best weekend in a long time.
yesterday was probably my favorite college football experience of my life. in my years at MSU we never won against michigan. and this year has been such an exciting year for our team, and I'm so happy and proud of what they've accomplished. after my interview for the editor position at threshold (more on that in a bit) friday afternoon, I hit the road back to michigan and didn't get home until close to 11pm. yesterday was a long day of driving into ann arbor, parking, finding my older brother's former college roommate's tailgate, spending hours there drinking beer and eating great food and co-existing with some decent michigan alums, and then finally getting into the stadium for the game. I loved our first drive and how hard we worked, even though we had so many chances to build our lead and somehow left many points on the field.
but the fourth quarter was just flipping amazing. all of a sudden the spartan fans were louder, and our team was stronger, and eventually we took over the entire stadium. I got a video of the fans doing the "go green, go white" cheer across the stadium and nothing could be done to block us out. our band was louder and I think by the end of the game, michigan fans had the fight song memorized. it was the best redemption... every awful loss and disappointment... it feels like that whole weight has been lifted. I was so happy to be there with my brothers and amanda, all of us spartans, and have things actually go our way.
although it took hours to get home because we stayed past the end of the game, it was all worth it. it was just plain fantastic.
and today I had another wonderful thing happen.
this past spring I submitted poems to depaul's literary magazine, threshold, and they chose one of my poems for the spring publication. they even had a small reception when the book was released and I did a reading of my poem. well fast-forward to this fall, there were signs up about applying to become an editor of threshold. I've been so busy this quarter taking three classes instead of two, and preparing for confirmation, that I thought it would be crazy to add something else to my plate. well luckily I went to my poetry professor's office hours one afternoon to chat about poetry and life and possibly doing an independent study in the spring... he suggested that I think about applying for the editor position. well, the deadline was the following day, so I had to go home after class that night and prepare my application letter, and then quickly head to campus on friday to drop it off before driving home to michigan. after a couple weeks I ran into one of my other professors at starbucks... he used to be the main advisor for threshold, and let me know that I was going to be hearing about interviews for the following week because they liked my application. fast-forward to this past friday where I had my interview in the afternoon. I was very nervous and had been considering different ideas for the magazine based on the issue I was published in. the interview ended up going really well and I think I truly charmed the pants off of them. I've come to realize how passionate I am about participating in a community of writers and stepping into an editor's role even in my workshop classes.
so I was supposed to be hearing from them early this coming week, but this afternoon I got an email letting me know that I am the co-editor with another girl who is an undergrad at depaul. I am SO excited! everything's going to be happening very quickly but I'm excited and nervous and ready for the challenge. much of the work will begin in the winter and spring quarters. I will even be able to get internship credit in the spring, allowing me to have only one actual class for the spring quarter, which will be wonderful. I'm really excited to see how everything works and see if this is the kind of job for me.
so yeah, definitely one of the best weekends I've had in awhile. and I'm really looking forward to seeing zack this afternoon. with the election he's been very busy and it's tough to see each other on the weekends... and we never get to see each other during the week. winter break can't come quickly enough! :)
but the fourth quarter was just flipping amazing. all of a sudden the spartan fans were louder, and our team was stronger, and eventually we took over the entire stadium. I got a video of the fans doing the "go green, go white" cheer across the stadium and nothing could be done to block us out. our band was louder and I think by the end of the game, michigan fans had the fight song memorized. it was the best redemption... every awful loss and disappointment... it feels like that whole weight has been lifted. I was so happy to be there with my brothers and amanda, all of us spartans, and have things actually go our way.
although it took hours to get home because we stayed past the end of the game, it was all worth it. it was just plain fantastic.
and today I had another wonderful thing happen.
this past spring I submitted poems to depaul's literary magazine, threshold, and they chose one of my poems for the spring publication. they even had a small reception when the book was released and I did a reading of my poem. well fast-forward to this fall, there were signs up about applying to become an editor of threshold. I've been so busy this quarter taking three classes instead of two, and preparing for confirmation, that I thought it would be crazy to add something else to my plate. well luckily I went to my poetry professor's office hours one afternoon to chat about poetry and life and possibly doing an independent study in the spring... he suggested that I think about applying for the editor position. well, the deadline was the following day, so I had to go home after class that night and prepare my application letter, and then quickly head to campus on friday to drop it off before driving home to michigan. after a couple weeks I ran into one of my other professors at starbucks... he used to be the main advisor for threshold, and let me know that I was going to be hearing about interviews for the following week because they liked my application. fast-forward to this past friday where I had my interview in the afternoon. I was very nervous and had been considering different ideas for the magazine based on the issue I was published in. the interview ended up going really well and I think I truly charmed the pants off of them. I've come to realize how passionate I am about participating in a community of writers and stepping into an editor's role even in my workshop classes.
so I was supposed to be hearing from them early this coming week, but this afternoon I got an email letting me know that I am the co-editor with another girl who is an undergrad at depaul. I am SO excited! everything's going to be happening very quickly but I'm excited and nervous and ready for the challenge. much of the work will begin in the winter and spring quarters. I will even be able to get internship credit in the spring, allowing me to have only one actual class for the spring quarter, which will be wonderful. I'm really excited to see how everything works and see if this is the kind of job for me.
so yeah, definitely one of the best weekends I've had in awhile. and I'm really looking forward to seeing zack this afternoon. with the election he's been very busy and it's tough to see each other on the weekends... and we never get to see each other during the week. winter break can't come quickly enough! :)