Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Pet Peeves addendum
Although I know I ended the subject with irony, I will start the note with it. I have stopped reading the Alligator in its print form entirely, and now read it online to start my day. It reduces the need for wasted paper, which wouldn't be as big of a problem with paper recycling, but isn't such a big step being just me. Anyway, the point of this wasn't to convince others to do the same, but to mention that every time I see a catch phrase from one of the SG campaigns I have worked on, it makes me smile. Even the campaigns in which ...
So, this from senate Tuesday from the Associate Dean of CLAS - "We kind of let things go as 'business as usual' and didn't include faculty and students". Business (or politics) as usual. LMAO. I didn't add the quotes around "business as usual" either, so someone at the Alligator did their homework. There was a quote yesterday that read "so and so fails to take action", which also elicited a chuckle from me. Then, I changed my picture yesterday, and got this wall post from Hoffman- "I thought I was looking at the Fall Impact logo from the thumbnail-sized pic," in regards to me standing next to a 10 foot tall glass of coke. Doesn't it all cycle back to SG somehow? Sad, I know.
Speaking of sad, I had a sad dream last night that took place during the Fall Impact campaign. The dream started out as all fun and games (as was much of that Impact campaign- I specifically remember like 5 dinners at Olive Garden???). Fun times. And for the sad and simultaneously weird part, I tend to have certain powers while dreaming. There is a word for it, but I do not remember (hopefully one of you wonderful commenters will) where I tend to exist in a quasi awake/sleep state, which enables me to sort of guide the path of my dreams. This may sound crazy, but I've heard of others doing it too, and even read about it in one of my psych classes-- something to do with a certain level of rem sleep, but I don't really know.
ANYWAY, in this dream (and please no one read in to this anymore than it just being a dream), but one of my good friends and fellow Fall Impact exec, Ally, had died in a plane crash. I remember the dream quite vividly (again, that quasi-awaken state), because we were all at olive garden (yeah, not sure why we went there like 5x exactly), and then went back to someone's apartment. I remember specifically reading a Yahoo News headline that detailed a plane crash that I knew she was on. It was bizarre.
And the weird part (and also the part that will stop Ally from being upset with me for dreaming she died) is that when I woke up, my pillow was soaking wet from the tears I'd shed mourning her death in my dream-- b/c we still care. The dream was so real, that I immediately checked Yahoo, and text messaged her. Not that you all cared about the detail that much, but it was one of the more vivid dreams I can ever remember having. So Ally, don't fly anywhere today =) And I will be greatly appreciative to anyone who knows the name of this alleged quasi sleep state where one can shape the path of their dreams.
As far as friends go, you never realize who will be reading these notes when you write them, but I have had many people, some very random others not, comment on them in the last 3 days. From seeing people at Chipotle, to comments via Gmessenger. It makes me realize how amazing my friends are to actually read the craziness that goes on in my head (esp while sleeping). One in particular, let's call them Borad, relayed a story to me that absolutely made me laugh out loud, how they faked an illness to get out of an exam, in let's say, Tales of King Arthur . But, you can't just do that. You need to get a note from the infirmary. So Borad faked a food poisoning illness so amazingly, that they got an excused note for the exam about the Round Table. The names of the student and class have been changed to protect the innocent ... er, that's not quite right, but you get the idea.
Three last things that have come up since I started writing this:
1).
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/061018colum...
This kid knows his stuff. Can I run him for SBP?
2). Before I forget, ""If you change your mind, you can change your life."
William James- author of Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, and The Meaning of Truth and Professor of Psychology at Harvard in the late 1800's.
I like that one, although I had no lack of motivation today, except for studying of course, because instead of doing that, I wrote this for an hour =)
3). I will begin tagging everyone to which I make any reference in my posts, even if not by name. So if you don't get how the note is relevant to you, ask, and I will let you know, although they are things you should know.
