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On a completely unrelated note, I love these American Idol bobblehead widgets.

Rest in peace, Sid Brooks.

I just heard that my former boss in the USC Football Equipment Room, Sid Brooks, has passed away. Sid was the head of equipment operations for USC Football for two of the three years I was part of the USC Football program. While Sid did a lot of things that made us make confused faces at each other and really asked a lot (oftentimes seemingly unreasonable requests) of us, he always treated me with respect and cared a lot about me.

It was always funny how Sid always tried to get on TV with Coach Carroll and how he liked to be the first person off the bus or the first person to walk into a stadium so that he could lead the team. It seemed ridiculous at the time, but looking back, I knew it was because he really cared. Of course, all of the student managers had their battles with Sid, but that’s inevitable in any sports environment. At the end of the day, Sid was always there to give me a firm handshake, or even a hug for a job well done. I remember when he came into the room, shook my hand, and gave me a hug, congratulating me on becoming the head student manager for the team for the 2005-2006 season. Yes, I already knew and the paperwork had already been signed and turned in, but Sid just had so much pride that he felt like he had chosen me to do a great job for the program, even though he was retiring. I remember that he told me that he knew he was leaving the student managers in good hands and that he’d still “be around,” if we ever needed him. At the time, we laughed about it. Now that I look back on it, it almost brings tears to my eyes.

Now that I think about it, it’s with a heavy heart that I say goodbye. Rest in peace, Sid.

“Once you have made the small changes that I requested, this looks ready to go!”
- My Thesis Professor

And with those words, a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. A small edit and a one paragraph abstract away from being done with my thesis.

- One take home final (going to be hard)
- One 20 page paper (3 pages done so far)
- One test (47% to pass the class)
- One thesis (could finish in an hour)

And then I’m done. Wow.

Blogging for Dollars

That’d be so sweet…

Hilary Clinton: 1984

Definitely not breaking news, but in case anyone hadn’t seen this, I wanted to post it on my webpage to keep us up to date with interesting, “grown up,” water cooler talk. This video was posted on YouTube, apparently by someone who wasn’t an official member of the Obama camp, in support of Barack Obama and obviously, against Hilary Clinton. It’s a take off of the Super Bowl commercial that Apple used to introduce the Macintosh to the American public.

It’s a bit inspiring and eye-opening about how much America has been able to slowly embrace at least some change that this upcoming Democratic nomination battle is going to be decided by a race between an African-American man and a White woman. Well at least it will remain inspiring, until they both get beat by a Republican White guy (kidding!…well, kind of).

I wonder what it would say about our country connotatively if in a year where everyone thinks a Democrat will take over as the POTUS (what up, West Wing), a white rich Republican still manages to win the election. It’s also interesting that the election has candidates (other than McCain and possibly Edwards) that have don’t have the traditional experience (both military and in terms of years) that typical candidates seem to have. I don’t really know that much about political history, but I’m wondering if any city mayors have made the jump to become the President of the United States like Rudy Giuliani is attempting to do. Regardless, wanted to share the video. Original video is posted below.

It’s funny how this commercial to introduce the Mac was so dark and yet today, Macs are advertised like this.

Out with the old, in with the new.

Word is getting around that a Lauren Conrad “sex tape” is going to find its way to the Internet in the near future. While LC denies such claims, many other celebrity news and blog sites are jumping on the bandwagon that this tape might actually exist – tarnishing the reputation of my reigning celebrity crush.

Considering the circumstances (Jason Wahler, the alleged other participant in the alleged sex tape, I believe is going to jail for drunkenly punching someone and is trying to make some money before his criminal record is officially going to hold him back in life… not as if that would stop him from still ending up at huge Hollywood parties after his release), I wouldn’t be surprised if it existed and was released in a last ditch effort. Definitely one of those “if you’re going to go down, go down swinging” moments, but we’ll see what it does to my beloved LC and The Hills. Just a thought, if celebrities don’t want these tapes to come out, maybe they shouldn’t bring the camera into the bedroom. It’s unfortunate that everyone tries to make money off of them and especially when you’re the bigger star, as is the case with LC here, you’d like to think that you’d really look out for yourself.

LC > Normal bandwidth usage

Jenna Fischer: A close second on my unofficial list of celebrity crushes

Did I mention that I saw Wicked in Hollywood a few weeks back? I don’t know much about musicals, but I’d be pretty surprised if they got better than that. Shawn Wayans was a few rows in front of us with his family. The two leads were incredible in the play and I highly recommend anyone in Los Angeles to see the play, even if you don’t really “get” musicals like me (I was totally lost during “RENT,” because I didn’t know you had to listen to the lyrics…I would bob my head for five minutes and then emerge from the musical number completely lost). Tickets were a lot…about $100, but I figured it was only $25 more than I paid to see 50 Cent a couple years ago… not that he’s not culturally enriching in his own right.

“Grad School Prom” was this weekend inside the California Science Center (which is actually a pretty cool venue for a dance!). It was so much fun to see everyone dressed up and getting down on the dance floor – most fun night I’ve had in a long time. Pictures to come as soon as someone puts them up on Facebook. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Some of the more interesting early results on my thesis research on text messaging between genders…

- 68.3% of participants reported primarily using text messaging for task-related communication with people of the same gender.
- 30.8% of participants said that they primarily used text messaging for relationship maintenance purposes with people of the same gender
- Males appeared to use text messaging primarily for “Task-related” purposes rather than “Relationship-maintenance” purposes more frequently than females
- 66.7% of participants reported that they generally used text messaging for relationship maintenance purposes when communicating with people of the opposite gender
- 33.3% of participants reported that they generally used text messaging for task-related purposes when communicating with people of the opposite gender
- 64.2% of participants said that they either “Strongly agree” or “Agree” that text messaging is an effective way to maintain their relationships
- 74.2% of participants said that they either “Strongly agree” or “Agree” that text messaging is an effective way for them to “get tasks done.”
- 84.2% of total respondents said that they had no preference as to which gender they preferred to exchange text messages with

Kind of boring, but kind of cool.

On a side note, gotta love the fact that I get ads for lubricated condoms now at the top of my page. My roommate’s friend Troy is taking over as the manager of Hurry Curry in Pasadena. Hopefully, we’ll make our way down next weekend and I’ll have some pics and a restaurant review!

It’s Raining Men….Hallelujah, it’s raining men.

USC Threatens Students’ Civil Disobediance with Suspension and Homelessness

I don’t really know any of the details on this story, but I do know that I think it’s very, very funny that the students brought kitty litter in case they had to go to the bathroom. I’m just wondering if anyone used it.

American Idol doesn’t care that it’s not in the “Big 3″

Some say the series is losing momentum, but based on these numbers, it’d be hard to say it’s not still a huge success.