Blog 4

What is up everybody?

I am back for another blog. Today's blog is going to be about my life and how it is going. After watching the Super Bowl yesterday I am really exhausted after getting excited about it. I wanted the Arizona Cardinals to win so bad because of there quarterback Kurt Warner. He used to play for the St. Louis Rams and they got rid of him for some odd reason, but I was wanting him to win bad.

Anyway, to get on with how my life has been lately. My life is revolving around three things. My girlfriend, school/work, and sports. My girlfriend goes to EIU and is majoring in Journalism and works at the radio station with me and also at the Daily Eastern News. Without her in my life, I can not imagine how my would be. School is going good so far. I am taking three classes along with a practicum. My classes include Advance Video Production, Computer Mediated Communications. and Advertising. My practicum includes working in the Coleman Hall radio lab seven hours a week throughout the whole semester. The main focus is assisting students with Adobe Audition. My three classes are going to be a lot of fun and have been so far. I can not wait to the end of the semester, so I can graduate and get out of college.

Now on to the work part of my life. I currently have three jobs, but only work at two during the school year. I work at Hitmix 88.9 WEIU, Cromwell Radio Group, and at Niemerg's Steak House in Effingham. I have not work at Niemerg's since the beginning of the school year, but will return to work as a dishwasher during the summer time. My job at WEIU consist of me being Disc Jockey. Other jobs I have done is voicetrack, production, sports, and the morning show. I currently am on the radio from 3 to 5 every Tuesday and Thursday. My shows consist of playing good music, taking people's request, and the bonehead of the day. The bonehead of the day is I find a story of a certain person or people that do stupid things, and I tell that over the air and I ask what are they thinking. I enjoy working as much as possible there. It gives me good experience and I am always learning on the job. My other job at 95.7 WCRC in Effingham consists of production, sports broadcasting, and board operation. I broadcast all the Effingham Flaming Hearts basketball and football games all year round. I really enjoy doing this because that is what I want to do in my life, and I love doing it. I am also the board operator for Illinois Fighting Illini basketball games. This duty is also really exciting because when I am working I am listening to the games and playing the commercials too. In the future I hope to move myself up the ladder at WCRC and get a job as DJ and my own show that would be really cool.

Last but not least, I am going to talk about the sports part of my life. If I did not have sports in my life I would be bored to tears. I like watching St. Louis Blues hockey games, college basketball games, and sometimes poker whenever its on television. Those are the sports I like to watch, but in my spare time I like to play poker for money, and yes sometimes I do win money. During the winter time, I also like to go bowling. I have a bowling team on Wednesday nights with my friends, and we have a really fun time. I really enjoy bowling because it is a challenge to keep my average at 188. My goal at the end of the season is to have it at 190. My goal also is to bowl above a 275 this year and to get a 700 series. I have bowled a 700 series before but that was three years ago, but I think I am overdue on it. My previous career high game is 269. Also came back three years ago as well. It would also be very exciting if my bowling team could win first place in the league and win the 500 dollars at stake. Our team did it back in 2007 I believe we can do it again.

So, that is how my life is going on at this moment, and I could not say how happy I really am. I am enjoying the final semester in school, with the girlfriend, friends, and family. Well time for me to go out today, but next time on the RitzBitz blog I will be back to discuss on how the National Trail Conference Tournament went and discuss some about the Super Bowl and it's commercials.