Kobe...MVP?

There has been an overwhelming amount of b****a**ness when discussing the race to league MVP. My feeling is that this honor is bestowed upon players who are not just valuable to their team on a flash basis but who also can be leaders and close out games. But I also feel that it should be based on the time put into becoming the type of player that can do just that. I have seen the award go to Steve Nash not once but twice and to Dirk Nowitzki....Tim Duncan has won the honor once or twice but the player who has been robbed over and over again was finally rewarding for his efforts last season and now stands the chance of being robbed yet again. The idea that Lebron James is in some way more deserving of the league MVP honor is just--a joke. He is a great player, incredibly talented and a good leader on the floor. But if he has to match up with the people who have gotten the honor before him he just doesn't measure up. He is not a game closer nor has he been in the league long enough to have turned into the type of player deserving of such an honor. Because he is not a self-proclaimed assassin people have always seemed to favor him over Kobe- for personal reasons. I dont think these players are even the least bit alike and Lebron has a long way to go before he is as crisp or efficient as Kobe Bryant is when the ball's in his hand at a crucial point in the game when his team needs him the most. Kobe Bryant deserves the award for the second time. He is playing incredible basketball and has lost one of the main foregrounds in the structure that he is building to move him to the NBA finals in Andrew Bynum. And what has he done since then? Put on amazing performance after amazing performance- not scoring wise either but efficiency...making sure that at the end of the night he has a W in the box score.  He is the MVP....

A New Year...a New Plan

So its been quite a while since I wrote on this blog....

more specifically its been over 4 months. Sometimes I get afraid of writing because its such a personal thing. But as of January 20th I made up my mind to stop hiding behind all of the things I am blessed to do, saving them for what? So here I am writing to start the new year.

This is my last semester of college and things are looking muddily clear...lol...there are so many possibilities of what to do, where to go to do them and whats in it for me going to these places. As an actress you feel like there are so many things working against you sometimes. Am I tall enough? Will my "type" be appreciated in the popular culture? Can I get the roles I want? and a million other questions that no one has the answers to but God himself. So what do we do to calm our nerves? Some people drink, others decide to go to grad school (in my opinion to buy themselves more time), some change their hair color and others run off and find some humanitarian effort to donate their talent to. But me? What will I do? What can I do? I realize I can do nothing but have faith that with the talent I have been given there are nothing but good things in the future for me.

This year I have decided to do some things differently: or better. So here are my goals not for 2009-but for life:

1.) workout- more regularly, more detailed and with more vigor for maintaining healthy mind and body through changing the way I feel about myself.

2.) read the Bible- for solutions to the things that make me fear greatness- or that just make me fear in general- I realize fear for anything but God is just misplaced energy that I could be using for a million other things.

3.) no men who could be mistaken for high school boys- this is hard to explain but in saying this I dont mean physically but mentally and emotionally. There has to be some disconnect between me and the lost causes of this world. And till this point there has been none.  Instead I have been forming a habit of giving free psychological help in the form of long nights of pointless conversations, dates that I would rather be at home watching a bad reality TV show on VH1 then be on and Facebook honesty box messages full of not so anonymous declarations of "true" feelings. No thank you!

4.) more discipline in every aspect of my life....- pretty self-explanatory i guess.