So much for writing on my blog more often.
A month into my resolutions, and i've got to say, i've stuck to more of them than I was anticipating doing.
I've totally given up coffee - and many people are shocked.
Still haven't touched red meat - and i'm not missing it.
I joined WW two weeks ago, have already lost 2.2 pounds last week, and probably at least another 5 this week. My jeans are fitting much better. I feel like this will be the last time I have to go on this stupid diet - i've finally made smart changes in my life.
Have not been able to stick to a cleaning schedule - but hey - i don't want to die saying 'i should have gone out that one time and not stayed home to clean the living room.'
The short film is going full steam, though the DP we all want has not exactly agreed to the project yet. Slight (major) problem. We are holding auditions saturday!
And...again, have not written on this blog nearly enough.
Odd to notice though, that in giving up coffee - arguably my life force for the past 15 years easily - it has completely, and i mean completely, EFFED my body up. I've become lactose intolerant in a month, i feel yucky, i haven't had a good night's sleep in a few weeks - and I can't get over this cold. WHAT IS THE DEAL? What kind of crack have they gotten me hooked on?
On an entirely separate note - I'm working on a case that is on air right now at my new job about a very young boy who is accused of shooting his grandparents, and his defense is claiming that he was so hopped up on anti-depressants that were prescribed by his doctor that he didn't know what he was doing. I can't help it - every time I see this kid i want to cry. He looks just like my brother, he is my brother's age (they're both 15 now), and he just looks so sad, you know? Like a puppy. A puppy who got into trouble, lured by his owners into a false sense of security.
How can pharmeceutical companies look this kid and his family in the face and say - yeah, we prescribed it to you, but we're not going to take responsibility for your actions as a result of taking this drug - you're on your own. It is heartless. This was a child.
And i'm a huge proponent of the death penalty - an eye for an eye. But justice has to be appropriate. Children are most definitely not adults and should not be treated like one in court. From all the research that i've done - neither side is innocent, but it is wrong to condemn a child who has barely lived his life outside of juvenile detention.
I'll step down from the soap box now.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Friday, December 31, 2004
An Awesome 2005
OK - since everyone else is blogging off about their new years resolutions - here are mine.
1- Write on my blog more.
2- Make an apartment cleaning schedule (and stick to it!)
3- Go to curves at least three times a week (preferably, tuesday, thursday, and saturday)
4- Possibly spend the $10 a week and go back to WW (sense a pattern here?)
5- Finish the two short films Alex wrote.
6- Go to Europe by July, California for Jan 1, 2006!
7- Get a reasonable sized savings together (well, but if europe and california are in the picture....this one may have to dissapear quietly)
8- Do more things that make ME happy (painting, playing my cello, writing, hanging out with my girls, meditating on all things Disney)
9- Similar to Teresa - I am going to visit my family a bit more often.
10- Spend more quality time with Alex (and i'm sure he knows what I mean by quality time...we're going to watch more movies!!)
Things i'm giving up:
Beef (not taking any more chances. all these mad cow stories are enough)
Coffee (i can hear the gasping now. Seriously, my addiction will be cut in half, if not 3/4. i've found the wonders of tea, and I can use skim milk in it!)
Crappy TV (if i find myself sitting in my livingroom, hitting the button looking for something good to watch after 10 minutes of scanning, i'm going to get up and work on one of my resolutions.)
A mountain to tackle, you say. But I don't think so. I figure these aren't "real" resolutions, cause I thought of them a few days before New Year's. So they hopefully won't be failures.
I've already almost got the entire apartment clean. I've ordered healty food from Fresh Direct (greatest...invention...ever). I'll hopefully be seeing the Aviator with Alex tonight, and I'm posting my first blog of the year.
Nothing like a bout of strep to re-evaluate your life.
Stay Tuned!
1- Write on my blog more.
2- Make an apartment cleaning schedule (and stick to it!)
3- Go to curves at least three times a week (preferably, tuesday, thursday, and saturday)
4- Possibly spend the $10 a week and go back to WW (sense a pattern here?)
5- Finish the two short films Alex wrote.
6- Go to Europe by July, California for Jan 1, 2006!
