Goodness...I have new obsession. Vampires. Okay sorta obsession and it's not new. As I have mentioned I am a Twilight fan and an old school Buffy/Angel fan...well as of yesterday you can add HBO's True Blood to the list. My friend Kristen told me I needed to read the books True Blood was based on and to watch the series when it came out on dvd. I added True Blood to my netflix and even looked into the books. Well yesterday I was lounging on the couch and nothing on tv appealed to me so I decided to buy the first episode of True Blood on itunes and see what it was all about.HOT DAMN...it is an intense, sexy, provocative show. As soon as it was over I was like I need to see more episodes, but I hate buying shows on itunes and then having to watch them on my computer so I went to Blockbuster to see if they had it...sold out. So I went to go buy it...$40, but worth it. I was up til 3am watching the first 7 episodes out of a 12 episode season. I would have stayed up all night if I didn't have Orientation today - yes on a Sunday.
The music, the "world" it is set in, the maturity. This is definitely more adult than Twilight. The "world" it's set in is modern day and that vampires have come out of hiding because scientists in Japan created quality synthetic blood - therefore vampires don't have to kill people and therefore can reintegrate in society. It's really interesting in terms of the politics, prejudices, norms etc. This show is definitely not for everybody, but if it seems like something you'd be into I highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to buying the books series the show was based on...yay summer reading.
I love the song in the opening credits...check it out.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
I survived
WOW Camp War Eagle has owned me the past few weeks. We had our retreat then training week aka training 10 days then the first session of camp. I was BEYOND TIRED. Thankfully everything went pretty smooth.
At training I presented on diversity (primarily GLBT students), out of state students, verbal awareness as well as presented a stereotyping activity and a potential roommate ranking activity that I created along with one of the head counselors. I also trained facilitators who will be presented a "learning for life" diversity session to the freshmen. I love that I'm getting to reach out to different populations and educate our other students as well.
I also finished up the out of state student video I had filmed and worked on the past few weeks. I still have some tweaks to make to it, but it went well. I showed it to the camp counselors and the people who came to our "Tigers in a New Territory" presentations liked it as well. This year our staff nametags have out hometowns on it - mine says "Long Island, NY." Yes I know Long Island isn't a town...but I need to take baby steps with people down here. However having NY on my nametag has had a lot of people talk to me which is fun. There were 2 other New Yorkers there, but them were from upstate...lame.
Camp itself went pretty smooth for a first session...I was especially RELIEVED since I made a number of suggestions to change the schedule. The schedule that has been in place worked and was great, but I'm glad we made changes that have to potential to really make things better and stronger.
Somewhere between training and camp I was able to catch up on a bunch of season finales. How I Met Your Mother - legendary as usual. Grey's was really interesting...quite the cliff hanger. American Idol was pretty good...clearly the top 3/top 2/ finale paled in comparison to when David Cook was a contestant, but he did perform on the finale. Cookie sang "Permanent" a song he wrote for his brother who passed away a few weeks ago and all the proceeds from the live version on itunes were going to a cancer research foundation. Cookie was awesome on idol...he is not only yummy, but such a class act. Kris Allen won idol which was quite surprising, but I liked both him and Adam. I'm just glad Gokey didn't make top 2...I'm still bitter than he lasted a week longer than my girl Allison. It's funny I am typing this today when Idol usually is on...I'm lost on Tuesday without it. To occupy my time I'm watching Twilight...somehow I have only watched it on dvd like 3 or 4 times since I bought it in March. I'm pretty pumped for New Moon in November. Agh Edward's "American" accent keeps changing throughout the moving...annoying.
This weekend was a lovely 3 day weekend. Like I said I caught on on tv and sleep. I slept A LOT...like embarrassingly a lot, but then again I don't care I needed it. I wasn't a complete waste I cleaned a lot, did a ton of laundry and did some shopping. Good times.
