I laugh when I look at old posts, diaries, etc. I blog exactly how I talk...very random and sporadic with a lot of humor! It's been so long since I posted...I don't really have time to do it. Then again what do I have time for? I'm positive if I really wanted to I would make time for it. However seeing as I'm the new social media intern and blogging is part of my job I'll be checkin' in a lot more frequently! :)
Absolutely amazing how time flies though isn't it? Nine months ago I was blogging about the end of the semester blues and I can literally remember the day I was sitting in the hallway waiting for the previous class to let out and literally EVERYONE that walked past me looked stressed.
It was only two months ago my BFF and I were looking for an apartment to move into locally and to no avail...found NOTHING that satisfied us. It just didn't feel right. Randomly, we decided it was the PERFECT time for a change of scenery...so, adios Buffalo. NYC, lookout for me and Alyssa :)
Now we're only 3.5 months away from moving and I'm cracking down on spending AND i'm saving...YES, ME...I'm saving. We're ever excited about our move. I just know 6 months from now I'll look outside my window to the view of the Brooklyn bridge and think back about how far away it all seemed then and how quickly it all seemed to pass now.
I am looking to join a small(er) scale firm that specializes in fashion, beauty, entertainment, or event planning. Ideally they would be as fun as the people I work with at Eric Mower now.
Anyway, 5 p.m. has come...that means its about tie for me to go home...or to a safe-driving course courtesy of the Amherst police -_-
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Friday, December 18, 2009
Happy Holidays
I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays this year, be safe, and it has been fun working with you all. I know holiday shopping gets crazy, I hope everyone has their shopping done. I unfortunatly still have a few gifts left to buy. My house is filled with christmas boxes and decorations my mom wanted to put up...they've been sitting here for weeks. I'm more simple, a nice sized tree, that you can throw away when you're done! with a few decorations, maybe a few ornaments...simple...this woman has tonnnns of christmas decorations, some broken, some missing pieces...she just loves them to death...she loves them so much they have been sitting in their bins in my livingroom for weeks. AHH, the holidays. I like Christmas, I'm not a scrooge, but I think Christmas isn't what it used to be. Gifts are nice, I love giving gifts, and I of course love recieving them...what I hate is buying them, and shopping for them, and the holiday traffic in the stores, outside of stores...I hate when people go christmas crazy. Like playing christmas music a month in advance, make me want to pull my ears out. I do love the holiday spirit, the spirit of christmas makes me happy. Christmas cookies, and movies, eggnog, and my little neices and nephews running around with their new toys...I always buy the noisest ones that I know my sister will love....Anyway I think my 500 words are up. Happy Holidays :)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
End of the semester anxiety
Is it only me? I feel like it's not, I people watched on campus today (not creepy at all by the way!) and I noticed a lot of people looked stressed, unhappy, and a lot of them were doing the long, drawn out sighhhhhhh.
It hits me hard, every semester! It's not that I've procastinated, and the anxiety gets worse every semester...or at least it feels like it does. I literally have an end-of-semester project due in every class, which by the way, I'm taking 18 credits so you can imagine how fun it is. Anyway due to my frequent anxiety, I've decided to search ways to help you all cope with your stress and anxiety...and hopefully learn a few new PRODUCTIVE stress-relieving options myself.
Some of the most common stress-relievers (and my favorites)
1. Yoga! Personally, I find yoga relaxing.
But sometimes you need a quick fix, papers are stressing you out and such...
2. Take a break...from whatever it is thats causing the stress. Walk away...run if you have to lol...but anyway put it down, come back to it in five minutes.
3. Change your attitude. As said by Winston Churchill, " Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference". Positive attitudes people! You can do it, it will all work out, things could always be worse, its not the end of the world, etc, etc. You'll be surpised what a positive attitude can do for your day.
4. Laugh, laugh at anything, laugh at yourself, watch something funny. Laughter is the best medicine!
5. Breathe. Obviously you breathe but take in a few deep breaths,let the oxygen in your mentally exhausted head!
Some funny relaxation techniques I found on readers digest.com were
-watch a funny video clip from the office
-pet a kitten (GENTLY!)
-drink a glass of milk (random, I'll pass)
-hold a sleeping baby (could be creepy lol)
-pop some bubble wrap (because we all have extra bubblewrap laying around incase we get stressed...oh wait...normal people pop their bubble wrap as soon as they get it! no worries, theres a website you can buy bubble wrap from in times of an emergency...stock up!)
Thanks readersdigest for the awesome suggestions.
