Social Media Series: Instagram

You've heard of Instagram.  I refuse to acknowledge that people may not be aware of this application.  Essentially, it's a networking site that allows only photos (and now videos, in the wake of Vine, which we'll discuss later.) ...

Social Media Series: Snapchat

You may or may not yet have heard about Snapchat.  What it does is allow you to take a picture (or video - instead of just tapping the picture button, hold it and a red timer bar will show up allowing you to video) and send it to one or multiple people for a designated amount of time (for the photo).  You choose the quantity of time (2 to 10 seconds) and the recipients.  Then a "snap" is received!  The recipient has to touch and hold your message to view it.  Once they let go, it will go away...

Um....what the eff???

They did their super involved evaluation and they APPROVED me???

They clearly were not being very thorough.... But I'll take it!!!

Reevaluating Street Walking and Psychological Health

Reevaluation.  n. The act of judging or determining the value or significance of an item.  We all reevaluate things in our lives.  If you don't, you should.  This morning alone I reevaluated the time for which my alarm was set by gracefully pounding the snooze button until it broke.  That's not an exaggeration, by the way... the fucker is stuck in the down position, permanently snoozing my life for 9 minutes at a time.  I'm choosing to not look at that as a metaphor.  While we all reevaluate things throughout our lives, I find that the most common times we do it knowingly is around life events: birthdays, holidays, impending doom nuptials, babies coming into the world, etc.  Often times these intrinsic times make us question what we've done up to this point and what we want to do from here forward.  Depending on what you take out of it, it can cause frustration, sadness, or excitement.  I've done a good amount of reevaluating over the last 2 months (which is my excuse for not writing anything lately, but is complete bullshit) and thought that maybe you would be interested in some of the things I've taken stock of and/or changed.

Date Me?

It has been about 16 months since I went on a proper date.  You read that right.  Just shy of a year and a half ago I went on my last date to...er...date.  Sure, this could be the start of a heartwarming love story about how I fell in love with that boy, we spent the rest of our days playing games, watching the ocean ebb and flow and talking about intellectual mumbo-jumbo, but that'd be a lie.  Why I haven't been on a date since isn't really the topic at hand here...yet.  So let's talk about dating.