So after all this Copper Hills craze by me the past couple days I've busted out the old Senior Year Journal. I know I haven't written in a LONG time and I'm really due to make some people laugh in life (most notable Lori Hand, Rachel's friend at work) so I've decided to take the plunge with another journal entry. The problem is, pretty much EVERY one of them except the first one I posted is SO embarrasing I get cold feet every time. I've decided that IF and/or WHEN I post these they will simply require some SERIOUS up-front commentary.
So this entry has to do with my Senior Year Homecoming date and the Homecoming Royalty voting, etc. I had asked Courtney Sorenson to the dance (which of course I have a journal entry about) and suffice it to say I thought I was going to be some big stud going to the dance with her and totally kiss her and make her my girlfriend, etc. etc (yes, you guessed right, none of that happend). So anyways, here are the true feelings of the balltrain regarding my ability to "mac" on chics (in this case particularly Courtney, with apologies to her if somehow she ever reads this) and my feelings towards my candidacy for Homecoming King. With my additional comments in italics:
10-12-99-Tuesday
I am such a gay fag. I barely got nominated for Homecoming King yesterday. I got nominated at the last second by the Girl's Tennis Team of all things. Anyways, today was the interviews to narrow it down to the finalists. I thought I did awesome (which I did), but when it started getting late and I didn't get a call I started feeling all sorry for myself. I got a call from Lexi Harlan (student body officer) a few minutes ago. I'm real excited, especially because now I can ask Courtney to escort me in the assebly, that's sure to score some points (Yeah-I couldn't because you couldn't ask somebody from school-my sister Stephanie escorted me). I want this real bad, but I'm sure everyone else does, too. Oh well, I really just wanted to be in the assembly, and now I am, who knows from there (I know, I'm a freaking tool loser!).
I talked to Courtney a little at lunch today. I totally blew it. I acted so stupid, I was in NO ZONE whatsoever. But, I had a plan to recity myself. Nick Zachman aids in her 8th period class with Mr. Randall. He was supposed to hit on her for me in front of the class. I even wrote a poem from this GAP commercial (I still remember the commercial! but sadly not the words to the poem) for Nick to read. Too bad he never did it and when I went to ask Courtney if Nick gave her the poem, she answered "no". I felt so dumb. I was at a low point for the day. Hopefully tomorrow, when I ask her to escort me, I'll have more lines up my sleeve than the empty air I was gasping for today.
Wow, to be eighteen again. That was brutal.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
MySpace and Facebook
So I don't know why but the other night I basically wanted to have a high school reunion for myself (I'm a dork I know I still live in high school from 10 years ago). Sometimes going through all these blog links you track down people you haven't seen in years and you see what they are up to. I thought it was pretty cool, but in the blogspot world you can't really search for anybody, you just have to get lucky with the trail of links.
So what did I do? I signed up on facebook and myspace! I've always heard they were evil websites crawling with predators (who isn't a predator these days right?) Maybe I'm being too cavalier with my email posted all over the place for people to contact me if they want to. Anyways, I actually found that both of these sites aren't TOO bad; facebook clearly being the better of the two, but on both you can set it to private and restrict access to your page.
So anyways, I searched Copper Hills and found tons of people from the old days. I didn't really send out very many friend requests, just saw that people had accounts and thought, "Oh yeah! I haven't talked to that person in years!" So anyways, a little plug for the two "social networking" sites. All I really did on both was say "go to my blog or email me" so I don't plan on updating it, but it's actually cool to have some sites like that to remember old friends.
So what did I do? I signed up on facebook and myspace! I've always heard they were evil websites crawling with predators (who isn't a predator these days right?) Maybe I'm being too cavalier with my email posted all over the place for people to contact me if they want to. Anyways, I actually found that both of these sites aren't TOO bad; facebook clearly being the better of the two, but on both you can set it to private and restrict access to your page.
So anyways, I searched Copper Hills and found tons of people from the old days. I didn't really send out very many friend requests, just saw that people had accounts and thought, "Oh yeah! I haven't talked to that person in years!" So anyways, a little plug for the two "social networking" sites. All I really did on both was say "go to my blog or email me" so I don't plan on updating it, but it's actually cool to have some sites like that to remember old friends.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Heartbreak!
Oh, I HATE the Lakers!
Last night's game six loss at home to end the season was one of the worst losses I think I've ever seen from the Jazz. Even though they made it close in the end, the first half was so absolutely pathetic, you just knew they couldn't pull out a second half comeback. I will say watching Memo, AK, and Dwill hitting a combined 5 three pointers in the final 2 minutes was pretty exciting, but I'm just sick to my stomach even thinking about it a day later.
