03.22.07

I just submitted my first letter to the editor.  I’m usually somewhat uninformed, and I wouldn’t exactly call myself an involved citizen, but occasionally I do get a little impassioned about certain things and tonight happened to be one of those occasions.

In my low tech world, I still use my VCR to record shows if I’m going to be gone.  Having recently lost my VCR remote, tonight I had to manually record LOST.  I caught the beginning of the ten o’clock news immediately following, and I happened to watch the lead story about a three year old who drowned in the bathtub.  Eyewitness News 5 was “on the scene” to report the story … lots of close ups on the somewhat trashed out front porch and such.  I was a little put off by this, but didn’t think much of it until I heard the reporter say, “We were there as police delivered the devastating news to his dad minutes later …”  Then they actually SHOW the police telling the father that his son has just died in a horrific accident.  The father is screaming out in disbelief, and I am sitting in my living room in disbelief that they would choose to air such a personal, and what should have been private, moment.  I called the news station first, wondering if anyone else had called to complain.  However, the girl I spoke to didn’t know anything because her shift had just started.  I then called my dad, a newspaper reporter, to make sure I wasn’t overreacting.  He too felt the coverage to be invasive and in poor taste.  So then I wrote my letter.  We’ll see if it makes it in.

In other news, my momentous days were pretty great … lots of blogworthiness, but maybe not just yet.  No internet for a few days … perhaps I’ll get a lot accomplished without it.

03.18.07

Welp, big day tomorrow … involving a flight to Chicago … even bigger day Tuesday … prayers are appreciated, my friends.

I don’t really have any time to write, but I hated that I was going off to said momentous days without any sort of a Xanga precursor, so here it is.  More to come!

#4 on Google

Gotta love nights when I’m not even on call, yet get woken up to deal with work stuff at two in the morning.

So … since I am apparantly now wide awake, I figure that I might do a little blogging.  It’s been awhile.

Well, this whole “Xanga Footprints” thing is really quite funny to me.  Awhile back I wrote a blog about the misheard song lyric “Streetsus Serenade” and it turns out that I was definitely not the only one Googling the phrase.  Ever since that blog, I have been getting an increasing number of footprints directed to my site whenever people Google the word “streetsus.”  Evidently, enough people were visiting my site from Google that at one point, my Xanga was the first option listed in the search results.  I just tried it right now and it’s number four.  I mean, I get hits from New York, Australia, Great Britain, Italy … just to name a few.  My claim to fame, I suppose.

Oh, and it’s my birthday month!  Last year I posted a birthday wish list for my mom to read, but this year I’m only asking for one thing … my annual McKay’s strawberry birthday cake!  Yum.  This is due to the fact that I’ve already gotten one of the best Christmas/birthday presents ever this year … laser hair removal.  It’s fabulous.  I highly recommend it.

So I have a few blogs simmering that I plan to bring to fruition soon.  Perhaps next week … major life themes.