P2- My First Choice Blog This Week!

 So about two weeks ago, the Alden Bulldog Newspaper staff held a draft where each member was moved to increase productivity in the work force. I originally sat on the right side of the room, from the door, close to the windows. I sat next to Kathleen Herter and Laura Slojkowski. I had probably the best times of my life near those two. Anyways after we changed seats, Mr. Currin moved me in between Mike Steffan and Brian Stoldt. At first I was a little apprehensive about this arrangement, but Mr. Currin reassured me that it would all work out for the better. So, I trusted Mr. Currin and decided this would be a good thing. Boy was I mistaken. I'm not going to lie, the conversations I've heard are very hostile and extremely confusing. For example, today Mike Steffan asked Brian Stoldt what teacher he should write an article about this week. By the way, we were assigned this article about three days ago. Many people had already chosen their teachers. So Brian responds with a speech on how he's given Mike plenty of choices and that Mike needs to get on task. This conversation went on for a good 25 minutes. There was a lot of repetition and quite a bit of close calls when it comes to curse words. I started to get a little nervous for awhile, then Mike finally chose to write about Mrs. Delzer. This marked a truce in their battle, and I made a small sarcastic comment on how strong their friendship is. I had no idea that this would cause an outbreak. Brian agreed that their friendship was very good, but Mike said that it's a "love-hate" relationship. This is where sh#$ hit the fan. I'm sorry for my almost bad language, but that's how it was. So, Brian then confronted Mike on what the "hate" part of the relationship is. Mike did not respond and pretty much shrugged the entire time. Then Brian went into another speech on their relationship and asked why it was a "love-hate" relationship. This then went on for about 10 minutes. I'm not going to lie, I feel in danger almost the entire work day. And now Brian is giving editor advice to Mike and is feeling lied to. I had to meet with Brian for one of these "advice sessions," but when you have the best reporters in the world it's pretty difficult to take any other advice, but I'm sure he was helpful to other editors... So, now Brian is saying that he feels attacked and that no one respects his authority because of a vote ending in a 4-1 vote that his meetings were not helpful. I felt pretty bad for him, but Mike's response was "I don't feel bad at all." I'm going to go ahead and say this is the "hate" part in their "love-hate" relationship.