Warning: This is going to be a long one... I have too much to write about...

Back by popular demand!!! (Just kidding, it's only been like a week, but I have had so much happen this past week, and I feel like it's my duty to tell the world, since I'm a super sassy student blogger).

Okay... so I have a lot to talk about today... I actually have a list on a Post-it note to make sure I cover everything I want to. I'll do my best to keep my thoughts short and sweet, but I can make no guarantees. We'll just break it up into topics. If you have no interest in the topic, don't read it. Plain and simple.

Topic #1: Singles Awareness Day. Love this holiday. Let me tell you what. I also appreciate having to hostess at Walnut Grill that night. I'll be so blessed to seat all of the cute little couples that are coming out to dinner to celebrate their love that they apparently only have for eachother one day a year. Let's just not get me started on this. However, if you have nothing better to do, my good friend (and ex-ex-roomie Ashley) wrote a blog on surviving Valentine's Day. I'm going to send you the link to it. It's amusing. It's the DJ page for Bonics (from Kiss-fm) but only because Ashley is currently interning with him. Pretty cool, eh? Anyways, here's the link... Surviving Valentine's Day

Topic #2: Valentine's Day transitioning into this weather. I'd like to give a big shout out to Nicole and my grandparents who are loyal readers of this blog, and who sent me cards for Valentine's Day!!! (Hi Mom-mom and Pop-pop! Hi Nicole!)
Anyways... let me provide you with some excerpt's from the card from my grandparents...
"We've been enjoying your blog..." (Thanks, I've been enjoying writing it)
"We had a high of 73 degrees today. Sorry to hear you're so cold..." (My grandparents are from Texas... I'm kind of jealous)
Seriously... WHAT IS WITH THIS WEATHER? This coldness, and now the "biggest snow storm to hit in years" is has everyone thinking that the world is over. You'd think we lived somewhere like... Pennsylvania or something... or that it was winter. But anyways, it is kind of ridiculous. Everyone at JHC (my internship for those of you just tuning in) left early today. People were standing in 20 minute lines at Giant Eagle, as if it was the end of the world as we know it. Ridiculosity (I know it's not a word). Anyways, Phil the groundhog says that spring is coming early this year, so he better keep his promise. There is a whole nation depending on him being an accurate season forecaster.

Topic #3: Heinz/JHC update/I rock!!!. So, the internship is going really well lately. I'm still doing a LOT of proofreading and little things like that, but someone has to do them :). My highlight of the week, however, would definitely be the brainstorming that I did with some of the people who work there. Our mission was to come up with criteria for judging the "sauciest" (as in the adjective, not the noun) burger at the 2007 Food Network Food & Wine thing (sorry, I just totally butchered the name, it's not called the food and wine thing, but it's something like that). Heinz (one of JHC's most notorious clients) wanted to give out an award for the sauciest burger, and their goal was to get some media attention through the contest, so it was up to us to come up with something good. That was A LOT of fun. Anyways, ALSO for this food and wine festival (in South Beach starting on Thursday... I think), we had to stuff 800 tote bags with Heinz promotional products for Heinz to give out. Emily, the other intern, and I spent 4 hours on Monday, and then a bunch of us scrambled around for 2 hours today trying to package them up to get them sent down to Miami by Thursday (two days, 47 boxes, holy crap). Here's some pictures of what 800 tote bags look like. (Pic 1- some of the promo products. Pic 2- the bags. Pic 3- some of the bags. Pic 4- more of the bags. There are more, you just can't see all of them, cause they're piled on the chairs around the conference room desk)







Topic #4: The classes will never be cancelled. That's all. Clarion rarely cancels classes. You'll occassionally get night classes cancelled, but I think I can remember ONE DAY where campus was shut down, and I might be making that up, and that would have been from 1993, when there was that big, bad blizzard. Remember, I'm a townie, so I know these things. My mom e-mailed all of her students today and told her that she was still going to be having class today unless all of campus was shut down, or if her leg was broken. So therefore, classes were being held, despite the riduculous weather.
Quick sidenote: for those of you that don't know... my parents both teach at Clarion. Dr. Potter and Dr. Slattery. Both Psychology. Both totally great people... and I'm not being biased at all.Take their classes if that's your kind of thing. Don't if it's not.

Topic #5: YouTube. I'm obsessed at the moment. I never really gotten into it. I heard about it A LOT, but never got into it. Since this past Friday, however, I've been watching it NONSTOP. Two people inparticular. WilliamSledd (fabulous gay man providing fashion/hair/other advice) and SupRicky06 (this hot random guy who just talks about nothingness, but is really really amusing). DO NOT search for them on YouTube, cause you WILL fail out of college after you spend all of your time watching every single one of their vlogs (video blogs) instead of doing your schoolwork. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Topic #6: Making friends/missing friends. So I think I officially have some friends in Pittsburgh that I made on my very own as a result of moving down here. Two of the waitresses (Yvonne and Kristen) at Walnut Grill invited me on their upcoming girls day of beautifying, I hung out with one of the cooks from WG (DiAnna thinks he's hot), and the one SA (twice). So, people. Moral of the story. If you're afraid to move away when you go to college cause you'll never make any friends, trust me... you will. College is A LOT easier to meet people than moving to a scary city by yourself where everyone already has their own set of friends.
BUTTTTTTTTTT I DO still miss my friends up at Clarion. I called my one roommate from school, DiAnna last night while I was waiting in line at Giant Eagle (remember, thirty minute lines... end of the world... yada yada yada). She cracks me up. I think I crack her up too. ANYWAYS, I just recently got off of the phone with her again. She was down at the tv station waiting to go on air for her news broadcast (watch her Tuesday nights @ 7:00pm on Ch. 15) and we just had to update eachother on our lives I guess. Since, ya know... if had been a whole 21 hours since I had last spoken with her. But, at the end of the convo, I told her I would give her a shoutout on here, so here I go (and this is the end, so see you next week kiddies)

DIANNA JO WALLER... you rock my world. I miss you (and everyone else of course). I can't wait until you come visit me next Wednesday. You're beautiful. Even if you get caught on tv putting eyedrops (a.k.a. saline solution) in your eyes during your news broadcast. I will make you cds, put music on your iPod, and update your Myspace page as soon as I see you next, since we all know you need me in your life for that stuff. Miss you. Love you. Bye.