Friday, April 01, 2005
My Legg-xical moment of Zen_edirin
Ah yes, Spring is finally here! The weather’s warmer, the grass is greener, and for some funny reason the skirts on campus all seem to have gotten a whole lot shorter. Not that I’ve been paying particular attention to them, of course not…ahem; at least not the skirts. What I’ve simply been observing is legs. And once again, no; I do not mean this in some silly perverse way but rather in a scholarly contemplative one. Just bear with me and resist jumping to conclusions, you will soon understand.
A Gentleman’s Game?
“Tennis is a gentlemen’s game,” I have often heard. I, being a tennis player, have gotten to see a lot of tennis players in my lifetime. There is a common trait with many tennis players; they have anger issues. I have watched kids on my team throw rackets, stomp off the court in anger, and yell at fans. These are high school kids. What is it about trying to get that little ball over the net makes people who seem perfectly normal loose their minds? I will be the first to admit it can be a frustrating task at times but even at my worst I do not make half the scene that many players do.
Descriptive Writing_Edirin
The snow gently falls down and blankets the Devos parking lot, like Gods little salt shaker flavoring the otherwise dull concrete floor. I am watching everything happen from indoors, but just by looking I can feel the powerful cold wind biting at my face. It causes my eyes to release icy tears that burn as I struggle to remove my glasses and wipe them away. I feel my thing rubber and cotton shoes crunching through the dry frozen soil. Occasionally I slip on a sheet of ice and then quickly glance around to see if anyone noticed how close I was to completely embarrassing myself. I do this even though the only likely audience close enough to notice or care are the Mitsubishis, Chevy’s, and Voltzwagon parked a few feet away from me.
NBC’s “Medium” and ABC’s “Supernanny”- Lauren
The article that I am writing my journal entry on is a commentary by Nancy Franklin on NBC’s “Medium” and ABC’s “Supernanny.” I have never seen “Medium” before, but I have seen “Supernanny” a couple of times. The article did not make me want to see “Medium” because it had quite a bit of negative opinions toward the show. The few positive comments it made did not make up for all the bad remarks that it already gave. The show’s main character is based on a real person with the same name; this caught my eye at first because I like true stories, but this was about the only thing that attracted me. The story plot is that the main character interacts with dead people and helps solve crimes, which doesn’t sound overly appealing to me. The article goes on to describe the relationship between the main character and her husband. The husband seems to be very passive towards his wife. He never gets upset when she is always coming home incredibly late and he never cares when they are having a normal conversation and she snaps at him. I think this would be aggravating to watch because you just want to get this person to stand up for themselves once in awhile. On the other hand, I would be very interested in watching “Supernanny” again. I have only seen it maybe two times, but I enjoyed it and thought that the Nanny did a good job controlling the kids. I think the principle behind the show is good as well because it helps show parents what they are doing wrong so that they can try to fix it. At the end of the two episodes that I saw, the nanny had helped a lot and the kids were much better behaved.