Halloween

This Saturday begins another American tradition, where kids dress up in costumes and go door to door asking for candy. I never realized how excited people about this time, people start decorating there house at the beginning of October. Most people would say that this is there favorite time of the year, especially foreigners who do not celebrate Halloween in there native countries. I am real excited because it is never to old to dress up for Halloween. When means I only have a couple days left to get a good costume this year, because I had the biggest choke of all time last year. German Soccer Player, I was an idiot!

Good people are out there

After reading O'Conner's story, "A Good man is hard to find", I realized that do not believe that is true. I know so many good people out there, that I would not be able to count them all. I understand where she is coming from, and I am not naive because there are bad people out there. However, I do not go out of my way to seek those type of people. I believe in each and every person until they do something wrong and then you can choose to forgive them and move on. I am not taking anything away from the story, because it was a good short story.

Double Duece

Recently I learned that the bar "Double Duece" was shut down because of underage drinking. I thought this was funny because I'm not sure I know anyone of age that goes there to drink. It is there to be that safe haven for those who are not quite of age on Thursday nights and go there because they allow 18 and over. I understand that it is the law and illegal consumption of alcohol can not be tolerated. However, the good news is that the bar will reopen in the coming weeks. They will probably enforce more rules, and have more security monitoring everyone's actions, but at the end of the day double duece will remain the same.

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Injuries

Basically I have been injured for the last six years of my life, and no one knows how to treat it. I recently received my second MRI in two years, and told completely different things on them both. The first one said that I have a stress fracture on the bone under my bicep, but my second MRI stated that my arm was normal. Which would have been great news except I'm still in pain and have no solution. Now, I have been put on the disabled list because they need to run more test on me, because they also have no idea what is wrong. The worst part is I have to watch my teammates practice everyday and it is so hard to watch others play the sport you love. If I end with a recap then it would read, six years of pain, ten doctors, and zero help.

My Fall Break

I decided to visit my girlfriend, who goes to school about three hours away during my break. Normally, with practice and tournaments I rarely have a weekend off to go see her. Most of the time she comes to see but she is also a tennis player for her school, so her schedule is just as confusing as mine. However, I decided that this weekend was going to be dedicated to making that trip down to UAB. This was the first time I actually spent time in the city without getting ready for a competition or just driving through. I have to admit that it was a nice city and had some similarities to Memphis. This was also the first time that I met all of my girlfriend's teammates, which is always interesting when one person goes to meet a group of girls with judging eyes,ha. The good thing was that they appreciated my personality making everything comfortable between us.

The Glass Menagerie

I decided to do the creative option for the rough drafts. I had no idea how it was going to turn out because I have not spent much time around plays. And, for me to portray a character in a play was another level for me. My group consisted of athletes, who I know some and feel a little comfortable around because if I'm going to make a fool of myself then I might as well do around people I like. One I got rid of the last butterflies floating around in my stomach. I felt a relief while shooting the video and I really tried to get into my character,"JIm". I thought we all did a good job, obviously we wanted to approach a more comical atmosphere. I have to give credit and thank my group for all of their contributions.

weather

I know this can seem, like a B.S. blog post, however I think I can make this somewhat interesting since I am very frustrated with the weather. I find it very hard to believe that it can rain this much in the fall. Most people would not believe me if I told them that I witnessed 14 straight days of rain. I left the city twice during that fortnight, and it felt that the rain was personally following me. Mother Nature might have a grudge against me at the moment, because I'm losing it dealing with all the rain at the moment. I just can't take it anymore, can I please have one week of sunshine please.

Legislation

I am a Political Science major, which means much of my schooling has to deal with politics. Ultimately, I want to go to Law School and start a career as a lawyer. I currently hold a position on "S.A.A.C.", which stands for Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Basically we talk about on how we can provide for the athletes of our school and the conference better. A few days ago we had to go over what seemed like a bible size packet dealing with legislation for all the different sports. It could have been the longest two hours of my life, because we go over new rules each year and whatever we vote on never returns in our favor. Now it has become a pointless waste of time for the coaches and athletes. Hopefully my future in politics will not be as pointless.

Street Car Named Desire

I recently went to the Hatiloo theater were I watched a performance for the play "A Street Car named Desire". It was interesting to say the least, I thought the concept of how they viewed the play and the path they chose to perform it was good. However, at times I felt untouched by the actors as if what they were saying was not quite reaching me. It seemed that I was not apart of the audience that they were trying to reach, which is fine because they had a full house with few people around my age. I just could not get rid of the feeling that there should be some deep connection with myself and the actors on stage. After it was all said and done, I basically left the play disappointed. It had nothing to do with the acting, but more with who they were directing there passion to if that makes any sense.

The City.

The other night i was watching television and flipping through the channels when I came across the mayoral debate. I decided to tune in and watch and see what each candidate has to offer for the city. When I continued to watch, I noticed that the candidates went away for talking about the real issues and spent more time talking about the bad things about each other. That is what I think politics have come to, they are all about who can dirty up the other persons image. Which I think is the worse because they forget to think how we feel, and what we want for the city. The people should not vote for the person with the cleanest record. They should believe in the person that can get the most done.

Compliance

In athletic sports, athletes have to deal with the compliance department that determines the wrongs and rights for athletes. However, at this university they only tell us about the wrongs that we are doing. They make it hard to hard to be an athlete in school and one trying to enter the school. I do not think it is like this at every university, but it is crap here. Everyday, they tell my sport another thing that we cannot do because their scared of the NCAA after all the Basketball problems. Well, guess what we are not the basketball team and we should not be punished because of their mistakes. They should treat every sport differently in order to better provide for each individual sport.

Student-athletes

At the University of Memphis, we are big on sports and have many athletes. Now some sports provide revenue for the university, those being basketball and football. There are 16 other sports that do not provide any revenue for the school, so their expenses are split from the school budget. Woman's sports receive more benefit because of Title IX, and the male sports struggle to barely break-even. What I'm trying to get at is why are those sports that bring back so much for the university are not compensated in some way. I think they should be congratulated for doing so much for the campus and they should stand above the rest.