Normally, there are only two games I get excited for each year. The Florida vs. FSU game, and the BCS National Championship. This year a little different. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much excitement for a game like for the one tomorrow. This has the potential to be one of the greatest football games ever. Not only is it a rivalry, but it’s #1 vs. #2. You can’t get much better than that unless it’s the championship game on top of it. (more…)

Greetings. I am probably going to be late for work this morning because I am choosing to write this before I get ready for work. So it’s the normal routine in the morning: get out of bed groggy as hell, stroll into my office barely walking and half-way running into the walls, and check my Google Homepage for site updates that I need to read, check my email, and my web stats. Well in my mailbox, there is an email labeled ‘blog’ and I wasn’t expecting it so early in the damn morning. So I couldn’t resist putting it up this morning because of the fact that it might catch you off guard who actually wrote this thing.

Bill you were wrong about your guess on the guest blog, and I’d say nice try, but you weren’t even kinda close. As of recently, Mr. Paul Dittmer mentioned to me that he might be interested in blogging. Yes, I said Paulie. Isn’t that a shocker?! So in light of me putting together a blog for him, I asked him to do a guest spot on mine to let you all know that he will be having a blog soon, so we will begin working on that very soon. Anyways, I’ve known Paulie for a long ass time it seems like, and I must admit he’s probably the quietest person I’ve ever met, but that doesn’t mean there’s no thought process. One way or another, those thoughts have to come out! So here’s a few of them…

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What up y’all,yeah i still have a little “country” in me, its your boy P Ditty(can’t stop,won’t stop) coming at you for the first time. Hope its everything you dreamed of and more. When John mentioned blogging to me a couple weeks ago I’ll admit I was dead set against it, but then i started thinking what better way for a quiet, reserved guy like myself to express shit that was on his mind. So i hit him up the other day and asked him to set one up for me. While he does that I thought I’d be a nice guy and take over his for a day.

I’ll admit it was a little harder than I thought to come up with topic that would introduce me to the blogging community. With a name like P Ditty, Dirty P and even Paulie for that matter i know I have big shoes to fill. If your wondering about all the nicknames check out my site when its up and running( a little shameless self promotion never hurts). So I decided to go with a little “let me be the first to say” which will showcase the kind of topic diversity I’d like to write about.

First off for those of you don’t know me i recently joined the “cool” crowd and started smokin, so I’ll also be the first one to complain about those fuckin TRUTH ads that you see on tv and hear on the radio. Since when is it the tobacco company’s fault that I chose to smoke. If I wanna die of cancer or some other disease I’m sure they’ll link to smokin in year two. Kinda like the government telling a female she has no right to chose. They’re just trying to make money like the rest of us.

How bout them Tigers! After the last what decade or so i don’t think anyone would’ve dreamt of saying those words. And they haven’t. Outside of Michigan they get no love. For those of you wondering how can he be “the first to say” when he is in MI. I’m not originally from here I’m actually from a little state South of Montana and North of Colorado, also known as Wyoming. Sorry for being an ass like that but you’d be surprised how many people are like where’s that. So lets toast the team with the best record in the majors.

I know its not much but that’s all the firsts you get from me today. I can’t give you the full Monty with out teasing you first. If your interested check back in a few when I officially have a spot i can call my own. Thanks to John for the site and guest spot. Holla at your boy Paul. Peace

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Wooorrdd! Those damn cancer sticks will kill you. And for an extra brief response to that, how in the hell can cigarettes me legal? They’re known killers. I guess that’s just weird to me. Imagine how this country would be inf they all of a sudden banned cigs?! Haha, I can’t imagine, people would be on crackhead status for cigs, and you know exactly what I’m talking about…………….think Chappelle.
Anyways that’s just a little taste of Mr. Dittmer’s writing style, so I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to reading his blog when it’s done. I would like to thank Paulie D for putting down some text for me……….and making me late for fucking work this morning!
peace

Whats the deal! Ok so im rewriting this because I had the first one all written out and the internet connection farted and I fucking lost everything. Anyways, before I get into the guest blog stuff, I wanna express my thoughts on what happened this morning. This hopefully wont be long. So I volunteered to participate as a note taker for a focus group aimed at getttin information from high school students about new residential colleges that MSU is making in 2007. If you dont know what resident colleges are then look it up! I had to wake up at fucking 6 a.m. so that we could leave from my job to the place at 7:15. Location–East Lansing High School. It was cool being in a high school again, everything felt so small and weird, and I quickly began to feel just a bid older. So anyways, I was assisting this lady (whos like 50 years old) on this whole focus group. She was asking/talking to the students about different “college” stuff, and I typed out notes. So what was interesting about this whole experience was that it was kinda cool to see where these high schoolers heads were at. We all remember when we in high school and whatnot and how we/our friends thought. But that was so long ago that no one thinks about it anymore. So it was nice to see that some of these kids had their heads on straight, one girl even knew where she wanted to go to grad school. There was only one kid who said he didn’t want to go to college………….come on buddy. Seriously? What the fuck do you think your gonna do with out a degree?! My last thought about this is that, I think I want to volunteer next time, except I want to be a speaker. Not that the note taking was bad, but I think that high schoolers will be able to relate to me (sexy, blossoming, young stud! haha,jk) rather than some 50 year old lady. Plus it would be some good practice because I think i’d like to do some public speaking later on in life once im good as hell at what I do. I wanna get in front of other designers and talk and stuff, that would be hot…..nothing all super formal though.

