OSU Press Day
Yesterday was OSU Press Day, which is kinda like a super-scaled-down version of nationals. There are a couple of write-off competitions, and a few sessions you can go to, but overall, it's mostly about getting out of school for a day to go hang out with a bunch of other journalism geeks. The first thing we did was show up at the school at 7:15 to load onto the bus to go to Corvalis. That was fun, considering that I don't even fit in the bus seats anymore, so I had to scrunch into a modified fetal posistion for the majority of the 45 minute bus ride.
Once we got there, we checked in, at which point I saw Hannah, and asked her to come to lunch with the group because I don't get to see her very often. After we checked in, a group of us who weren't doing write-offs, went to the keynote. The speaker was a guy who won a pulitzer prize for writing about our former governor, Neil Goldsmidt, or whatever his name is.
Basically, the speaker talked about the steps he took to prove that the governor had actually had sex with a 14 year old about 30 years ago, while he was still in office, no good. Among the more interesting parts of this presentation was counting the times this guy said sex, it tallied up to a disappointing 10 times. But, the most funny thing he said the whole time was something that only a few of us in this huge auditorium caught, myself included. While talking about the relations between Neil and this 14 year old, he said, "well, I guess the governor didn't think about screwing up his career..."
"Literally," I responeded to Darci, who was sitting right next to me.
Bandow proceeded to lean over, tap me on the shoulder and said, "did you just said 'pardon the pun'?"
"No, but I did catch that."
We both had a good laugh and spent the rest of the presentation trying to figure out what "sex" was in sign language because they had an interpereter there. No such luck...
After that, our small group who went to the keynote went to another room for a session on finding news stories in your school. The only interesting part about this schpiel was people who were complaining because they could find any stories in their school. I mean come on, who can find a story with 2500 people in your school... must be impossible, considering that we can do it with about 600 kids. And also, the people complaining that they had to write about teachers because there were no interesting stories in their school, and wondering how they could make the teachers sound more interesting.
Bandow shouted, "don't even try, you're wasting your time, teachers aren't interesting!"
Someone else in our group, I think it was little Rear, shouted "our teacher is interesting! She shoots up with helia monster venom!!!"
Of course, Rear was referring to the fact that now, Bandow uses insulin that comes from helia monster spit, and I pointed out that helia monster spit was supposed to be poisonous or something, but that it most likely was not dangerous.
After this boring session, I headed off to "taking your news to the web," which again, turned out to be extremely boring, apart from the fact that Hannah was there. But it was still boring, sorry Hannah!
Afterwards, I had one of the most humiliating experiences. Not only are the kids in our publications group crazy, but they are absolutely obsessed with Rick Danger! (better known as Rick Dancer from KEZI) So, we all gathered around him in our "we love Rick Danger" group, and got a picture... how humiliating.
After this experience, we headed off to the student union for lunch. Panda Express, finally, the trip up to OSU was beginning to be worth it. I love panda express... so yummy. Well, we ate lunch, then Hannah ditched us to go to more sessions... she should have stayed and slacked. After Hannah left, we went downstairs to go play pool and bowl until 2. We had to rush through 2 games of bowling because we didn't have very much time when we started, then Sabrina and I went to go get an Italian Soda... yum. We also got a free pizza because some lady thought we were saying that the pizza was taking too long and we were in a hurry. Whatever, we didn't even order pizza, but hey, having free pizza was good. And I got called "sir" again. How funny.
We headed back to the bus, and loaded. The rest of my 45 minute trip was filled withthe sounds of a few of the guys in the back of the bus singing 80's butt-rock at the top of their lungs. Damn hooligans.
We got back to the school with a few minutes to spare before school was out... yay... end of the school day.
What a wonderful day at OSU. Couldn't have found a better way to spend my day. Well, I have to go now, but I will post about last night's volleyball game during 5th period. Have a good day all!!
