New name, zero improvements!!!

So you may have noticed something changed around here. As I started to post tonight, I decided the blog was due for a name change. Though the last one was fun, it wasn't really a very fitting name and it sounded like the title of a bad emo song. This one is short and sweet and though lacking creativity it summarizes most of what I post about these days in a nutshell. So there you go.

I've been sitting around tonight watching NBA draft coverage and mostly just relaxing. I gotta tell ya it feels great. For someone who recently graduated I actually don't get a lot of time to just lay on the couch and do nothing when I work a full-time internship and another 15 hours per week on top of it. As much as I could care less about watching the NBA these days, I'm always interested in the NBA draft for some reason. To some people it's the most boring three hours of t.v. they could watch but I can get into it. There's something exciting about watching the top prospects get picked and see where guys land if you do a mock draft. It's even better when your team has a top pick. This year, the Bucks pick #1 and the T-Wolves actually have a pick, #14. It seems a given that the Bucks are going to take Center Andrew Bogut from Utah, which I think is great. He's a kid with good size and athleticism, great experience at a high level of play, and he seems to have some good character. It will definitely be interesting to see who Minnesota takes. They need help at a few positions so it's basically going to come down to whoever is left when they pick. I'd love to see Sean May fall into their lap.

While I haven't posted much about it here yet, my anticipation is mounting for the annual trip to Summerfest. In case you haven't heard of it, Summerfest is a 9-day music festival featuring all different types of music and entertainment (from hip-hop artist Talib Kweli to obscure Wisconsin polka bands) and A LOT of beer drinking (What else do you expect from Wisconsin?). I'm going out there Friday night with a few friends and we'll probably try to sneak a spot on the knoll for Tom Petty and The Black Crowes in the Ampitheatre and then Phantom Planet on one of the general admission stages to finish the night. Aaaah Milwaukee...always a good time.

This whole being-graduated thing is providing me a lot more opportunities to write here. That does absolutely nothing to make up for having to wake up at 7:00am five days a week.

See y'all later.

CURRENT LISTENING: Coldplay - X & Y
LAST MOVIE SEEN: Batman Begins
CURRENT READING: Do magazines count?

That's hot

The tempature reached 100 degrees in Minneapolis today but that still isn't as hot as the new Jessica Simpson video. I don't know if there's any emoticon that could fully capture the feeling of watching it.

NBA Finals Game 7 tonight. I really haven't paid much attention to the entire series but I'm always up for watching a Game 7. I'm cheering for the Pistons for two reasons: one, they're a client of the ad agency I intern at and two, there's something about Greg Poppavich that really irks me. Also, Tim Duncan seems like the nicest player in the NBA but I've never been a fan. Rip Hamilton is the shit though.

MUSIC: More summer tunes and Acceptance!!!

I swear I tried to resist

Here I am, writing a blog entry at my internship. The internship is actually going pretty well, but over the last 2 days they haven't been giving me much work to do and I go over and inquire if there's anything I can do with the people in my department so often that if they had something for me they'd shout or at least "put up the bat signal" as one of the project managers joked. So, in lieu of having no tasks at hand I have spend a lot of the day surfing the web (so much that I don't want to be anywhere near a computer when I get home) and concepting/writing headlines and taglines for a possible project in my book. Hopefully they'll throw me to the wolves again next week because I'd much rather be busy all day and feeling like I'm doing a good job than sitting around not doing anything and feeling guilty. With all that lack of work I haven't even gotten in a game of horse on the job in about a week. At least there was free pizza today...

Oh yeah, about my previous post, I got an apology from the one friend who I would've expected to make one. That's cool I guess but he still doesn't have the balls to speak up on things when in the company of certain people.

So with all the time I've had to think over the past few days I've been thinking about my business idea a lot and gotten really excited about it. It just seems like having the money and the right time to do it has been really elusive. I should really get on the planning part now and see if I can get the ball rolling once the internship is done. I feel like I'm going to get caught in a conundrum between getting a job offer with solid pay and benefits and trying to start this business that could take a while to get going and will leave me with nada on the health coverage. If only I had some rich uncle to borrow money from.

On the music tip, I noticed that the dude from American Idol has the #1 album on iTunes today. That is sad. I'd like to know the true demographic of iTunes purchasers because I get the feeling that it's a lot of junior high and high school kids that get that iTunes "allowance" from their parents. Com'on kids, don't waste it on Bo Bice! A band I got into just recently and am REALLY liking is The Redwalls. They have a sound that's very reminiscent of The Beatles, which of course I dig. Their album comes out in a week or two I think but that's added to a long list of albums that I need to get (half of which I'll probably never get around to).

I suppose I could end this now. At least maybe I've been looking busy typing.

One week 'til Summerfest!

- Eric

CURRENT LISTENING: The Redwalls and a good mix of summeresque music (Jack Johnson, Limbeck, Matt Pond PA, Phoenix, etc.)

People.

I'm a little hungover so this post isn't going to be too long. I don't understand people sometimes - or maybe I should've called this post "friends." Maybe it's just people my age, but as far as communication and keeping your commitments is concerned, I've found that a substantial amount of people are pretty bad at it. Basically I am writing in reference to last night. I was pre-partying/hanging out with roommates and the girlfriend and a couple other friends and we were all going to go out to this private party a friend of mine was throwing at a bar. To make a long story short, we decided to leave a few minutes before they were going to, only they never showed up (and instead went downtown to meet some skanks at some other bar). I understand when you suggest a plan early in the week and someone says they'd like to come but either forgets about it, forgot about a prior engagement, or has something bigger come up, but when you're pre-partying with a group of friends and you're all planning on going to the same place, you usually expect them to show up. I at least would've respected them a little more if they would've called me to say they were changing plans. It seems to be that the people who most often make commitments only to cancel are either eager to please everyone or they're the type of person who goes along with whatever seems "coolest" at that point in time. Either way, it's things like this that make it a lot clearer who your real friends are and your "that sounds like something fun to do" type friends.

Sorry for that came out as a run-on paragraph of whining, I just had to vent the annoyance a bit. If you're in your 20s you probably know people like this and understand exactly what I'm saying.

Oh yeah...I'm interning in the Interactive department at Olson + Co. now. It's going pretty well so far but I've only been there a week. I'll talk about that more soon. For now jumping back in bed seems like the only viable option for the morning.

Talk soon.

CURRENT LISTENING: Ray LaMontagne - Trouble (damn good album for relaxation)