This was a championship opportunity lost. Game 5 was the real killer when they didn't pull one out in LA, but they seriously had the makeup of going all the way if they could get over the hump of Jazz versus Lakers Plus Refs/David Stern. I can't get over how the traitor Derek Fisher had 20+ steals on the series and from what I saw was called for exactly 1 (read: one!) reach-in foul. I can't get over the fact that Kobe shot over 90 foul shots in the series. 90 foul shots for one player! If he's got fouled enough for 90 foul shots, the dude shouldn't even be able to walk he would be hammered so bad; sadly, a stray breath in Kobe's direction equals a foul. I'm expecting David Stern himself to be at Team USA Olympic practice this summer, tallying up whoever fouls Kobe during practice and awarding him fould shots to start the game when he faces those teams next season. What a joke.
Another huge factor was the scheduling. I know we won game 4 last Sunday in our first home Sunday game in forever, but the scheduling was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pro-Lakers it made me sick. The days between games, the start times of the games, all pointed to the Lakers favor. What joke.
Another Laker-favorite was the non-suspension of Ronny Turiaf after he took down Ronnie Price with the flagrant foul. People kept reviewing the play saying it wasn't malicious. Um, pretty sure when you lead with your forearm, then swipe at the head it's intentional. What everyone seems to forget is that the foul was called WAY eariler and Ronnie was just finishing out the play like lots of players do, only to get taken down. Suspensions have been dolled out for much less. Now, Ronny Turaf definitely wasn't the difference maker-I'm just pointing out yet another pro-Laker move by the league. What a joke.
Lots of people want to blame Boozer for a terrible playoffs. He definitely didn't play up to par, but it seemed like something was wrong. (You are saying, "no crap something was wrong, moron, that's why he sucked!") well, what I mean is he was either hurt or something else we didn't know about. Just my gut feeling. Maybe he just sucked. I try to keep in mind that Boozer was the first ever big-time free agent to sign with Utah so I try to give him a pass as much as I can bear; maybe I'm just witnessing the second coming of Karl Malone (Mr. Anti-Clutch). What can I say? I love Malone so I'll accept Boozer's disappearing act for this season. Hopefully he improves.
Last but not least, some matchups just don't work well for us. Basketball is a game of being the better team with better coaching and better players, but matchups also play a large role in victories. The Jazz have never matched up well with LA or San Antontio, but we own the Warriors, Phoenix, New Orleans, Detroit, etc. I can't put my finger right on why we don't match up well with those two teams, but we don't. If we could've avoided them until the Conference Finals maybe it would be a different story, but I'm left here to mope our loss.
Just one, Jazz, just give me one. If I have to live off it like I live off "1984!" the rest of my life, so be it!
Last night's game six loss at home to end the season was one of the worst losses I think I've ever seen from the Jazz. Even though they made it close in the end, the first half was so absolutely pathetic, you just knew they couldn't pull out a second half comeback. I will say watching Memo, AK, and Dwill hitting a combined 5 three pointers in the final 2 minutes was pretty exciting, but I'm just sick to my stomach even thinking about it a day later.
This was a championship opportunity lost. Game 5 was the real killer when they didn't pull one out in LA, but they seriously had the makeup of going all the way if they could get over the hump of Jazz versus Lakers Plus Refs/David Stern. I can't get over how the traitor Derek Fisher had 20+ steals on the series and from what I saw was called for exactly 1 (read: one!) reach-in foul. I can't get over the fact that Kobe shot over 90 foul shots in the series. 90 foul shots for one player! If he's got fouled enough for 90 foul shots, the dude shouldn't even be able to walk he would be hammered so bad; sadly, a stray breath in Kobe's direction equals a foul. I'm expecting David Stern himself to be at Team USA Olympic practice this summer, tallying up whoever fouls Kobe during practice and awarding him fould shots to start the game when he faces those teams next season. What a joke.
Another huge factor was the scheduling. I know we won game 4 last Sunday in our first home Sunday game in forever, but the scheduling was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pro-Lakers it made me sick. The days between games, the start times of the games, all pointed to the Lakers favor. What joke.
Another Laker-favorite was the non-suspension of Ronny Turiaf after he took down Ronnie Price with the flagrant foul. People kept reviewing the play saying it wasn't malicious. Um, pretty sure when you lead with your forearm, then swipe at the head it's intentional. What everyone seems to forget is that the foul was called WAY eariler and Ronnie was just finishing out the play like lots of players do, only to get taken down. Suspensions have been dolled out for much less. Now, Ronny Turaf definitely wasn't the difference maker-I'm just pointing out yet another pro-Laker move by the league. What a joke.
