Womp Womp

This is an assignment for my Global Communications class. I was working on this survey at my local coffee establishment earlier and read a couple of answers to my friend Sarah. She suggested I post it because I like to talk about myself and I thought it was a brilliant idea because I'm pretty awesome. Originally there were 24 questions but a few of them are boring so I'm leaving them out.

1. Which authors do you enjoy? Ernest Hemingway, JK Rowling, John Green, J.D. Salinger, and Jeff Lindsay
2. What was the last book you read? What kind of impact did it have on your life? The last book I read was Suzanne Collins’ Catching Fire. In all honesty, I felt that it droned on a bit too much and the only parts that I thoroughly enjoyed were the last three chapters. It didn’t have too much of an impact on my life other than solidifying the fact that The Twilight Saga is the worst piece of fiction written in a decade.
3. What types of books would you like to read if you had more time? I would like to finish Atlas Shrugged.
9. When do you listen to the radio? Do you listen primarily for music, news, or talk shows? What stations do you listen to? I listen to the radio when I’m in the car because my Ipod adapter is broken. I typically listen to KROQ and KIIS. They’re FM stations.
10. How and where do you listen to music? Do you listen to music on the radio or just music downloads? I listen to music on my Ipod mostly. I listen to music all day everyday. If I don’t have it on me I’ll listen to Pandora on my phone. I’m a big CD collector but I usually download albums first to judge whether or not it’s worth spending money on.
11. Do you listen to music frequently, rarely, or occasionally? What types? I almost can’t function without music. Even if it’s a half a mile car ride, I need music to break the silence. I listen to a little bit of everything except for country. And Opera. And musicals.
13. What is your current favorite song and your favorite recording artist? My current favorite song is “Heinrich Maneuver” by Interpol. My all time favorite song is “(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan” by Dntel. I have a few favorite bands. Death Cab for Cutie, The Strokes, We Are Scientists, and Bright Eyes are the big four. I’ve been really into Interpol lately though.
14. What influence do you think popular music has on people in your age group? It has a pretty big influence on society. I bet that teens would not have been as keen to drink grape flavored cough syrup for pleasure if Lil’ Wayne hadn’t rapped about it first.
16. How often do you go online? Do you regularly use Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites? Which ones? I go online probably about 20-30 times a day on my phone. I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. Send the occasional Tweet. I have a YouTube channel but it’s mostly dumb videos of my friends doing stupid crap. I’m really into Intagramming at the moment.  
18. What do you make a point to watch every week? Why? I have a few shows that I watch. Pretty Little Liars, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s Anatomy, True Blood and Dexter. Some of them I watch for comedic value. Others because I like the mystery. I watch Dexter because I have a thing for vigilantes. And because he gives me hope for the world.
20. Do you own an iPod or an iPad/Kindle? How have they changed your viewing, reading, and listening habits? Yes I own an Ipod. His name is Mortimer. He's enabled me to listen to music at all times. He's probably made me become slightly more socially awkward than I should be.

Mortimer in all his glory

21. What was the last movie you saw in a theater? How long ago? The Expendables 2. Last week.
22. What is/are your all-time favorite movie(s)? Why? This is a complicated question. I have several favorites in different genres. The Godfather because I like that you can clearly see his descent from do-gooder Army Vet to ruthless mob boss. The Scream movies because Wes Craven makes fun of himself and the horror genre in each film. Donnie Darko because it’s weird and no one can ever fully grasp what the whole thing is about other than “it’s about time travel”. Atonement because it’s intended to be an apology. Garden State because it helped me get through high school. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist for the soundtrack and the adventure that I’ve always wanted. Superbad because it reminds me of me and my best friend. Mean Girls because it’s the most quotable movie on the planet. (500) Days of Summer for the soundtrack and because it’s not a love story. Watchmen because it’s arguably the best comic book movie ever filmed. Sin City because on the surface, it’s several subplots with nothing in common except that they all tie together in the end. Jurassic Park because I’ve always wanted a dinosaur. Heavy Metal because it’s the most epic cartoon musical about absolutely nothing that I have had the pleasure to watch. And finally The Dark Knight Trilogy because Nolan included my favorite Batman villain: Ra’s Al Ghul. And because Nolan got more of the Batman universe correct than any director before him. And because he drew his ideas from the actual comic book storylines and mashed the different plots together.

I think that last answer means that I should really get my DKR analysis out there. Not tonight though. I have to get up in 4 hours. Not tomorrow either. Maybe sometime Friday. Or Sunday.

I'm awesome.

I took the summer off. So sue me.

Aaaaaand after a long summer break I'm back reader(s) (coughSarahcough). I'm kind of being forced to keep up with this blog due to a Journalism class requirement so I'll most likely be posting regularly from now on. So much has changed in the past 3 months, I don't even know where to begin. Because I'm getting a little hungry, I'll make these into bullet points. 

  

- I have acquired two lovely new scars, both in very different ways.  

1. I can't show you the first one because I'm currently wearing jeans and it's located on my upper thigh. How did I get it you may ask? During a trip to The Vegas in late June, severely intoxicated me was angry and somehow managed to stab myself in the leg. No, I don't know how I did it. Yes, it hurt like hell for a week afterward. The scar is in the shape of a big blotchy circle---that in all honesty kind of looks like Ditto from Pokemon.

2. I have an almost perfectly circular scar on my forearm, just above my wrist. This is everyone's favorite scar because of how I came to get it and the because you can tell what it is just from looking at it. For the sake of the second party involved, I'm not going to go into full detail but the gist of it is this: my friend bit me. Not in a fun way, she just bit me. There was a whole lot of alcohol involved and it just happened. While I'm waiting for the picture of the actual scar to upload from my cellular device, here are some aftermath photos of that night.

 

Yes, she bit my eye. No, we're still not sure how it happened.

This one is located on my inner elbow.

There it is in all it's glory. 

 - I've been hanging out with some new people who, without knowing it, have given me a new perspective on things. They are incredibly fun to hang out with and it's been a damn good summer. Hopefully this coming year will be ten times better than last year was.

- For some insane reason, one of my bosses at work decided to make me in charge of safety at work. The official title is "Safety Champion" but I prefer to call myself "Safety Captain". Not much comes with this new title. Once a week I take an hour or so out of my shift and run around the store posting the new safety fliers on the walls of each department and once a month I replace giant calendars that advertise safety on the walls of said departments. Let's be real though---I actually just walk around the store for 2 hours and hang out with my friends in the Bakery and Meat departments. I was hoping a pay raise would come with this new position but all it came with was this:  

The one perk of having this on my nametag is that I get to yell at people about safety all day and point at my nametag. It makes the time go by faster.

- I am FINALLY almost done with The Hunger Games series. I struggled to get through the second and I'm a little more than 1/4 through the third. So far it's much better than the other 2. 

-The last installment of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy was released. I have conflicting opinions on it but I'll save my review for a later date. Maybe after work tomorrow. We'll see.

- And last but definitely not least, my best friend in the world packed up her crap and moved to the boring, humid state of Oklahoma for grad school. It was really depressing but I'm pretty sure we had an awesome last summer together. Do I miss her? Not really. The new scar on my arm will never let me forget her. And she kicks my ass everyday in Words with Friends. Stupid game.