interview

Today, I had the pleasure of conducting an interview with my new friend Rachel. Upon speaking, I learned that her full name is actually Rachel Renee Helms. I also learned that her favorite sport is softball. Her favorite movie is Dear John, and to no surprise her favorite actor is Channing Tatum. I also learned that Ms. Helms was born on June 6, her favorite color is green, and her BFF (best friend forever) is Rachel Kibler. As you can see, they have some things in common; not only the name, but they both enjoy the color green. Also, they both like the winter season, and say that it is their favorite. Rachel has 3 brothers. Robby is the oldest, then Ryan (who was once my AJF football coach) and her younger brother is named Jordan. When I asked Rachel about Abby Kryzack, who rudely interrupted my interview, Rachel said that she likes Abby. From this I learned that Rachel is a kind individual. Today, Rachel experienced her first Holiday Havoc, during advisement, and she said that she enjoyed it. For some strange reason, her favorite animal is a monkey. Her favorite clothing article happens to be sweat pants. If she could live in either the country or city, she would choose the country. She likes Pepsi over Coke. I then gave her a scenario; I said she could either sit in a white room and do nothing from 5am to 8pm Monday- Friday, and receive 1 million dollars a month or do her dream job for minimum wage, she chooses the dream job. Her favorite food is chicken of all kinds, she chooses Canada over Mexico, and she would like to drive a Lamborghini. She’d rather live underwater than on the moon, if she had one wish, it would be for millions of dollars, and she prefers Nike over Adidas and Under Amor.

H2

What would I do to change the world for better? Wow. That’s potentially a very deep question, full of possible options.  Now of course, helping out the needy is the place where most people look to start. But let’s be honest for a minute. Yes, it’s wonderful to volunteer for things like soup kitchens and such, but is doing that really going to change the world? There’s only so much time to volunteer, and there’s only so many people that one person can help.  So I’ve come to the conclusion that in order to really change the world for the better, having money is the place to start. Whether it be making hefty donations, or building establishments to help people, a lot of money is needed. I think that if I was really going to change the world for a better place I would have to become the president of the United States first. So after that, I honestly think that the best plan to help the nation would be to bring back the idea of trickle-down economics, the idea that was originally founded by Ronald Reagan. The system works in an interesting way. The facts are as the following: the top 1 percent wealthiest people in the United States control 99 percent of the nation’s wealth. So that’s quite a bit. So the system works like this: the wealthiest people, who continue bringing in the largest pay checks will take a reduction that will then “trickle down” to the classes below, and so on. It probably wouldn’t be spot on with Ronny Reagan’s idea, but it’s similar so he needs some credit. And I see the United States as being a role model for the rest of the world, so maybe other countries would catch on and do the same. It might be a little bit farfetched, but hey, anything’s possible.

H1 Choice- Denver Nuggets

For my choice blog this week, I am going to write about my favorite NBA team in the Western Conference; the Denver Nuggets. Two years ago, the Nuggets traded away the best small forward in the league, Carmelo Anthony, as well as Chauncey Billups and later in the season, they traded their star big man, Nene. Now, without a star caliber player, most people would think that the Nuggets would end up being a last place team the west. But instead, the Nuggets have done what few other teams have ever accomplished. The Nuggets have a roster full of solid players, without extreme egos. The usual starting lineup for the Nuggets consists of Ty Lawson, who is considered their franchise point guard. He is a tiny guy, only 5’11, but he uses his quickness, skilled passing, and excellent 3 point ability to be successful. At the shooting guard position, the Nuggets have Andre Igoduala. He is a solid offensive and defensive player, who excels with passing and dunking ability. At the small forward is the Italian born Danilo Gallinari. He is another good 3 point shooter. The power forward is young gun Kenneth Faried. Faried is a sophomore this year, and he excels by throwing down big dunks on fast breaks, and he is also a solid rebounder. The center spot goes to a freak of an athlete in Javale McGee. He has nowhere to go but up, and he will grow into that star center that head coach George Karl is looking for. The sixth men are Andre Miller, an experienced point guard with great passing abilities, a young guard/forward in Jordan Hamilton, who is a great offensive player. Next is Evan Fournier, the rookie from France, who is a solid shooter, and the last major contribute is Wilson Chandler, an all-around small forward.

