advertising, promotion, publicity, public relations, sales

"... if the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying 'Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday', that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations." If the town's citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales."

this is from Reader's Digest...

i can't help myself

apple and google are basically going to take over the world. (with the help of cbs and youtube)
and. I. don't. mind.

I want an iPhone.

2007

As the calendar year changes, people tend to look back and reflect on the previous year. Yeah, 2006 was great. And it sucked. And the war got worse. We spent too much time on facebook. Sexy was back. We're still waiting on the world to change.
And as fun as it is to read top lists from last year and say "oh, I remember that!" I am much more excited about what is going to happen in this year. 2007. double-o seven. It's a big year for me! A total of EIGHT people I know are getting married. (1 cousin, 3 from work, 1 former coworker, 2 friends from high school and there's another person that I can't remember. That's what happens when everyone decides to get married.)
I'll also be finishing college. That one word, "college", encompasses so many things. Yes, it means completing 25 more credit hours (starting next Friday!!!) and receive a degree. But I've done so many other things that have really highlighted my experience. And still so much to do!
I get to finish up an amazing year with sua...(my fourth and final actually). I get to delve into a new leadership position with the homecoming steering committee. I will hopefully scrape up a few thousand dollars to study abroad. I'd like to intern at the statehouse in Topeka and make a path to a political campaigning job in '08...it looks like they'll be plenty of candidates to work for.
That's one year to do all that. I don't know if they'll be enough time. Wish me luck!

headlines

my favorite headline in a long time:

Brownback polling better in Israel than in Iowa

progress

Katie Couric anchored her first CBS news cast this evening. She is the first woman to ever host an evening news show without a male co-anchor. That's pretty sweet. I'm excited. And, I thought she did a good job for her first night. In a few months I think she'll find what works best and make it her own news program. Changes are already visible. Since CBS is in 3rd place for this time slot they won't be afraid to make the changes needed. This will hopefully revolutionize evening news.
Yay for change. Hopefully, now we can elect a woman president in '08.

weird news

uh-oh. good thing I'm no longer a freshman...

i'm always listening...

Last week, as I was going back through my class notes from the semester and studying, I noticed a trend. I like to write down the funny, awkward and basically interesting things my professors say in class. No, not necessarily the things we should learn for the test but things that strike me as different. I compiled a partial list. I was pretty bad at keeping notes together this school year so I don't think I got all of them, but I don't think I'd want to share all of them anyway.
But here are the things I've heard. I guess I just like to listen to the funny things of life.

“Teaching college students is the most fun thing in the whole, wide world.” –C. Johnson (obviously sarcasm since she deals with pre-law undergrads...damn pre-law kids, so pretentious)

“If you plagiarize, I will kill you.” -D. Guth (It’s funny, because it’s true…which also makes it a little scary….)

“I was much more of a bitch back then.” –C. Johnson defending herself against students who believe she is a hard teacher and expects too much.

“clear writing indicates clear thinking and fuzzy writing indicates fuzzy thinking”

“nice, Midwest, liberal, college-town….nice place to start a revolution” -documentary about the MC5

“This class will liberate you from the tyranny of what you used to think.” –J. Bremer speaking of what we would learn in Western Civilization.

“synthetic sex turned into a spectator sport” –documentary about “The Twist” in the 1960s.

sound of settling

ahhhh. feel that? it's the sound of summer, slowly settling, surrounding us.

I think my inner psyche needs to realize that it IS summer. I still have this pressure inside of me-go to work, work on a project prepare a presentation. I'm still in my semester mode. I even feel guilty beginning this potentially lengthy blog entry. My instinct is to keep going-work, class, SUA, study. I need to rev down.

It's not just an unusual hot spring day. It's not just a weekend with no pressing projects to work on or no tests to study for. It's just summer.

Hopefully, this weekend-with only graduation celebrations to attend and friends to enjoy time with-I will realize I CAN relax. I can start watching the episodes of "Lost" I have so kindly been supplied with. I'm sure a healthy obsession will ensue...

(Programming note-I'm watching the CBS Evening News and they just did a story about this elephant "farm" (I guess?) in central Florida. It's adorable. I've decided I LOVE elephants. :)

I think the summer must have been lurking in western Kansas the past week. It let the majority of KU students finish finals and prepare for graduation. Today is the first, unofficial, day of summer. The sun is shining, the trees are green, the temps are HOT. I drove home late this afternoon with the air on and the cotton from trees floating past my car in the humid air.

I am going to relax now. Or at least TRY to. I might also have to do laundry and clean my room...