Once we got there, we checked in, at which point I saw Hannah, and asked her to come to lunch with the group because I don't get to see her very often. After we checked in, a group of us who weren't doing write-offs, went to the keynote. The speaker was a guy who won a pulitzer prize for writing about our former governor, Neil Goldsmidt, or whatever his name is.
Basically, the speaker talked about the steps he took to prove that the governor had actually had sex with a 14 year old about 30 years ago, while he was still in office, no good. Among the more interesting parts of this presentation was counting the times this guy said sex, it tallied up to a disappointing 10 times. But, the most funny thing he said the whole time was something that only a few of us in this huge auditorium caught, myself included. While talking about the relations between Neil and this 14 year old, he said, "well, I guess the governor didn't think about screwing up his career..."
"Literally," I responeded to Darci, who was sitting right next to me.
Bandow proceeded to lean over, tap me on the shoulder and said, "did you just said 'pardon the pun'?"
"No, but I did catch that."
We both had a good laugh and spent the rest of the presentation trying to figure out what "sex" was in sign language because they had an interpereter there. No such luck...
After that, our small group who went to the keynote went to another room for a session on finding news stories in your school. The only interesting part about this schpiel was people who were complaining because they could find any stories in their school. I mean come on, who can find a story with 2500 people in your school... must be impossible, considering that we can do it with about 600 kids. And also, the people complaining that they had to write about teachers because there were no interesting stories in their school, and wondering how they could make the teachers sound more interesting.
Bandow shouted, "don't even try, you're wasting your time, teachers aren't interesting!"
Someone else in our group, I think it was little Rear, shouted "our teacher is interesting! She shoots up with helia monster venom!!!"
Of course, Rear was referring to the fact that now, Bandow uses insulin that comes from helia monster spit, and I pointed out that helia monster spit was supposed to be poisonous or something, but that it most likely was not dangerous.
After this boring session, I headed off to "taking your news to the web," which again, turned out to be extremely boring, apart from the fact that Hannah was there. But it was still boring, sorry Hannah!
Afterwards, I had one of the most humiliating experiences. Not only are the kids in our publications group crazy, but they are absolutely obsessed with Rick Danger! (better known as Rick Dancer from KEZI) So, we all gathered around him in our "we love Rick Danger" group, and got a picture... how humiliating.
After this experience, we headed off to the student union for lunch. Panda Express, finally, the trip up to OSU was beginning to be worth it. I love panda express... so yummy. Well, we ate lunch, then Hannah ditched us to go to more sessions... she should have stayed and slacked. After Hannah left, we went downstairs to go play pool and bowl until 2. We had to rush through 2 games of bowling because we didn't have very much time when we started, then Sabrina and I went to go get an Italian Soda... yum. We also got a free pizza because some lady thought we were saying that the pizza was taking too long and we were in a hurry. Whatever, we didn't even order pizza, but hey, having free pizza was good. And I got called "sir" again. How funny.
We headed back to the bus, and loaded. The rest of my 45 minute trip was filled withthe sounds of a few of the guys in the back of the bus singing 80's butt-rock at the top of their lungs. Damn hooligans.
We got back to the school with a few minutes to spare before school was out... yay... end of the school day.
What a wonderful day at OSU. Couldn't have found a better way to spend my day. Well, I have to go now, but I will post about last night's volleyball game during 5th period. Have a good day all!!
posted by Elk Hat at 10:29 AM
3 Comments:
actually, I tried to find my group and we ended up not going to class, so I really should have just stayed and slacked off with you guys!
and gee, thanks for saying I was boring.
And after my friends left, they told my other Lebanon friends that they had left me with a "very feminine looking guy"...my friend Amber who has heard about you smacked them.
they're really sorry about it now...
Ahhh, what fun. I love press day because it sure beats the hell out of some of my classes. Can't wait for nationals though, that's going to kick ass . . .
oh sad...I miss newspaper and Bandow! I miss getting out of school for a day to screw around at OSU and paying Sarah money to take a belly-slide down the bowling lanes...
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