Last week at this time I was writing maybe the worst paper I've written since probably any of my middle school book reports. You know how I know it was the worst paper? I got my grade with critique back later that night and I got a 30/60 on it. Fortunately I can redo it since, my group arranged to have the paper moved back (and apparently I got this confused with a nonexistent paper). Thing is I have no motivation to rewrite it, especially when I've got internship stuff to take care of, another paper due next Friday that I haven't even thought about and getting ready to go home next Friday. By the way, my spring break starts in a week. Had I not signed up to work the basketball game next Thursday, this time next week I'd be home in front my big ass TV. Have I ever mentioned how much I enjoy that TV? Well it needs some honorable mention. I'm not sure how I plan to pull this off considering that my Friday and Saturday this week include snowtubing, a men's basketball game and State Patty's Day madness. You know bad things are going to happen, but hopefully not enough that I won't be able to get my shit together on Sunday.
-Mikhail
Friday, February 27, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
THON 09 has finally passed and it definitely was my favorite of three I've been at so far for many reasons.
1. I was already here at the Park, no need to drive 2 hours from Middletown and get a hotel we wouldn't spend much time at anyway.
2. I got to work the webcast which initially I was fine with only doing one shift, but something about looking for good shots of the crowd is always fun for me. What I usually look for is people with interesting hats, there sure were a lot of them.
3. I knew many more people dancing and just straight up involved than I did in previous years. Until this year my network was limited to the dancers from my campus. This year it was them, my Blue & White people, people I work with during basketball that were working the webcast or something related and just the various people I see pretty much everyday.
4. The people that I knew dancing were people I have varying amounts of closeness with. First there's Tim one of the B&W dancers, until last week I didn't think he even knew my name, yet when I get on the floor and find him he's glad to see me down there. I'm gonna have to talk to him some more at meetings, cool guy. Next is my friend/audio and video production partner Jackie, I've known her for about 6 weeks and we've bonded well through our love for chocolate and our Korean teacher. She's one of the few people I interact with pretty regularly this semester so being able to cheer her on was a delight. Finally my #1 brother Micah. It was a plan that we came up with after our crazy night during last year's THON, he'd dance and I was going to be his moraler. Well only one of us managed to live up to that, but I was there with him during the final stretch. What was interesting about the floor pass situation was that though there had been a somewhat laid out shift schedule, Micah always asked that I come down. It was definitely a result of our adventure last year, since he was sure I was going to be around (except from 6-7AM when I felt like I needed to shower), which I was and takes me to my last point.
5. I realized the absolute need for me to be dancing next year. I've said it a lot recently since I wasn't chosen to dance this year and that is it would be a great way to go out as a senior dancing. All the time I've put into THON and it culminates that way? There's no doubt it would be fantastic. Watching how Micah was up for pretty much the entire time until the end when things were slowing down and Tim being able to show signs delusion, though not really showing any major fatigue, set up a real challenge for me to match. On the other hand, when I saw Jackie during the final hour, she was crying from the pain in her knees pretty much keeping her glued to the spot she was in. The fight was still in her and that was what I expected from her as well as Micah and Tim, and I know it'll be there if I'm going for 46.
I want to make my presence felt early and known that I'm going to dance in THON 2010, by any means. Its the perfect ending to my involvement with the event as an undergrad, as well as the potential scenario of dancing with three of my favorite people in the world Katie, Amanda and the Little One.
-Mikhail
1. I was already here at the Park, no need to drive 2 hours from Middletown and get a hotel we wouldn't spend much time at anyway.
2. I got to work the webcast which initially I was fine with only doing one shift, but something about looking for good shots of the crowd is always fun for me. What I usually look for is people with interesting hats, there sure were a lot of them.
3. I knew many more people dancing and just straight up involved than I did in previous years. Until this year my network was limited to the dancers from my campus. This year it was them, my Blue & White people, people I work with during basketball that were working the webcast or something related and just the various people I see pretty much everyday.
4. The people that I knew dancing were people I have varying amounts of closeness with. First there's Tim one of the B&W dancers, until last week I didn't think he even knew my name, yet when I get on the floor and find him he's glad to see me down there. I'm gonna have to talk to him some more at meetings, cool guy. Next is my friend/audio and video production partner Jackie, I've known her for about 6 weeks and we've bonded well through our love for chocolate and our Korean teacher. She's one of the few people I interact with pretty regularly this semester so being able to cheer her on was a delight. Finally my #1 brother Micah. It was a plan that we came up with after our crazy night during last year's THON, he'd dance and I was going to be his moraler. Well only one of us managed to live up to that, but I was there with him during the final stretch. What was interesting about the floor pass situation was that though there had been a somewhat laid out shift schedule, Micah always asked that I come down. It was definitely a result of our adventure last year, since he was sure I was going to be around (except from 6-7AM when I felt like I needed to shower), which I was and takes me to my last point.
5. I realized the absolute need for me to be dancing next year. I've said it a lot recently since I wasn't chosen to dance this year and that is it would be a great way to go out as a senior dancing. All the time I've put into THON and it culminates that way? There's no doubt it would be fantastic. Watching how Micah was up for pretty much the entire time until the end when things were slowing down and Tim being able to show signs delusion, though not really showing any major fatigue, set up a real challenge for me to match. On the other hand, when I saw Jackie during the final hour, she was crying from the pain in her knees pretty much keeping her glued to the spot she was in. The fight was still in her and that was what I expected from her as well as Micah and Tim, and I know it'll be there if I'm going for 46.
I want to make my presence felt early and known that I'm going to dance in THON 2010, by any means. Its the perfect ending to my involvement with the event as an undergrad, as well as the potential scenario of dancing with three of my favorite people in the world Katie, Amanda and the Little One.
-Mikhail
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Looks like things eased up a little. I went into today thinking this is only the beginning of an absolutely miserable week. Not so much anymore fortunately. First off I got a test on Wednesday and in class we looked at review questions which were ridiculously easy. Then almost had a heart attack when in the beginning of 405 teachers all like "Team 2 presentation on Wednesday" someone in the back (an alleged group member) asked why it wasn't moved back, and said that only the paper was pushed back not the presentation. We were only doing a workshop on our papers so the only person I knew in our group called over the other two that were in class and we hammered shit out. Then we talks to teacher and she's cool with pushing it to Monday. Fantastic! Quiz tomorrow and yeah, I feel much better.
-Mikhail
-Mikhail
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Strange Realization Time: Miki Deez fries and Pepsi negate each others taste. (try it)
I'm hitting a busy time you could say. I'm supposed to be reading 44 pages of McChesney and his beef with the media. This reading was for Monday by the way, but she mentioned that its a big part of the test. frig. In two weeks I got a paper, a presentation, a quiz and an exam, also it'll be THON weekend. If I make it out alive, I'll let you know.
-Mikhail
I'm hitting a busy time you could say. I'm supposed to be reading 44 pages of McChesney and his beef with the media. This reading was for Monday by the way, but she mentioned that its a big part of the test. frig. In two weeks I got a paper, a presentation, a quiz and an exam, also it'll be THON weekend. If I make it out alive, I'll let you know.
-Mikhail
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