Pepe the King Prawn's Thoughts on Life

“Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7sTHoeH0eA "I see you so uncomfortably alone, I wish I could show you how much you’ve grown." Those lyrics plunged deep into my soul as I listened to Sharon Van Etten tear apart my heart the first time I heard her song “Seventeen” off of her latest album Remind Me Tomorrow . Sharon put to words thoughts I couldn’t even articulate about my adolescence. She poured out the most intimate thoughts about her life that were so personal yet relatable for many of us. Her vulnerability in Seventeen taps into my own insecurity I had at that age, yet strength I have now for the person I’ve become. Oh how I wish I could go tell my seventeen year old self that everything would be okay. I was wide eyed yet confused and desperate to find certainty in life. “You’re just seventeen” would probably sound so trivial to hear at the age of seventeen but I needed someone like my twenty two year old self to remind hi...

SHORT LEGS, DON’T CARE An in-depth look at the cutest dogs in the world: corgis. Long before corgis were known today for their bodacious butts, a warrior tribe of Celts brought the corgis in their aboriginal form to Cardiganshire, Wales around 1200 BCE (AKC). This early breed was a member of the Teckel family of dogs that went on to later include the dachshund. The Celts trained the corgis to nip at the heels of cattle to herd them. Corgis’ low height off of the ground and their innate agility helped them to avoid the hooves of cattle but keep them moving. The name “Corgi” means either cur dog or dwarf dog ( cor = dwarf, gi = lenitive of ci , dog) in the Welsh language, which was not intended as an insult to the dog's size, rather as a purely descriptive term (AKC). Folk legend says that corgis were a gift from fairies. Two types of corgis: Pembroke Welsh vs. Cardigan Welsh Now there are two types of corgis that you need to be aware of. First there ...

Educated: A Memoir Educated: A Memoir proved to be the most impactful book I’ve read throughout my college career. It was intimate, sincere, thought provoking, and also painful. The entire memoir stirred up a lot of emotions in me but all of those feelings were worth it in the end. The memoir begins with Tara reflecting on childhood. She grew up as a Mormon survivalist and lived in rural Idaho. Her dad, who didn’t believe in anything from the government, insisted that government officials were out to get her and her family around the time Tara was a child. She notes in the memoir that her dad had a breakdown because a family nearby had been shot to death for essentially not following government orders as he described. He forced Tara and her siblings to pack “head-for-the-mountains” bags to prepare to hide for when the government was going to “attack them”. Ultimately the Government never comes and years later Tara finds out that what her dad was describing was actual...

LA Kings Communications Associate Job Description  Out of everything I have done in life, working for the LA Kings has definitely been my claim to fame. Can you imagine having the opportunity to chat with LA Kings forward Anze Kopitar every game? Or going into the away team’s locker room and seeing the Pittsburgh Penguins team captain Sidney Crosby? Well that’s what I do on a consistent basis and the best part is that I get paid to do it.     Communications associates at the LA Kings are typically undergrad or recently graduated students. The associates are part time and the LA Kings have between 3 to 4 associates each season. We only work home games, which is great for our schedules because it gives us free time to either take on another job or go to school. Every home game we arrive three and a half hours before and leave about an hour after the game ends. During the roughly seven hours we are working in Staples Center, we do a lot of running around t...