Tomorrow is session 2 of Camp which is Wed-Fri then we have a Sun-Tues session...oh back to back. Another fun Camp thing I did was set up a Camp War Eagle Counselor Alumni group on facebook. Ella and I are all about having a Camp Counselor reunion especially since Camp is in it's 15th year...so we shall see.
Lastly I bought my ticket to Lawnguyland for my birthday. July 27-August 5...that's ONE FULL WEEK. Crazy good times shall ensue...get your party panties ready.
At training I presented on diversity (primarily GLBT students), out of state students, verbal awareness as well as presented a stereotyping activity and a potential roommate ranking activity that I created along with one of the head counselors. I also trained facilitators who will be presented a "learning for life" diversity session to the freshmen. I love that I'm getting to reach out to different populations and educate our other students as well.
I also finished up the out of state student video I had filmed and worked on the past few weeks. I still have some tweaks to make to it, but it went well. I showed it to the camp counselors and the people who came to our "Tigers in a New Territory" presentations liked it as well. This year our staff nametags have out hometowns on it - mine says "Long Island, NY." Yes I know Long Island isn't a town...but I need to take baby steps with people down here. However having NY on my nametag has had a lot of people talk to me which is fun. There were 2 other New Yorkers there, but them were from upstate...lame.
Camp itself went pretty smooth for a first session...I was especially RELIEVED since I made a number of suggestions to change the schedule. The schedule that has been in place worked and was great, but I'm glad we made changes that have to potential to really make things better and stronger.
Somewhere between training and camp I was able to catch up on a bunch of season finales. How I Met Your Mother - legendary as usual. Grey's was really interesting...quite the cliff hanger. American Idol was pretty good...clearly the top 3/top 2/ finale paled in comparison to when David Cook was a contestant, but he did perform on the finale. Cookie sang "Permanent" a song he wrote for his brother who passed away a few weeks ago and all the proceeds from the live version on itunes were going to a cancer research foundation. Cookie was awesome on idol...he is not only yummy, but such a class act. Kris Allen won idol which was quite surprising, but I liked both him and Adam. I'm just glad Gokey didn't make top 2...I'm still bitter than he lasted a week longer than my girl Allison. It's funny I am typing this today when Idol usually is on...I'm lost on Tuesday without it. To occupy my time I'm watching Twilight...somehow I have only watched it on dvd like 3 or 4 times since I bought it in March. I'm pretty pumped for New Moon in November. Agh Edward's "American" accent keeps changing throughout the moving...annoying.
This weekend was a lovely 3 day weekend. Like I said I caught on on tv and sleep. I slept A LOT...like embarrassingly a lot, but then again I don't care I needed it. I wasn't a complete waste I cleaned a lot, did a ton of laundry and did some shopping. Good times.
Tomorrow is session 2 of Camp which is Wed-Fri then we have a Sun-Tues session...oh back to back. Another fun Camp thing I did was set up a Camp War Eagle Counselor Alumni group on facebook. Ella and I are all about having a Camp Counselor reunion especially since Camp is in it's 15th year...so we shall see.
Lastly I bought my ticket to Lawnguyland for my birthday. July 27-August 5...that's ONE FULL WEEK. Crazy good times shall ensue...get your party panties ready.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
M.I.A.
Training Week is here for our orientation team meaning that I get to work at 7:45am and leave about midnight for 10 days....AWESOME. Seriously though, yes it is exhausting, but I love my students and the work that I do. Coffee and laughter will keep me going.
Our first orientation session is NEXT Wednesday..CRAZY!
Our first orientation session is NEXT Wednesday..CRAZY!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Wino
With all the David Cook craziness I haven’t been able to really post about my weekend.
Friday night Michelle and I went to Opelika’s Wine on the Tracks Festival. We didn’t really know what to expect, but we figured we’d check it out. There was a wine trail that you had to buy $25 tickets for, well we didn’t want to commit at first so we figured we’d just walk around a little. Basically all the shops downtown were open late and each different wines and snacks in their shops. I hadn’t been downtown much before so it was fun to explore. Michelle took me to this really cute inexpensive jewelry place and I of course bought 3 pairs of earrings!
