School's Out Forever

Well, I'm finally finished.

It only took seven years, but I finally have concluded my college career. I ended it with a degree in education and an added major in journalism. Whew.

The last few days have been pretty eerie. I haven't ever been completely done with school until now and it's really kind of depressing. Going to school at WMU was easily the best time of my life and I'm going to miss it. I think working at the Herald and making a lot of friends added to the depression of it all because now that is over too.

I'm eager to see where my life goes now, however. It'll be very interesting to see where I end up at the end of this fall. Scary, but exciting at the same time. We'll see what happens!

Hopefully, with my family here this weekend, that will help lift my spirits. But for now, I'll keep twisting my mind around the thought that this is all over with...

Off to drink a few beverages and watch the Red Wings.

Western Herald Banquet

2008-09 Western Herald editorial staff: (From left to right) Managing Editor Zach Reichard, Arts Editor Chris Kato, Photo Editor Karie Kuiper, Editor in Chief Sara Waisanen, News Editor Ashley Wioskowski, Sports Editor Mike Feld, Web Manager Kris Hitchcock.

Above: Zach giving me the thumbs up before everyone handed out their awards for the year.


Most of us are nearing the end of working at the Western Herald. We had our banquet last Friday and it was a lot of fun. We inhaled some food, took lots of pictures, bought each other drinks and danced like crazy (even I made it out there -- shocking!). We then followed that up by continuing the party at Chris' apartment. Twas a lot of fun. Just four more papers due out before I'm done and moving on to something new! We'll see what this summer holds.

We are in-season (sports, that is)

We are officially now in-season for sports, according to me. Baseball season has started, basketball and hockey playoffs are about to begin and racing and golf season is in full swing. I am a follower of Formula One racing as well and that has been of interest to me as of late. A brand new team -- Brawn (with veteran driver Jenson Button at the helm) -- has won the first two races nearly from start to finish. The picture above is Button driving through the rain-shortened race (just 31 laps) in Malaysia last weekend. He cruised to the victory for his second straight win. It's nice to see him have some success after years stuck with mediocre teams.

The Tigers had a rough go at it in their opener today. They lost 12-5 to the Blue Jays and Verlander gave up eight runs in the loss. It's only one game, but it's not the start the Tigers obviously wanted. Tomorrow is a new day however. Brand new Tiger, Edwin Jackson takes the mound to hopefully flash his repetoire. There is no doubt in my mind that the offense will get things going soon to help out the questionable pitching.

I'll have more of sports-related randomness and other doings later this week or this weekend.