May 10th, 2009
By tlawrence on May 10th, 2009
Despite the Chico State baseball team’s tough season, several of their standout players are getting the attention they deserve with All-CCAA team nods. In fact, slugger Josh Meagher and high-voltage outfielder Adam Arakawa made the first team, and deservedly so. But where’s the love for Kevin Seaver?
Yeah, Seaver made the 2nd team, but a spectacular year at the plate and in the field for the Wildcats’ sophomore deserved a first team honor, no question.
Seaver had the best season-long batting average in Chico State history - and Chico State is historically the most successful team in the CCAA - with a mark of .442. He also shined at first base yet again with a superb fielding percentage of .997, tops on the team in terms of their regular starters.
He was also 2nd in the CCAA behind slugger Jon Alia down at Cal State Dominguez Hills who had 17 home runs and a .464 average this season.
Someone at CCAA headquarters just doesn’t like Chico State, I think, after leading scorer Andy Bocian had the same bittersweet nod to the 2nd team after the men’s basketball season. If anything, and this isn’t an insult to him, Arakawa should be a second team member and Seaver on the top squad. Sure, he’s a first baseman and only had 3 home runs but he did have a slugging percentage of .600.
What’s the deal, CCAA?
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May 3rd, 2009
By mmccourt on May 3rd, 2009
Love is my favorite drug, and I’m totally hooked on it.
I’m living for the rush of seeing his face and going weak in the knees. I get high when he runs his fingers through my hair and wraps his powerful arms around me. The sound of his voice gets me buzzing, and watching him play with his band leaves me absolutely blitzed.
I spend all my time and money trying to score another fix with him. I don’t care where we are or what we’re doing, I just need him. When I go too long without, I go through a terrible withdrawal — shakes and sadness, head pain and heartaches.
It probably sounds a little pathetic and desperate, however I am neither; I’m simply an addict for love.
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April 16th, 2009
By chansen on April 16th, 2009
I’ve found a new remedy to cure just about anything: working-out.
Lately I’ve been extremely exhausted. I’m talking; don’t want to get out of bed type exhausted. I haven’t been burning the midnight oil, either. I’ve been sleeping about seven to eight hours a night.
This had been going on for about a month. I was starting to question my health. Do I have Mono? Thyroid problems? Am I pregnant? WebMD didn’t help things.
On Monday, I decided I needed to hit the gym. I’ve been so busy trying to wrap up the semester and graduate that my trips to the gym have been numbered.
I was averaging about two work-outs a week. Hardly the recommended amount but a decent effort.
I went Monday and I’ve gone everyday since. I must say, I feel great. I’m not dragging myself out of bed every morning wondering if I’ll have time for a nap during the day. I’m taking on tasks with enthusiasm instead of being lazy. I’m also less stress and angry.
All I needed to do was hit the gym. I’m wondering if this would benefit everyone. Stop popping happy pills and hop on the treadmill. It’s great for you mind and spirit. Plus it doesn’t hurt the waist line.
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April 16th, 2009
By tmarucci on April 16th, 2009
Decisions, decisions.
We’ve hit a time in our lives when opportunities are practically flying at us. We can stay here over the summer, we can go there. We can apply for that position, or maybe choose that one.
While having great opportunities is always going to be ideal, it’s making me go crazy. There’s way too much room for error. No matter what we choose, there’s a possibility out there that might have been the right choice for us, the “one that got away.” And we will never know if we picked the right one.
College is the time to try new things and find out what you are extrememly passionate about. But how can you do that when you can only pick ONE thing without killing yourself? Pro and con lists?
Maybe I’m bitter. Maybe I’m stressed. But I know that we are all facing difficult choices, and once we make our decision, there’s no turning back. This one decision may completely alter your life.
My advice: go with your gut. Go with what feels right, and hopefully you’ll be happy. Just please, please, please, try not to stress about it and let your choice come to you naturally.
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April 13th, 2009
By chansen on April 13th, 2009
There’s nothing like a new relationship that makes your daily life turn upside-down.
Just when you think you’re Ms. Independant. I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T. Some man or woman, to avoid being heteronormative, snatches it like a five finger discount.
Yes, I’m talking about me being in a new relationship. And yes, I just quoted two lame songs. Pardon me.
Right when you get past that weird stage where you can’t pick your nose or stuff your face with chips, new relationships become paradise.
New conversations, new inside jokes, that infaturation feeling, you can’t go wrong.
I’ve found someone who complements me perfectly. I’m a little off balance and he has a temperment that anyone would envy. He’s smart in a math and science way, I hold it down for the writing and creativity. I’m hilarious and he’s corny. I’m short and he’s tall. I’m cool and he’s square.
But we’re both redheads. Who would have thought?
I’m don’t mean to totally have my head up his ass but he’s great.
I’m afraid I’ve become attached to another wonderful man. Poor me.
What’s my secret? Besides the red hair and love potion I put behind my ears, its being completely honest about what I want and need. No games.
I hope everyone finds someone that complements them and has good times with. It makes life that much sweeter.
I’ve probably totally sapped this blog with mundane love language but this is what’s on my mind.
Till next time…
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April 13th, 2009
By chansen on April 13th, 2009
There’s nothing like a new relationship that makes your daily life turn upside-down.
Just when you think you’re Ms. Independant. I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T. Some man or woman, to avoid being heteronormative, snatches it like a five finger discount.
Yes, I’m talking about me being in a new relationship. And yes, I just quoted two lame songs. Pardon me.
