December 2008
22 posts
2009: Cheers to new beginnings
2009 is approximately five hours away. 2008 was a great year overall, I a lot of growing up, tried a lot of new things and really felt like I figured out who I am … which makes me excited but slightly nervous for what is to come. In honor of 2009 I wanted to write down the obvious things I have to look forward to in ‘09, just so I don’t feel like the year is a complete abyss:
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According to iTunes, my top 25 songs from 2008
Bittersweet-Kanye West & John Mayer
Hot n Cold _Katy Perry
So What- Pink
Many the Miles- Sara Bareilles
Eh, Eh (nothing else i can say)- Lady GaGa
if I were a boy- Beyonce
Brat pack- Rocket Summer
One angry dwarf-Ben Folds
Summerboy-Lady Gaga
Just Dance- Lady Gaga
Love on the Rocks- Sara Bareilles
Single Ladies-Beyonce
Brown Eyes- Lady Gaga
Starstruck-Lady Gaga
I won’t go...
So this is the novel everyone's lost their mind...
*From The New Yorker*
BEST OF 2008: BLOODLUST
Ideally, this roundup would reflect my efforts to read widely and democratically. But, as happened to so many others this year, most of my reading hours were tragically sucked away by a single genre: the vampire novel.
It began innocently enough, as a sociological experiment. I set out to discover why older (as in fully grown) women had fallen, en...
“ho, ho, ho. Under the mistletoe
Yes, everybody knows, we will take off our...”
– “Christmas tree”-Lady GaGa
Gotta have respect for someone willing to write and perform a slutty Christmas carol. take that Britney, you have no balls.
Ho ho ho
Happy holidays from my bed. Yes, its Christmas day and I am sitting home alone listening to Lady GaGa. Some holiday. I’ve realized that at least in this family, holidays are what you make of them. We never were the “let’s put up a tree and exchange presents” type. We were the ….. everyday is like the day before except McDonalds is closed type. Whatever I wanted for...
One week down, two to go
I fail. My resolution was to write a post everyday and already three have passed since my last update. My bad. That means right now I can write one huge gigantic post….or write until I start feeling lazy, which could be soon.
So this was my first official week home from SU and man, do I feel exhausted. I work everytime serving bitchy people who insist on using 80 coupons on one five dollar...
my summer →
I think this year I want to teach backpack journalism. That would be so great, either that or international journalism, just not newswriting, there’s so much more.
Step Two
Post 12/15
STARBUCKS – I’m sitting at a table at my lovely neighborhood Starbucks waiting for it to be 10:45 so I can go to work. Yes, Hallmark once again. I have such a love/hate relationship with that place. I hate having to deal with the whiny customers and the demanding boss, but yet it is really good to know you always have somewhere to make money from. I can call that place a day I advance...
One step
Day One: After 12 hours of sleep, I find myself without a lot of the eagerness i had yesterday. I did laundry and sat on gchat. However, I made several life decisions while on gchat.
For starters, I have a blog topic for my DO blog: Weekend life. Arts, entertainment, things to do, what I did, etc etc. That’s loads better than whatever political bullshit I was thinking about earlier. All I...
Every new beginning comes from some other...
I have decided to put the past in my behind (Lion King, anyone?) but you get it. I’m not going to write anymore posts reflecting on my past semester. It was horrible, it was wonderful, I wanted to run away screaming, I wanted to embrace every second. It started, then it ended, time to move on.
Thus, this post will focus on the here and now.
I am sitting on the bed in the room the used to...
Head in the clouds
FRIENDLY SKIES- Currently, I am somewhere over either New York or Pennsylvania … I’m not too sure but, I am en route back home to Maryland where I will spend the next month pretty much being 17 again, at home with the rents, stocking cards at Hallmark and hanging out with my friends who I’ve known since I was nine. The good thing is that I plan to use this break as what I would like to call a...
Step right up, step right up
Shoes dirty from the snow, salt and grime from the winter weather? Gotta get that ice out from inbetween the cracks of your shoes?
Well, walk all over the Kelly O. doormat. Just stamp, scrape and do whatever the fuck you want on the Kelly O. doormat.
Everyone else takes her granted, why not you?
DO IT TODAY!
Reconstruction
Read a whole newspaper daily
Update my blog more often
Some douche just took my booth at food.com. Bold move, buddy. Clearly, you have NO IDEA who I am. My life IS a food.com booth. I live here, sleep here and one day I hope to be buried underneath my booth.
Booth stakeout begins now. If I stare him down, he’ll leave.
Ups and downs of the day
Instead of a whole blog post, I wanted to just give a quick, easy to read rundown of my day thus far. Here we go:
Up: My IR paper is really due on Thursday, and I’m already finished it
Down: I have IR discussion on Thursday
Up: I have money
Down: It has to last until I leave on the 13th
Up: Classes are pretty much done
Down: There’s nothing more I can do to salvage my grades,...
Ok, i’m sitting in International Relations and I have a few ailments:
my eyes have been acting crazy bean! my left eye is red and it hurts a bit, so that means that I have to wear my glasses which I don’t feel like doing
the chick that sits next to me in this class is loud, obnoxious and I want to backhand her. Dear loud mouth: i dont care waht ur SAT scores were or what other...
(see the quote below)
Okay, so I may have a major opportunity on my hands and I kinda have no idea what to do with it. A friend of mine (who turned out to be far more powerful than I thought) emailed a contact she has at the Boston Globe to see if they had any co-op/internship opportunities available … turned out she did. So I did the normal process, sent along my resume and cover letter and about six clips. Not...
“Spread your wings and prepare to fly, for you have become a butterfly”
– Mariah Carey, Butterfly
I'm headed to the laundry mat
Ok, the end of the semester is approaching. I have one paper written and waiting to be turned in, one on deck and one in the process. The sooner I comb through these things the faster I can move towards freedom … FREEDOM!!
Today was day one of the DO’s secret santa and I had to walk around with a beach ball under my shirt and pretend to be pregnant. That was fun. I love spirited,...
Dear Facebook
I hate how you document lives so well. I’m able to learn everything i’ve never ad ever wanted to know about someone through being a creep. Friends, interests, past loves, its ridiculous. I shouldn’t have access to such information. Not because it imposes on the other person’s privacy but because it drives me NUTS and makes me ask questions i wouldn’ve thought of:
a)...