The life of a rock star

So here's what's going on exciting in my student/townie life at the moment:

• Skid & Wilbur fests last weekend were awesome! It was a fun day with beautiful weather & good friends. I'm so glad they didn't end up being the weekend before because then they would have been different.
• My parents are freaking out about the girl, Lindsey, who was killed last week in Newark. They are doubly freaking out because my apartment is super-close to hers (like, that's where I catch the bus.) I get phone calls at night like "Are your windows locked??" Um, no dad, it's 65 degrees out and I live on the second floor. I feel a little apprehensive myself. Good luck to the Newark "5-O" in trying to solve the crime.
• Relay, a local band that two of my friends from my work are in, is playing Thursday night at East End. I'm looking for more people who want to come. East End super interests me because I've never gone out there but it seems chilled out. Plus, there are hippies there and I think hippies are cool. If I were cool enough, I would be one.
• I'm only counting one more week or school left! That's only 7 possible nights I could get a bad night's sleep. After that, I only have one final during Finals week - Yay!

That's about the extent of my exciting life, but I'm happy with it.

Blogging is scary

While I was searching the internet for more thrilling blogs to add to my links, I found the following scary article. Called "Don't Blog" it chronicles all the awful things that could happen to you if you blog. Above and beyond what we've already heard about (getting fired from work, being denied admission to MBA programs), this blog includes going to jail and being denied a kidney transplant.

{Ironically, one post talks about finding out your baby brother does drugs via his blog and I had a similar enlightening this weekend when I read my brother's Xanga site. Does it seem stupid to anyone else to refer to yourself as a "drug dealer" on a site where you have also posted your real name and location?? It does to me...}

Anyway, this "Don't Blog" site is crazy. Is it for real?

Bummer

I requested off like a month ago for today because Skidfest and Wilburfest were supposed to be today. Sadly, those two are the highlights of my semester every semester and I'm super bummed that they were cancelled. I realize that they wouldn't be as much fun in the rain, but still. It was bad enough that the two of them were going to be on the same day, now both of them PLUS Chapelfest are all going to be on the same Saturday. That's like 3 weekends of fun in one day. It's either going to be a fun overload or a really stupid idea. Either way, if I don't get off work I'll cry for hours (or fake a severe illness to get out of it).

The stupidest fake blog ever

So I'm looking for somewhat funny blogs that express a girl's point of view. I come across this blog for Sparkle Body Spray (which is some new teenie bopper product that I've been seeing cute commercials for.) It's in total "mag speak," you know what I mean? The way teen magazines write every article because they think it's what 14 year-olds want to hear. (On an extreme side note, JANE is a really good magazine with a super-ironic, slightly bitter sense of humor and on a whole other level than most of the female magazines out there.)

All I can say is, you have to go look at this, if only to realize the absurdity of it. It makes you want to stuff pink bubble gum in your mouth until you die.

The sad thing is, some marketing execs were paid lot$ of money to make this up. I could totally make up fluff like this for a job. Procter & Gamble should hire me as their intern.

Random wonderings

Here are some things I've been wondering about lately...

• Do handicapped people mind when they have to wait for non-handicapped people to finish using their bathroom stall? I mean, how rarely do handicapped people come into the bathroom, and handicapped bathrooms are soo much nicer.
• I bet the person who invented sticky putty for hanging posters is so rich.
• How do people get addicted to chapstick?? I can't live without it for more than 1 hour.
• Who is that man who yells about God outside of Kirkbride? Does he have a degree? A real job? Why does he yell at us?
• Do you think the stairs to the 2nd and 3rd floor in Purnell are extremely narrow? I do.
• Why don't all teachers try to make class fun? They must know people come to class and pay attention more when it's fun.
• Are there people whose sole purpose in life is to talk on their cell phones all day? It seems like it. Are they drug dealers?
• Is anyone, anywhere impressed by people who drive down South College Ave with their windows opened and music blaring? I would love to hear someone say, "Wow, that guy in the 1995 Honda Accord is playing his music really loud. Let me take of my pants and run after him." Please.

That's all...

The Skirt-a-thon

Guys love it. Girls work towards it. It usually occurs sometime in late March at UD, and I'm sure it happens on various spring days at other schools. That's right, I'm talking about the Skirt-a-thon, a magical day where 90% of college girls bust out their skirts and get their leg on. The first warm day of the semester seems to make a number of 18-22 year old girls crave skirts. Never mind that it's only 59 degrees, dam nit, that's a lot warmer than 32 degrees, and if some crazy guys (and a few girls) can wear their flip flops all winter long, it's warm enough to wear a skirt. Luckily, this year Skirt-a-thon occurred the week after spring break so we weren't subjected to a sea of pasty legs. Most of the legs in attendance this year had just returned from a variety of Mexican vacation destinations and were a nice light brown color. From here on out, no matter how cold it gets someone will be wearing a skirt. (For the record, I saw a few girls this year wearing them in the dead of winter with their Ugg boots and thinking they were "the bee's knees." I personally thought they looked more like cold knees, but whatever.)

The first warm day was also a signal that Flip Flops are no longer just for the brave/stupid, and that it was time to store your jacket under the gigantic pile of clothes lying on your desk chair. I mean, yesterday it was only 49 degrees at noon and I saw people walking around in t-shirts. Come on people. I hate to sound like your mother, but, that's really not warm enough to avoid a light jacket or a hoodie or even a long-sleeved shirt. Hopefully in a few weeks, it will actually be warm enough to walk around sans-sleeves, socks, or anything covering your legs each and every day, but until then, check the weather before you go to class to avoid shivering violently in your tank top on the walk between Purnell and Smith.

Technical Glitch

My personality is not compatible with technological standards. I'm Windows 3.1 and technology is an IPod. I'm Atari....I'm not ready to start acting like an XBox360. Those might be hugely confusing metaphors, but bear with me. It's not that I don't like technology, I'm all for the cool things it can do for me- the ease of stalking people through AIM, TV listings online, readily available info for school projects, etc. What I don't like that now that technology is so quick and easy, I'm supposed to be...well... not quick or easy, I hope. Hmm...

What I'm talking about it how when someone e-mails you, you're supposed to respond in way less than a day, preferably a few hours. You're supposed to know everything about a company before you interview with them by researching them online. You can look up most phone numbers and addresses so you have no reason not to make a call. Technology and procrastination DO NOT MIX. As a card carrying member of PAC (the Procrastinators of America Club), this upsets me. "It must have gotten lost in the mail," "My answering machine is acting funny...I never got your message," "The library flooded so I couldn't do my paper," or "I was late because I didn't know it was gonna rain," no longer fly as excuses. Any time I find myself in a scenario implied by the above excuses, I have no choice but to reveal myself as the Ultimate Flake. It sucks.

So as far as blogging goes, I may not be the best blogger because I'm pretty sure you are supposed to post more often than I do. But my heart is in it. I just can't post more often because of my PAC meetings. Stay tuned for more campus culture related posts this week; I promise I'm working on some. In fact...they're in the mail.