2008 Woodie Awards
You know, being a student with a part-time job is a lot like parking at Skyline. Punctuality-challenged students all want the spots closest to campus, and they end up circling the lots in vain. Meanwhile, those of us using our heads park in the dirt lot, and by the time we're in class we can still see the poor suckers looking for what's not there.
Being of the mindset that I tend to keep, it is easy for one to believe that I am not a person to follow the rules. Sure once in a while rules can be an important thing to keep track of, however most of the time doing things my own way is the way I like to keep it.
Every generation has a great depression or war. This generation is no different. Our parents had the Gulf War, our grand parents had the Great Depression. On the eleventh day of September in the year 2001 we got our tragedy. In New York two planes crashed in to the World Trade Center and from that single event spewed an avalanche of nonsense.
Anyone else sick to death of Starbucks? I am. Anyone else ready to scream if they see one more so-called Starbucks "café" pop up in the place of a comfortable, independently run coffee shop with owners who actually have a sense of style? I am. Anyone else want bitter, sometimes nasty home made coffee instead of the corporate over-caffeinated product that Starbucks is now forcing down our throats? I do, and I love caffeine.
Have you heard the message: "Thank you for calling. SMART phone registration is not currently available"? The friendly voice that guided us to a successful registration semester after semester is gone. The same voice told us it was going to happen, and as of September 4, 2004, it did.
