P-5

My next choice blog will be about the movie Olympus Has Fallen.  This one of the better movies that I have seen in a while.  It was about the North Koreans taking over the White House and killing basically every guard or person protecting the president.  They killed all but one man, Gerard Butler, who was the President's guard before he let the first lady die.  The North Koreans have the president and other high officials down in the bunker of the White House.  Gerard Butler goes around the White House being pretty bad ass, killing every Korean and working his way down to the President.  Gerard is the only contact the FBI and Pentagon have inside the White House, so he keeps in touch with them, letting them know what is going on.  Meanwhile, the mastermind in the bunker with the President is forcing the President and other to give up these three codes.  With these codes they could detonate all of the United States nuclear weapons at one time.  It is basically impossible to break the codes or try to guess them all at once. There are three codes and one code is given to three people. They torture the first two codes out of the two people and the only need one more code, the President's code.  They some how easily break the code and then the Nukes are about to go off.  This is the part where everyone is holding their breath waiting to see what happens.  Gerard Butler breaks in the bunker, notices that the President is hurt so he tends to him.  He does not know that they have accessed the codes so he does not try and deactivate them right away.  In a last effort he contacts the Pentagon and they tell him another code to deactivate the nukes.  He ends up deactivating them and he saves the U.S.. Then he gets his job back.  Boom.

P-4

I am writing my choice blog on how I had to work on draft day.  I forgot to request off from work a couple weeks before the draft so by the time I realized that, I could not get off.  By the time the draft came around, Darrow’s was poppin’.   I had no time to sit down and watch most of the first round.  I was stuck in the kitchen washing dishes.  Every chance I could, I went out to the bar to see if a team had picked their player.  They really need to give teams less time to draft a player.  It literally takes forever.  I was really upset that I finally got to see who the Bills had picked, but when I got out there, they had traded away their pick.  So that was really really cool.  I went back into the kitchen and was greeted by more dishes!  That was awesome.  I kept missing each pick and was getting more and more frustrated.  Finally I got out to the bar and saw that it was the Bill’s turn to draft.  I waited patiently for them to draft and it took forever.  When I saw that they had drafted E.J. Manuel, I was shocked.   I thought for sure that they were going to draft Nassib in the first round.  After that, I went back to work and at about 10:45 I got to sit down and watch the Green Bay Packers draft in the 26^th round.  They ended up picking Datone Jones, a defensive end from UCLA.  He looked like a beast.  The Packers really needed some good defensive guys, so I was excited.  I cooked up some food for the road.  I made some garlic parmesan chicken wings and was on my way home.  At least I got to see the Bills and Packers draft.

P-2

I set many goals back in September and I feel like I accomplished more of them.  I set a goal of going further into the football season than last year.  We did go farther; we made it to the semifinals.  I also set a goal for having my grades in the nineties.  My grades have not been below a ninety-three this year so far.  Another goal I set in the earlier part of the year was to join new clubs that I have not been a part of in the past.  I joined the Donate Life Club this year, and it has been excellent.  I also wanted to attend the school’s events like all of the dances.  I did that and they were all fun.  I also wanted to know what I would want to do with my life by this time in the year, and I have figured it out.  I am going to school to become an accountant.  I will get my Master’s degree in accounting from Daemen College.   I am excited to get my life started and get out of this high school.  I really want to meet new people and get out of my house.  I feel like I accomplished most of my goals that I set out earlier in the year.   Even though I kind have eased off the gas petal when it comes to school work, I still get it done.   My hands are starting to hurt and I really want to stop writing blogs, so I am going to start to b.s. my way through the rest of this one.  I really did not set any more goals for the year so I am done.  Goals are important because they give you something to work for.  Without anything to work for, why try.

P-1

I find myself watching too much television.  Whenever I am at home or have free time, I usually watch television.  I probably should study more or even do my homework.  I tend to watch a lot of shows on the history channel and the discovery channel.  I am very interested in the shows like “Mountain Men” or “The Office.”  The television show that I like the most is Duck Dynasty.  The way these guys live their life is so much different than mine, so I am very intrigued.  My favorite character on Duck Dynasty is Si.  He is an old man who just does not care.  I also find myself watching an insane amount of sports.  I watch ESPN every day.  I watch most Sabre’s games, all the Bill’s games, and a lot of Redsox games.  I feel that me watching a lot of television is a bad thing.  Whenever I watch television, I tend to eat a lot of food.  I feel like I would lose a significant amount of weight if I stopped watching so much television.  There are some goods to watching television.  For example, you could watch the news to stay informed about you city or community.  Also, if you’re a bad cook, you could watch the cooking channel and learn!  I will continue to watch the same amount of television in the future.  I think that watching television is a bad thing and a good thing.  Reality television is what is tearing the younger generation to pieces.  Shows like Jersey Shore are dumbing down society.   This is very sad.  I tried to watch one of the episodes and had to shut it off pretty quickly.  The people in those shows just do very stupid things and It is sad that people actually look up to them.

O-5 My process

I probably have the easiest job here at the Bulldog.  I have the article topic of “Athlete of the Week.”  Each issue I always have stuff to write about.  Mrs. V sends over a write up of the athletes that were selected for Athlete of the Week and I basically read it and then write my own version of it.  In the past I have not constructed interviews with the athletes, but now I am starting to.  I love displaying the achievements of the athletes here at Alden.  It is a privilege.  The only hard thing is about writing Athlete of the Week is that because our articles run every two weeks, it is hard to catch up with it because there are different athlete selected each week.  Also I hate when we are between sport seasons because that means there are no games being played, which means no athletes are performing, which means there is no Athlete of the Week.  During that time, I struggle finding article topics.  I usually scramble around last minute and try to write something.  I really have to thank Mrs. V for all the work she does sending over the write up and keeping me updated.  I really enjoy writing the Athlete of the Week.  I hope someday I could write about myself, but that has not happened yet.  I write about a girl and a guy each week that displays excellence during games or matches.  It keeps me updated with which athletes are performing well in their sports.  It gives me the chance to congratulate them on their achievements.  One criticism for Mr. Currin is that he never puts my article in the Athlete of the Week section of the Bulldog.  He always just throws it carelessly into the sports section of the news.  #GetWithIt

O-4 My Father

My Father is one special guy.  He pretty much runs the show at my church.  Every Sunday, he preaches the word of God.  His name is Father Joe.  He is a very nice fellow and knows what is right and wrong.  It seems like he has his life in order and has good morals.  I can talk to him about anything and he always gives me the greatest advice.   I always ask him how comfortable those collar things are, but he always bats the question out of the way.  He respects me and I respect him.  We always seem to get along.  That is probably because we are really awesome people.   He is really good at basketball and I always play with him in the church gymnasium.  He always defeats me.  I suck.  He enjoys listening to country music and he plays in a country music band, called “Our Father.”  It is basically a Willie Nelson cover band.  He sings all of his songs and is actually really good.  He played many sports back in the day, like football, baseball and basketball.  He was the quarterback for his football team, but I forgot the name of his school.  He led his team to a division championship, so I guess he was pretty good.  In baseball, he holds the record for homeruns and for the lowest ERA in his school history.  In basketball, he was the all-star.  He averaged 19 points a game.  It is safe to say that he is an all-around great guy.  If I learned anything from this guy, it would be to never resort to vegetarianism.  The stuff is wack.  He told me that all vegetarians are borderline serial killers!  That sketched me out pretty bad.  The moral of the story is to never be a vegetarian.  If you ever see one, kill it.  They eat hummus.