Seriously... I made a big deal about coming back to xanga, made some posts, and then all of a sudden vanished! So where have I been?

Well, at my laptop...

Oh, you want me to be more specific? You see, the time that I would normally spend posting or writing my xanga blogs has now been dedicated to NaNoWriMo. If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is (National Novel Writing Month) it is a challenge that happens every November where participants are to write a novel of at least 50,000 words. It can be about anything you want, and doesn't have to be all the way thought out, or even good, the challenge is just to write!

My "novel" is a collection of short stories about the adventures my stuffed animals go on when I'm not there. (So kind of a cross between Secret Life of Toys and Toy Story only with fouler language and my stuffed animals hate little kids). To keep on track you have to write around 1,667 words a day. And since I pretty much write my novel on the fly this takes me about 2 hours a day (which includes my procrastination breaks).

So if you've been wondering where I went there u go. Ill try to post sporadically this month but I can't promise anything. As soon as NaNoWriMo is over though I shall make yet another return to xanga and hopefully stick around longer...

Its My Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

<--- dont you wish your stuffed animals made you birthday nachos?

 

I bet none of you knew or remembered that huh? Well to be honest, it doesnt hurt my feelings so i forgive you. As with every birthday i have had since the dawn of facebook (and i've been on since it was just for college students) today is the day my wall becomes spammed written heavily on with generic "Happy Birthday" messages. And really, most of the messages (i have 50+ as of the time of me writing this) say nothing other then Happy Birthday. Maybe i should be thankful or flattered, but im not. If i rarely interact with you in day to day life, if i never talk to you and your a leftover fb friend from college, why are you wishing me a happy birthday? Is it because you genuinely cared or because of that little prompt you get on the right hand side of your facebook page? How many of you that live in the same area asked me what i was doing for my birthday or if i wanted to do anything? (very few) How many of you actually wrote something cute and/or funny, or at least something beyond "happy birthday?" (Again very few). So why are you wishing me a happy birthday?

I see the birthday prompts on fb almost every day and do i wish everyone a happy birthday... no. Does that make me a bad person... i dont think so. I only write on the walls of people i know very well or that i interact with on a somewhat regular basis. By doing this i am able to make birthday messages more personal and less generic. Its something that i want to do and not something that i feel like i should do just because facebook tells me.

So after today i am going to go the way of my roommate and not have my birthday listed on facebook. My real friends will know when its my birthday (sorry mom and dad, im still not friending you) and if they forget, are a few days off, or ask me when it is, im totally cool with it. I just dont want to look at another wall full of empty well wishes...

This is a follow up entry for the lil one i posted last night right before i went to bed. Yes i am BEYOND excited that i was chosen to attend to youth town hall with President Obama for this thursday. Apparently almost 500 kids interviewed for it and around 200 or so were picked. Even better is one of my good friends from my kickball league (yes i play in a league... thats subject for another entry) was invited to attend as well.

So i was already beyond excited when i got the email yesterday, then i got a phone call from MTV!!! The person that interviewed me asked if i received the email with the details about thursday. I said i had, i was just waiting to get an email back from my teacher saying it was ok for me to leave class early before i sent them my confirmation email. She then said she really hopes my teacher does because she shared my interview with the producers of the event and they were apparently "very impressed" (her words, not mine) with my interview and are highly considering me to ask a question during the live broadcast! Nothing was set in stone she said, but she pretty much said to come  prepared (i.e. have supporting facts/stats/etc) with a question over the subject i discussed with them in the interview (sorry guys, cant give it away... but if you take a look at some of my highest viewed blogs im sure you can see what subjects i am most passionate about) because they would really like me to ask one. And naturally, as soon as that phone conversation ended i literally jumped up and down, did a little happy dance, and then emailed my teachers saying i WOULD be leaving class early because i was invited to attend the town hall meeting. 

So i of course am even MORE excited then i was before. Now here is my new conundrum...

A lot of the media that reported about this even happening were capitalizing on the fact that the initial email one sent in to be considered asked for political interest/views/and a photo. Some were saying they were doing this so they could stack the audience with good looking democrats, MTV was saying they were doing this to get a wide range of diversity and political views. (I myself told them in the interview i was a republican and voted for the other guy... i still got in). A lot are even saying that since this is geared toward the younger audience the questions are not going to be hard hitting and that "the few of us who will be watching will be subjected to a series of juvenile, pointless questions." (I'm sorry, but my question is NOT juvenile and pointless and no, unlike when Clinton did his town hall meeting i will not be asking him if he wears boxers or briefs). So this event is already getting a lot of bad publicity, and with so many questioning the validity of the possible questions being asked, where does that leave me and how will my question be portrayed in the media and/or blogs? (if there is even any talk about it the next day). I am trying to use my possible 15 seconds of fame for good and am going above and beyond to make sure my stats are correct. I'm pretty sure the U.S. Department of (can't tell you guys to preserve my question) is a fairly reliable source (as it also has a Cabinet seat) but im paranoid someone is going to twist around whatever i say...

arrrgggh.....

this is why i could never be a celebrity and why i stick to fairly anonymous blogging. 

But if you would like to possibly see me on national television the event will be airing from 4-5pm EST on MTV/BET/CMT.