Lots of Links

I just sent one of my professors an email of everything I've written for the USOC so far, so I thought I'd post it here, too, in case any of you were interested in reading my work!  I'll also be posting some pictures later today!

Here are my blog posts in no particular order:

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/2026-surprise-success

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/1978-winning-as-a-team

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/1931-embracing-the-struggle

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/1965-turning-the-tables

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/1988-it-s-your-team-too

http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access/posts/2001-trust-your-instincts

They should all be aggregated at http://www.teamusa.org/blogs/all-access but right now that page of the website is down for maintenance.

Here are a couple of other things I've worked on:

http://www.teamusa.org/multimedia/photo_gallery/1706?ngb_id=3 (Community Day photo gallery)

http://www.teamusa.org/news/2010/06/29/community-appreciation-day-at-the-usoc/36888?ngb_id=3 (Community Day story)

http://www.teamusa.org/news/2010/06/24/jones-inspired-o-lympic-path/36785?ngb_id=3 (Christina Jones synchronized swimming story)

http://www.teamusa.org/news/2010/06/15/featured-athlete-lopez-lomong/36561?ngb_id=3 (Lopez Lomong story)

http://www.teamusa.org/multimedia/photo_gallery/1695 (Weekly Olym-pics photo gallery including three photos I took)

I've also been writing the daily "In the News" section, which is located daily on the homepage.

Weekend Update

Okay, I'm terrible at updating this thing.

I blame the fact that I'm blogging for TeamUSA.org, keeping a daily journal for internship credit, and keeping my usual personal journal on top of all that.  Good thing I like to write, eh?

This weekend, I headed up to Denver for the second time since I came to Colorado.  I went to a Rockies game with some of the other interns and my friends from Ball State, Steven and Josh.  Coors Field was amazing!  The view was incredible...you can see the mountains from just about everywhere!  It was a good game, too.  The Rockies ended up beating the Brewers 8-7, but it really came down to the last inning.  Everyone was on their feet at the end...the last at-bat took FOREVER because of four foul balls.  After the game, I walked around downtown Denver with Steven, Josh, and Jon (an intern), then Jon and I came back to Colorado Springs late.

Last week was a busy one at work.  Our cable wasn't working in the office, so I found feeds online for everyone to watch the USA vs. Slovenia World Cup game on Friday.  I updated the website all during the game so that people could get live updates, so it was a fun morning at work.  I'm still slightly bitter about the goal that the USA scored but the ref didn't count...

Last Thursday, a bunch of the interns had a random toga party.  It's a fun bunch of people, so we tend to do random things like that!  I've also made friends with a couple of athletes and they've been hanging out with us, too!  So, here are some pictures for you all...

Me (in a toga) and Alexy, one of the gymnasts

5th trip to the Incline...down to 52 minutes!

Interns at the Finish Line, a bar across the street from the OTC

Mmm...Success!

I apologize for the lack of constant updates!  I've been keeping busy with work and new friends, so I haven't had much time for blogging here!  I am, however, keeping another blog for the USOC...it's called the All Access Blog.  Technically, there are four or five people who have the ability to post to it, but so far it's mainly been me posting to it because I really enjoy writing the entries.  You can click here to read my latest entry...click on the title at that page and it will take you to a list of the rest of the entries.

Thursday and Friday were both very exciting days at work for me.  On Thursday, my blog entry that I posted above ended up getting nearly 3,000 hits!  Apolo Ohno posted a link to it on his Twitter account, and Travis Jayner (another speedskater that I admire) and US Speedskating also retweeted the post (for those of you who don't speak Twitter, "retweeting" is basically reposting another person's post so that more people can see it).  Needless to say, I was pretty pleased.  It's been awhile since I've really gotten to write freely and creatively, and it appears that I didn't lose my knack for it!

On Friday, one of my supervisors took me to the downtown headquarters to some meetings.  I met with a person from Development because I rewrote a donor letter for them.  They LOVED it!  That one was about Lopez Lomong, a runner for Team USA in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  It's really awesome that I'm getting these opportunities this early in my internship!  Hopefully, that means that someday I can get a job in this field!

Last night, I went out with some of the other interns.  Today's kind of a cold, rainy day here, so we're probably just going to hang out, watch the World Cup (Go USA!), maybe go outlet shopping and relax!