Tucker Max

Sooo this is a hilarious man. He writes about his ridiculous life that he spends drunk and doing crazy things. Here is his dating application from his website: http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date_application.phtm

I mean, I’m single too. Soooo lets fill out that dating application for dating me, ok? Sounds good?

Hmm so that was a joke. Really, I just wanted to write about Tucker Max, his hilarious dating application and his website. I am in the middle of reading his book right now and think that he is a ridiculous human being who can write extremely well. Read his book. You will die laughing.

Graduation

4/14/08

So in two days I’m supposed to pick up my cap and gown. WOAH. I am completely semi-freaking out about graduation.  Even thought I have a plan and a job and a place to live I still am in a little bit of a shell-shock mode.  No more soccer?  Ah weird.

At least I have Achilles!

Nail Biting

4/7/08

Today marks one month since I have not bitten my fingernails!! As I have been biting my entire life and have never been able to stop before, this is a big deal for me.  I decided to stop biting one day when I was getting a pedicure  and I was like ‘hmm maybe I should just get a mani on my short nails and try and stop biting.’

Sooooo, the woman laughed, gave my stubs a mani, and the rest is history.

Finally done with my back-posting/ 4 weeks?!

Phew.  If anyone noticed I just posted like a month’s worth of posting today.  Basically, my blogging password stopped working and I recieved my email from wordpress about changing my password like a month after I requested the change of password.  Gee thanks for being on top of the ball wordpress help desk.

Anyway, as the weather gets warmer I get more and more excited for summer.  I keep thinking about being on the beach and tanning and running… and oh wait then the black cloud enters my mind and I remember I am graduating (IN FOUR WEEKS?!?).  And then I start thinking about a cubicle, harsh lighting, pasty skin… and then I stop thinking.  Can you tell, I’m excited to get a job?

Since I applied to graduate school too late I am not able to go in the Fall,  I am registered for the Spring.  As exciting as this seems (to be going to grad school) I still will be getting a job after graduation.  Let’s just take a moment of silence to think about how depressing this is.

…Haha okay sarcastic moment of silence is over.

Escuela

3/25/08

Being back at school after a lazy week of doing nothing always ensures an interesting start.

Tonight, I walked into a midterm having completely forgotten about it.  I was also 15 minutes late.   Let’s talk about holding a midterm two days after Spring Break and expectig students to remember it.  Come on silly professor, you should have sent an email to remind us.

Really, being a 2nd semester senior is just overall bad news for my GPA I think in situations such as that.  I seem to have left my memory somewhere around Rider’s campus last semester.  Maybe somewhere in the Fine Arts building?  If anyone finds it, please return to me.  Thanks

Spring Break?

3/17/08

Starting spring break off right, I have slept until noon everyday (I’m not sure how) and done hardly anything productive with my free time.  Sounds about right, right?

The most productive thing I have done is take my dog to Sandy Hook and run around with him on the bay side.  Sandy Hook is a beautiful beach in New Jersey that I hope stays as uncrowded as it currently is.  It is the northern-most beach in New Jersey and my doggie loves it.  On one side is the Navesink River and the other is the ocean.  Beautiful.

So I’m going to stop blogging and do something more productive now.  And maybe spend my week camping out in Sandy Hook, who knows!

Britney Spears

3/10/08

Maybe I love Britney Spears since one week ago when I downloaded her new CD Blackout (legally of course).  Today, when babysitting, I picked up the little (and by little I mean 4th grade) girl from school and this is how the conversation went when she got into the car and heard my fabulous Britney CD:

Girl: um is this Britney Spears we’re listening to ?

Me: yea, its her new CD Blackout, do you like it?

Girl (panicky): um my mom and my older sister don’t approve of Britney.  Can you please turn this off?

Really?  Really?  Let’s not talk about Britney’s children or hair or crazy antics, let’s talk about the reason we even know who she is in the first place.  Britney is a pop artist who has topped the charts many times with catchy singles.  Britney’s new CD, Blackout, is actually ridiculously good (don’t laugh!).  Although I was never a Brit fan before, I did grow up singing along to Britney’s catchy songs on the radio and I didn’t turn out so bad.

