There is nothing cool about the end of January. Now that the Pats are out of the playoffs and there are 15 minute segments on SportsCenter designated for Mel Kiper Jr, I don't know how to spend my days away from college. I could create a franchise in a video game from 2006 and only make it 3/8 through the season, I could make kooky breakfast creation, or I could shovel snow.
As a result of the average Rhode Island meteorologist's dopler radar, the third option became a reality this past week at a local apartment complex where I spent 2 days shoveling over a foot of snow off of a least 50 walk ways with 5 Mexicans.
I didn't take any Spanish in high school. Instead I took French. I never regretted my decision of taking French more than I did when I shoveled walkways with Mexicans earlier this week. Sure, I'd been around baseball games with screaming Puerto Rico fans yelling at me, but I was never in a working situation where my performance depended on understanding the Spanish language. However, after one of them looked at me and said: "Vamos" I knew there was no turning back.
For the time I spent with them I felt like I was a hostage. They could've been plotting to knock me out with the shovel, Home Alone style. As a result of my inability to speak Spanish I was stuck watching them point at the snow, ice melt, and a shovel while I played internal Clue with myself trying to figure how to shovel Colonel Mustard out of his apartment with a candlestick.
Despite their best efforts to speak broken Spanish to me about how the 50 foot pine tree covered in snow looked like a Christmas tree, I made it through both days of shoveling, leaving me with deep pockets filled with money that I could spend at the local flea market, futbol game, or state park.
Adios amigos
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
My New Year's Resolution
I'm back like Baby Bash within a week's (denard) span. This break is obviously not very entertaining seeing that I am already on my second blog post since returning home for the holidays.
I'm three days deep into 2011 and I have already been asked a handful of times what my New Year's resolution would be. My response: "I'm blogging about it." How pathetic am I? First of all I'm expecting people to stay tuned and read my blog at a later time to know my New Years resolution. And secondly, I'm turning into one of those boorish novelists who hide behind their words and portray themselves through insecure fictional characters. However for my New Year's resolution I will not portray myself as Stanley Yelnats, instead, I will tell you that it is my goal for 2011 to get things right.
This isn't a "resolution" an emo kid would say to their parents after receiving not only a bad report card in the mail, but also an illegal bottle of narcotics shipped from China as well. However I want to be able to know factual things about life, similarly to how Chris Sheehan can name the glove that any baseball player who has played in Rhode Island in the past 3 years has used during their career.
I want to know
When it is good to make a music video in a bowling alley and when it isn't. Justin Bieber's hit video "Baby" was filmed in a bowling alley and has been viewed over 425,000,000 times. On the other hand, Jojo (god bless her soul) shot her video "Let it Rain" in a bowling alley as well and her video has received just over 1,000,000 views. This makes Bieber's video 425% more effective. How did Bieber's producer know he would have a 425% more successful video than Jojo? Grantid, when both of these videos were shot they both weren't old enough to get into the club, which always makes a solid video. However, because both of these videos were shot in a bowling alley proves that a cigarette smelling, average birthday party pizza, greesy (am I missing any other adjectives?) is the local hot spot for underage kids. Who knew? See this is the stuff 2011 needs to teach me!
Possible reasons why the difference in views between the 2 videos:
1.) No Ludacris in "Let in Rain"-he can only be involved in one H2O song anyway (Splash Waterfalls)
2.) There are less 15 year old girls and 68 year old men searching for Jojo videos then there are searching for Justin Bieber's.
3.) Except for Canada, only a select few know Jojo's real name, thus allowing for a more wide search when searching "jojo" on youtube.
2.) The images at 30 seconds in and 36 seconds in "Let it Rain"
The Hit...
The Miss...
I'm three days deep into 2011 and I have already been asked a handful of times what my New Year's resolution would be. My response: "I'm blogging about it." How pathetic am I? First of all I'm expecting people to stay tuned and read my blog at a later time to know my New Years resolution. And secondly, I'm turning into one of those boorish novelists who hide behind their words and portray themselves through insecure fictional characters. However for my New Year's resolution I will not portray myself as Stanley Yelnats, instead, I will tell you that it is my goal for 2011 to get things right.
This isn't a "resolution" an emo kid would say to their parents after receiving not only a bad report card in the mail, but also an illegal bottle of narcotics shipped from China as well. However I want to be able to know factual things about life, similarly to how Chris Sheehan can name the glove that any baseball player who has played in Rhode Island in the past 3 years has used during their career.
I want to know
When it is good to make a music video in a bowling alley and when it isn't. Justin Bieber's hit video "Baby" was filmed in a bowling alley and has been viewed over 425,000,000 times. On the other hand, Jojo (god bless her soul) shot her video "Let it Rain" in a bowling alley as well and her video has received just over 1,000,000 views. This makes Bieber's video 425% more effective. How did Bieber's producer know he would have a 425% more successful video than Jojo? Grantid, when both of these videos were shot they both weren't old enough to get into the club, which always makes a solid video. However, because both of these videos were shot in a bowling alley proves that a cigarette smelling, average birthday party pizza, greesy (am I missing any other adjectives?) is the local hot spot for underage kids. Who knew? See this is the stuff 2011 needs to teach me!
Possible reasons why the difference in views between the 2 videos:
1.) No Ludacris in "Let in Rain"-he can only be involved in one H2O song anyway (Splash Waterfalls)
2.) There are less 15 year old girls and 68 year old men searching for Jojo videos then there are searching for Justin Bieber's.
3.) Except for Canada, only a select few know Jojo's real name, thus allowing for a more wide search when searching "jojo" on youtube.
2.) The images at 30 seconds in and 36 seconds in "Let it Rain"
The Hit...
The Miss...
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