7- Get a reasonable sized savings together (well, but if europe and california are in the picture....this one may have to dissapear quietly)
8- Do more things that make ME happy (painting, playing my cello, writing, hanging out with my girls, meditating on all things Disney)
9- Similar to Teresa - I am going to visit my family a bit more often.
10- Spend more quality time with Alex (and i'm sure he knows what I mean by quality time...we're going to watch more movies!!)
Things i'm giving up:
Beef (not taking any more chances. all these mad cow stories are enough)
Coffee (i can hear the gasping now. Seriously, my addiction will be cut in half, if not 3/4. i've found the wonders of tea, and I can use skim milk in it!)
Crappy TV (if i find myself sitting in my livingroom, hitting the button looking for something good to watch after 10 minutes of scanning, i'm going to get up and work on one of my resolutions.)
A mountain to tackle, you say. But I don't think so. I figure these aren't "real" resolutions, cause I thought of them a few days before New Year's. So they hopefully won't be failures.
I've already almost got the entire apartment clean. I've ordered healty food from Fresh Direct (greatest...invention...ever). I'll hopefully be seeing the Aviator with Alex tonight, and I'm posting my first blog of the year.
Nothing like a bout of strep to re-evaluate your life.
Stay Tuned!
Friday, September 24, 2004
The Bitch is Back
HHHHHEEEEEYYYYY!!!! HOW YOU DOING!!! Oh my gosh! its been so long! You've lost weight haven't you? Hows the family? mayo's back biatches. i've got a real job now, and i'll be writing a whole heap more...now if only i could figure out how to make paragraphs again?
Monday, September 13, 2004
What I wish college/high school would have taught me
Sitting at home with my mom sunday night, we were watching Alton Brown's show on Food Network "Good Eats." Topic of the evening was: baking the perfect cookie.
"THATS what they should have taught you in high school," my mother blurts out.
Its true - Alton smoothly explained his way through the science of baking cookies, why mixing liquids and powdered materials separately lead to a better baked cookie, why a different mixer can mean the difference between crap and elegance, I could go on and on.
And I started thinking - what else do I wish I would have been taught in high school or college that I know now, after spending 2 1/2 years in the real world?
1- People (at least in NY) are almost always out to squash you.
2- Everything you read is almost always wrong.
3- Nothing is fair whatsoever
4- Adulthood really and truly sucks. No seriously. I don't think this was fully explained to me.
What about you guys - question of the day ers - what do you wish you would have learned in school and NOT in the real world?
"THATS what they should have taught you in high school," my mother blurts out.
Its true - Alton smoothly explained his way through the science of baking cookies, why mixing liquids and powdered materials separately lead to a better baked cookie, why a different mixer can mean the difference between crap and elegance, I could go on and on.
And I started thinking - what else do I wish I would have been taught in high school or college that I know now, after spending 2 1/2 years in the real world?
1- People (at least in NY) are almost always out to squash you.
2- Everything you read is almost always wrong.
3- Nothing is fair whatsoever
4- Adulthood really and truly sucks. No seriously. I don't think this was fully explained to me.
What about you guys - question of the day ers - what do you wish you would have learned in school and NOT in the real world?
Saturday, September 11, 2004
My love and fear for the blog
So i've been neglecting mine for a while. Call it writer's block.
But a lot of other bloggers have NOT been neglecting their blogs.
If you've been paying attention to any type of media, you'll see that there's this huge bruhaha over some documents released re: Bush's military record. And the interesting part of this story is that Bloggers are fueling the reporting of this story.
I think this phenomenon is fabulous. After working for big media for a couple of years (as a researcher even) I think making the people responsible for the news they read is an awesome celebration of the concept of freedom of the press. Similar to the way the major music lables had a hold on music until Napster came along, Blogs are quickly destroying the conventional method of acquiring news, analysis, and good old information.
However, I have a fear. I fear blogs are young, and their impact is vast. This kind of analysis has no way of leaving a trace, leaving its history. There are no buildings full of archival issues. Unless someone prints out every post and everything connected to it, there is no easy way to ever retrieve this information again. If we ever lose the ability to go online, the ability to email, the ability to network, the ability to have electricity at our beck and call, we will lose this critical moment in news publishing history.
