Thank you Mrs. Edwards!

Elizabeth Edwards basically repeating, in a few areas, what I've been complaining about...the MSM not doing their job in covering this presidential campaign. This is a great read! Bowling 1, Health Care 0 - New York Times

Before you blog...

...proof your work!!!

In high school, would you turn in a paper before proofing it? In college, would you even think about being that stupid?

Point is, why are people dumb enough to exhibit their laziness on the Internet? Remember what you are posting is a mirror into who you are!

Lately I've come across a few blogs that have some good ideas but the point the blogger is trying to make gets lost in some mumbo jumbo of horrid punctuation or seventh grade grammar. So let me recommend the following:

1. Type your Internet masterpiece in MS Word; that wonderful software will check for spelling and grammar.
2. Proof the flow. What you are writing, well, does the shit make sense? Oooh! Is that a run on sentence? Or is that a double negative? Does a+b=c?
3. If it makes sense to you, it may not make sense to others so until you feel comfortable with your blogging, have someone else (that's smarter than you) proof read it.

Point of all this is: no one is going to take what you write seriously if you write like crap. So instead of shooting from the hip and blogging whatever flows out of your ADD head, slow down and try to make sense. The blogger world will take what you say more seriously...and you will not shame your family with your horrible writing skills that may set back human communication two thousand years.

Primary Day

Today is primary day in Pennsylvania and here's a scary thought: white men are going to decide the outcome. And as Nora Epron states in her blog "white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them."

I thought that was funny...and it rings pretty true for most of us...

Check out her blog here: Nora Ephron: White Men - Politics on The Huffington Post

Democratic Primary

YouTube - BARACKY: THE MOVIE

Cooking for one...

I love to cook.

But I would rather cook for two than for one.

Ivan is on his way back to New York. Hopefully this will be our last seperation as I plan to start interviewing in the next month or so for positions up there.

In the meantime, I cook for only myself.

And that's ok...sort of...I mean, I am notorious for being able to eat enough for two! I didn't get fat by using a treadmill.

A Year Later...

Many people will blog about the shootings at Virginia Tech. And for them, it's just an event; just a story in the news.

But for me, it's personal.

I am a Hokie. I graduated from Virginia Tech in 1991 after years of tears and hard work. Sure, I got frustrated with my professors and a few of my fellow students but I always loved the school and how we were pushed to do better for others...to serve others.

Last year, two days after the shooting, Ivan and drove back from New York and visited the campus. As an alumnus, I felt it was important to go home and help, even if it was to put my arms around someone or just give a handshake. I was concerned though...would our students leave in massive amounts or would they stay?

I was so pleased to see that many of the students stayed. Their parents were there, supporting their childrens' decision to stay at Tech while the national media swarmed our home with questions and accusations. Through it all, the family of Virginia Tech held it together.

I have never been so proud in my life as that moment, standing on the Drill Field and seeing other alumni and even other students help each other discuss their fears, aspirations, and concerns.

If I have learned anything in life it is that we can not dwell on the bad moments. We need to use those moments as well, momentum, to force us to acheive great things. And so, in the words of SGA President Adeel Khan:

Take time to remember the legacies, remember the dreams and remember the talent that our community has lost. I hope you are inspired to work harder to honor the 32. Share you talents with the world for the 32. Achieve your dreams for the 32. Be more compassionate, friendly and thoughtful for the 32. Be better, for the 32.