So really, parents out there, let’s give Britney a break.  Let’s stop talking about her apparent mess of a life and concentrate on the fact that she is still an artist.  Let’s also concentrate on the fact that if all of our actions and apparent actions were pasted all of the tabloids everyday, we might just not approve of ourselves or our friends around our children.

So, subsequently, I have decided my future children will listen to Britney freely and will be allowed to own as many Bratz Dollz as they want.

And I stumbled into this life that I love.

3/3/08

As my life changes and I enter a new chapter in my life, I have to constantly remind myself that the last chapter is over and behind me.

Recent events in my life have made me repeat ‘and I stumbled into this life that I love’ over and over in my head until I can kind of convince myself that I believe it.  I am not sure exactly how to blog about what’s on my mind without typing a book, but I recently lost an important relationship in my life and have had an interesting time adjusting to loving my current life.

As human beings we are caring and compassionate and tend to overextend outselves to make our loved ones happy.  Some of us even begin to put others needs before our own.  So, these days I now wake up and ask myself, ‘what can I do today that will make me happy?’ and I do it.

How the Tipping Point Applies to Internet PR Campaigns

2/25/08

Let’s just talk about Facebook since I believe that the success of this website is a great example of a tipping point in an Internet PR campaign.  In 2004, shortly after moving into my dorm at Rider University, there was a little bit of buzz (via word of mouth) about Facebook, so I joined and WHAm every single person I had ever known seemed to join within the next week.  Facebook tipped so quickly and became a main ddestination for all college kids that the creators of Facebook opened the exclusive doors up to high school kids, companies, and eventually every Joe Shmoe with an email account.  Although this seemed to bother many Facebook users, it still has not deferred hardly any to delete there Facebook accounts.

Actually, that brings up a good point.  Let’s talk about deleting Facebook accounts.  Oh yea, it’s not possible.  My sophomore year, college athletes around the country began getting in trouble for pictures posted on Facebook.  Hazing, drinking, drugs, etc.  This prompted my coach to create a Facebook account and check ours regularly for things that may hurt ouf team, school or personal reputation.  Well, since I was not a big fam of my Coach snooping around, I deleted my Facebook account.

Fast forward to this past fall.  My soccer career had ended and I decided it would be okay to create a new Facebook account.  I was a little wary at first because I knew I would look like a loser since I was about to be four years behind the ball and have exactly zero friends.  Anyway, I went ahead and attempted to create a new one with my Rider email account.  Turns out this Facebook message popped up, ‘this email address is already a registered user.  Would you like to reactivate your account?’ hmm okay.  So I reactivated ita nd the creepiest thing happened.  My Facebook page was exactly ‘as is’ from four years ago.  All the pictures and posts and information were still there.

So let’s talk about the creepier side of Facebook and how the creators have huge files somewhere storing all our activated and deactivated account information.

Creeeeeepy.

Gladwell vs. Watts

So last Monday I wrote this and posted it, however, since I am new to blogging, I just realized I just saved it and didn’t post it, so here it is a week later…

I usually hate reading required books, and usually hate the content of the books even more.  However, I find The Tipping Point by Gladwell quite interesting and unique.  I have found the book to be very interesting thus far, but won’t go as far to say I love the book, I just find it interesting.  However, after reading the article by Gladwell, I have been able to look at both works from a much more objective standpoint.  I personally think that a tipping point develops differently based on what is actually tipping, and that in most instances, both Gladwell and Watts make contradicting but correct statements.

However, personally, I think it takes more then one person, in most cases, to start or activate a tipping point (this statement is obviously excluding Oprah).  I think that if a single person can start a tipping point of a product, and they are not Oprah, that it is pure luck that they have tipped a product. For example, for me to single-handedly begin a ‘tip,’ I would need to be telling and targeting people who have a use for the product and who will purchase it, use it, and also rave about it.  This can be tricky depending on people and on their need for a given product.

I am not sure how much sense I am making because blogging seems to promote the rambling side of me to come out…