Just Your Average Day.

It was a Monday, the most hated day of the week. I awoke to the sound of my alarm blaring the noise "Beep Beep Beep!", almost as if it were screaming at me "What are you doing? Get up NOW!" The clock read 7:45 and I thought to myself "Great, I'm late again." After a morning shower, I brushed my teeth. With my luck, the toothpaste decided to magically fly off the brush and land right on my shirt. That would happen the day I wear the only clean shirt I have left. After managing to make my shirt look relatively decent, I shuffled down the stairs, in a half-asleep state. I open the fridge and take a look inside. I knew I still needed to go grocery shopping so I don't know why I expected there to be a cornucopia of things for me to choose from to eat. I checked the milk and realized the jug was almost empty. I checked the cupboard and found i had barely enough cereal to have a sufficient bowl. Although, I knew I would still be hungry, I ate it anyway.

I was in a rush as I was already late so I was a little stressed. On my way to work, I was speeding to get there as quickly as possible to maybe be able to make it on time. As I was driving, some idiot decided to swerve right in front of me, causing me to slam on my brakes. This moron almost made me ram my car into the back of his. Luckily, I was able to avoid getting into a wreck. That would have just made my day so much better.

As I arrived to work, I hurriedly walked to my desk as I made it with about one minute to spare all thanks to my moment of pretending to be a Nascar driver. Talk about an adrenaline rush. Upon reaching my desk, I noticed there's a note placed right smack dab in the middle on the top of my computer screen. It said I had to go see my boss. Oh great, just what I needed after the terrific morning I had. While sitting outside of her office waiting for her to speak with me, I started to think. I thought about what she could possibly want from me. I was on time for work, for the most part. I made sure all of my work was finished when it needed to be done. So what could it have been?

As she said "Come in, Stephanie. Take a seat, please.", my stomach dropped. So i walked in slowly, with my mind still wandering and took a seat in the cushioned red chair placed right in front of her desk. My boss handed me an regular sized white envelope. As she handed me the envelope, she said "Your services are no longer needed in this establishment. Here is your last paycheck. You are free to go. Have a nice day." I looked her dead in the eyes and tried to repress a smile. I felt no reason to be upset as I hated that job. She wasn't a very good boss either. She would always change her mind about what she would want me to do. "File these documents," she would say. Then five minutes later, she would come back and say, "What are you doing? I told you to type these files." I got so sick of her and the way she treated me, I was actually going to quit. So I'm glad she fired me instead, mainly because I still got paid. After I told her that I thought she was a horrible boss and I have no idea how she was put into a position of power, I happily skipped out of her office, glad that I was free from this prison called work.

Favorite Sports Movie.

My favorite sports film is The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler. In this movie, Sandler plays the stereotypical role of a Cajun boy (Bobby Boucher) who lives in the bayous of South Louisiana with his mother. The Waterboy is fictional comedic sports film about how Bobby starts off as a waterboy (with his motivation being he was told that his father died from dehydration serving in the Peace Corps in the Sahara) for the football team (The South Central  Louisiana State University Mud Dogs) who tends to get picked on and pushed around by the football team. Upon seeing this, Coach Klein (played by Henry Winkler) tells Bobby that he shouldn't let them push him around and to hit them back. At first, Bobby is reluctant but then Coach Klein convinces him to imagine that the opposing player is saying something bad about his mother. In his rage, Bobby charges and tackles one of the players. This impresses Coach Klein and he then asks Bobby to join the team, but Bobby said not without his mother's permission. So Coach Klein makes a visit to the Boucher's house for dinner to discuss football. After Klein leaves, Bobby's mother Helen (played by Kathy Bates) tells him he can't play football because it's "the devil." This leads to Bobby sneaking behind his mother's back to play for the school.

