December 2008
15 posts
Environmental Outing #5
This semester I went to my first NFL game ever!
Not only was it my first NFL game, but it was also to see the Dolphins, my team, play against my boyfriend’s life-long team, the Buffalo Bills. I was a bit apprehensive going into the day because I was going to be surrounded by Bills fans all day! I’d be cheering for the Dolphins sitting next to a devoted Bills fan, being his...
Environmental Outing #4
This was my visit to the art gallery. Honestly, in previous years, I have been to much cuter, friendlier, and more diverse galleries. This one mostly specialized in custom framing and on selling original lithographs. The H&S Art Corporation Gallery intrigued me when I walked by because of these cool lithograph pieces of art in all different colors, shapes and sizes. It was a very colorful...
Environmental Outing #3
I had never seen a movie by myself before. I thought I’d just never really had to or wanted to, but I did. Tons of times had passed when I wanted to go see a certain movie at the movie theater and just because no one else wanted to see it, I made myself wait until it came out at Blockbuster. It’s a shame, really. I should have gone so many times by myself, but I just thought...
Reflective Essay
I am a Public Relations major, and realizing I had to take some Advertising, I was a bit apprehensive. It’s not really my expertise, although I do acknowledge that Public Relations and Advertising go hand-in-hand. Anyway, what I actually achieved through Creative Concepts was more than I expected. I have never considered myself creative, and honestly still don’t. However, this class MORE than...
Supplementary Article #7
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shiba-inu-puppy-cam
Starting with JennyCam, which I think we watched something about in class (maybe not), “life, online” TV has blown up. I don’t know if people don’t have enough going on in their own lives that they have to sit on their computers all day and watch OTHER people make coffee, brush their teeth, sleep, kiss, eat, etc. Or what!...
Supplementary Article #6
Along with everyone else on planet Earth, I have thought about the “End of the World” and when it will come. Many drunken nights have passed during which, at some point or another, my friends and I have sat outside, stared up at the sky, and wondered how the world will end. A meteor? A war? Some prophetic religious catastrophe? And the topic of 2012 has come up a few times as...
Supplementary Article #5 (mis-numbered one of...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/ap/strange/main4650184.shtml
Being the obsessed animal-lover that I am, this article struck me close to home!
“Strange news” is one of my favorite types of news to read. I ran across this article as I was browsing today. A woman, owner of an 11- or 12-year-old collie mix, allegedly left her dog outside overnight in single-digit-degree...
Environmental Outing #2
Mamma Mia
I went to see Mamma Mia on Broadway. I have been to other plays and theatrical productions before, but never any like this. My sister was in drama in high school, so of course, I always saw those high school drama productions. I went to a few plays at the Broward Center for Performing Arts, but the last time I saw anything like that was in middle school. Needless to say, this was a...
Supplementary Article #3
My obsession with Heroes, the NBC hit TV series, began in June this summer when I started watching Seasons One and Two. The first hook was knowing that the show was all about normal people having powers (Claire the indestructible cheerleader, Hiro the time-controller, Nathan and his power to fly, Isaac Mendez the painter of the future, Peter - my favorite - and his ability to absorb others...
Supplementary Article #2
http://www.apple.com/macbook/
I’ve always been a PC kind of girl. The simplicity and intuitiveness of the machinery are my favorite aspects. Honestly, I find macintoshes a bit too difficult to fully understand. There’s no paint. The user can’t press the end button to reach the end of a line. And all the applications have completely different names! Now I own one, and nothing has changed. ...
Supplementary Article #1
http://www.nyctourist.com/video-view-from-top-of-the-rock.htm
This video links you to a recorded Top of the Rock Observation Tower experience in New York City. Video doesn’t do it justice, but being able to see an entire city from the top of one of its buildings is breathtaking. The ticket stand gives you a map of the city before you go up an astounding 72 floors to the top of the Rockefeller...
November 2008
1 post
Creative Interview
Interview: Chef WILO BENET
By Aryam Pla
How would you define creativity?
Creativity is an expression. It can be something like a simple idea, a compounded idea, an idea that someone else came up with but you enhanced somehow, etc. It can be defined as out of the ordinary or something that requires a little more thinking than normally because you are trying to come up with something that is...
October 2008
2 posts
Pet Peeves and AHA! List
Pet Peeves
Drivers who wait until the last minute to make their decisions about turns or lane switches, which therefore impact everyone else around them.
Towel lint sticking to my body when drying myself off right after the shower.
FIU Registrar’s Office.
As a hostess: When guests come into the restaurant and after you tell them there is a two hour wait, they proceed to stare at every...
September 2008
3 posts
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) →
“Dream as if you’ll live forever.
Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean