Topic #9: Facebook.

     Everyone says they can't live without it, so I'm challenging them. Lent began today, and I am going to go 40 days and 40 nights without the apparently necessary-to-function social networking site.
    As you can see, it's been almost 24 hours, and I am still a breathing, blood-pumping, functioning human being. This isn't so bad.

I'm going to try to document all of the things that I do INSTEAD OF get on Facebook. It will probably be incredibly boring, but if we're being serious, this is probably the only thing I have going for me right now.

Today! Day One. 
9:45: I went to accounting class and took my first test of the semester, which I think went well. I recently changed my major to accounting, and I enjoy it a lot. I do the homeworks for fun, so I will be pretty upset if I bomb this exam.

11:00 I then skipped Media Lab, opened all of my windows and shades, propped my feet up on my desk and read a few chapters of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. It's a great book, really, but although some of the things I read are terrible, or mean, or whatever - nothing has surprised me or thoroughly disturbed me yet. Does this mean the book was hyped up too much, or that I'm incredibly perverted and nothing shakes me? He keeps referencing his age, i.e. was 24 in 2000, so now that he's 34, I am incredibly curious as to what he's doing with his life. Oh Tucker Max, my biggest question of all is how are you still living? ARE you still living? I applaud your liver.

1:45: I went to the school's art gallery with my roommate Paige, so she could get some work done for her Visual Culture class. The stuff in there was pretty interesting, but the level of talent is about what I expected.

2:00: We give up on the mediocre masterpieces and head over to the courts to watch Flagler's tennis match. Beautiful day, but of course my busy schedule doesn't allow me to enjoy the weather for longer than 45 minutes.

2:50: I rush off to Ms. Deborah's Fountain of Youth (tattoo and piercing parlor)  to film a video biography of Sailor Cher (their piercing artist) with a couple kids from my Mass Media Production class, Lili and Sean. Lili is your typical scene girl with the headbands and the Toms and the skinny jeans and the nose piercing, and Sean is your typical New England Irishman, with celtic tattoos and a thick Phillie accent. We were going to film Danny from The Electric Chair over on the island, but he is of course too cool to call back, and I don't have a car to get there anyway, so we decide on Sailor Cher. She's one of those people you wish you were related to - genuine badass, ex-marine, giant tits and a tongue piercing. Oh, did I mention she's like 60? Yeah. She pierces for a living - can't beat Navy retirement. She was a journalist in the navy, so she has a little paper in St. Augustine now, called The Chronicle, or something along those lines. She once was THIS close to getting kidnapped by the Prince of Saudi Arabia. He had a thing for her and wanted to make her his wife - if only things were that simple.

4:20: Long story short, we filmed most of the movie, got a little B-role, but realized we didn't have a good variety of shots. I took a deep breath, told myself it was all for the grade, then volunteered to let her pierce something on me so we could film it. I settled on bellybutton, forked over the money and we set up the tripod. Kind of scary that it's only day one of no Facebook and I'm already getting things pierced...

5:00: I walk from Ms. Deborah's to Advertising Writing with a Dum Dum and a smile. I am never spontaneous! It feels great. I decide to do random things more often.

5:10: I arrive in Advertising Writing, and show the class a YouTube video of a 30 second TV commercial I annotated.

5:30: Class is over. What a joke - supposed to be a 5-7:30 class. The day he keeps us past 6 is the day Tiger Woods swears off women.

7:15: Paige and I go visit Danielle at BrrBerry to get free frozen yogurt. I make a half-cup of plain with crushed Reese's cups. Alix and Brittany also decide there is nothing better than free froyo on a school night.

7:45: Paige and I drive to the gym to watch the Senior Night of boys' basketball. They get demolished. Whoops.

9:15: I wash my face and put in Disc 4 of Season 3 of The Office - one of the best discs in the entire show. Quality entertainment. Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica.

11:30: I turn on the space heater, curl up and fall asleep.

Day one - survived! No thoughts of Facebook aside from one person asking me if I saw so-and-so's ridiculous status. No I have not, and I probably will be the same person tomorrow whether I see it or not. I can do this!