Category — General Life Updates

Oy, why me?
1. Redo resume, upload to site, send a copy to dad
2. Clean up iTunes library: Artist tags (3880 cut down to 3771), genres
3. Running map and log
4. Photo/Visual page
5. Writing Page: Add menus, add writing samples.
6. Email Ali about possible volunteer work.
7. Write Bridezilla Shameless post.
8. Read up on wireframes, practice using site
9. Pixen project
10. Freak sounds – finish cutting and loading to site.
11. Start and keep monthly budget.

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RACES:
Beaches 10K, July 27 – 1:08:05
Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon, September 28 – 2:40:56
Philadelphia Half-Marathon, November 23 – 2:15:42

MILEAGE TOTALS:
283 miles (between July and November)
Average miles/month: 56
First run of 2008: Mar 26
Last run of 2008: Nov 23

GOALS FOR 2009
Run a half-marathon in under 2 hours.
Explore new parks and trails.

I recently noticed that my favorite target, Canadian Club, was back with new and even crappier “Damn Right” ads, so I used my forum at Shameless to blog about it to a (hopefully) wider audience. Not that it would appear that Beam Global has any intention of pulling the campaign, but I suppose every little rant helps. I hope.

On the bright side, the discontent continues to spread. Fresca at Astronave was kind enough to link me to her post on the campaign, as well as Mark Simpson’s take on the use of the word metrosexual.

Stark and I have recently been taken on as volunteer bloggers for the Shameless blog, the website for Shameless Magazine. We’ve been tasked with ranting ceaselessly and in clever ways about the many ways that pop culture offends our feminist sensibilities. I’m excited about the prospect, as I was really burning to start a feminist ad-busting blog after the Canadian Club incident, but never could put together enough time to get it going. This promises to be equally as fun.

This weekend I wrote up my first post for Shameless. Y’all are free to head on over and leave comments so that we can trick my new editor into thinking I am really, really popular.

What follows under the cut is the unedited version of my post. I have a problem with being concise and have a hard time letting go of my long held belief that longwindedness is the soul of wit. So this is the much longer version that didn’t make it to print.

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