Funny Friday, Sunday Funday, and now introducing Sunny Saturday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday afternoon! It’s a beautiful day…and I’m in the Mac lab. Great (Please note the hint of sarcasm).
I can’t believe another year of college is coming to an end. It seems like yesterday that I boarded a plane to gorgeous Ireland to spend the fall semester abroad. That semester flew by, and this spring went by even faster! I finally completely agree with the statement, “Time flies when you’re having fun (or doing mountain loads work).”
With exams staring us in the face, our future, or at least next weekend, looks somewhat dreary. I don’t know about you all, but I’m going to need a laugh or two before I buckle down for a week’s worth of studying and cramming “10 pounds of stuff in a five pound bag” (as my dad says).
Therefore, the following is a link to a joke page with “Impossible final exams,” basically the most insane final exam questions and assignments ever. Enjoy, and good luck with finals!See you Monday!
Does anyone know why all (or most) professors decide to pile on the work during the last two weeks of classes (No offense Glenn!)? Personally, I’d much rather be doing presentations, projects, tests and papers throughout the semester as opposed to all at once, and I’m sure you can all agree. The past two weeks have been rough, but I’m so glad I got through it. Being sick and not getting much sleep should be worth it in the end…i hope.
I really enjoyed writing our final project story. My topic was sexual assaults on college campuses and why it is the most under-reported crime in America.
I found some great sources, including an awesome interview with Chief Gantos. Gantos is a great person, did you all know that he started Elon Campus Safety and Police in 1996 and he was on the Elon City Council for 22 years!? Very cool.
Gantos added a lot of substance to my story. It was most interesting to find that Elon follows the trend of not reporting sexual assaults. Gantos estimated that there are at least 10 assaults on campus per year that go unreported, based on the calls he gets from the hospital. He said that victims don’t report the assaults basically due to a feeling of embarrasment on the their part. I found that I was very interested in the topic, which allowed me to write with more emotion and insight.
With the insanity of the last few weeks of school, my life has not been my own. To put it bluntly. Everyone, including myself, is extra busy with loads of work and a hundred other things on their minds. This is why I have been slacking with the Funny Friday posts…and I’m sorry!
Today is Sunday. Also known as “Sunday Funday”! In replace of the couple missed Friday posts, here is a clip from Ellen DeGeneres’s stand up act “Here and Now.” I watch this when I’m in need of a little pick me up and some words of wisdom.
In this stand up act, DeGeneres talks about procrastination and the fact that people are too busy to make time for the good things in life. This particular clip brings up the media and how the public is constantly relying on it to get any and all information. It’s hilarious. Enjoy!
This Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 7:30pm, in Alumni Gym, motivational speaker and women’s self- defense activist Erin Weed will be coming to campus with her presentation of “Girls Fight Back.”
Sponsored by the Panhellenic Council, “Girls Fight Back” is Weed’s most popular presentation. It was created after her Girls Fight Back book was published in 2006.
After losing her best friend to a horrific murder, Weed vowed to teach young women how to be aware of their surroundings, be empowered and give them self-defense techniques. The presentation is not only entertaining and interactive, but it is also empowering, motivational and moving.
If you are interested in attending, admission is free and everyone is welcome. With the startling events that have been occurring on Elon’s campus, this program is of great relevance to our community.
Visit girlsfightback.org to learn more about Erin Weed and her programs.
…PS…I’m writing about this next week…so don’t even think about.
The following “Funny Friday” joke brings up the importance of the infamous deadline. The moral: Journalists are never to bypass their deadline for vacation time.
This joke is courtesy of workjoke.com:
Three men: an editor, a photographer, and a journalist are covering a political convention in Miami. They decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp. As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says “Normally I would grant you three wishes, but since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish.”
The photographer went first. “I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas with no money worries.” The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.
The journalist went next. “I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries.” The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.
Last, but not least, it was the editor’s turn. “And what would your wish be?” asked the genie.
“I want them both back after lunch” replied the editor, “the deadline for tomorrow’s newspaper is in about ten hours.
Haha! Hope you all enjoyed it, have a great weekend!
Since we’re all so serious…most of the time…I thought I would contribute something funny for a change. Perhaps I’ll post something funny every Friday, I’ll call it…well…”Funny Friday.” Original, I think. I’ll post a video, joke or picture every Friday, just to bring a laugh to the end of a long, hard week.
The following YouTube videos are from a tv show, “Just For Laughs.” The show plays practical jokes on the average Joe and tapes their reactions for the world to see. These particular videos send the victims running for the hills (I couldn’t choose between the two)! Happy weekend and Enjoy!
I just read a narrative written by Bill Reiter of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2002. It is a wonderfully written story about the life of a black woman born in Little Rock in 1913.
The story is of Edith Ware who faced many hardships during her life, but continued to endure, overcome and set an example for others.
The story is a proximity piece because it is based around Little Rock and its last lynch mob of 1927. This incident is essentially what shaped Ware as a person.
Reiter is very descriptive and explains many details of Ware’s story with emotion and sensitivity. The narrative is a seven-part piece. Each piece is carefully connected and woven together with the same theme of Ware’s life, “I will endure…”. There is also an eighth part to the story about how Reiter wrote the story and the responses it has gotten in the past, similar to our readings in Best Newspaper Reporting. Read and enjoy!
Nick Kristof’s work as a multimedia journalist is inspiring and impressive. He delivers the news to the public in so many different ways. His videos are both newsworthy and emotional and his stories are obviously well written and informative. In a few years, i would love to do what he does. Travel, write, take photographs and video…that would be my dream job…we’ll see if it happens.
