Sunday in Ny

I had a great trip back home. We celebrated my Mothers birthday, I saw my new born Goddaughter, spent time with my girl, and saw the boys. Its real hard coming back here knowing I have to leave again. I think being in a cycle for me is great, but when I inject old feelings or surroundings, it throws me for a loop. The only success Iv found, is simply just keeping up with life. The minute you let things pile up on you, the easer it is for your legs to shake. I need to focus on the big picture.

New York Eve

I wrote a couple of ruff drafts for our mid-term paper this evening. At first, I was thinking, man I want to do this essay solo. But I'v done a million of those, Im very curious to see how the tandem process will work. I actually think it will make me a better writter, I love other people's perspective on my work.

In about 24 hours I will be back home in NY. Sometimes I think I take a step backwards when I go home. I start to get into a groove here in Florida, and when I get a dose of friends, family, and my g/f, it really throws me for a loop. I find it difficult to readjust when I come back and I loose all of that. Obviously it will be there when I get back, but it seems to be vaporous when I am here in Tampa. I Constantly have to remind myself why I am here. I'm real excited to meet my Goddaughter, I feel honored to have that title. I will be flying in on my Mothers birthday, I wish I had more of a means to be able to get her something special, but I know all she wants is a hug. I miss my Grandmother very much as well, she and I have always had a very special relationship. My g/f and I really need some face to face time. It's difficult to be in a long distance relationship, but it helps with how supportive she is, and it's easy when you focus on how much you love each other. I'm dieing for a night out with the boys. I dont know anyone else who has friends that they went to kindergarten with, I have a real tight nit crew, there the best

Anyway, adios.

Class

Loved class tonight. I was really in a funk this weekend. Lovers quarrels (to put it amiably), alot of work, screwed up plan's Saturday night, it was a full weekend of crap to piss me off. Any who, I was not excited for Monday to start, to say the least, but tonights class really got me feeling confident again. The discussion's about Wordcraft, and Tiger, really got me feeling back to my old self. Maybe it's because I was able to voice my opinion without any particular backlash. It seems like in a relationship when your arguing its a one way path of aggravation. It's very frustrating when two people who love each other so much, cant seem to get on the same page. But a trait of true love is the wherewithal to keep going for the greater good, the love. It's when you give up that you know the love doesn't exist, so even in a quarrel, im somewhat happy.

Working with Kelly tonight was great, you really get to know someone when you work independently together, she seems like a great girl. Im glad I have the opportunity to learn from her.

Tiger

Many of you, reading my blog, are my friends.....

OH, MY, GOD. Tiger Tiger Tiger, why wouldint you man up and let the media ask some questions? Get it over with, Mark McGuire did it, Kobe, A-rod, Mike Vick, MAN UP!! Im glad he didint get beat up by his woman, yippie.None of this fake press confrence matters. His first swing wil be the highest rated golf event in history. This hole debacle will be an after thought when he starts to win again, and he will win again. He can have as many of these "presidential Style" news conferences as he wants, if he doesint start speaking from his heart, I will always consider him fake, and the greatest golfer of all time, which is the only thing we ever cared about in the first place. So open up Starbucks again and lets move on people.

Hollywood Fatty kids kicked off of Southwest

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/director_fed_up_syAY2YA2MaFsIhxq3Ve0RJ

Very interesting. Bad publicity for SW.

Chapter 5

Eh. I really do enjoy this Wordcraft book. However, Chapter 5 was brutal. It started out promising then in the middle of him telling this compelling story of a multi billion dollar company splitting, he goes off on a tangent that lost me. Now I dont know if I just didn't understand, was fed up with reading, my ADD was kicking up, but I had enough. Thank God I trucked forward to here what the name ended up being but still. I felt like I could have cut out 8 pages.

The second thing that got me was the prize of going to Australia for winning the branding contest. This type of corporate crap pisses me off. I think the number was around $30 million that they spent on adverting the new name, probably more. Your telling me you couldint give this guy one million for naming your multi billion dollar company. Honestly, i'd be pissed. Yeah, a trip to Australia is nice, BUT COME ON!!!!!!

