Day 204: Throwback to my online course

First of all, Merry Christmas.

Now, my real reason for posting is out of amusement. Somehow, I think via a demonstration of interest after receiving a plea from the Mizzou Mafia list serv, I ended up on Current magazine's reporter email list. I occasionally get emails with story deadlines, ideas, etc. from editors there and usually delete them. A while ago, I got an email plea for an interview from a reporter writing a story about online courses and degrees. Being the gracious person I am (or maybe it was because I was procrastinating on writing a Spanish paper) I responded and offered myself up as a source for the story... after all, I did take my lovely online course this past summer. Well, to make a long story short, today I performed my periodic Google Name Check (aka I Googled my name to see what exactly prospective employers/long lost loves/etc. find if and when they Google me) and I came across the lovely article that I completely forgot about. I didn't read the whole thing - just the parts where I'm quoted, but from what I saw the reporter did a good job. Reading the story from the other side (source rather than reporter) I am pleased to be represented fairly and accurately, and with some lovely quotes. Although, I do suppose my being "offended" by someone receiving an MU journalism degree online is a bit of an overstatement. I must have been dramatic in my email interview.

Day 196: Free T-shirt? No thanks.

Graduation nostalgia aside (I will touch on that at a later date), if there is one thing I have learned today, it is this: I have way too many t-shirts. I probably own enough t-shirts to clothe a small Missouri town of size smalls. While washing seven loads of laundry today (okay, so I haven't done laundry in over a month), I noted that my t-shirts all fit into six handy categories:

1) ZTA
2) Mizzou spirit
3) Campus events
4) Blood drives
5) High school cross country
5) Shows I've seen
6) Shows I've been in

I can barely think of one t-shirt I own that does not fit into one of the above categories. How inane. Someone please stop me the next time I want to participate in something for a free t-shirt.