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Come, and marvel at the beauty. Stay, and contemplate the freshness. Sit, and consider what those flowers could mean to the future. And, after you’ve lingered long enough, think about what else they could mean.
What do you think? Yes or no?
I guess signs sometimes are aspirational, too.
Eight days after an Ironman and she’s back at it once again. We’re pretty incredible like that around here. It was a lovely day for it, too.
Stick around, flowering things; you’re too lovely to leave.
The precise midpoint of my bike ride home from campus is downhill.
That has to mean something, right?
We’re back in Bloomington. The race was Saturday. We all recovered a bit on Sunday. The recovery continued through an arduous return to the crossroads. We had a crew exchange problem during a layover in Minnesota. We stayed there longer than it would have taken to rent a car and drive down to our car. So we sat in airports a lot, big deal.
Anyway, on Sunday, we took an Uber for Whataburger:
Pretty chipper after a full day of racing.
We went to Rudy’s, a local barbecue chain, for dinner with friends Sunday night. Our driver that night said it was the best nearby option. He let you know there are better places out there, but within an easy Uber ride? This was the spot. And the food was great. The signage wasn’t bad, either.
Update:
Something got snuck into the last sign off of the year. The outgoing sports director, Auston Matricardi, on the left, caught it just in time to not read it.
This was such a fun group, all year long, and the graduating seniors will be missed. Next year’s group will have a lot of possibilities and a big reputation to fill in the award-winning IUSTV sports department. Their last shows of the year will be online tomorrow.
Here’s this week’s news shows. This first one features the rising news director and a graduating senior:
And this one has the final sign off of the outgoing news director. She’ll graduate next week and will be on the air in Illinois almost immediately.
And with the year wrapping up, I brag to everyone who will listen. For example, the sports guys swept an entire statewide sports reporting contest. Some other factoids …
Wrapped the last @IUSTV shoot for the year. They produced 158 shows.
Eight reporters got award honors. Entertainment produced a huge award winner, even more nominees.
158! Thanks, you guys.#StudentMediaIsAwesome pic.twitter.com/3uRZiFghal
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) April 25, 2019
And they do it around classes and work schedules and everything else. They do it because they believe us when we tell them that it will be helpful to them. And indeed, it is. You should see where these folks go in their internships and their first jobs. It’s a remarkable thing, how student media helps set up young media types. It’s lovely to see them bloom.
UPDATE: Here are the last sports shows of the year. First is the full show from the featured clip above. In the second video, the new talk show host takes the reins of The Toss Up.
