Viva La Vida!

Pride. What is it and how do we come by it? When is it wrong, and when is it right? Is there such thing as too much, or too little? All of these questions and more don't matter in the slightest, that is if your a winner.

Tonight has been one that has been burned into my memory, to remain there till long after I've died. How is this possible, and what am I talking about? Well for starters

LIVE FROM SACRAMENTO, IT'S JACC!!!!

OK now to explain; as a school our journalism department competes and various competition, bot at state and local levels. The object is to be the best in what you do and take home awards, a big fat "duh" right? OK so last fall we went to the local competition at CSUF and took home I believe 30+ awards including General Excellence for Substance Magazine(it means we are so good there was no category for us.)

Tonight though we were all on edge because this is state and there are far more school than in so cal. We sat anticipating what awards were going to be ours and which ones we would shrug off. I sat as the newspaper awards were named and yeah, we got some, but I was waiting for the magazine awards to be announced. As the first ones came up there was general unease between us all, we did not win it. As more came up though, we started seeing it, Mt. San Antonio. Photo; Aldo Padilla, Feature story; Mary Obyed, Sara Heady, And General Excellence; Substance magazine.



We Cheers our asses off, and I even started to loose my voice, this was incredible, and it wasn't over, General Excellence for the Mountaineer, was I going insane, how could this be real? We laughed, we hugged, Toni even cried! Man I have never been so happy to be part of journalism in my life. We literally set the bar for all these people here, they need to work their asses off to beat us.



For now, I can sleep comfortably because I KNOW there is only more to come. Goodnight, and Good Luck!



Happy Thoughts....