Well the second place we go into Michelle spots a wine ticket - aka a program you needed to get the wine-just laying discarded on a shelf. Well after a few minutes of waiting to see if it got claimed I picked it up and Michelle and I took turns using it to sample the wine. I wouldn’t call it stealing, but I wouldn’t call it honest either - it was just meant to be. Michelle and I would have just shared a ticket anyway because apparently people who drank at every stop got pretty drunk. I did see a few coworkers who did the entire wine trail that can attest to that being true. Oh and one place had an awesome champagne punch - Michelle and I are going to try and recreate it - yum!
After we had over fill of wines Michelle and I headed to 8th and Rail which was right in the middle of the wine festival for a non-wine drink. I had only been to 8th and Rail once before at like happy hour and it was quite...well tonight it was busy and they have live music it was great.
Michelle and I grab a seat at the bar and grab a menu to decide on what to get. Pretty much everything was going to be a bad choice due to the saying "wine before liquor never been sicker." I actually turn to the guy next to me and ask him what he’s drinking - a white Russian - lame and I told him it’s lame. Surprisingly he was a smart ass and sassed me right back leading to Michelle and me chatting up David for most of the night. I told David about my blog and expect him to become an avid follower! Michelle and I settled on getting Amaretto Sours and I forgot how much I like those. Also at 8th and Rail my coworker Ella and her husband also found us, they were at the wine festival too, but we never crossed paths with them while we were there.
Saturday I was pretty much a waste of life, had a headache as I expected after drinking various types of alcohol. I really had hoped to do an intense spring cleaning in my apartment, but that never happened. I really need to make time this week because orientation training week kicks off on Sunday and my job will own me for the 10 days that follow - but I love my job so I’m okay with that.
Friday night Michelle and I went to Opelika’s Wine on the Tracks Festival. We didn’t really know what to expect, but we figured we’d check it out. There was a wine trail that you had to buy $25 tickets for, well we didn’t want to commit at first so we figured we’d just walk around a little. Basically all the shops downtown were open late and each different wines and snacks in their shops. I hadn’t been downtown much before so it was fun to explore. Michelle took me to this really cute inexpensive jewelry place and I of course bought 3 pairs of earrings!
Well the second place we go into Michelle spots a wine ticket - aka a program you needed to get the wine-just laying discarded on a shelf. Well after a few minutes of waiting to see if it got claimed I picked it up and Michelle and I took turns using it to sample the wine. I wouldn’t call it stealing, but I wouldn’t call it honest either - it was just meant to be. Michelle and I would have just shared a ticket anyway because apparently people who drank at every stop got pretty drunk. I did see a few coworkers who did the entire wine trail that can attest to that being true. Oh and one place had an awesome champagne punch - Michelle and I are going to try and recreate it - yum!
After we had over fill of wines Michelle and I headed to 8th and Rail which was right in the middle of the wine festival for a non-wine drink. I had only been to 8th and Rail once before at like happy hour and it was quite...well tonight it was busy and they have live music it was great.
Michelle and I grab a seat at the bar and grab a menu to decide on what to get. Pretty much everything was going to be a bad choice due to the saying "wine before liquor never been sicker." I actually turn to the guy next to me and ask him what he’s drinking - a white Russian - lame and I told him it’s lame. Surprisingly he was a smart ass and sassed me right back leading to Michelle and me chatting up David for most of the night. I told David about my blog and expect him to become an avid follower! Michelle and I settled on getting Amaretto Sours and I forgot how much I like those. Also at 8th and Rail my coworker Ella and her husband also found us, they were at the wine festival too, but we never crossed paths with them while we were there.
Saturday I was pretty much a waste of life, had a headache as I expected after drinking various types of alcohol. I really had hoped to do an intense spring cleaning in my apartment, but that never happened. I really need to make time this week because orientation training week kicks off on Sunday and my job will own me for the 10 days that follow - but I love my job so I’m okay with that.
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