Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Coretta Scott King dies at 78

i go to check my yahoo 360 and see that someone has a feed to a new's story that was 2 minutes ago. Dr. Martin Luther King's wife, Coretta Scott King died last night. May she RIP.:

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By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died, former mayor Andrew Young told NBC Tuesday morning. She was 78.

Young, who was a former civil rights activist and was close to the King family, broke the news during a phone call he made to the "Today" show. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach the family were unsuccessful. They did not immediately return phone calls.

Asked how he found out about her death, Young said: "I understand she was asleep last night and her daughter tried to wake her up."

King, who suffered a serious stroke and heart attack in 2005, did not appear at the birthday observance for her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for the first time in the 20-year observance of the holiday.

Coretta King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most tumultuous days of the American civil rights movement. She had married him in 1953.

After her husband's assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she kept his dream alive while also raising their four children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060131/ap_on_re_us/obit_king

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Monday, January 16, 2006

Happy MLK Day/The Boondocks Episode

Happy Martin Luther King day everyone! i hope ya'll aren't just using it as a day off. I don't have much to say, and wont post some cliche blog post, but i just wanted to know if ANYONE seen "The Boondocks" last night! OMG! i was CTFU, but it was SO true, at least to me...i know folks might get offended, but i be saying and thinking alot of the stuff the Martin Luther King cartoon on there said. Got dog...i just want them to play that OVER and OVER again on BET! if anyone missed it, here's the episode:

http://www.adultswim.com/fridaynightfix/tools/vids/clip1.asx

what do ya'll think about that? i think it's good for some serious discussion among black folks, but most folks will probably just brush it off....

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Facebook Song

First thanks for all the congrats from everyone that left them on my blog, i appreciate that, thank you all! :-)

Now i heard someone talking about this Facebook.com song about a couple months ago, i found the link to it.....stupid, just really stupid, but lol...for those of ya'll that's still in school and have a Facebook account, ya'll might get a laugh out of this:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=426530&songID=3024648

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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Got dang on HTML

How come everytime i try posting pictures it messes my blog all up! Ugh, i hate that, i wish i knew more about html stuff, but knowing me i'd get bored and irritated trying to learn it, anyways, this si the last time i'm postinf for the day, lol, lemme finally go to bed, the 4 hours of sleep i can get, lol, peace out!

posted by Toya @ 6:19 AM 6 comments

A New Year

I just hope that everyone had a very Happy New Years. Wow, it's 2006, that's weird to me. Not really weird, but it just seems like yesterday folks was worried about the Y2K bug in 2000, and now it's 6 years later. The year 2000 seemed to be a long way away back when i was a kid, and now it's 6 years past it. I'm a college graduate finally and 24. i'm going to be 25 this year, OMG, but it'll be all the way in December, so i have about 11 months, lol, no need to count down just yet though.

i have a high school reunion in 4 years which kinda freaks me out. i can't believe i've been out of high school almost 6 years, wow. i can remember 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade so clearly, but that was about 10-14 years ago. It freaks me out that i can remember when my little cousins who are 17, 15 and 14 years old was born. 17 years is a long time, and i can remember that ish! that means i'm getting old thats all, but i'm thankful for that! it's just weird. i guess i'm not ready to grow up. since i don't have a job lined up in theater i have to find a part time job while i'm searching. the thing is i still have no clue what i really want to do. i figure that i will contact my teacher to see if i can really stage manage the play "Fences" they're going to do in March in the theater department. If that doesn't work out, i will really look into theaters in Chicago.

I did look on the internet and came across some job posting for the American Girl store. They do children's theater, for middle school, and little kids and are looking for stage managers, assistant stage managers, and crew. That would be a good experience. I'm still kinda scared about being in charge of everything though and having to deal with people and being really organized. That's what comes along with being a stage manager. I know it would be good for me and help me to come our of some of this nervousness and anxiety by dealing with people. God will work it out, but Lord i really need you now. Well he'll come around sooner or later, lol. Please Lord.

But yeah, i'm just sitting home bored than a mug in Chicago. I'm kinda ready to go back to my apartment down at school, which is where i'll be staying at until i figure out what i want to do. There is always grad school, but as for what program i wanna do, i have no clue. i do want to get certified to teach, but my GPA isn't high enough for the certification program at my school, but it is high enough for some other schools, one which is UIC in Chicago. But i don't think i'm ready to go back to live in the Chi. The only thing i'll have is a couch back home since my mama is in a 2 bedroom apartment and not a house and then i can't afford my own apartment by my self if i'm going to be in school. I could room with my friend from high school, but i'm scared about that because i don't want to mess up the friendship, well whatever we got left of it.

I don't think i'm ready for the real world, it's scary. I know i can always stay with my mama, or even my grandparents because my grandma mentioned it, but i need my own space. i've been away at school for the last 5 years and everytime i go back home for a break, folks get on my nerves! ugh! i need my own space! and my grandma is so scary she was like "i don't want you to live by ya self, it's dangerous". *sighs* that's alright though, i know she only mean's well. But we will see.

Plus i've been down in Carbondale so long, i'm not even ready to leave. I've been down here for 5 and a half years and i've grown to be able to tolerate it. I think i'm turning into a Carbonite! UGH! lol just 5 and a half years ago i claimed that i hated it there and wanted to get away to Chicago at any chance i could get. I hated C'Dale! it was too country and there was nothing there. There still isn't much there but the campus. But i've grown alot down there and was able to come up out of things that i probably couldn't have done in Chicago. I've blossomed somewhat into this beautiful butterfly, though i'm not where i wanna be at yet. I've grown and finished college, coming up out of my shyness, heck even dressing more girly, and have somewhat of some type of relationship, though i dont know about that, but my friend say's we have one but it isn't boyfriend and girlfriend yet, but anyways, i've grown. Plus i've made friends down there and i love the church i go to! it's going to be very hard to leave.

I hate having to start over, i think that's one of my main problems. OMG! i think that's really it! i can even connect that back to childhood because i've been to about 6 different schools by 5th grade. Sad. So it's always been hard for me to make friends and i use to hate having to go to a new school and being the new girl in class. i guess that's spilled over into adulthood. I never thought about that before. That's probably why i didn't even prepare for after graduation because i don't know what i want to do and i'm scared to actually start over fresh and try to go out there and make friends again because i've gotten so comfortable down here in Carbondale, but my desire is to leave from here and go on to do some great things in my life and work and creat and accomplish those things and eventually own my own theater production company, or teach, or work in TV, or whatever the heck i wanna do, lol. I need to work on that now that i know. I need to work on not fearing what's ahead for me. *sighs* this is going to be so very hard. I really got figure things out, and i can't on my own. Lord, again i need your help! Good thing i thought to write this post, lol.

Anyways, it's time for me to finish up making these cd's for my mama so i can be up and ready ot hang with my friend. at least i can get a chance to get out of the house because i haven't done much this break. i did hang out with Michael, but he's still getting on my nerves. why can i let that guy go? ugh....anyways, peace out! I hope everyone had a very Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Years! Let this be your year! God bless.

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