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Sunday, 05 April 2009

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    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    By Arctic Monkeys
    Mady Burn
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    Westcoast Whimsing

    Pretty sure I just made up words up there. But anyway, I'm sitting in the warmth of the sunlight listening to the Kooks, the Morning Benders and the Arctic Monkeys. My puppies are lounging around and oh yeah, did I mention we had a snowstorm last night?

    As much as I do enjoy snow and winter, this is taking it too far and all of it just makes me miss California and the tropics even more. The past few years I've been able to escape the arctic cold that is Minnesota. The golden coast of South Africa last January, Barbados the year before....no traveling at all this year has been weird.

    I will soon be embarking on travel for my company though. Exotic locals like Indiana and Wisconsin, woooot!!! You know you're jealous.

    Anyway, life is all right and I just wanted to share with everyone some disturbing marketing I encountered today when in the frozen food aisle (how much I wish I could remove the "a"). It's like a combination of food porn and child exploitation, anyone hungry? Cause I lost my appetite and I no longer have a wholesome image of Kid's Cuisine.




Thursday, 05 February 2009

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    Talking Through Tin Cans
    By The Morning Benders
    Boarded Doors
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    rando post

    sigh...i never asked for a re-do on a test or anything...can i re-do my life though?

    and as much as i am good at putting a shit eating grin on at work and acting all professional and fancy, i hate it. we had a business lunch today, talk about awkward. man, there was excellent pizza and pop, but we had to be all chit chat and eat with fork and knives.

    in an ideal world i would like to work for a company that doesn't judge me for enjoying my pizza like a normal person, i want to burp and i want to be able to talk with my mouth full and laugh, is that too much to ask?


    then again, i should be thankful to have a job though it seems like i can no longer hold out on feeling the impact of a shitty shitty shitty economy, more and more of our competitors are going under. for the first time in eight years we went on a hiring freeze and in the past three weeks, three middle managers have been let go.


    also, companies are literally laying people off all around us. scary stuff when all i want to do is be a kid. why can good ol' Bill come back, those were the days when bj's were the only thing on our parent's global concern list instead of mounting credit card debt and the prospect of having to forgo heat and electricity a few days to make ends meet.


    how is everyone doing btw?

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

  • Currently Listening
    Talking Through Tin Cans
    By The Morning Benders
    Worth the Fight
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    My update

      Hey all, so I didn't end up working all of Warped Tour BUT I did work the August 3rd Concert and it was super fun. I worked with the Academy Is and Gym Class Heroes and I met Motion City and Jack from All Time Low. It was a little overwhelming being surrounded by a bunch of fourteen somethings, but it was still fun.

    Due to my three months of summer unemployment and my decision to defer law school, I was really bored and i got two puppies (pug x beagle = puggles) Jack and JJ. I also signed on to LSS Data Systems as a Marketing Associate. Basically it's a company that makes clinical management software so scheduling appointments, updating and storing a medical chart and billing for clinics. I am in 6 months of training and then I do 50% travel to do on site demos and 50% market research.

    So far I really like the job, everyone is really young at the company (average age is 25) though I am officially the youngest. It's really far away in Minnetonka so I leave at 650AM and don't get home till 6PM if I'm lucky. It's kinda crazy right now and I haven't had time for anything cause I'm exhausted when I get home.

    I tried making it out to the Ratatat concert on Friday. Got down there, waited in line and then it got sold out. Lesson learned, I am never going to a concert without buying into ticketmaster first.

    How's everyone else doing? Anyone want to go to Ben Kweller mid October at the Varsity Theatre?



    Top ones Jack and JJ (who's a girl). They are half sibling, same dad, different baby mama.



    Jack is a sleepy butt

Friday, 04 July 2008

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    We the Kings
    By We the Kings
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    Summer always starts with a cabin trip...

    This past weekend my pod mates when up to a friend's cabin in northern Minnesota and it was really fun despite the crappy weather that plagued us for two days.

    Got to love them rich people. Our friend's family permanently bought out a lakeside resort so each one of her family members owns a guest cabin and the place is just ridiculously nice. The adults were all really funny and cool too...and total lushes. They had a basement full of booze and usually started drinking around 9am. On Saturday when us kids were out grocery shopping at 2PM they called us to buy them more booze because they were already too drunk to drive haha. And that night we played beer pong and flip cup with them and Allie's mom was ridiculously good, even with an underhand.

    Thankfully Sunday the weather was really nice and I went tubing for the first time and that was also really fun. It was also really nice to be around a bunch of dogs too since non of my family has any. It was like a doggie day care.

    As for the 4th...still don't know what I will end up doing even though it is already 1020AM on the 4th. Hope you guys all find something fun to do and maybe I'll see you around tonight!




    The Main Cabin



    Probably the only time Gracie wasn't running around


    Oh rich people...


    ....continued

Friday, 13 June 2008

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    Sing It Loud
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    it is a small world after all...

    I have been trying to savor my remaining youth in the past year before entering the REAL WORLD. A place where it's not okay to hump things when drunk, pee on people or bite them. A place where you go to work for the money, you don't really care about it, but you suck it up and all you ever talk about are professional sports, gas prices and what you ate for lunch/dinner or what you're going to eat for lunch/dinner. Frankly, the notion of getting a job/going to grad school to enter the real world scares the shit out of me.

    So this summer I have been going to a lot of concerts and basically pretending like I still am in my late teen years, when really I will soon be a law student. I feel like the only reason why I am approaching the next chapter of my life with so much dread is because I really don't want to become a lawyer or work for some stupid big corporation. I want to have fun at work and do something I find meaning in.

    So while on facebook (weird, me on facebook), I get some random chat from someone I met once, years ago while I was in New Orleans for Hurricane Relief. He was chatting with me because my status read "Warped Tour 2008" and he asked if I was going on tour this year. I laughed and told him I was just a spectator. Turns out this guy has been working promotions and what not for Warped for Four Years and has become good friends with all my favorite bands, it was crazy. At first I thought he was just exaggerating but no, he wasn't making it up. He's living the dream and meanwhile I write to you behind the counter of a Chinese fast food restaurant.

    Lesson learned, it is a small world and I think it is a small miracle that I randomly started talking to this guy because it made me realize that I can move forward with my life without hesitation, there are jobs out there that are both fun and professional. I'm going to be applying to a few companies he suggested that do promotional events for the youth segment, don't know how my parents will respond though.

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