And not only to document what is true, but to document what may not be true. This morning, I watched this flash presentation about what happened to the plane that flew in to the Pentagon on 9.11. It basically lays information at the doorstep of the theory that the US government flew a missile into the Pentagon, that it was no plane. It lays "supporting" quotes to the claim, quoted from various news reports.
I do vaguely remember hearing about this while i was working at CNN, and in the months immediately following the attack, the same way I remember hearing on the radio the morning of 9.11 that Fort Knox was hit, that the Golden Gate Bridge was hit. Now, this may be a legitimate piece of reporting. At the moment, I refuse to believe that the government blew up the Pentagon. (for people who are freaked out by this trailer as i was, here's SNOPES version) However, there will be no record of it. It is only in this intangible form on the internet. I think it would be great for people to see this, or see more material like this, to dig deeper into this dialectic that otherwise we would never be participating in.
There will be no headlines to hold up, no paper to point to. I sometimes imagine the aliens that will visit this planet years after we have destroyed ourselves. I imagine them walking into cities to find homes destroyed, buildings demolished. But like every good imaginary alien scene, they will stumble upon scraps of newspaper that tumble down the street, giving away the "Annihilation!" or "DOOM!" that comes before a civilization is destroyed.
Yes, the same could be said for television. If we don't have a player, tv, AND electricity, all that stuff is meaningless. But i feel like what Blogging is onto is bigger than televsion.
It is truly democratic broadcasting.
So, I'm going to think about this for the next few weeks - about a way to record the blather that myself, my friends, and my colleagues dump onto this vast network on a daily/weekly basis. (or monthly, as i've been lately)
Question of the day: Have any ideas about how to make this blog thing more real? Or does it need to be?
But a lot of other bloggers have NOT been neglecting their blogs.
If you've been paying attention to any type of media, you'll see that there's this huge bruhaha over some documents released re: Bush's military record. And the interesting part of this story is that Bloggers are fueling the reporting of this story.
I think this phenomenon is fabulous. After working for big media for a couple of years (as a researcher even) I think making the people responsible for the news they read is an awesome celebration of the concept of freedom of the press. Similar to the way the major music lables had a hold on music until Napster came along, Blogs are quickly destroying the conventional method of acquiring news, analysis, and good old information.
However, I have a fear. I fear blogs are young, and their impact is vast. This kind of analysis has no way of leaving a trace, leaving its history. There are no buildings full of archival issues. Unless someone prints out every post and everything connected to it, there is no easy way to ever retrieve this information again. If we ever lose the ability to go online, the ability to email, the ability to network, the ability to have electricity at our beck and call, we will lose this critical moment in news publishing history.
And not only to document what is true, but to document what may not be true. This morning, I watched this flash presentation about what happened to the plane that flew in to the Pentagon on 9.11. It basically lays information at the doorstep of the theory that the US government flew a missile into the Pentagon, that it was no plane. It lays "supporting" quotes to the claim, quoted from various news reports.
I do vaguely remember hearing about this while i was working at CNN, and in the months immediately following the attack, the same way I remember hearing on the radio the morning of 9.11 that Fort Knox was hit, that the Golden Gate Bridge was hit. Now, this may be a legitimate piece of reporting. At the moment, I refuse to believe that the government blew up the Pentagon. (for people who are freaked out by this trailer as i was, here's SNOPES version) However, there will be no record of it. It is only in this intangible form on the internet. I think it would be great for people to see this, or see more material like this, to dig deeper into this dialectic that otherwise we would never be participating in.
There will be no headlines to hold up, no paper to point to. I sometimes imagine the aliens that will visit this planet years after we have destroyed ourselves. I imagine them walking into cities to find homes destroyed, buildings demolished. But like every good imaginary alien scene, they will stumble upon scraps of newspaper that tumble down the street, giving away the "Annihilation!" or "DOOM!" that comes before a civilization is destroyed.
Yes, the same could be said for television. If we don't have a player, tv, AND electricity, all that stuff is meaningless. But i feel like what Blogging is onto is bigger than televsion.
It is truly democratic broadcasting.
So, I'm going to think about this for the next few weeks - about a way to record the blather that myself, my friends, and my colleagues dump onto this vast network on a daily/weekly basis. (or monthly, as i've been lately)
Question of the day: Have any ideas about how to make this blog thing more real? Or does it need to be?
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