Monthly Archives: December 2009

Hope for the Holidays

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Merry Christmas from jBlog!

I hope everyone has somewhere to go and something special to do on this celebratory day. Christmas in my life is seemingly becoming more and more different each year. It’s a bit remorseful as memories of youthful pasts fade away and altered futures take a greater hold. As we step closer to the new year, I stride to follow new personal goals and reach further heights. Above all, I stop and pray, think of all that I have; God above me, friends by my side, and a voice inside my heart that I soon may heed as we prepare to set foot into a brand new decade.

Peace be unto you, my friends.

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F1: December 19, 2009

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Mmmk… It has been a whirlwind of a past couple of weeks. I drudged through fall term finals, poked my head up for breath in the first few days of winter break, and am again slammed with busyness.

  • I began my two-and-a-half-ish weeks of seasonal employment back at the Tualatin Haggen Service Deli. It wasn’t difficult or terribly stressful coming back to work after two-and-a-half months of absence. Though, after completion of my first shift, I was really having withdrawals from my winter break freedoms. I was kind of bummed – I kept wondering if it was a mistake to return to the working world, if only for a couple of weeks. I kept touching base on the idea that this is my vacation from school – the biggest break of the school year… and I’m working my butt off? Yeah. I would love to go on vacation somewhere – anywhere, but the best choice is to earn as much money as I can to pay off rent and utilities. I’m feeling better now, and seeing more of the positives rather than the negatives in this process.
  • Change in academic plans? A bit. I’m beginning to see more and more how difficult the broadcast/journalism industry currently stands as. First of all, you’re lucky to even get a job. Second of all, your starting pay likely sucks. Third and finally, you could get canned unexpectedly. This is why I’m starting to take some time to consider alternatives in the technology/media/writing/communications options. What could I do in this world that would pay well and be my ideal job? I was thinking about technology and communications in health systems – like how hospitals operate their databases and communicate from organization to organization. Maybe there’s a need out there for them to enhance in the digital world… I keep coming back to the likings of Twitter. There’s something about Twitter than leads me to believe a greater, more efficient, more powerful form of “new media” is out there – where I will be at the head of the game and be skilled and informed very well enough to be a solid asset to a company. I am left with this question… “What technological form of communication is on the forefront, and how is it a perfect match for health systems?”
  • By the way, Twitter was hacked the other day. Our world’s involvement with new media communications is definitely evolving.
  • Charles Gibson signed off one last time on ABC’s World News. He is retiring, and my fascination with news media was a bit damaged as I was at work and could not watch it on television. Other signs of my broadcast love: KATU, 9/11 coverage, YouTube’ing old ABC promo packages, Wikipedia’ing journalists, and Peter Jennings’ passing away. There’s a love for the news, but I just don’t know if I can act upon it. Diane Sawyer, another one of my idolized journalist, begins hosting World News on Monday. Watch out Katy Couric.
  • In other news… My diet and weight loss is in a holding pattern. I eat Mom’s cooking – again props for how amazing and delicious it is – and how thankful I am for her love and care. But I need to counterbalance this new level of food ingestion. I never ate like this in Corvallis. I eat just enough to get me by – and healthy items at that. I come home to an Italian-style home of cooking. Dangerous. I got a free 21-day guest pass at 24 Hour Fitness. In my first few days of winter break, I could easily take advantage of its 8am-8pm workout time restrictions. But now with work, I find it so difficult to visit the club. But the weight has only risen slightly, something that I know I will get back down ASAP.

Read This!

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Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook

eReaders!… Just a short-lived and recent craze amongst avid readers, or a legitimate at-its-peak method for enjoying novels on the go? Even as a technology enthusiast, I have only in the past few days begun to consider my possible desire for such a device. The interesting part is that I’m the complete opposite of a die-hard book sleuth. I have not picked up a book for purely the enjoyment in ages. I think that could change.

I think of what my passion is… Technology! The consistent evolution of technology really motivates what and how I do things. I used to resist Twitter, and now I see it as a major form of communication. Back in my prime days of Myspace, I soured at the thought of starting a Facebook account. But today, I look back and many things have changed. This is why I think that technology can aid in my enjoyment to read. I believe that such sophisticated, top of the tech market items like the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook could potentially re-ignite my interest to read.

But what do you think? Is it fair game for someone to change their reading habits due to a new item of technology? Thinking about it, isn’t that quite a positive factor eReaders can have?

And where are eReaders going? Have they reached their most significant peak in technology? It is known that color e-ink is in the works, but for the most part novels these days are still printed in black and white.

What’s captures your fancy?… The Amazon Kindle or the Barnes & Noble Nook?

Spaces Between Words

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My life is young.
I sit here. Alone, but comfortable.
Thinking, I attempt to reason.
In this coffeeshop there are others, but others that are standing as more than one.

Watching cars pass; They go somewhere.
Streets to the left, streets to the right. Home is the heart of every man’s destination.

The frigid air; A friend with a bitter presence. The life of now, for it not be as hidden as you may think. But with an inner warmth, it swells to be free. Happiness is fragile, like the army we seek. To step large, we know what we want. Why can’t existence be the answer to this fight?

Is it natural to be unable to drink; The cup of today with welcoming arms? Live as simply, but as rich as it becomes. See no farther, than the struggle we create.

I throw my hands up. No more pro or epilogues. The spine of my life; binding all I’ve got. I try to change the ways that have become, but pages keep turning, even those that have been missing. Listen here, I can tell a story. But hopefullness fades, as only I can see past this cover. Judge, and flee. Reach out to be reached into.
My life is young.

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