Craziness!!!

Hey all my wonderful readers! Well, it's been awhile since my lasts posts. As a matter of fact we've almost completed our second project. WOOHOO!

The UMB Homelessness Challenge has been incredibly busy, but we're fighting it out to the end and we're doing everything possible to win this challenge over the 2580 Closers! (Doh, did I just diminish their numbers?? Sorry, guys, you know that whole dyslexic thing… just catches me by surprise sometimes. :P ) As some of you may have already noticed if you're resident Metro Students or Staff, is that we are currently running a Tool Drive on Campus. If you aren't a student/staff member well then here's my ad spot:

The "A" Team is currently running a Tool Drive on the Auraria Campus. Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 27^th, and Thursday, February 28^th, we will be collecting tools for El Centro Humanitario para Los Trabajadores (The Humanitarian Center for the Workers). El Centro is a Non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the rights and well-being of day laborers in Denver through education, job skills and leadership development, united in action and advocacy. Their goals are to develop a sense of community and self sufficiency among workers and to foster worker ownership over El Centro. We have a few drop locations across campus including the Alumni Association Office, the Student Life Office, the Auraria Campus Library, and our final drop location will be in the Flagpole Courtyard between the library and Plaza building between the hours of 11:00am and 6:00pm.

Also a note for all of those who enjoy winning things, the next two days we will be running a raffle. It will be the "bring a tool; get entered to win a prize" days. Our prizes will range from coffee to Metro gear and then maybe a grand prize drawing for something pretty special, but you'll have to show up to find out what it is. J

Alongside of the business of this project, I have been working like mad at my job and all of the sudden my professors decided that it was time to lay down the loads of homework, so I've been reading and writing like mad!!! Hopefully I'll get my things together soon and maybe my life will return to a normalcy in the near future. Haha, not!!!

I have been having fun though! As some of you may have noticed via the Homecoming slide shows that the publications office put out, I am featured in one of the pictures as a dirtied-up "Ore digger" as a costume for the Homecoming Costume contest. Surprisingly, the judges choose my costume over my competitor's, the lovely ladies from the Metro softball team, one of which was dressed up as a mean looking alligator. Yay for a little fun going competition. Thank you to the Office of Student Life for putting on that competition. I love my pink IPod; I've been listening to it a lot! (Also, you all should go check out the Softball team at their games. I hear they're gearing up for a pretty good season!)

Well, I have to go and write an essay for one of my Spanish Literature classes on the use of Nature in the works of the Romantics and Post-romantics, which I have been so thoroughly neglecting in the writing of this blog. Hey, ce la vi! I can't wait until I get to tell you all the results of this project. Keep reading. I'll be in touch.

Benjamin

P.S. I've been having trouble working with photos and that's why there aren't any up on my blog yet, but I promise, I'll eventually work it out and we'll get some up for you all!