Month: July 2011

The day after my kickball team's first victory (GO STUDENTS OF HARES!), I learned something special about the field on which we played, from my boss Lori. Lori told me that the intramural sports complex at Florida State is the largest intramural sports complex in the country. I was amazed- I love learning factoids like … Continue reading Learned We Were Special

AMC showed The Shawshank Redemption at least twice today, possibly three times. I finished watching it on DVD roughly five minutes before it started on TV. There are some movies I don't own because they're on TV so often...didn't realize Shawshank could be one of those!Thing is...*deep breath* I'd never seen it.There are many movies … Continue reading Beat AMC To the Punch

Like so many other Thursdays, I participated in the Student Affairs Collaborative's weekly #sachat. Today's discussion was on Mental Health of Student Affairs Professionals. As someone who's looking at this topic (or as I later learned, some version of this topic) for her dissertation several years down the road, I was really interested to see … Continue reading Said the A-word

According to Michael Scott of The Office, and later Tina Fey in her book Bossypants (I bet this common opinion made their marriage in Date Night all the stronger),The number one rule of improv is to say 'yes'.I decided last week that part of my assimilation to the life of Tallahassee was going to be … Continue reading Improv-ed a Tour

Yesterday, I got my first package in the mail at my new place! It was from Rose, and included four movies on VHS, a format I'm re-embracing in light of my favorite new acquisition: a VHS/DVD player. The choices? Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, Snow White, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. All titles were … Continue reading Met Rose Rezaei (Reflection!)

Sad news out of the Walt Disney Company today, folks. After seven years, they are discontinuing ESPN: The Weekend. Apparently, the event has been successful but they want to focus on other projects. This is a Disney event that has a lot of great memories for me, and I'm really sad I won't get to … Continue reading Reflection! The first time I…went to ESPN: The Weekend

Hello, and welcome to my blog! I wish I could say that this was the first time I wrote a blog; that'd be fitting. But it's not- for an archive of my ridiculousness, please visit http://hooray-florida.blogspot.com. Who knows, maybe I'll update that one every now and again?But at this point in my life, this is … Continue reading The First Time I…Felt Like I Belonged.