Lots of people want to blame Boozer for a terrible playoffs. He definitely didn't play up to par, but it seemed like something was wrong. (You are saying, "no crap something was wrong, moron, that's why he sucked!") well, what I mean is he was either hurt or something else we didn't know about. Just my gut feeling. Maybe he just sucked. I try to keep in mind that Boozer was the first ever big-time free agent to sign with Utah so I try to give him a pass as much as I can bear; maybe I'm just witnessing the second coming of Karl Malone (Mr. Anti-Clutch). What can I say? I love Malone so I'll accept Boozer's disappearing act for this season. Hopefully he improves.
Last but not least, some matchups just don't work well for us. Basketball is a game of being the better team with better coaching and better players, but matchups also play a large role in victories. The Jazz have never matched up well with LA or San Antontio, but we own the Warriors, Phoenix, New Orleans, Detroit, etc. I can't put my finger right on why we don't match up well with those two teams, but we don't. If we could've avoided them until the Conference Finals maybe it would be a different story, but I'm left here to mope our loss.
Just one, Jazz, just give me one. If I have to live off it like I live off "1984!" the rest of my life, so be it!
Monday, May 12, 2008
Anonymous Comment
So I get a nice comment from a random pistolpete (profile not posted so I don't know who it is) trying to make some statement about how Malone has a kid. "How do you like Malone now?" he says, "I thought so." Umm, pretty sure you thought wrong moron. What type of loser comes into my blog where I pretty much write down my own thoughts and feelings for friends and family to read and for myself to reflect on in the future and tries to act like my blog is some fan-discussion site? This isn't jazzfanz.com or realgm; if I wanted to fight about Malone then I would post on one of those sites, not on my regular blog. But since you did, I'm obviously going to take the bait and respond. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I can hang with pretty much anybody out there when it comes to sports knowledge, especially current events. You think I don't know about Demetrius Bell, Malone's kid who just got drafted by the Buffalo Bills? Of course I know about him, Cheryl Ford, and any other fallacy of Malone's character you want to bring up. You might have noticed that I chose my words carefully saying that I loved to watch Malone play; that doesn't mean I support illegitimate children running around the world. If I had to keep track of all the saints in the world of sports, I'd end up giving up sports altogether. There are just too many bad guys running around in basketball and football (the two sports I really care about. I mean, seriously, can anybody even name a complete starting line up for even 1 hockey team? I didn't think so). All I can say about Malone and his kids is that I hope he's fixed his ways, which I assume/hope he has. And now my hipocrite confession: As much as I love the Jazz, I love my family and the Gospel more. I've railed on Kobe to my friends about how I hate him because he's an adulterer and worse, etc. but hopefully in reality people who make mistakes turn it around and are truly good people going forward. I would hate to think he or anybody else in any situation is cheating on their wives or having illegitimate children. Nothing is more precious than life and trust; I don't know the full details of either Malone's or Kobe's situations, but again I hope they're good people now. As for on the court, Kobe is the best in the game today but plays for the team I hate the most; Malone is still my all-time fave. Sidenote: one of the best lessons I learned in college was an object lesson where the whole class voted on the punishment for somebody who made a mistake. Right after reading the scenario, the whole class would vote for "justice", but after thinking about it and discussing it for a while, the majority would inevitabley swing to "mercy". Interesting how that works; I started this post with the intention of reeking "justice" on my commenter, but I end up preaching (to myself mostly as far as Kobe goes) "mercy". Just an interesting thought.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Love the Jazz!
Yes, Rachel wrote true. I love the Jazz (I'm writing this after the Jazz even their series with the Lakers 2-2 so that I'm in a good mood while writing. Otherwise, the title would be "Hate the Jazz!")
What is not to like about the Jazz? They are so freaking awesome! I love pretty much all Jazz players, even ex-Jazz players as long as they left under good terms (Read: I hate Mark Jackson and I'm VERY suspicious of Derek Fisher).
My favorite game ever? February 3rd, 1992. Triple overtime game over the bulls. Pippen was ejected, Jordan fouled out. Last game I watched with my dad before he died 3 days later. 2nd favorite, last year's game 7 win over Houston on the road. Watched the game over at Ben's house with everybody. I've never screamed so loud about hating AK47 right as he launched yet another ill-advised 3, only to never proclaim my love so loudly seconds later after he made the 3 which tied the game.
Favorite player? All-time, Malone. How can you not love Karl Malone? I will never understand how lots of Utah people don't really like Malone and profess their undying love for Stockton. You know, you can like BOTH of them! It's ok I promise. Lots of people say Malone wouldn't be the player he was without Stockton. I think that's crap. They were both incredible players who would've been awesome even if they didn't play together. Anyways, I loved watching Malone play. Back in 7th or 8th grade, I went to a game with Jacob against the Warriors and saw Malone score 51 points. Awesome game. We were on the 20th row or so, the bear kicked the actual game ball into the stands right up to us. It landed in some unsuspecting lady's lap right in the row in front of us. Figures.