G4 Knicks

For my fourth and final choice blog this week, I am going to talk about the New York Knicks once again, and give an update on their season, and preview the rest of the season. Who would have thought that without Jeremy Lin and Amar’e Stoudamire, the New York Knicks would be in first place in the Eastern Conference? It’s been a wonderful start to the season for the Knicks, as they hold a 14-4 record, after beating the second place Heat last night. The craziest part about this is that the Knicks star Carmelo Anthony (who is 3^rd in the league in scoring) was out with a finger injury, and behind 27 points from point guard Raymond Felton, the Knicks were able to pull off a win with a 10 point margin. This season could be absolutely huge for the Knickerbockers, as they are a favorite to win the NBA championship. And what a year it could be for Carmelo Anthony. We all knew that he could score, but he is also averaging 6.7 rebounds as well as 26 points. He is currently ranked 2^nd in the MVP race, behind Kevin Durant. If he could win the MVP, and the Knicks win the championship, (which would most likely result in Melo receiving the finals MVP as well) all Anthony critics could be silenced, as many believe that he is currently the best player without a championship. This season is huge for the Knicks. If I was in charge, I can’t say that I’d change much. Felton (averaging 15 points per game and leading the league in 3’s) is having a wonderful year. But I think that Stoudamire’s got to go. Right now he’s hurting the organization more than he’s helping. I think they should trade him for a decent player, maybe a David Lee or Timofy Mosgov. That’s just my opinion, go Knicks!

G3 LOG OFF

For my 3^rd choice blog this week, I would like to talk of the importance of signing off of your computer once you are finished with it. If one does not log off of their computer, then someone could easily mess with the things that you have worked on. I mean unless of course the person that now controls your account is a nice person. Now let me tell you, Gage Morris is one of these nice people. I honestly can say that I owe Gage Morris probably my life if nothing else. He easily could have destroyed my account in my act of carelessness, but instead, he left me a simple message which contains the following message:

 Once upon a time there was a boy named Austin Zelasko. Secretly, he was envious of another boy in his grade. Austin had pictures and posters of this boy up on his wall. This boy’s name was Gage Morris, and he was so good at everything including everything. Austin was especially jealous of Gage’s parkour skills; he was so good at it. One day Austin worked up the nerve to talk to Gage, because he idolized him. “uhh… H..Hi Gage” Austin stuttered. “What do you want?” Replied Gage, caused people like Gage weren’t supposed to be caught hanging with people like Austin. “I.. I just wanted to tell you how awesome you are, and how you’re so good at everything, and I wish I were more like you.” Austin managed to blurt out, he was about to pass out because Gage was acknowledging him. “Yeah whatever, I already know wall that stuff. I completely get told that every day by everybody I see.” Suddenly Austin died. The end.

Moral of the story: Always log off your computer when you’re done using it.

G.2 Dislikes

For one of the 4 choice blogs this week, I will be writing about a lot of the things that I dislike. It’s quite simple, and I’m just going to talk about things that I don’t like, under no specific category. First I do not like during sports games, when I personally play well, but we lose the game. It’s not fun. I suppose it’s better to win and personally play bad, but both sides have obvious positives and negatives. Another thing that I don’t like is Adidas. Not the shoes, not the clothes, but just the brand in general. I don’t really like anything about it. I don’t even really like any of the sponsor athletes/ celebrities. For example, Robert Griffin III, Dwight Howard, Mario Chalmers, Niki Manaj, and others are not on the list of my favorite famous people. Another dislike of mine is LeBron James. I can’t stand him. Or anything about him. I don’t like the New York Yankees either. It must be easy to win a lot when you’ve got the largest salary cap in the league. And they’re cheaters. They have the shortest outfield in the league, making homeruns virtually easy for the players. I don’t like The Dallas Cowboys either, for the record. And I’m not really a fan of Arby’s either. They don’t amuse me. I also dislike the president. Ron Paul should be the current US president but for some reason, America is too blind to realize that, and for the next election, when I am eligible to vote, he will become the next president, no doubt. I am not a fan of jazz music either. Or poetry. Or earth science, it’s an awful class. One more thing that I dislike is the Spanish language. I will never fully agree with the reason in which we have to learn it. This is America people.