Anyway, I hope the end of the semester is less stressful for the rest of you, but if not, maybe this will help you. :)
It hits me hard, every semester! It's not that I've procastinated, and the anxiety gets worse every semester...or at least it feels like it does. I literally have an end-of-semester project due in every class, which by the way, I'm taking 18 credits so you can imagine how fun it is. Anyway due to my frequent anxiety, I've decided to search ways to help you all cope with your stress and anxiety...and hopefully learn a few new PRODUCTIVE stress-relieving options myself.
Some of the most common stress-relievers (and my favorites)
1. Yoga! Personally, I find yoga relaxing.
But sometimes you need a quick fix, papers are stressing you out and such...
2. Take a break...from whatever it is thats causing the stress. Walk away...run if you have to lol...but anyway put it down, come back to it in five minutes.
3. Change your attitude. As said by Winston Churchill, " Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference". Positive attitudes people! You can do it, it will all work out, things could always be worse, its not the end of the world, etc, etc. You'll be surpised what a positive attitude can do for your day.
4. Laugh, laugh at anything, laugh at yourself, watch something funny. Laughter is the best medicine!
5. Breathe. Obviously you breathe but take in a few deep breaths,let the oxygen in your mentally exhausted head!
Some funny relaxation techniques I found on readers digest.com were
-watch a funny video clip from the office
-pet a kitten (GENTLY!)
-drink a glass of milk (random, I'll pass)
-hold a sleeping baby (could be creepy lol)
-pop some bubble wrap (because we all have extra bubblewrap laying around incase we get stressed...oh wait...normal people pop their bubble wrap as soon as they get it! no worries, theres a website you can buy bubble wrap from in times of an emergency...stock up!)
Thanks readersdigest for the awesome suggestions.
Anyway, I hope the end of the semester is less stressful for the rest of you, but if not, maybe this will help you. :)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
1. Was it weird to add your professor as a friend?
Yess! Absolutely, I found it no more calming then adding my mother as a friend on Facebook. If I ask myself why, it is because I have way too much information on Facebook. Too many pictures, too many posts, and tJust the other day, as a joke with one of my friends I posted "spooning w/ mary" as my status. My mom first asked me what was spooning, which was hilarious in itself, but then proceeded to ask me if I was really spooning with her...was I dating women. Obviously again, hilarious. For me it was funny but these are the problems with posting the things we do on Facebook. All types of pictures and comments that people don't understand, take the wrong way, or downright probably shouldn't be up there. It’s weird. For a social networking site, that encourages social networking, we don't really promote ourselves well...I suppose depending on the person you’re promoting yourself too, that is. The thing is though, most people, myself, don't look at it in that sense. We don't think about how our personal page reflects us on others...some people might not care.
Take a look at these disturbing results from a random survey of 200 Facebook profiles and comments conducted by Peluchette and Karl in the article Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook:“What Were They Thinking?!”
“…42% had comments regarding alcohol, 53% had photos involving alcohol use, 20% had comments regarding sexual activities, 25% had seminude or sexually provocative photos, and 50% included the use of profanity (Peluchette & Karl, 2007). These authors also examined wall comment or public messages that individuals post on each others’ profiles and found that approximately 50% involved issues of partying, 40% involved negative comments about other people, 25% involved derogatory comments about employers, 18% involved sexual activities…”
Think about it from your mother’s perspective…or your professor’s. How about an employer’s? A little disturbing isn’t it.
2. Have any awkward situations arise from the information posted about you on Facebook?
Of course, who hasn’t? Who hasn’t dealt with a boyfriend questioning a curious comment from a guy he doesn’t know…or maybe he has met. Or a parent checking your pictures from the last frat party you attended, in which case you may have been too drunk to remember the pictures. I have very questionable pictures on Facebook. My profile has been monitored by my mother, my boyfriend, my ex-boyfriend, girls who didn’t like me and had someone else friend me to be nosey, my friends boyfriends, my friend’s ex-boyfriends, etc…Its obvious drama-central. Why keep it? Because who doesn’t love Facebook.
Here's a link to the event page I created on Facebook, in support of Gay abd Lesbian Youth.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretending-to-Text-in-Awkward-Situations/112678439229?ref=nf#/event.php?eid=179434596089&index=1
This event post, ironically, caused mini havoc as well. Seeing as it was a Gala to support Gay and lesbian youth...and happened to post itself all over my profile as the creator and attending guest...I had a few people to answer to in the morning.
