Running around week

It's break time and I'm on the run! My mid-term break, or reading week as the university calls it, isn't really a break for me. It's just time off from going to classes, but using the time to work on projects and things I've been putting off all semester.

Today I realized that we live in a really hilarious world. I went in to the radio station this morning and worked on organizing the morning show birthday announcements. People send emails telling us which birthdays to announce when, and for whom. A typical email would read something like: "We'd like to wish Cheryl a happy 16th birthday, from mom and dad."

Well today I got one that read : "I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my cat Tigger. He's turning 5 on the same day as my son, and we want him to know we'll always be there for him." (She sent a separate mail for her 9- year-old son).

Some people really crack me up. Not it was it a cat birthday, she sent it in a day late. After showing the letter to my boss, we decided not to throw it out as we nomally would, rather to put the belated cat birthday on-air. I sincerely hope that this woman will not be ridiculed for life. Geez, what's next, a goldfish birthday?

Just name it....

Man they have a study for everything now! Here's something I ripped off Worldwide Chat Community (WWCC) Online Journal:

A new study reveals that the sexier a woman's name, the hotter she's likely to be. Not only that, but if a woman changes her unsexy name to a more erotic one, she quickly becomes sexier.

That's the claim of Adonis Studly, executive director of the Marilyn Institute.

"Names mean a lot," says Studly, who was born Bernard Freeb. "If you have a sexy sounding name like Britney, Kimmi, or Jasmine, guys immediately think you're better in bed than if you go through life being called Gertrude, Miriam, or Hilda.

"And since a lot of how we feel depends on how we're perceived, when people treat you like you're hot, you become hot."

Studly says the good news is that just because you're born with an unflattering name, it doesn't mean you can't become sexy.

"Look at Marilyn Monroe," he says. "She was gorgeous, but even she knew she wouldn't become a sex symbol with a name like Norma. "Think of it as giving yourself a 'name makeover.'"

Some other sexy names Studly suggests are Skye, Amber and Takemenow. So far, Studly says, sexy names only work for women. "At least, that's my experience." (Weeklyworldnews)

Kimmi huh? Lol. Don't think about calling me that tho. And I dunno about you, but Takemenow just sounds like a cheap slut.

Mmm, mmm...something's coming over....

Psst. I'm gonna tell you a secret. But you can't tell anyone, or else a kung fu-fighting komodo dragon will appear and hunt you down. Now, most of you know that it was Chinese New Year yesterday (as well as Tibetan new year and Ash Wednesday). Cultural holidays have hundreds of traditions. I don't know the whole list of them, although I should know a bit more than I do. So, I'm proud to say that yesterday I learned a new one from my mom: For Chinese New year, you must keep one light in the house on for the entire new year's day. Yes, you must waste electricity on Chinese New Year as a symbol of good luck! So, on Tuesday night, my mom turned on the light in our coatroom and warned us not to turn it off. She even stuck a note on the light switch that read "do not turn off." Well being all hyper-tired and panicking over not having a story to cover that afternoon, I'm sad to say that I accidently switched that light off - for two seconds- before leaving the house. Just don't tell my mom, or else she'll blame all the bad things that happen in our house on me.

Bad luck again?

My first entry this month! I really shouldn't be here...but shh...that's our secret ok? I'm supposed to be looking for an event that I can cover during my "live hit" tomorrow. Every shift, a reporter is sent to cover some live event and phone in during the show to give the report. Tomorrow, that's my job. Here's proof that the year of the monkey isn't being very nice to me: There were a lot of events yesterday. There are a few on Thursday. Tomorrow there's...NOTHING. NIL. NADA. NANIER (that's creole, losers.) This is the first time there's not much to cover for the live hit, and it HAS to be me. What a year. The year of the rooster starts tomorrow and I can't wait.