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Whatcom Transit Authority now offers "GO Lines," servicing WTA's four highest-ridership routes every 15 minutes. The GO Line bus routes and buses are identified by color: blue, green, gold and red.
This makes me wonder: How will color blind people be able to know which bus to catch? I believe WTA forgot to study a certain demographic before launching this campaign.
Italy 1 - USA 1
Obviously, I was disappointed that Italy didn't crush USA.
In the first half, Italy took the lead early in the game with a goal from a header by Alberto Gilardino, but, shortly thereafter, Italy's Cristian Zaccardo mishit a ball into his own net to tie the game. Zaccardo can expect to have his balls chopped off when he returns to Italy. Before the end of the first half, two Americans and one Italian received red cards - thus drastically changing the game's dynamics for the second half.
Playing against a team down a man for 50+ minutes, Italy should have been able to convert some goals but couldn't.
At least we can say that USA didn't score a goal themselves against the Azzurri. As Dad says, "We have to score goals for them!"
The story of the game: Officiating was horrible at best. Italy's Andera Pirlo was robbed of a goal on a bad offsides call, and the US's Eddie Pope shouldn't have received a red card for a soft foul.
Here's what the players had to say about the game:
"It was a very strange match. It’s obviously disappointing to only draw when you have ten men against nine for the whole of the second half." - Angelo Peruzzi
"It was a hard game tonight; we ran our socks off. I’m not interested in the results of other teams, we play to win... We created a few chances but we didn’t manage to score." - Andrea Pirlo
In case you forgot, Dad's here to remind you...
Cancelled**World Cup Party: Italy vs. USA**Cancelled
Editor's note: I'm writing this because I never had the opportunity to deliver a commencement speech, and now I want to.
Dear graduates,
Congratulations. While you may think that completing Century Club or Power Hour (these are drinking games, old folks) were your ultimate collegiate achievements, you now have accomplished something that society recognizes as admirable and for which you will be rewarded with employment (hopefully). You are college graduates.
Now I want to take a moment and warn you of a potential byproduct that, by my estimations, affects approximately 50 percent of recent graduates, regardless of location, degree, or employment status. I'm warning you about post-traumatic college disorder (PTCD). Here's the definition:
Post-traumatic college disorder \(PTCD)\ n : a term for the adverse psychological consequences of sudden removal from a comfortable, healthy collegiate lifestyle into a monotonous work schedule.
If you think you are suffering from PTCD, please contact your physician immediately. Now back to the subject...
While it may seem that B.A.'s are a dime a dozen these days, I am here to assure you that they are not. Remember that half of your freshman class dropped out.
I was walking around Whatcom CC last week, waiting for my Italian II class to start, and realized how many hundreds of students around me were working to get to where you are. I picked up the college's "Horizon" student newspaper that day. Here's what the graduating Editor In Chief had to say in his farewell letter:
"At one point, I was thinking of being done with college after my associate's degree. But after talking to [Whatcom CC] President Heiner, I realized that he wasn't content with just a bachelor's degree or even a master's degree, he attained a doctrine. There's no reason to settle for average."
Hopefully, you already knew a few things about what the Editor In Chief had to say. First, you should know that the second sentence in the quote is a run-on sentence. Second, you should know that a doctrine is different from a doctorate. Third, you should know that there is no reason to settle for average.
Even if your first job is working at Starbucks because you chose an unmarketable major (i.e. theatre arts, liberal studies, philosophy, women's studies, art history, etc.), be satisfied working at Starbucks. If you're not, then move on. You are an educated person. You know what will make you happy and now you have the abilities to pursue that.
(Time for cliche closing quote) In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." So, if anything, go out and commit grand theft.
Sincerely,
Paolo, B.A.