girls, please, listen to me.

Eventually, he will stop calling you.

You can beg and plead and insist things "were going perfect", but the truth is that it is inevitable.

I know, I know, it typically blindsides you on an idle Thursday afternoon when you realize that your inbox hasn't been flooded with messages from (who you thought was) Mr. Right. The Friday night invites out begin to dwindle down to random Tuesdays; and there is an unidentified girl in a sorority leaving suspicous comments on his facebook wall.

Without warning, the paranoid cyber-stalking increases and you realize you are incessantly checking your iPhone praying for a text message.

Its inescapable. Its part of the male DNA. I'm constantly trying to shove my theory onto my friends, I promise its valid.

Delete his number, get the ever faithful rebound men of Ben&Jerry, and get back in there.

Gail Devers

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

Can you have a mid-life crisis at 19?

More often than not when people ask me my major and I tell them "journalism", I get negative reactions.

I will agree that the newspaper industry is on a heavy decline, and typically writers don't fall into the highest income bracket. Becoming a writer takes a lot of work, frusteration, rejection by editors, and, if you're a perfectionist like me, long hours to perfectly articulating your thoughts on paper (or blogosphere).

I'm stuck right now deciding whether I want to dive headfirst into a publicly crumbling industry.

Props to all of you medical or finance majors, your job security is much higher than mine. You will get to work your 9-5 desk job, come home every night to your suburban house, and, provided the economy builds back up, collect your 401k and retire here in southwest Florida like the rest of corporate America.

I spoke to one of my professors today not looking for the definitive answers to my questions, but just a little insight. She told me that journalism is a tough career and like anything else, worth pursuing if it is something you're passionate about.

I'm not interested in society's textbook definition success, I just want to be happy.

Is that so much to ask?

an original:

Bellis Perennis

A little girl
Sees delicate daisies
Peek between the sharp blades of turf.
A modest smear of gold and ivory
Is her greatest discovery.
She sees simplicity in tiny stems
As she plucks them with frail fingers.
She laces her halo
Of weeds.

My God I think I'm becoming a liberal.

I was working on yet another one of my professor's abstract demands in regards to writing a paper, and as always her topics always lead me off on a tangent I become mildly obsessed with. First, it was my two-week Nietzsche obsession and now it is the concept of "culture jamming".

In my quest for books in the FGCU library, I came across a book by Kalle Lasn titled "Culture Jam". The topic of my paper was "my generation" and my generation is very culturally connected, so I figured I would give it a shot.

Despite the dated references to President Clinton and "eventually in the year 2003", it was a still very relevent book to 2009.

I did some googling (I love how "googling" doesn't come up on my macbook's system-wide spell check) on the author, and I found Lasn's Canadian based website Adbusters.org. Basically, it is a network of creative, and, dare I say, liberals who have a passion for "culture jamming".

Let me define.

Culture jamming is best defined more as an art movement. A group of people who poke fun at popular culture and promote civic engagement.

Basically, get your True Religion Jeans wearing butt off the couch, away from your 50" Sony plasma screen TV, turn off the latest episode of The Hills(I love making fun of that show), and go stand up for something you believe in.

The thought of culture jammers is that America has evolved into a brand, overcome by capitalism and its citizens are grossly consuming anything corporate America shoves down their throats. (They call televisions "idiot boxes"... love it!)

I personally enjoy the corporate flag they sell in their online store, pictured above. Instead of "stars & stripes" they call it "brands & bands".

Don't get me wrong, I'm just as guilty of falling into the corporate cult as anyone else. It is incredibly difficult to find your way out of the superficially obsessed society that most of us grew up in.

Take a look at what they have to say, its interesting.

#1 way a surprise party can go absolutely wrong:

When a beach party turns into 60 degrees with a 90% chance of rain.

Happy 20th birthday, Jenna!