Yess! Absolutely, I found it no more calming then adding my mother as a friend on Facebook. If I ask myself why, it is because I have way too much information on Facebook. Too many pictures, too many posts, and tJust the other day, as a joke with one of my friends I posted "spooning w/ mary" as my status. My mom first asked me what was spooning, which was hilarious in itself, but then proceeded to ask me if I was really spooning with her...was I dating women. Obviously again, hilarious. For me it was funny but these are the problems with posting the things we do on Facebook. All types of pictures and comments that people don't understand, take the wrong way, or downright probably shouldn't be up there. It’s weird. For a social networking site, that encourages social networking, we don't really promote ourselves well...I suppose depending on the person you’re promoting yourself too, that is. The thing is though, most people, myself, don't look at it in that sense. We don't think about how our personal page reflects us on others...some people might not care.
Take a look at these disturbing results from a random survey of 200 Facebook profiles and comments conducted by Peluchette and Karl in the article Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook:“What Were They Thinking?!”
“…42% had comments regarding alcohol, 53% had photos involving alcohol use, 20% had comments regarding sexual activities, 25% had seminude or sexually provocative photos, and 50% included the use of profanity (Peluchette & Karl, 2007). These authors also examined wall comment or public messages that individuals post on each others’ profiles and found that approximately 50% involved issues of partying, 40% involved negative comments about other people, 25% involved derogatory comments about employers, 18% involved sexual activities…”
Think about it from your mother’s perspective…or your professor’s. How about an employer’s? A little disturbing isn’t it.
2. Have any awkward situations arise from the information posted about you on Facebook?
Of course, who hasn’t? Who hasn’t dealt with a boyfriend questioning a curious comment from a guy he doesn’t know…or maybe he has met. Or a parent checking your pictures from the last frat party you attended, in which case you may have been too drunk to remember the pictures. I have very questionable pictures on Facebook. My profile has been monitored by my mother, my boyfriend, my ex-boyfriend, girls who didn’t like me and had someone else friend me to be nosey, my friends boyfriends, my friend’s ex-boyfriends, etc…Its obvious drama-central. Why keep it? Because who doesn’t love Facebook.
Here's a link to the event page I created on Facebook, in support of Gay abd Lesbian Youth.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretending-to-Text-in-Awkward-Situations/112678439229?ref=nf#/event.php?eid=179434596089&index=1
This event post, ironically, caused mini havoc as well. Seeing as it was a Gala to support Gay and lesbian youth...and happened to post itself all over my profile as the creator and attending guest...I had a few people to answer to in the morning.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
I chose to post this picture because it looks perfect. It looks like a picture that comes preloaded on a camera, a desktop backgroud, or phone. I took this picture when I visited Spain this past summer in the parque de laberint (maze). It was an average little pond, containing water lillies, leaves, algae, bugs, the whole works. I zoomed in ion this one perfect flower and was thrilled with the picture I got. Its simple, but to me its beautiful. Lillies have always been one of my favorite flowers. Currently in another class I'm taking (Math 103 although I'm a senior I'm just now taking it) We're studying Fibonacci's numbers and how he used flowers to show sequential numbers. The fibonacci sequence is
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ,13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ..... The sequence continues with this pattern. The patten is infinite, it can go on forever. If you haven't figured it out, (or have never learned the fibonacci sequence) it is simple. You add the two previous numbers to get the next number in the sequence. Starting at 0, o + 1 equals 1, 1 +1 equals 2, 2 + 1 equals 3, 3 + 2 equals 5, etc. Fibonacci sequence also works in nature. Its referred to as the "laws of nature" If you take the time to count the petals of a flower, (which most people don't do) you'll notice that the flower always have the same number of petals (assuming it none fall off). If you take a number of different species of flowers and count the petals you'll notice all of the flowers contain a number from fibonacci's sequence. Why this is true, I'm not sure, whether its coincidental, or maybe I haven't gotten that far in my math class yet (or haven't been paying close enough attention) I find it fascinating. The one petaled flower is the white calla lily, 2 petaled flow
er is the euphorbia, and then the flower most people are familiar with that contain more than 2 petals such as the daisy contain 21 petals...every single daisy of its kind will always follow the same sequence of 21 petals. The core of a daisy contains 21 florets circling counterclockwise, and 34 forets ciricling clockwise. The water lily, (pictured above) contains 34 petals. It will always contain 34 petals. It will always follow the same sequence.
er is the euphorbia, and then the flower most people are familiar with that contain more than 2 petals such as the daisy contain 21 petals...every single daisy of its kind will always follow the same sequence of 21 petals. The core of a daisy contains 21 florets circling counterclockwise, and 34 forets ciricling clockwise. The water lily, (pictured above) contains 34 petals. It will always contain 34 petals. It will always follow the same sequence. Although it was not required of us, I posted another picture just for viewing pleasure of the pond where I found the water lily. This is just a small part of the parque de laberint.
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