Monthly Archive: June 2008
Your Voice: July 29
This week’s installment of links to the great stuff going on in CW’s personal blogs section:
• A beautiful girl, some sort of love-triangle, someone getting out of a car wearing what appears to be a fish suit, someone getting punched in the face – all this and more in the completed trailer for forthcoming film Microcosm, courtesy of Erik’s “El Video de Wausau” blog.
• On an intense post called “Invitation to a Sexual Predator,” Alex Tallitsch tries to make contact with someone from his past. Follow-up post here.
• Billie from the “A Stable Personality” blog checks in …
Essay Contest Becomes Blog Blast
“So Cheryl, how’s the essay contest coming?”
“What essay contest?”
It’s not an essay contest anymore, it’s a blog blast! Instead of limiting yourself to talking about your vision for the future of Wausau, we want you to keep doing what you are doing (or should be doing) … blogging.
You write about what’s going on in your lives, moments of brilliance or not-so-brilliance that occur to you, things that piss you off, things that redeem the world in your eyes. And we’re reading it.
At the end of August, the Citizen Wausau editorial board will reconvene to decide what blog post deserves our …
3 Questions because I am still sick, and feel Melancholy
I suppose, that as we grow, older, that part of us really, really feels like we want to do something, to feel a sense of accomplishment, to look into the abyss, and have it look back with our reflection. But, does the abyss look back, or does the abyss, as all self-loathing metaphors, just sit there like a black hole of abyssiness? I do not know.
What I do know though is that I am sick. I came back to work a day early, and with that am not healed. As such I am going to end …
Hi. My name is Cheryl. I am addicted to ice cream.
I don’t think I realized it until last Saturday when I talked myself out of cutting back. Earlier in the day, my husband and I had agreed that we will no longer have ice cream every evening. Instead, we will save the frosty treat for Wednesday afternoons when we walk to the West Side Tasty Treat from work. We shook on it.
Yeah. That didn’t last long. Knowing that I wouldn’t have ice cream that day made me crave it all the more. I yearned. I ached. I needed. Within hours, I had devised a scheme to convince my husband that …
Your Voice for June 23rd
This week’s installment of links to the great stuff going on in CW’s personal blogs section:
• Jill Knetter of the “View from the Stage” still loves the children’s book “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.” And who can blame her? And she is also a fan of other childish pursuits:
“I think that once in a while it’s nice to go back to things you used to enjoy. The other day I got out some sidewalk chalk and drew all over my front walk with my cousin. And you know what? It’s still fun. I drew a …
Four Questions upon Returning from Battle of the Bands
I sometimes think that we miss out on a lot of human interaction. Nothing specific, but in general. A sort of general missing out, a quiet missing out. Not a big deal, but nevertheless, we miss out. I do not know what makes me think that rowing in a rowboat will make it better, but I know for a fact I have a better chance to meet a girl that way than I do at the grocery store.
1. As you look at the environment, what is your biggest concern? I mean let us all assume we …
HR Committee Agenda
As some of you know by now, the Immel report has been released. I found it completely unsatisfactory; it documented the alleged incident in almost a passing matter. Mr. Immel failed to investigate Ms. Jasurda, and couched it in a claim not involving himself in a criminal case. Instead, I think it reflected that he simply did not ask. Nothing more. Ms. Jasurda has representation, and as such has protection. She is more than able to say no to answering questions, but instead, he chose to not even ask.
This process was outside of the eyes and oversight of the City …
Vision Wausau: the first ever Citizen Wausau essay contest
Assignment
Write an essay of no less than 500 words, no more than 1,000 words, on a specific, Wausau-themed topic, and enter to win a $50 Chamber Bucks gift certificate.
Due: June 29, 2008 (11:59 pm).
Entering: Post your essay to your Citizen Wausau blog. (Don’t have one? Get one! It’s free!) Be at least 13 years old. Let us know you’ve entered the competition by emailing us at essay at this domain dot com. Wait with bated breath until we announce the winners on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 9 am.
Judging: The posts will be read and judged by the Citizen …
Your Voice: Version 2
A lot of the action at Citizen Wausau happens on the personal blogs. Links to recent posts show up on the sidebar here on the front page, but we also wanted to call attention to the individual blogs by offering a handful of links to posts that caught our eye. This is something we hope to do weekly. So here are a few — and only a few– highlights of what Citizen Wausau users have been blogging about lately.
A few – and only a few – highlights from Citizen Wausau user blogs in the past week or …
6 Questions I Had To Rewrite Because My Daughter Deleted Them the First Time
1. What is one band you love that you think no one else in the CW community has heard of? Bonus points for stumping Dino ?
2. Do you think that “social norms” advertising works? I’m referring to the Merrill school district social norms project about underage drinking. The commercials are all over the TV…
3. Are you good at trivia? Have you ever participated in the Stevens Point Trivia Competition?
4. Are you still friends with your childhood best friend(s)?
5. What’s the best way to get on your bad side?
6. Father’s Day Special…Describe your father in one word.