what happened to xanga

i really like that the blogosphere is at its peak right now.

i like being able to read what people i know or know of write about.

Telephone

I always enjoy playing telephone.

Today we played in class and I was last.. so I said.. "You are a query" because that's what I heard.

Then I found out the original message was "avoid fruits and nuts- you are what you eat."

mhm.

I'm sick and it's 86 degrees outside.
When did this happen?!

devoid of any sense of time management

the view from my bed:

(check out my hamper)



i could & should be cleaning right now.



why can't i find a boy who is NOT annoying!

blue is the new green, tequila is the new wine, gphone is the iPhone

James Walter Thompson Co. (JWT), the fourth largest advertising company in the world, recently released it's list of 80 Things to Watch for in 2008.

Take a gander:
1. Africa (foreign investment and development in)
2. Antibiotic backlash
3. Assisted marriage
4. Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

5. Blue replacing green as the environmental movement’s color du jour
6. Brain exercises
7. British actress Keira Knightley

8. Carbon tax
9. Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang

10. Classical musician Gustavo Dudamel
11. Climate sightseeing
12. Continuation of comebacks (Indiana Jones, The Cure, etc.)
13. Cooperative consumption
14. Couch surfing
15. Country branding (Oman, Indonesia, etc.)
16. Designer Phillip Lim

17. De-teching
18. DJ Tiesto
19. DNA-based exercising
20. E-clutter (and e-clutter consultants)
21. Eco-fatigue
22. E-mail etiquette
23. Facebook suicides
24. Fashion label Vena Cava

25. Foreign government investment (e.g., China, UAE) in U.S. companies
26. French President Nicolas Sarkozy
27. Game 3.0 (gamer-generated global gaming)
28. Google’s Android
29. Gossip Girl

30. Gphone

31. Green weddings
32. Higher education online
33. Hip-hop’s Retro Kids
34. Humbling of the hedge fund manager (anti-excess post sub-prime)
35. Hybrid taxis
36. Indian actress Deepika Padukone

37. Intellectual luxury
38. Investigating ingredients
39. Japanese designs (Tsumori Chisato, Uniqlo, Muji, etc.)
40. Kitchen appliances as new power tools
41. Lifestyle curators
42. Lipstick trumping lip gloss
43. Manga-inspired clothes
44. Mobile technology explosion
45. Mobulimia
46. Music as awareness driver; concerts and other residuals as cash cow
47. Musicovery (music tailored to moods)
48. Myanmar
49. Nollywood (the rise of Nigerian cinema)
50. Outsourcing to Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)
51. Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto
52. Pantone’s 18-3943 (blue iris)
53. Pets in the office

54. Prius homes
55. Radical transparency
56. Radiohead repeats (name-your-own-price music)
57. Recycling into fashion (Nau, Gary Harvey, etc.)


58. Selfless as the new selfish
59. Sex and the City, the movie

60. Shiny Toy Guns (the band)

61. Skiing in novel spots (Kashmir, Japan, Greenland, Russia, Korea, etc.)
62. Single men saying no to sex
63. Skype sex
64. Smart Cars in American cities
65. SNS (social network service) brand communities
66. Spanish actor Javier Bardem
67. Staycations
68. Sturking
69. Tequila as the new wine
70. The N-11
71. Third screen (the mobile screen) rivaling the first screen (TV: 23.78, -0.08, -0.33%)
72. Trans-entertainment
73. U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson

74. U.S. presidential election

75. Vicarious consumption
76. (Video) Gaming Olympics
77. Virtual gifting
78. Wannabe young Internet entrepreneurs (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg copycats)
79. Weak dollar/strong euro
80. Women juggling men