Life after College

Mr. Burger King or Mr. Scary?

2005-06-27T17:09:00.000-07:00

I have noticed Burger King has new commercials and has introduced a new mascot...a man in a suit with a big plastic head and crown to go with it. Mr. Burger King (I don't know if he has a name but I feel if he did this would be it) is rather daunting to me. He first appears from afar then within a blink of an eye is in front of your face. If that isn't creepy enough, since his head is plastic he doesn't blink and doesn't talk. Mr. Burger doesn't sit well with me. The two things I end up thinking at the end of each commercial is:
1. Man that commercial is unsettling
2. Mr. Burger King should be called Mr. Scary

I guess Mr. Burger King aka Mr. Scary is just part of my random observances I wanted to share today.

Diplomas and Diamonds

2005-06-26T23:30:00.000-07:00

It seems that in college having casual dating relationships were more accepted. But now that I've graduated the main question asked of my elders is when I am getting married. Don't get me wrong I want to get married one day its just that at the moment I think I get more excited about the planning of the ceremony and the fairy wedding dress than I do about spending the rest of my life with someone.
I guess you could say I'm living up to the expectation of post college relationship exchange- exchanging the casual relationship for a serious one. I have been with my boyfriend for a little over a year now and we both agree that we are in this one for the long haul.
Sure I love him and want to spend my life with him...Does it make me a bad person that I get nervous sometimes knowing that this will probably be the last man I ever date? Does it make me a bad person that now even as I type I feel a twinge of... (I don't know what emotion it is) that after being together for a year I already feel like I'm in wife status, without the benefits of having a husband.
I guess this old quote reassures my heart:
"You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without."

Tom Cruise

2005-06-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

Alright alright we've all heard enough about Tom Cruise and Katie, but what is this business on Friday. He was on the Today show with Matt Lauer and he went off on poor Matt. I'm curious to what is going on with our hunk. For some reason he is very passionate about his scientology "religion" and it has made him very adament and anti pharmaceutical. Not only did he bash Brooke Shields for her use of pills for depression, but he rebuked Matt for believing that decisions like that are personal. I'm no psychologist but lately Tom has been very emotional. We all remember his stint on the Oprah show and now this. This borders on manic behavior and its just plain odd. I hypothesize that a year from now Tom will be in the news for the following: a divorce and a psychotic break down.
I think the wild thing is that his whole publicity is suppose to be for his new movie "War of Worlds" yet he only talks about that 2% of the time and spends the rest gushy about drugs and Katie. Does anyone know that this movie is about that he wants to folk to the movie and see?

Real World

2005-06-22T18:25:00.000-07:00

Speaking of the Real World... Did anyone catch Tuesday premeire episode? This first episode lived up to its hype. This season started off with drama and from the looks of the roomies will just continue to surpise us. Being a Texasn at heart I'm jazzed at the fact its in Austin. I think they could of slowed up on the cowboy hats and all though... I mean how cliche is that?
So far Melinda is over doing the attention card. I'm tired of the wild child persona. The oops I hate clothes routine has gotten old and its only the first episode. The cast has started early with the blame the black guy routine. Poor Nehemiah. I know he's all about peace and non violence, but he should learn to speak up for himself. Johanna deserves all the blame in the bar fight situation. Did anybody else find Johanna's constant drunkiness as annoying as I did? I hope she doesn't become another Ruthie from the Hawaii cast, but only time will tell!

2005-06-13T12:35:00.000-07:00

The saying "I can't wait to get out into the real world" is way over rated. Looking back college is the best time and in an ideal world life would always be that carefree. I have recently graduated from college and it being 6 months since I've done so I still don't see what the big fuss was to get out into this "real world". The only real world I would like to be apart of comes on MTV.