Bobby then comes into contact with an old friend and crush he had when he was a child named Vicki Vallencourt (played by Fairuza Balk). Vicki has a history of being in prison a few times so Helen tells Bobby that he's forbidden from seeing Vicki. She convinces Bobby to still see her by sneaking behind his mother's back. When it becomes known that Bobby never finished high school and that he is ineligible to attend the college and play football, he has to pass his GED exam. His mother, who is against him going to college, keeps pretending to be sick so she has Bobby to take care of her.  Helen had Bobby living a sheltered life. She admitted to him that the reason for that is because his dad left them while his mom was still pregnant and she didn't want to lose Bobby like she lost his dad. After a whole crowd of people showed up at their house to tell Bobby how much they needed him, Helen encouraged him to keep playing.

They make it to the Bourbon Bowl at about halftime with the Mud Dogs losing. Bobby motivates them to do better and helps Coach Klein get over his fear of Red Beaulieu (the coach of the University of Louisiana Cougars), which leads Klein to make new plays that helps them win. By the end of the movie, Bobby and Vicki get married and then Bobby gets a surprise visit from his dad saying that he heard on ESPN that Bobby was good enough to go to the NFL but Bobby declined saying he wanted to stay in school to finish so he could graduate. While in the process of trying to convince Bobby to go to the NFL, his dad Roberto gets tackled by Helen. Then Bobby and Vicki ride off on a lawn mower.

I like this  film because it's funny, despite it being the cliche "the "nerd" gets the "hot" girl". Bobby, living the sheltered life he did, didn't have much knowledge on what outside life was. It was because of Vicki that he started to see these things. Despite his mother's wishes of him not doing these things like play football or date Vicki, Bobby had a feeling that he likes life on the outside and no longer wants to stay "hidden" because of things his mother doesn't approve of. This movie shows that great things can come from the unknown. Even with his little bit of knowledge of anything except his mother and what she says, Bobby knew how to tackle like a beast.

Favorite Non-Sports Movie.

My favorite non-sports movie is Secret Window starring Johnny Depp. Secret Window is a psychological horror film that is based off of a story entitled Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King. The movie is about a writer named Mort Rainey (played by Depp) who comes into contact (or so he thinks) with a man by the name of John Shooter who claims that Rainey stole his story. Throughout the movie, Mort feels that no matter where he goes (even at his secluded cabin in the woods), Shooter is always there trying to get him to admit that he plagiarized Shooter's work. Rainey then finds himself trying to find the actual manuscript that proves his work is original. When Mort plans to go to his house to get the book, his wife Amy (who is estranged after having an affair with another man named Ted, but still lives in the house) called him to tell him their house burnt down, which destroyed Mort's proof. After finding his dog Chico dead from stab wounds and having his house burnt down, Rainey suspects that Shooter is behind it and out to get him. Then he has his literary agent send him the magazine which had Rainey's story in it.

 After noticing that the pages that had the story were cut out of the magazine, Mort Rainey realizes that John Shooter is not a real person, but an alternative identity used specifically for harmful things (like Chico's murder and burning the house down) caused by Mort's dissociative identity disorder. Just as Mort had this epiphany, Amy came to get him to sign the papers for the finalization of their divorce. Looking around, Amy sees the word "shooter" all over the messy cabin. After Rainey comes into view, Amy then realizes that the word "shooter" leans toward how Mort wants to "shoot her". As Amy tries to run away, Rainey chases her and stabs her in the ankle so she can't go anywhere. Then she is forced to watch Rainey cut off Ted's (her lover, who came looking for her) head with a shovel. Rainey then buries the bodies and finishes his story. In the end, it is implied that Mort hid the bodies under his corn crops and their decomposing bodies provide nutrients for the corn to grow.

I love this movie because it's suspenseful and it really makes you think. It's one of those movies that you have to watch a few times to fully understand everything. It's an interesting plot twist when you find out that John Shooter isn't real and that it has been Mort Rainey himself all this time. This movie does an excellent job at showing how sometimes writers get so caught up in their work that they start to develop alternate personalities who become real people to them. It's also very interesting that this movie is based off of a Stephen King story because this situation (having an alternate personality and it becoming real) happened to King himself.