All Star weekend

NBA All Star weekend. There was a time and a place where we would all get together and watch a ridiculous dunk contest and a start studded fun All-Star game. Now, not so much. The dunk contest was terrible. Nothing new, nothing exciting, and way to conservative. Im happy a Knick won, but even Nate Robinson was un-electric. Charles Barkley, who I rarely think has something provocative to say, had a great quote right before they decided who won. "Maybe no one will win". Simple, and completely right. Barkley is the epitome of fake in my eyes, everyone claims him to be this real guy, who speaks his mind, but there is a different between speaking your mind and just saying nonsense to make controversy, he's the latter in my opinion.

The all star game was what it is, a offensive game. What is so amazing is a guy could play 20% of the games and get elected in, such as Allen Iverson. Its a popularity contest to the fulliest, yet the popular players wont compete in the dunk contest anymore.

The Reading

Oddly enough I enjoyed reading the Word Craft book, the first three chapters anyway. It was real nice not to read a textbook for once, but better than that, it was a great couple of chapters. The insight was incredible into the world of namers and I loved how it had real life examples of products I am familiar with, big time products. I loved the BlackBerry example. The symetry with the words, 5 letters each, the relation to a fruit that grows on a network in a tree, and the thing that really intrigued me was the sound explanation. The creators introduced strawberry for a name but the BlackBerry sounds alot snappier, I loved that explanation.

It was also great to get a sneak peak into the Lexicon company. I feel like you rarely get a first hand look into a huge company like that one.

I hated the name Quiddity for a company, it just sounds terrible to me. I feel like you stumble over the words, and it just makes no sense, you cant relate to it. However, it does seem to fit into most of the other odd company name's out there. I guess all that matters is the bottem line...

Friday Flight

Just dropped off my gf at TPA. Really it was painless other then the fact she was leaving. What I mean by painless is the whole process. People really make a big deal about how much of a pain in the ass it is, but even with a 2 hour delay, then a 45 min retraction, it all worked out. The whole trip was great. We went to the Lighting game, sat in a skybox on Tuesday night, did a dinner at home, went to the movies, went to the state fair, and went out to eat at the Capital grille for our valentines dinner that we are not going to be together for. I love going out to eat, Lobster Bisque was great, filet was butter.

Now back to reality, work tomorrow, reading to do.

Class

Every time I want to hate and dread going to this class, (Advertising), I love our discussion. I come away feeling more empowered. The seminar was good, something my Mother probably wanted me to go to years ago. My favorite thing so far in this class, and it was said first day, is "go in the direction of your dreams". I loved music, and I saw two music classes that I wanted to take here at UT, and that propelled me (one reason), to attend.

I hated picking my girlfriend up today then dropping her off and going to school. I have four days with her, and I had to be at school. She respects me for that, and I love her for understanding, and also supporting the fact Im following my dreams. Support is so key in living strong.

Friday

Well instead of going to Miami Im hanging out watching tv. Sometimes in life you have to make conscious decisions you dont like, but you know are best in the long run. Or maybe the short, my gf is coming in Monday, the smart decision was to save the money and enjoy it next week. Since im not always known for making brilliant decisions, im proud of myself lol. The two chapters we had to read were insightful. I hate reading, but I will be honest, really fed that power of thinking outside the box. It gave alot of great points for road blocks. I love how it completely banded the word "best" from advertising, its true, it gets over used. After reading I attacked the hw and I just felt my creative blood boiling. I came up with some interesting stuff, but I want to sleep on it and see if I can make it better.

Tuesday

Had a good day at the radio station today. Thank God for coffee because the 3 hours I slept wasintnearly enough. My gf's brother was in a car accident last night which wasint his fault, everyone involved seems to be ok. Still, any time something like that happens, it makes you reflect and realize how important enjoying life is. When my gf texted me in class, my stomach dropped. A good buddy of mine was in a motorcycle accident and he is in a horrible state. I couldint help but think about my friend and I am real happy everyone was ok, I saw first hand how terrible it could be.

Monday

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, I have alot on my mind these days. On a lighter note, I cant wait to see my g/f who is coming to visit me next Monday. She is coming for just 4 days, but its much better than nothing. I just wish I didn't have so much to do during the week, we are gonna have alot of obstacles, but that's a long distance relationship for you.