Kenningsology is back
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Kodee Kennings
Kenningsology
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Editors Note: Due to popular demand, Kenningsology, which ran weekly in the summer, is back. It will run every Thursday featuring the thoughts of 8-year-old Kodee Kennings, including a mini-update on her condition and the latest on her father, Dan Kennings, and his experiences in Iraq. For those not familiar with Kodee's story, follow a link on the dailyegyptian.com voices page for background.
Kodee has been doing well since the Knoxville incident (see website) and continues to adjust to life away from her father, Dan Kennings, who is stationed in Mosul, Iraq, with the 101st Airborne Division.
According to some of his friends, morale is not particularly high, but he takes solace in letters and phone calls home. Calling home is rare for Kennings. It costs him $2 a minute.
(For anyone wishing to send Dan Kennings letters, his e-mail address, which he is able to check periodically (weekly if he?s lucky), is dbkennings@yahoo.com.)
He called the DAILY EGYPTIAN a few days ago and said he is doing fine. He sounded upbeat, though he desperately wants to leave Iraq. It is a situation he will never get used to.
"I wouldn't say I'm used to it," he said of the volatile situation surrounding him. "I'd say I'm kind of immune to it, but not used to it."
He had called the DE wanting to talk to the people his daughter regularly interacts with because he knows, as we all do here at the DE, that Kodee is no stranger to the SIU Communications Building.
She has become a normal part of life in the DE newsroom, regularly calling and dropping by. Kodee started a Nerf-gun war in the newsroom a few weeks ago that lasted more than an hour, one of many things she has done to keep the newsroom light-hearted. She wrote the following Kenningsology on the DE:
-The D.E.
The D.E. is a newspaper. It is the bestest newspaper and I like it. Lots of people work for it and they are rely smart. They make the paper every say but not weekends.
I have a hole bunch of frends at the D.E. They are Michael, Jens, Jack, Lance, Zack, Jerry, Ethan, Adam, Amber, Geoff, Shane, Moose and Todd.
Michael use to rite sports but traded it in for being the editor. He's the boss of the newsroom. He's kind of like the Vise Presadent. He just comeands and fixs storys. He wins awards.
Jens and Zack rite about football. They get to sit in the press box rily high up so they can see all the game. Then they rite about what they see and use rily big words. They got a vocabulary that's genyus.
Ethan rites about golf. They should give him something else to rite because golf is boring.
Todd has sports editor job. He makes the jernailists rite. Adam covers volleyball. They lose a lot so his stories are always the same.
Jack makes people give him mony. He sells space for adds and then wants mony. He keeps the paper a flote becus its free. Jack rites a colem and tell people his way of thinking. He use to be a soldier.
Lance is the general manager and hires people. He antekes (Kodee's word for critiques) the newspaper every day and finds mistakes. I don't think he finds many becus Michael still has his job.
Jerry is Jack's boss. He takes the mony to the bank.
Moose (Moustafa) is a guy. He rites about September 11th. He rites other stuff to.
Geoff used to rite but quit. He has to many jobs and a girlfriend. He's not French thow. (Kodee believes anyone with a girlfriend will eventually French kiss her, thus becoming French.) He's a copy editor and he looks for mistakes. He's also a kind of boss.
Amber is a girl riter. She ries lots of stuff. She rites about drugs.
These views do not necessarily reflect those of the DAILY EGYPTIAN.
Copyright 2009 - Daily Egyptian
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