Here’s a quick YouTube Video
Last night the Emmy's rocked. I was at the TV Squad live chat snarking away. But I was surprised how amazing the opening sequence was. Here it is below:
Now I thought maybe, they'd get some NBC related people but the whole cast of characters ran the gamut from CW to (now) Lifetime. I guess we couldn't get away with no vampire representation these days.
Either way, it's my first official day as a graduate student. And I have no clue what the campus really looks like. So it's time to get lost. I'll see y'all later.
- Paz
Mis-Inception
I laughed hysterically when I saw this video on YouTube today:
Then I kinda got sad. I realized my mother must be cooler than me, she already saw Inception. Hell, she even has a facebook account and chronically gets messages and tags. Tags! I don't even get tagged anymore. 
I have no friends that tag me in things. How is it that my mother watched Inception and The Dark Night in theaters? I never even saw The Dark Knight (I'm waiting for the Blu-Ray to go on sale...any day now).
Well I guess I'll make myself feel better by watching this video of a hedgehog.
Long time no blog…again
Inconsistant. That's probably the best word to describe my blogging on my own personal site. That's gotta suck a bit. I mean I'm sure there are people out there that look at this and go: well, I'm never going to look at this again. Whoops. I lost another reader.
Well, I've been busy, like every time my blog slows down. This time it was in the name of fashion. My New Paltz friends over at JAM Asia asked me (me?) of all people if I could help out with their fashion and talent show and I, being the nice person that I am, wholeheartedly agreed. Here's an image of my work:
Bota rocking my wedding dress I made
I called the scene Harajuku Wedding. Mostly just an excuse to design that wedding dress. Well, if you wanna call it that.
I've also applied to Grad School during my short hiatus blogging. Of course, I've decided to put all my eggs in one basket, so if that goes blech, then I'm pretty much screwed on that part.
Finally, I spent the last weekend up in Plattsburgh with Mark. We stared at old cars. Like this one:
The museum started off as fans of Loziers. It was quite a quaint place.
Anywho, I'm back. Hopefully for a longer period of time.
Heyyy! Long time no see!
I know, I know...I own a blog. I should probably use it. I've been pre-occupied with three things:
- Designing some stuff for Jam Asia - Fashion scene...harajuku wedding...a lot of stumbles
- Grad School - Just applying is a toughie. I hate my personal statement, but it needs two more revisions until I'm confident about it.
- General Life - You know...sometimes you forget you have a blog. I swear I know I should have updates, but I forget. Sorry.
Here you go: to make you feel better:
Oh Asians...
The best medicine?
I’ve been sick for a week now. Right after getting my upper right molar removed, I caught whatever cough/cold my mother had the day before. While I was reeling in pain, mouth bleeding, having to replace gauze and drinking Slim Fast to make sure I had meals, I started to hack up phlegm. I wasn’t able to take “Generiquil” at nights until two days ago because I was taking ibuprophen for the pain from my mouth.
Eric is under the impression that I have an upper respiratory infection. I’m still not sure because I didn’t have a runny nose this whole time. It’s ironic because Eric apparently caught this “upper respiratory infection” from another source (thankfully not from yours truly) and also is only hacking up phlegm.
There were years that I was sick and I thought: maybe I’ll take a lot of vitamins. This year I decided mostly that I would just drink a lot of water and hope to pee out my colds. I still felt sick, but now I had the bladder of a 70-year-old man.
One thing that truly made me feel better was any form of humor. Whether it being Kathy Griffin dressing up as Kate Gosselin, that video of the stuttering football player on CollegeHumor, or pictures of true Fail, I didn’t care if I was hacking up phlegm as I was watching. The laughter made me feel better about my situation. It didn’t matter that when I laughed (or even smirked) it hurt my jaw for a little bit. Or I laughed so hard it made me want to pee.
My head isn’t hurting as much, my muscles don’t feel as bad, but I’m still hacking up phlegm. I thank my slightly faster recovery due to the fact that I was laughing hysterically at silly cats that hate water.
Such a beautiful day for an error.
I’m having website meltdown. At the moment I hate HTML. I really do. HTML, CSS, Javascript. Everything. Why can’t websites be drawn on a piece of paper, scanned, and then mysteriously just work the way you wanted? Of course I have to struggle my way around with my small web bag of tricks, trying to make this webpage as effective as possible.
It’s pretty, but not exactly everything I wished for, you know? Sometimes the image in my head doesn’t match the drawing on the picture.
Anywho, I realized that one thing that websites are supposed to do is increase the length of time one person is on it for a while. How is a personal website supposed to do that? I’m not going to offer games, contests, or giveaways. That’s not my style and I’ve heard from other webmasters that giveaways aren’t as helpful to increasing readership. It causes a spike then disappears again. Moot. That’s what it is.
The Ugly Truth
I have this underlying fear that people think writers are ugly. Probably less ugly than radio people, but still ugly. Why is that? Well, it’s because unlike television writers and radio people have a medium to fall behind, become a mask and display their work first before ever even seeing a face. I’m sure people read TV Squad and don't even think about the person who wrote it.
Personally, I’ve seen the images of writers, radio people, and podcasters and was taken aback. Maybe it’s true. Maybe a lot of these people are the bastard ugly children of successful television and film stars. Even the people on YouTube have good looks and usually only the good looking (or just insanely funny) YouTube videos become the most popular.
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The underbelly of websites
Sometimes I have those days where I'm just trying to make sure that I have a properly functioning website. I mean, I do pay for this damn thing. Yes, I understand that there is only one photo album at the moment, the contact page is sparse, and the review table mysteriously disappeared when I updated the design. But, the big thing I finally fixed was the damn RSS feed. Now it actually works up-op. Thanks Feedburner for never telling me that Google ate you.
So now, Feedburner should be taking care of my problems with RSS. Maybe I can finally get past that one subscriber and have...dare I say... two?
(Click on that Continue Reading for a picture of Sailor Moon and a dumb story)
Credit where credit is due
I attempted to apply for a credit card and I got rejected. So I decided to go for a big named website and got instantly rejected. I’m now trying to go for a big named department-store. I was rejected for their actual credit card (associated with Visa/Mastercard/Discover/What have you) and am being under consideration for their less than $500 credit line.
I never had a real steady job. Yes, I get paid for my work writing articles for TV Squad. The unfortunate thing is that it’s not enough to even call it a part time job. The rest of my life is spent looking for other outlets for writing, reviewing music, and writing for other places on the internet (And blogging of course).
I was recently rejected by a website in the Match.com family (don’t worry I didn’t jump the shark and start writing about relationships; it was video game related) and I’m convinced that it’s because I have no credit. None.
(Click Continue Reading for the rest of the story)
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