Internship

I began my internship and part of that was a trip to Culpeper in northern Virginia to attend a forum on education funding. It was a good experience and it resulted in an article!

I'll be focusing on the senator and delegate from the Culpeper area for the Culpeper Star-Exponent. Virginia General Assembly here I come!

Christmas Break

Christmas was great! We had our annual traditions of decorating the tree, handing out Christmas goodies, eating lots of awesome food and opening special Christmas pjs. Everyone got some awesome gifts and now we get to sit around, eat goodies and do a whole lot of nothing.

I love Christmas!

See photos from my trip so far here.

Me on TV again, kinda

I just found video of a panel discussion I participated in about activist alumnus Adnan Hajizada. The entire discussion was excellent and is worth watching. My part starts at 12:30 minutes -ish and I answer questions at the end.

Is it wrong that I'm proud of myself for this?

Blue Christmas Service puts me on PBS

I had the pleasure of playing guitar and singing for the University of Richmond Chaplaincy's Blue Christmas service that gives people a chance to mourn during the season that is suppose to be all about family and merriment. The PBS show Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly was there and they featured the service in a segment on Dec. 11.

I'm the one playing the guitar.

The End is Near

And now, the end is near and so I face the final bidding...

The semester is almost over! Tomorrow will be my last day on campus before I head to St. Louis for a few days and then home. I will be writing a paper until Dec. 15, but such is life. I finished my Spanish final in 45 minutes today (Woohoo!) and am now waiting around in the library for a dinner at a professor's house.

Since my last post about posting (which I have epically failed at) a little bit has happened.

Halloween was awesome! View pictures here. Chicken. Suit.

Josh came to visit and we had a great time at Homecoming. There was a reception for CSF alumni, a football game (that we lost, boo) and a lot of good lounging and relaxing time.

And, of course, Thanksgiving! Grandmama and I went over to Uncle Sandy and Aunt Gibby's house and had a great time hanging out with family. They are some pretty awesome people and I'm so glad I get the chance to get to know all the East Coasters. Although, I seriously miss going to Arizona and seeing all of my family there. All the cousins are turning into people. Not allowed!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving my maternal side of the family had a Christmas Party/Family Reunion. This year was great again. We have lots of little babies and kids and a soon-to-be addition, my cousin Will's fiance. Congratulations! I guess this officially puts me next in line. Did you hear that, Josh? No pressure or anything.

I also performed at our on-campus sports bar/restaurant as part of a jazz concert and it was awesome! I felt a lot more comfortable this time and I look forward to other chanced to perform.

There have been more Christmas celebrations, including the CSF Christmas Party. Viewed here. There was so much great food, people and presents! Everyone needs a plastic stegosaurus that sharpens pencils and walks. Duh.

And now, I sit and wait and try to find time to do laundry and pack between dinners, babysitting, paper writing and a few parties, all before Wednesday! I don't think I'll be sleeping much until I get back to San Diego on the 14th. Vacation, here I come!

Be prepared for more posts, if I can remember, about the whole, you know, graduating and future thing. Maybe.

Halloween in the 21st Century

You know you live in the 21st century when:

Drop the Halloween mask! It might scare someone.

If only I could get quotes like this one for every story and put it in a paper that the entire world reads...

“I’m not sure what is driving this memo,” Mr. Bishoff said. “But perhaps it is reaction to years past. Sometimes kids will have those ‘Scream’ masks, but usually not too blood and gutsy. I mean, can’t parents have discretion? The fact is, if parents are too stupid to not send kids to school with hockey masks as Jason, they are probably too stupid to read this memo.”

Excuses, excuses, excuses

Wow. I just looked at this and the last time I posted something was on July something.

Sorry about that...

It's made me think about why I haven't posted and there are the obvious reasons such as being busy, blah blah blah. But I think the main reason is that my life is so routine and not much exciting has happened since school started back up. I have the same schedule for the most part every week and nothing huge has happened in my social life. My dad did get a job, which is awesome.

But all of this is about to change because I am graduating from college in seven months. Ah! So I will do my best to keep everyone updated. And if I don't post pictures from Halloween then I should be severely punished. I have two words for you: Giant. Chicken.

Oh ya.

Collegian has been going well. You can check it all out at www.URCollegian.com and if you search my name all of the articles I have ever written will show up including my weekly news column. And check out this weeks front page. Elizabeth Ygartua, who is our design editor drew the main graphic and it is amazing. I am quite proud of her and this front page.

Now I have to get ready for AXIS, our annual fall conference for Christian Student Fellowship where I will reveal the chicken suit on Saturday. Be ready people.