Favorite current player: Paul Millsap. Of course I love Dwill and Booz (I will never hate Booz becuase he was the first big-time player to come to Utah as a free agent, so he gets a pass on any permanent dislike). I've loved Millsap since we drafted him. He is a perfect Jazz system player and I hope he never leaves. I just love Millsap and I basically have a mancrush on him because he's so freaking awesome.
Favorite opponent memory: I had a great run in high school of going to a lot of games in the lower bowl becuase of some opportune friendships with Nate Hull and Kyle Butterfield. They both took me to quite a few games and those were the highlights of my attendance at Jazz games. One game in particular, I was with Butterfield on the 3rd row across from the Jazz bench playing the Mavericks. The Mavs weren't great, but they had Michael Finley who was an all-star. The kid in the row behind us would yell in earnest to Finley, "Shoot it Finley! Shoot it!" every time down the court. Finally one time down, Finley pulls a sick spin move on Hornacek, drains the turn-around jumper, and then turns around, points at the kid behind us, and says, "That was for you kid!" The whole rest of the game every shot he made he would point over to the kid. The kid was beaming all night. I've loved Finley ever since.
Rachel always gets mad at me for getting so worked up about the games. People will say, "It's just a game!" What they don't realize is that it is more than a game, this team represent us! They represent our city, our state, and to some minimal extent our religion (those vicious mormon fans!). Beating the hated Lakers or Spurs is more than just beating them on the court, it's saying "Utah is better than California or Texas!" and seriously, you know you're thinking that and wanting that every time they play!
Anyways, I could go on forever, just wanted to validate Rachel's post that yes, I love the Jazz. Especially tonight after they beat the Lakers in OT. Just don't ask me after they lose a game. Then, it's "Hate the Jazz!"
What is not to like about the Jazz? They are so freaking awesome! I love pretty much all Jazz players, even ex-Jazz players as long as they left under good terms (Read: I hate Mark Jackson and I'm VERY suspicious of Derek Fisher).
My favorite game ever? February 3rd, 1992. Triple overtime game over the bulls. Pippen was ejected, Jordan fouled out. Last game I watched with my dad before he died 3 days later. 2nd favorite, last year's game 7 win over Houston on the road. Watched the game over at Ben's house with everybody. I've never screamed so loud about hating AK47 right as he launched yet another ill-advised 3, only to never proclaim my love so loudly seconds later after he made the 3 which tied the game.
Favorite player? All-time, Malone. How can you not love Karl Malone? I will never understand how lots of Utah people don't really like Malone and profess their undying love for Stockton. You know, you can like BOTH of them! It's ok I promise. Lots of people say Malone wouldn't be the player he was without Stockton. I think that's crap. They were both incredible players who would've been awesome even if they didn't play together. Anyways, I loved watching Malone play. Back in 7th or 8th grade, I went to a game with Jacob against the Warriors and saw Malone score 51 points. Awesome game. We were on the 20th row or so, the bear kicked the actual game ball into the stands right up to us. It landed in some unsuspecting lady's lap right in the row in front of us. Figures.
Favorite current player: Paul Millsap. Of course I love Dwill and Booz (I will never hate Booz becuase he was the first big-time player to come to Utah as a free agent, so he gets a pass on any permanent dislike). I've loved Millsap since we drafted him. He is a perfect Jazz system player and I hope he never leaves. I just love Millsap and I basically have a mancrush on him because he's so freaking awesome.
Favorite opponent memory: I had a great run in high school of going to a lot of games in the lower bowl becuase of some opportune friendships with Nate Hull and Kyle Butterfield. They both took me to quite a few games and those were the highlights of my attendance at Jazz games. One game in particular, I was with Butterfield on the 3rd row across from the Jazz bench playing the Mavericks. The Mavs weren't great, but they had Michael Finley who was an all-star. The kid in the row behind us would yell in earnest to Finley, "Shoot it Finley! Shoot it!" every time down the court. Finally one time down, Finley pulls a sick spin move on Hornacek, drains the turn-around jumper, and then turns around, points at the kid behind us, and says, "That was for you kid!" The whole rest of the game every shot he made he would point over to the kid. The kid was beaming all night. I've loved Finley ever since.
Rachel always gets mad at me for getting so worked up about the games. People will say, "It's just a game!" What they don't realize is that it is more than a game, this team represent us! They represent our city, our state, and to some minimal extent our religion (those vicious mormon fans!). Beating the hated Lakers or Spurs is more than just beating them on the court, it's saying "Utah is better than California or Texas!" and seriously, you know you're thinking that and wanting that every time they play!
Anyways, I could go on forever, just wanted to validate Rachel's post that yes, I love the Jazz. Especially tonight after they beat the Lakers in OT. Just don't ask me after they lose a game. Then, it's "Hate the Jazz!"
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