Right when you get past that weird stage where you can’t pick your nose or stuff your face with chips, new relationships become paradise.
New conversations, new inside jokes, that infaturation feeling, you can’t go wrong.
I’ve found someone who complements me perfectly. I’m a little off balance and he has a temperment that anyone would envy. He’s smart in a math and science way, I hold it down for the writing and creativity. I’m hilarious and he’s corny. I’m short and he’s tall. I’m cool and he’s square.
But we’re both redheads. Who would have thought?
I’m don’t mean to totally have my head up his ass but he’s great.
I’m afraid I’ve become attached to another wonderful man. Poor me.
What’s my secret? Besides the red hair and love potion I put behind my ears, its being completely honest about what I want and need. No games.
I hope everyone finds someone that complements them and has good times with. It makes life that much sweeter.
I’ve probably totally sapped this blog with mundane love language but this is what’s on my mind.
Till next time…
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April 10th, 2009
By alarson on April 10th, 2009
Last year, I loved going to my night classes. I had one class every Monday and Wednesday that started at 5 p.m. And my favorite thing about it was that I could leave ten minutes before class started and still find a parking spot pretty easily.
But that is no longer the case.
Since the school has installed the new ticket dispensers in the stadium lot and in the parking structure, parking has been not only hard to find, but much more expensive. The one thing that really gets to me though, is the time changes of when a permit is needed.
Now that a permit is needed in these parking areas until 10 p.m., you have to pay almost all the time if you are on campus. Extremely annoying if it is a random night and you just want to go watch a basketball game. Just another obstacle people have to go through to go to Chico sports.
The parking lots should go back to the old time restrictions. Permits should not be needed after 6 p.m., the same time you no longer need to feed the meters located around campus. I know it would get me to campus for different events more often.
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April 10th, 2009
By tlawrence on April 10th, 2009
Ozzy Osbourne, The Prince of Darkness, the front man of the godfather of all heavy metal bands - Black Sabbath - is so NOT metal. There, I said it.
In fact, for the last decade or so he’s been indirectly helping the leaders of the right-wing corporate crusade to kill free-thinking institutions like heavy metal. Osbourne has gone from the Sabbath frontman that laughed at the “war pigs” eventual descent into hell and described in horror the plight of the war-ravaged soul of the Iron Man. Now I’m Paranoid that he was never metal after all, and that it’s not just the countless prescription pills that are making him a disgusting sell out. Yes, I’m a huge Metallica fan and I GET that part of heavy metal has become a certain amount of selling out and corporate profit. But there’s a line, people.
In the early 21st century, Ozzy, although hilarious, burst back onto the mainstream scene with his reality TV show that documented his family’s daily activities on MTV. Yeah, the same MTV that killed rock n’ roll, considered Poison the heaviest of metal and banishes actual real music to middle-of-the-night MTV 2. The Prince of Darkness… getting paid by MTV to sit on his ass and curse. Dude, that’s so NOT METAL!
Now, no matter what evils MTV has spurned on the world, and the world of music, they are saints in comparison to one Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, the owner of FOX and the head of a disgusting corporate chain that owns several of the most prominent national media outlets, has a new friend in Osbourne. His new variety show with his family entitled “Osbournes Reloaded” is about to begin on Murdoch’s monstrosity of a channel. Yeah, I love Family Guy and The Simpsons, but those are false characters that entertain me, not the former face of heavy metal and anti-commercialism succumbing to his newfound irrelevance in the music world.
Murdoch is the man who is at the top of corporate chains that have produced vomit-inducing Reagan-esque propaganda in the form of FOX News and has helped to ruin the integrity of print journalism by creating monsters of publications that have sensationalism and scandal to offer instead of effective muckraking and hard-line fact reporting. And now, the former face of Black Sabbath is basically shaking hands and making bank with the War Pigs and corrupt elites he once scorned with the rest of us.
Shame on you Ozzy, I’m calling bullshit on everything that you do from now on. You’re the man, Ronnie James Dio, I’m sorry for ever doubting you as Sabbath’s frontman.
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April 8th, 2009
By cegan on April 8th, 2009
Friends.
Some come, others go, but the real ones stick. I have been blessed with eight friends that not matter what time of night it is, I can call them no matter what. Through thick and thin, these friends have been through my trials and tribulations just as I have been there for theirs. Until recently, a particular friend and I have started to drift away from one another due to differences in opinion when it comes to boyfriends we choose to have in our lives. It is sad and alarming that something like this could drive us apart from one another. I consider this friend the sister I never had and hope we can overcome this.
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March 31st, 2009
By tmarucci on March 31st, 2009
As a college student, not getting enough sleep is a crime almost all of us commit. With study sessions, parties and late night out with friends, it’s almost impossible to catch enough “Zs.” Normally we brush it off, grab a cup of coffee or an energy drink and keep on going. And what do we do Saturday morning? Sleep until 1 p.m.?
Despite my lecturing, I know that I do this weekly because somehow I have a test every week. Not sure how that’s possible, but regardless, I run on about five hours of sleep a day. What makes me different from others is that I know that this is not OK. I know that I need to start my homework earlier, or go to bed earlier or do anything that will make me get my nightly eight hours.
As college students, we need to start realizing the pouring ounces of coffee or energy drinks down our throats is not good for our bodies (check up my upcoming article). This is not a solution to the problem. And anyway, getting an extra hour is sleep is better than studying that extra hour.
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