4). (yeah, I know I said 3, but here's a bonus insight) Every time I look down at the title of this brower, it says "Facebook | write a N", and that's all the fits. It would be "Facebook | Write a Note", but every time I see it, I think " I write Sins Not Tragedies", the song by Panic at the Disco. Yeah, pointless I know, but I felt like sharing.
So, this from senate Tuesday from the Associate Dean of CLAS - "We kind of let things go as 'business as usual' and didn't include faculty and students". Business (or politics) as usual. LMAO. I didn't add the quotes around "business as usual" either, so someone at the Alligator did their homework. There was a quote yesterday that read "so and so fails to take action", which also elicited a chuckle from me. Then, I changed my picture yesterday, and got this wall post from Hoffman- "I thought I was looking at the Fall Impact logo from the thumbnail-sized pic," in regards to me standing next to a 10 foot tall glass of coke. Doesn't it all cycle back to SG somehow? Sad, I know.
Speaking of sad, I had a sad dream last night that took place during the Fall Impact campaign. The dream started out as all fun and games (as was much of that Impact campaign- I specifically remember like 5 dinners at Olive Garden???). Fun times. And for the sad and simultaneously weird part, I tend to have certain powers while dreaming. There is a word for it, but I do not remember (hopefully one of you wonderful commenters will) where I tend to exist in a quasi awake/sleep state, which enables me to sort of guide the path of my dreams. This may sound crazy, but I've heard of others doing it too, and even read about it in one of my psych classes-- something to do with a certain level of rem sleep, but I don't really know.
ANYWAY, in this dream (and please no one read in to this anymore than it just being a dream), but one of my good friends and fellow Fall Impact exec, Ally, had died in a plane crash. I remember the dream quite vividly (again, that quasi-awaken state), because we were all at olive garden (yeah, not sure why we went there like 5x exactly), and then went back to someone's apartment. I remember specifically reading a Yahoo News headline that detailed a plane crash that I knew she was on. It was bizarre.
And the weird part (and also the part that will stop Ally from being upset with me for dreaming she died) is that when I woke up, my pillow was soaking wet from the tears I'd shed mourning her death in my dream-- b/c we still care. The dream was so real, that I immediately checked Yahoo, and text messaged her. Not that you all cared about the detail that much, but it was one of the more vivid dreams I can ever remember having. So Ally, don't fly anywhere today =) And I will be greatly appreciative to anyone who knows the name of this alleged quasi sleep state where one can shape the path of their dreams.
As far as friends go, you never realize who will be reading these notes when you write them, but I have had many people, some very random others not, comment on them in the last 3 days. From seeing people at Chipotle, to comments via Gmessenger. It makes me realize how amazing my friends are to actually read the craziness that goes on in my head (esp while sleeping). One in particular, let's call them Borad, relayed a story to me that absolutely made me laugh out loud, how they faked an illness to get out of an exam, in let's say, Tales of King Arthur . But, you can't just do that. You need to get a note from the infirmary. So Borad faked a food poisoning illness so amazingly, that they got an excused note for the exam about the Round Table. The names of the student and class have been changed to protect the innocent ... er, that's not quite right, but you get the idea.
Three last things that have come up since I started writing this:
1).
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/061018colum...
This kid knows his stuff. Can I run him for SBP?
2). Before I forget, ""If you change your mind, you can change your life."
William James- author of Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, and The Meaning of Truth and Professor of Psychology at Harvard in the late 1800's.
I like that one, although I had no lack of motivation today, except for studying of course, because instead of doing that, I wrote this for an hour =)
3). I will begin tagging everyone to which I make any reference in my posts, even if not by name. So if you don't get how the note is relevant to you, ask, and I will let you know, although they are things you should know.
4). (yeah, I know I said 3, but here's a bonus insight) Every time I look down at the title of this brower, it says "Facebook | write a N", and that's all the fits. It would be "Facebook | Write a Note", but every time I see it, I think " I write Sins Not Tragedies", the song by Panic at the Disco. Yeah, pointless I know, but I felt like sharing.
Those were the days ...
# posted by David Meyrowitz @ 11:59 AM 