Ok I gotta cut myself off because I could def. make a full blog about my thoughts on that. I decided to have Tran hook it up with a guest blog this time, for one, cause he’s cool as hell and blogs and express thought, and for two, because it was def. time for another guest blog, I like these! I’ve known Tran since my freshman year, back when we kicked it rather strong in Emmons hall. I basically lived there. So yeah…..read away……..more…..

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First and for most let me thank my boy John for letting me tattoo his page with a blog entry of my own. I’ve been debating whether or not I should be funny with this blog or if I should actually say something meaningful. Since I’m writing the guest blog I feel the need to make this one good. On my blog I could care less if I have a sub par entry, since I know I’ll be writing another one on it in a few days. It’s kinda like when you’ve been dating a girl for a while. Obviously you’ve been hittin it on a regular basis and its not a big deal if you’re a two pump chump every now and then, cause you know you’re gonna get another chance to redeem yourself. But if you pick up a girl at the bar and you end up back at her place, you better make sure you lay the stamp on that ass cause you might not get another shot. So we’re gonna make this one count.

Anyways, I know most of ya’ll reading this probably haven’t met me so I figured I’d fill ya in on some details followed up by how I’m spending my time nowadays. Basically all you need to know about me as that I’m bad ass Asian motherfucker and if you see me you better recognize. Jus playin. Seriously though I’m a real laid back cat, anyone that knows me will tell you the same. You can basically count me in for whatever cause I’m always down to have a good time. I love kickin it with my people and I’ve been known to consume a beverage or ten. My friends are like my second family, and if you’ve got my back you know I’ve got yours. I am a proud MSU graduate and nowadays I’m just workin my way up the corporate ladde

Now that ya’ll got some background info on me, lets take a look at what a typical day looks like for me. My days are pretty structured and for the most part they run like clockwork, but I figured ya’ll should at least get an idea of what goes through my head on day to day basis.

6:30 AM – Alarm goes off: “I got 5 minutes” I hit the snooze.

7:00 AM – Alarm goes off again: “Damnit, I’m late. I should call in sick” But I never do. “Does this tie match with my shirt? Fuck it I gotta get goin”

7:45 AM – Sittin at my desk: “I really don’t wanna be here, why didn’t I call in” Basically for the first hour that I’m at work I just look at my computer screen, but it looks like I’m working. Kinda like Office Space.

9:00 AM – Meeting with management: Basically all that happens here is my manager says to me “Brian, what is your forecast for this month” Or in other words, how much money are you gonna bring in. After nine months on the job I don’t think I’ve ever answered this question honestly. Cause the truth is that I’m just as likely to put in $40,000 in a month as I am to put in 0, I just don’t know for sure what will come in and what will get pushed back. But they ain’t tryin to hear that. So what do I say? “I think I can hit 20K this month” I’ve been sayin that shit 9 months.

9:30 AM – Calling my clients: This is hit or miss here. 20% of my clients are really cool. They’re nice on the phone and they buy when they say they will. 50% of them are absolute ass holes. These guys are the ones that never call me back. These are the guys that basically shit on me until they need me to do them a favor. But since I got a quota to hit, I usually do it for them. But those fuckers pay full price, no discounts for you playa. The rest of my clients are absolute dip shits, they’re nice and all but I have to hold their hand through every little thing. I actually had to teach a guy how to use his own fax machine. Regardless of whoever I’m dealing with I always say “Thanks a lot whoever, it was a pleasure speaking to you. Give me a call if there is anything else I can do” I’m so full of shit.

4:45 PM Exactly – Office closes: And I am out the door with the quickness.

5:15 PM – Arrive at the gym: There is this fine girl that works at my gym and I just can’t work up the nerve to make a move on her. This is how it goes everyday, “Hi Brian” “Hi Amber” “I like your tie” “Thanks” What I wish I could say is “Well I like everything about you girl. What do you say we go out and get married sometime?” But I never do and probably never will. So instead I just lift my weights and try to flex a little whenever I see her walking around. I’m such a bitch.

7:00 PM – Home sweet home: As usual its been a long as day. A quick shower and I bite to eat and then its back to the grind again.

That’s basically it, the life of a MSU graduate. Working and payin bills. I wish there was more to it then that but what can I say. Well I know this bad boy is really long so I’m gonna let ya’ll go. I hope ya’ll enjoyed it and thanks for tuning in. Take care peoples and holla at your boy.

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Word. Good lookin on the blog Tran! Your schedule sounds all too familiar, except obviously I do different work. Fuck this adult stuff…..

Its the weekend time/lazy time……..I like that! Its also gettin closer to break, and I can’t wait to go home and not pay for food and bills for two weeks. It will be lovely. I have no idea what I wanna do for my bday while i’m up here, so im more that willing to take suggestions?!

peace