On Saturday morning I got up at 5:00 am. My friends Mike and Kerry wanted to go to Santa Cruz to buy snowboards at the Santa Cruz board factory sale. The sale started at 8, but Mike wanted to get there early so he didn’t miss the good stuff. That meant we were going to leave at 6. With about a 20 minutes of driving between Mike and I, that meant I was up at 5. ...
As most of you know, Obama will be our next president. I’m quite happy about this because I’m looking forward to change. I don’t like the way things are at the moment, so change will probably be for the better (hopefully). Despite the prospect for national change, I’m really rather sad to see that locally we will be changing as well. It is no longer legal to marry someone of the same sex in the state of California. This was enacted by proposition 8, which was passed by a close margin. I’m not completely knowledgeable about the proposition or the exact rights of married couples in the state of CA, but I just don’t understand why we have to strip these associations away from same sex couples. It’s about oppression; about preventing others who are different from sharing in a joy that you (as a heterosexual) engage in. More than half of the state feels this way. ...
For some reason I try to keep myself objective when I coach. I don’t want to play favorites; I want to be fair; I want to have logical reasons for why I do everything I do. This is one way to coach, but the more I think about it, the more I dislike this method. I’m not getting closer to the kids, I’m not learning about them, and I’m keeping them from learning about me. I’m hoping to change this. This post is about the first steps. ...
Today my CheerGyms open team competed at a Jamfest nationals. This is the second year I’ve competed at Jamfest, funny that both of the times I’ve competed at a jamfest, my team won. Both times we competed on purple mats, though I hear they have other colors as well. It was a good competition, though the awards were long after the cheer competition and they kept us there late. We were the only team competing in level six, so we won, but it was an empty win because there was no competition. Still the team started to come together, and I started to feel like a part of it. For the first time in a long time, I’m excited about next weekends practice. ...
I met a few great people today. A few weeks back I received an email from the Headquarters of Sigma Nu about joining the Alumni Board at a local college. For those of you who don’t know, in college I joined the Sigma Nu Fraternity and met many great friends. The problem was that I was overly committed to cheerleading, and while I wanted to help the fraternity, I didn’t get as much of an opportunity to do that in school. ...