Random Question

Is it wrong or selfish to stop giving advice to a person? Especially if you don't have the desire to be bothered with 'em at the moment?

Facebook is an interesting animal

That about sums it the site since I've created my account on there a little over a month ago. It's nice to reconnect with old high school & college classmates and current and past co-workers. I just still have this thing about reuniting with the entire class of 2000. I used to get into discussions about it during senior year, and decided not to go the the 5 year get together, even after some coaxing from a classmate I still keep in contact with. Didn't work though.

Deep down I was not ready to resurrect some of the roughest years of my life. It seemed like so, maybe it was more teenage angst more than anything, mixed in with insecurities, passings of loved ones, and bad news. So it felt good when 6/1/00 (aka Graduation Night) arrived and I was able to say goodbye to that phase of my life. College was my liberation from that superficial and vapid vibe that is present in high school. Oooh, can't you feel the cynacism?

Anyway, Facbook is an interesting animal, because you can check out pages if the user chooses to keep it public, and look at pictures, notes, comments, post events, all sorts of things. Its a bit vouyeristic too, because you can find out info about people that aren't even on Facebook, and see who still hangs with whom, etc. etc. It can make your head spin! After I set up my account, and began searching for folks, I eventually came queasy, most likely from staring at my laptop way too long.

Don't get me wrong, it's fun to catch up and reconnect with people from back in the day but there's that risk of old (read: negative) feelings resurfacing too. And yet through all of this I'm trying to find my pic with Jerry Springer to add to the site, lol.

Happy New Year!

It's official 2007 is (finally) here! I just about had it with 2006 anyways with all the drama and stress. This year I don't want to have resolutions that I will give up after a week, but have goals that I can manage. 2007 is going to be about enjoying the simple things and getting away from the ideal of "the bigger, the better"; becoming a more aware and mature person continously growing and learning more about my surroundings and the world; making better career choices on both the "regular" and entrepreneurial sides; being more social and keeping in better contact with friends; contnuing my quest to stay away from the "keeping up with the joneses" theory; and of course the good-ol stand by, have better eating habits and exercise a little bit.

It's crazy how your will power and patience can be tested. I love my friends like they were my family, in some cases I love them more than my own family, but like with any person you regularly interact with, there's gonna be those times where you get sick of them. I had an episode on Friday when I ran into a friend that was home from college and we were having a catch up talk, and afterwards I realized how it seems like everybody in this one circle of friends, seemed to dislike one another and how I'm caught in the middle of all the drama.

I'm tired of drama!

It's one thing where someone dislikes somebody or have a time where they're upset at a friend, but when you have someone you're cool with say to keep away from a person, then the situation is getting way out of hand! I'm not perfect, I had times where I added to the drama, and I regret it, but what's done is done. In a perfect world, everyone would get along. And what makes it so bad with this particular circle of friends, everyone was cool with each other at different points and were working together making music. So this leads to another goal for '07: work with (musical) friends when they are actually ready (have some single-worthy songs), and work with people who are already making moves (i.e. performing & pushing cd's). As much as I want to help my friends with their musical efforts, I've just about had it for now. It's time to expand my horizons and move on to network with others who are really looking for help with marketing their songs.

So 2007, like with all the new years of the past , is a time to start again with a clean slate. Time to get it crackin! Happy 2007!