bah
i don’t want to do ANYTHING lately.
i just want to sit and eat chocolate and play guitar.
hello, sunday.
journalism and more porn stars that share my name
My second article for the NYU newspaper got picked up by Politico today, and apparently KPIX as well – whoo! And spurred some debate on the NYU page as well, wow. And yes, I interviewed my roommate…
Surprised — I didn’t even think the article was going to be run, seeing as I had trouble contacting a bunch of NYU people for their viewpoints (which caused me a ton of stress) and the fact that I submitted it two weeks ago and never saw it posted. Guess they were just late getting it out.
But another perk of this is that it might, as Gordon mentioned, push down the number of Google results bearing sites from Brianna Lee, the porn star who has freely been sharing my name on the Internet for years. I’ve been keeping tabs on my slutty namesake for a while, and it seemed like she hadn’t been active for a couple of years now (not since filming “The Violation of Brianna Lee,” a lesbian gangbang movie set in a hospital). Last semester though, when I mentioned that some porn star was roaming the Internet with my name, a reporter classmate who had just covered the New Jersey Sexpo jumped up and said, “Yes! I met her, she’s beautiful!” So my namesake is still on the prowl, I suppose.
But THEN, George brought to my attention that not ONLY was “Brianna Lee” a porn star, but “Briana Lee” apparently is also up to no good (Google at your own risk, NSFW!) Apparently, “Briana Lee” is a webcam stripper — not nearly as risque as porn but, well, all the same.
I am serious Masters Degree Candidate! I am Student Journalist! I am UC Berkeley Graduate! I am E-Marketing Coordinator! I am Musician-in-Training! Why do I have to share this name with such slutty, slutty Internet folk?!
motivation
I would really love to have an office at work just so I could close the door and sing along to my Zune all day.
New motivation to work hard and get promoted?
resolution
is it too late for a new years resolution? or a plan? well i have one now.
i’ve decided i need to manage my time a little better. i need to healthen up. (yes, healthen up. improving my grammar is not the resolution.) i need to stop and do things like look at the sky, which is gray and disgusting now but in a few short months will be clear blue amazing, like the miracle i saw in san francisco on the day of the chinese new year parade. i started this new semester on sort of a shaky foot and i haven’t pulled myself into the groove yet, but spring is coming coming coming and things will be sunnier. inside and out.
if you can tell, being in san francisco was great. it was too short, of course. but i think the timing was good — my head is a little bit more cleared, maybe, i have a little better perspective. it was amazing to see sun and be back in 60+ degree weather. oh and of course, CHINESE NEW YEAR. the parade, and the food, and the friends, were amazing as per usual.
i have to remember that music is one of the things that gets my head back in its rightful place. music gets me to writing, which gets me to be better, in some way or another. i think i have finally reached a point where i’m a little overloaded on code. maybe this is the breaking point. over time, my writing and my creative expression have gone through a devolution of sorts — first it was creative fiction, then poetry, then journal entries. and then it was blogs. and then it was comics. and finally, all i was doing was code. not even real words. so, maybe, hopefully the cycle will reverse itself and i can de-de-evolve (again, grammar is not the resolution). or maybe, multiply?
but anyway, the resolution is, in essence, to remember that there is art, and there is outside, and there is a world beyond code and book and classroom and office and apartment.
more specifically though, it’s also to manage my activities a little better — and i think i’m going to have to give up some tv, tragic as that is. i have decided that with all the things i want to get good at, this silly little life of mine only has room for so much.
these are the things i want to be good at:
- spanish
- chinese
- guitar
- piano
- journalism
- creative writing
- webdesign
- blogging on a regular basis
- singing
- drawing/comicking
- cooking
- being a good student/employee, of course.
these are the things i’m going to try to keep (in addition to being a good student/employee, my salary and my grades don’t really give me much choice on that)
- guitaring
- writing
- blogging on a regular basis
- chinese
at least for now. even that is kind of a lot, at least with my schedule. but maybe, i will find a way to make it work? maybemaybemaybe. i think i’m going to have to cut back on journalism, even though i’m taking it so chill as it is. once every two weeks now, perhaps. NO more webcoding projects. i just want to pick up my guitar and remember that despite this city girl concrete-crusted heart of mine there is a wide world outside of new york city.
i miss the beach.
i want to go to there.
home
home is lovely. i am back in my city.
hopefully, this will help me to straighten out a bit, and then on monday morning i can get off the plane in nyc again, bleary eyed for sure, but a fresh lady nonetheless.
wearing flowers in my hair
i’m going HOME this weekend! san francisco home!
and i’m going to see the chinese new year parade!
and i’m going to see some lovely friends and family!
and i’m going to eat chinese food!
here i come!
3 things
1. I am insanely busy lately!
2. I joined the school newspaper a few weeks ago. I have my first byline today, on the front page! John thinks my new journalist name should be “Brianna St Clair” or something like that.
3. I have been obsessed with Amy Winehouse, Cake, Abdominal, and Jason Mraz all in the course of the last week and a half. Over the weekend we made a KOIT playlist on Seeqpod and I have also been obsessed with Dan Hill’s “Sometimes When We Touch” and “Danny’s Song” by Loggins and Messina. I have really random music tastes.
Because seriously, how could you not love this: