SammieJay:Life as a WannaBe:rise and shine or don't it's your life

Okay so this is an extremely early post. So Good Morning World! How is everyone doing on this fine Thursday morning?

I'm posting so early this morning because I don't think I'll be able to post tonight. I have to go to a play festival that is mandatory for school. Maybe I'll write up a review tomorrow on the plays. Maybe I won't. I don't want to bore my two readers.

Todays post will be short and sweet. Nothing important just a thought I've had since starting college.

Why is it that I'm having a harder time waking up for college than I did for getting up for high school. It worries me because the time I go to bed each night has not changed since eighth grade. In fact I wake up later for college than I did for high school. For high school I would wake up at 5:30 every morning and for college I get up at 7. It's like da fuck is up with that.

It's like I've lost all motivation to accomplish anything anymore. I already know when I wake up now that my day is going to be shitty. I'm guaranteed to sit in traffic, look for 15 minutes for a parking lot, I'll be assigned the most ridiculous assignments that have no purpose and won't help me later on in my life. At least in high school I would have to be up for five hours to see if my day will be shitty. I usually wouldn't realize that until after lunch.    

Going to college you have people asking you all these questions like what's your major. That question I have no problem with. I don't care that my major seems stupid, Theatre Arts, or not reliable. I hate it when people snicker and then proceed to ask how are you going to support myself... Um excuse me I just got here! I literally just decide college was a good path for me to take. Don't make me start worrying about after college, I have three more years.

People say go to a profession you're going to love. They never said anything about a profession that will make you money!I love theatre and that's not going to be a financially stable profession, but I don't care because that's what I love.  

In high school all you have to really worry about is not looking like a fool in front of your crush. And yes I know you're saying what about college... I didn't really have to worry about that because my guidance counselor really helped me with all that. I'll I really needed to do was remember my social security number and I was in college.

I guess I'm saying it's harder to wake up when you have so many factors pushing against you.

Am I the only one who has trouble getting up in the morning?

SammieJay: Life as a WannaBe

I know I'm not the only one when I say I have definitely thought about giving my soul to the devil in return for a perfect life.

It's such a common theme in movies, music, and literature. The first appearance that caused a ripple effect on the other forms of media is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust.  It's the original tale of a middle aged man named, you guessed it Faust. He's a Renaissance man who is skilled in multiple fields. He's gotten to a certain point in his life where he has given up on everything. When he's at a festival with his assistant he notices a black poodle following him. He thinks it's a demon his assistance thinks it's just a fluffy dog. When he returns home with the dog he demands it to show it's true form. What manifests is the demon Mephistopheles, who tells Faust he will grant him anything he wants if he sells his soul to him. The rest of the play is about Faust going to a withes den to drink a potion that will make him thirty years younger. He then falls in love with a girl named Gretchen. He gets her pregnant and abandons her. When her brother confronts him they duel and with the help of Mephistopheles Faust kills him. Faust then goes to find Gretchen but she is in jail for poisoning her mother and drowning her baby. In the end Faust wants to break Gretchen out of prison but she refuses and says she needs to face her wrong doing. Faust looks like he might get his soul back but in the end he dies and goes to hell.

In my opinion Faust was an idiot. Wasting his wishes on youth and jewelry to impress a young lady... Kinda of stupid. Do you really want a girl who loves you just for your looks and money. It's kind of shallow if you ask me. 

He I had to sell my soul to the devil for 8 wishes, like in Bedazzled... the 1967 version with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore not the monstrosity  that is the Brendan Frazier version. So I've thought a lot about this and these would be my seven wishes.

1.  I would wish for a heaping plate of tater tots... that never end. Like it would keep refilling itself. Tots are amazing. Everyone likes them and I would get so many friends. 

2. Wish number two would go to me skipping the next five years. I am not a big fan of college and I'm finding it very hard to figure out what I want to do with my life. In five years hopefully I'll know what I want to do with my life and be well on my way to achieve it.  

3. Wish tres... To have Morgan Freeman narrate my life. I need a velvety chocolate voice like Morgan's, yes we're on first name basis, to tell my life story. I guess it would make my life seem a lot more exciting than it really is. 

4. I want a superpower. not just any superpower... I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS. And yes jesus is a superpower. I want his superpowers but without all the dying and being whipped and crucified and all that shit.   

5. I guess my fifth wish should be for world peace and cure for all diseases and poverty and all that shit. I don't want to be seen as a selfish a-hole. Soooooo here you go world. You're Welcome!

6. Wish six to have enough knowledge to be considered super smart but also just enough so I'm not considered to be an asshole. Nothings worst than someone who is a pretentious smart person who has no respect for anyone. 

7.  My life goal is to work for Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of everything awesome. They are known for South Park, The Book of Mormon, Cannibal the Musical and other great creations these master minds have thought of. I would do anything to work for them. I would even sacrifice my mother in an ancient mayan ritual.  I would Cobra Kick my fathers leg, aka sweep the leg, to work with them. After I got the job I would do anything they told me. Get coffee, come up with the next funniest thing they wanted to make. Do my impressions of dead presidents. I do an awesome William McKinley. I would even go as low as break dance for those two. They're my idols and I would wish for them to know who I was.

8. I'm not a complete idiot so I would definitely wish for more wishes.  Duhhhh 

Let me know what you guys would wish for if you had only eight wishes.

SammieJay: Life as a WannaBe: Technology Son

hmmm is WannaBe one word or two? The thoughts that go through my head AFTER I post my first blog. You know what? no fucks are given none at all.

oooo fancy huh? I put a cool photo in my blog. I'm all tech savvy and cool!

Well todays blog I guess will be about my daily struggle with technology. I'll be honest I'm not the most skilled person when it comes to technology. I know how to work a smartphone and.... well that's basically it. I obviously I have a handle on computers because if I didn't I wouldn't be doing this blog... Or maybe I'm a ghost doing a blog beyond the grave and I'm omnipotent .... okay that one way bad I apologize for that crap joke. 

My basic knowledge of computers is as such: you turn the darn machine on, go to the internet, go to Facebook, waste hours upon hours of your life on the stupid website, lose all your friends because you spend all your free time online, develop a social disorder, write papers and print it out. The basic skills that will get you through college. 

With all this advancing technology I feel somewhat guilty for not keeping up with it.Technology has evolved over the years. As it changes it has a major effect on people and how they interact with other people. Some would say technology has made our lives so much simpler and easier to deal with everyday tasks. Others would say technology has hindered our ability to do mundane tasks. We act as IMing your family from separate rooms is considered normal, when walking to the next room to tell your family something is too much of a hassle. With every new piece of technology that comes out it says it is even better, faster, and can do more than the last product.(Which is usually BS)  With the latest smart phones it seems like they can do anything. They have the ability to go on the Internet, connect us to our email, it acts as a GPS, and whenever you are bored it has games to keep us entertained for hours.  If technology keeps evolving, the more and more we will grow dependent of technology. 

With ever advancing technology has it hampered our ability to do things on our own in a patient manner or communicate with other individuals? The fear is that technology is starting to hurt us more then help us.

Technology makes us lazier when it comes to doing schoolwork. When we have extravagant projects or papers to write we all go to the Internet for help. Before computers and the Internet were invented we would have to go to libraries and look things up in books and journals. This would take a good amount of time and you were never guaranteed to find what you were looking for. We now rely on computers to look up info and cut our time in half.  It’s expected to be easier and faster but sometimes it does not always show us what we want it to. When the Internet doesn’t work in our favor and turn up the info we need we tend to lose our patience and give up. Social media sites are then visited by teens that give up. They multitask and end up distracting us from our original goal.

We have more things at our fingertips to distract us from our plain task. This is a problem because it distracts us from what is more important. We can always find something fun to do with the Internet but we can’t always find something that will help us get a good grade online. The Internet also doesn’t allow younger generations to build up a good work ethic. We expect everything to be handed to us, or just at our fingertips if it is not. Without it you would have to go to the library and take different books and journals out and read all the way through them to see if you can use it as a source. This hurts us because we have become enable to do things on our own. It’s like it has become a crutch for us. Without it we would be totally lost.

Technology has also changed the way we communicate with people. Nowadays we call, text, e-mail, IM, face chat or Skype with people. Before technology we would go over to someone’s house or office if we needed to speak with him or her. With technology it is like we can cut out almost all-human interaction if we wanted to. Nothing is personal anymore, we feel too awkward when we have to interact with someone. We find it easier and more efficient to just shoot out a text or email. It also makes awkward situations when you’re with someone and no one saying anything less awkward. We use our technology to make a situation a lot more bearable. We use technology to distract us so we don’t have to communicate with people. If everyone has their phone out and they are on it no one will feel like they have to speak up and say something. 

