......... everyone have a good trip :-D

Today is Sunday and I just wanted to write a lil bit about this weekends events and how awesome they were. Like many of the people on this campus this weekend, i was really under the influence for most of the weekend. 300 people joined on the quad friday night to celebrate the naked Frisbee and what not.... Very very good and I heard a new favorite song. Darkness: I believe, if u can still download its a good song. Um so yah that's all I wanted to say that it was a very big scene here and we had our first semi rugby party this weekend where my roommate Beth and I skunk Adam Wolfrod and his friend. For those of you that don't know what skunking is...... when you are playing beerpong, some people have a rule that if one team makes all of their cups and the other team doesn't make one, then you have to run around the building naked...... hahahha it was awesome that we actually skunked them. Cudos to you Boys for running........

Ok people today is a very very very big day.... can anyone guess why..... Ill tell u why... Starsky & Hutch is why. I have been waiting for this movie for over a month now and I cant hardly contain myself. I think that if u enjoyed meet the parents and old school, this is the movie for u .........!
On another note, my roommate got really drunk last night and became one of the two girls that decided to streak across north quad last night. People sort of cheered, but you know some of those north quaders, they aren't really allowed to talk that much. Tonight is going to be an array of parties that have the celebration for the end of naked week, but we have to keep it on the dl, because some people have to go and tell security about it and get us all in trouble... Who does that? So some people like to run naked, some people are ok with being naked with someone, and some don't. Its just one of those things.
Went to see the Wonderful town last night. The Denison musical here this year and it was quite an interesting set up. I mean, the way that the characters got to interact with the audience was quite fun, but at the same time, it was a lil close and personal for me. My date for the evening was very nice and decided he didn't want me to walk far so he parked on the sidewalk infront of Burke just to be a nice guy. Soo sweet.
Im all over the place today but the most important thing of today is for you all to see the movie that is at the top of this post...... I think we would all enjoy it :)

ok so today is tuesday. Same old thing here at Deinson. This weekend was filled with alot of excited things. According to TAylor Ferguson, this week is Naked Week 2k2, taking back the hill. This ritual was first intruduced to me last year were all week, people run around east qad naked, why? i really dont get that part yet. Yesterday started to tradition when two young men took a stroll around east quad, smoking cigars, NAKED. very interesting i know, and i as i have heard i believe that naked softball/ wiffelball are tonight, maybe kicked ball, but hey its always fun. If you like to be naked, come joiin the rest of these kids tonight... nothing wrong with being naked i guess. Peace and love. P.s..... Watched the Goonies yesterday, and you know, i really enjoyed that movie when i was younger. Now, it really wasnt as great as i remember it. AGree? Disagree?

So i know that i am a day behind and all, but today is a great day.... Why.. because its friday and almost everyone loves friday. And because my friend yan AKA cooper is commin to visit tonight. It is awesome.. I am soo excited. I dont know, same old thing going on around here, but there is also something magical. Right now, my roomate beth and my friend kerry are fighting over Pete who is a lambda because they both want him to take them to his formal and they arent taking no as an answer. It was quite an interesting lunch when the comment was "Pete listen here, you have two options.... Take me or die" hahaha. Its funny because its a joke that is going on.
Today it's really nice outside and thats all i can think about is the luck that i have latly. I mean my friends from home, god how i miss them so much. Its hard to be away from them for so long expecially when u are home, you spend every day together, no exceptions haha. And here its going really well too. Not going to lie, there are proubaly alot of people that second guess this school, but things are going really well. I have made some new friends that are amazing and learned to let go on alot of things that were making me up. so thank you guys for everying and you girls back at home, God ill see u soon hahaha Peace and love hommies

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i like the thought of the mic and where you have to keep it. I didnt really think of an idea like that till i read it. I didnt think that it would make a big different if you were 4 or 8 or 12 inches from a persons face. And i didnt know that you have to record the sounds that are in the back round before so u can edit them out later. I remember that you tought us about breath sounds in the audio too. I remember learning alot about that in highschool, with different pitches when i was editing the video tape. I like that once they show you how the professonials do it, then they explain how you can do it as well.

So today is another blog that is just going ot be normal i guess. Its wednesday and i dont know what else to say. There is a battle of a bands tonight and a couple of us are going tonight. It is going ot be interesting because i really have never been to one before so it sounds interesting. We are going to see Gramma's something i dont know waht the title is again. Anyways, so i just thought that it would intersting to write about that right because this is the first time at denison that i can see soemthing that is raw and orginal, not something that u can see everyday. Well im off to eat dinner i hope, what is tonight........... salad greeeeeeat.

Well journal, today is the best day of my life i think. For a little over 4 years, my mom was struggling with breast and liver cancer. Not going to lie, but we have really had our ups and downs with her. My mom knows i love her, but things were really bad for awhile. Anyways, I got a phone call today from my mom crying. Usually, i alwasy thought that was bad, but today...... it was different. My mom said that she went to the doctor and the doctor said that my mom went into remission. For all those who dont know what that means.... it means she doesnt have any more cancer in her cells that they can see right now. This is the best news that i have had in 4 years.... MY MOM IS OK!!! she is soo strong and i just home that all people that have cancer can one day get the same news that my mom got because all people deserve that. THANK YOU GOD

This post is going to be used for two days. Pages 7 -17 of Radio.
I think that it is interesting that this guy is going into an interview with really no questions. He just want to get to three main points that will create the whole interview. I always thought that people wrote down questions incase they got stuck on something and needed some more guidence. I think that Ira is a little crazy just going into an interview and not having any questions to ask the interviewee. He just scribbles little ideas on a piece of paper that might get him somewhere. Thats crazy. I like that you work hand in hand with the person being interviewed, like you have to lead them to whereever you want them to go. If you want them to open up, you have to open up too. This isnt a one sided show. And i believe that he is right when he says that radio is a very visual medium and you need to show your listener what had happened. Its really interesting that you have to get all the little details of the story for it to fit together so well. Without those details that dont seem really big, the listener wouldnt really be interested because you cant get that visual picture in your head. I think that this comic book is really great for a person who really isnt sure about things. I like that this american life does their show different from everyone else because they can and think that it is better that way than any other thing. All the things that this comis book is tellin us is really awesome. I never really thought that this much work went into some audio, but i also think that it is really cool that so much detail is put into something like this as well.

Radio Comic This is the web site that we are reading the comic off of. If you have read it, you will know that it is the story of how This American Life decides what shows are going to be used. I think that it is awesome they way that some of these things work. I mean you have to be really creative to this of different topics all the time. Its really cool that you can listen to all these people's stories and then decide what type of show that you want to case. Even if a story doesn't sound good at the beginning, if you use your imagination like the people of this show, you could probably use it later. I like that this American life talks about things that aren't talked about in the normal news or media. They tell stories about things that all people might experience, but never really talk about them or twist the stories because they like to keep there listeners on the radio for a long time. This is a great point, that they think through how they are going to say things so that people are interested in the story for a long period of time.
Even though some people might think that with radio that you just jump on and start doing your thing, there is a lot more to do there. Sound checks as well as different run troughs so that every second is used to the best of its ability. They also talk through every thing to make sure that they are going to keep people on the edge and they are going to work with them so that all the listeners stay interested.