Kids feel more comfortable communicating online. They like it because there is no way for them to really mess up with the other person noticing. In Amy Goldwasser’s essay “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” she mentions, “We need to start trusting our kids to communicate as they will online…”(Goldwasser, 239) This shows that kids feel more comfortable communicating with others and their feelings through technology. They are used to technology to be used as an outlet for their thoughts and emotions. They use it instead of talking face to face with a person and expressing their problems.

In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Can You Hear Me Now?”  She explains, “The virtual life of Facebook or MySpace is titillating, but our fragile planet needs our action in the real. We have to worry that we may be connecting globally but relating parochially.”(6, Turkle) She explains that we may feel that we are connecting to more people with the help of technology but we are narrow-minded and don’t really connect over everything. Technology helps give us our voices but we can’t always relate with someone over the Internet because you don’t get the feel of a person unless you spend actual time with them. This hurts us because without knowing how to communicate face to face we won’t get anything in life. The way to get a job or express yourself you do it face to face not over a phone or email. A lot of employers hire people based on their personality and you can’t judge someone if you send only emails or do phone calls. We lose the ability to make things personal. With out making things personal you also have a risk of losing friends. You become un-relatable.

When we have technology it becomes a shield over our lives. It gives us the ability to be someone where not. We can have all these characteristics we usually aren't in person. We can be outgoing, funny, charming, and smart. No one would know the difference because. Technology can be a curtain of courage. 

If you want the essays I refer to in this blog please leave a comment and I'll send you the link. They are really good essays on how technology has effected us. They're also really easy reads. Sorry for the long post... my opinion and not very funny... my b... here enjoy this meme about umass boston 

    

SammieJay:Life as a WannaBe: Feels like the very first time... because it is

okay well this is weird... I don't really know what to do or what to start with. There are all these logical ways to start out. I could introduce myself or just leave you in mystery. I find the second option to be stupid and pointless. Why read a blog about someone if they don't at least give you the most simple intimate detail like my name.

Well as you can see my name is Sammie. I'm a struggling college kid, and when I say struggling I mean it in a suburban way not a financial or mental way. I'm your typical  suburban kid: ungrateful, angry for no good reason, gullible, hopeless just to name a few characteristics.

I wish I had a cool reason why I started this blog, but I don't. I wish I had a teacher who took me aside and showed me this website and said "But your thoughts here. They might be worth something someday." But I didn't. I never had a teacher who took a keen interest in me. Not in a good way or a creepy way. I was always skipped over in everything in life... I don't want you to think I'm crying "poor me! help me I'm poor!"  I'm not. I'm a strong independent woman who needs no man to tell me what to do. I basically started this blog to get what's in my head out. Also hopefully this blog will also help me with my writing. Nothing is more useful in the world then the ability to write effectively and efficiently. I strongly advise if anyone reads this that if you see me using grammar poorly point it out to me and unmercifully make fun of me for it.

So this blog will serve as a portal into my life and the life of an average college kid who is striving to be amazing and painfully cool.

What to expect from this blog:

1. Posts everyday- they will range from being long stories of what happened that day to short posts about little revelations I have.
2. Jokes. Lot's of corney jokes. Hey, it's what I'm good at so I will bestow my awesome humor onto you that you can take them  and call your own.
3. The grueling life of a Umass Boston student.
4. My crazy career aspirations that are totally far fetch. There is no way I'll be able to be a trapeze artist who moonlights as a astronaut.<== get it? do you get it? Moonlight as an astronaut! It's a great example of my humor.
5. Fart Jokes..... I'll let that sit there and you can take it or leave it... yep Fart jokes. Nothing is funnier than a strategically placed fart joke. NOTHING... except for maybe a picture of Gary Busey staring at a  large woman's ass.

I'd like to say that I have a set plan on what I'm gonna write about everyday but to be honest I don't. I'm going to write what comes to mind and hopefully it will be relatable and funny at the same time.

See ya tomorrow folks and let's hope I don't disappoint.
SammieJay