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Miss America: Reality Check. Oh GOD…

Published by -MiKe- on December 17, 2007 in Work. 3 Comments

Ok, I shoot for Miss Maine, sure. This, in and of it’s self, doesn’t mean I actually LIKE pageantry, or the pageantry world. Well, the stereotypes anyway. Because, anyone who’s had words with me on the subject knows very well that I actually DO like pageantry, and will defend it tooth and nail if I have to. Provided that by “pageantry” you talking about Miss America, and not Miss USA, Donald Trump’s… ish…

Enough with the sentence fragments; I like pageantry. That said, I just about shit myself when the executive director of Miss Maine asked me to post the following video on the Miss Maine front page.

“Audrey,” I said, after I got over my slack-jawed terror, “um… this doesn’t really… I don’t… get it.”

“Haha,” comes the voice of reason, “yeah, it’s a joke, they’re trying to make fun of-”

“US!” I exclaimed. “They did a good job, what is this all about?” I inquired, even more confused now than before I had called.

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I WIN!

Published by -MiKe- on June 7, 2007 in asides. 1 Comment

A-HA! I win!

After contacting technical support at that jack asses ISP it seems I got his attention. The NAMASP website has now fallen into obscurity and no longer has anything to do with the organization we once held so dear…

Tick that as a win for the little-guy.

Fucking people.

Published by -MiKe- on May 31, 2007 in Work. 2 Comments

As you may or may not know, when it comes to tech-things, I am pretty much the “man with the plan,” if you will. The go-to guy.

I’m no good at explaining things, or teaching for that matter, but tell me what you want and let me be. Usually I can get it done.

As such, when something goes wrong with a site I oversee, I get the brunt of it, and right now, I am hurting…

namasp/porn

I am taking a break from witch-hunting right now to rest my brain a bit…

What you have here is what happens when you let a domain expire in todays world. It gets hijacked and turned into a portal for porn.

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Aaaand we’re back… again…

Published by -MiKe- on May 23, 2007 in Personal. 4 Comments

Geez, keep taking these breaks… Have to get a handle on that.

So! Summer is finally here! Made it through another school year, I’m out of that damn apartment in Old Town, and I’ve got a new kitten. :-D

Meet Mali.

Summer is a kitten.

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Sorry, couldn’t help it. She’s just so adorable. Stole her from my ex-roommates actually. Jen and I bought 4 cans of cat food, fed her one, left for two days, came back, and there were still 3 cans left… So I fed her some and waited to see if Caleb made a move to feed her. He didn’t. Fed her the next morning (both times being careful no one noticed, to see if anyone else cared to feed her), Caleb left for work, making no move, so I left for home. With the cat. And if you are reading this Caleb, tough.

:-D

Wow, that was all kinds of grammatically incorrect. Oh well.

So school is out and I am back to mowing. Every day. All day. From 8:30am till 6-9pm… And I enjoy it. :-D

God I am happy to be out for a bit. I mean, I love NESCom (MUCH more-so than SU), but I was dogging it there in the last few weeks. Mostly because of English (contrary to the stereotype of most Bloggers, I HATE structured writing…), which I was sure I would nearly fail.

That in mind, imagine my surprise when I received my grades the other day and pulled in a B+ or higher in every class but Intro to Media (C+). Yeah… That look you just made? Imagine mine…

Pretty much, everything is awesome right now, save the back of my hands, which are sun-burnt to the very edge of blistering…

I’ve spent fair amount of time with Jen the past two weeks. Once last Wednesday, then again this past weekend for my birthday, for a full two days. Makes me smile, real-big-like. I’m going back to Waterboro tomorrow night, Justin in tow, to catch a 1am showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with Jen and the crew. Should be fun. And then we’re going kayaking next Tuesday.

You know, I think I could dig this woman. ;-)

Got some pretty cool stuff on my birthday. John and Cathy (Jen’s mum and dad) got me a remote-controlled helicopter, which absolutely kicks ass! I am in the process of calibrating the tail rotor over the past few days… Out of the box they are only roughly calibrated to stay straight, but if you want, you can fine tune it to stay more true (not spin around in circles). We’ll see how it turns out.

Jen’s Grandma got us tickets to WARPED TOUR 2007! Fucking right!

I played with Jen a bit (I got both tickets in my one card), and I think she actually believed I was going to take Justin with my spare. HA! Right…

Jen got me a “Meh.” shirt (much cooler than you think, I can assure you), and a book on photographic lighting. I only looked over the book briefly, but I can tell I am going to like it. I will review it after I get some time to go through it in detail…

And last, but not least, mom got me a watch (which I have yet to really wear, as I am afraid to dirty it), and some shirts…

But not just ANY shirts… Company shirts. Namely, CoverThis Photography. I really can’t describe them, so I will have to post a picture at some point. :-D

There was something else, but I can’t place it… :-/

Anyway, the past few days I have been dubbing around, trying to get Step Mania to work on this old laptop. Had a turn for the better this afternoon, but still not quite there. I’ll document it here in a few days.

Right now, however, I need a shower, and some aloe-vera. Just wanted to check in, tell you I’m not dead, and such. So, that said, have an evening…

I’m an RA!!

Published by -MiKe- on April 13, 2007 in College. 2 Comments

And there you have it. The end of the world as we know it.

April 13, 2007

Michael Mulligan
New England School of Communications
One College Circle
Bangor, ME 04401

Dear Michael,

Congratulations! you have been selected to flil a 2007-2008 Resident Assistant position. Your request for a hall and floor has been taken into consideration.

If you accept this position you must be available on the following dated. The dates listed below are required for this position.

  1. August 17th, 2007 - September 4th, 2007 for Resident Assistant Training and New Student Orientation.
  2. November 20, 2007 at 8pm you are able to leave for Thanksgiving Break.
  3. November 25, 2007 at 8am you are to return from Thanksgiving Break.
    * Unless scheduled for key duty on November 25, 2007 at 8am, you are to return November 24, 2007 by 8pm.
  4. December 22, 2007 at 8am you are able to leave for Winter Break.
  5. January 12, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Winter Break.
  6. March 1, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Spring Break.
  7. March 15, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Spring Break.
  8. May 11, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Summer Break.

Enclosed is a document to accept or decline this position, which must be completed and returned to the Student Life Office in 104 Peabody Hall no later than Monday, April 16, 2007 by 4pm.

Sincerely,

Fran Tracy
Director of Student Life

HA! Good RIDDANCE Old Town! After May 11th I will have no more to do with ye! No more driving back and forth, land-lords, utilities, unpaved driveways, disgusting roommates… Hallelujah!

Now, I know its not going to be a walk in the park, but I think I can handle it. I have found through past experience that the more I am challenged, the better I do. It’s when I am not challenged that I fall to the wayside. We’ll see.

Really, this is going to be such a great opportunity. I am excited beyond words.

Eviction, and how it affects you…

Published by -MiKe- on April 12, 2007 in Personal. 0 Comments

You know it’s been a slow set of days when you get serious responses to photos like this:
Happy lunch

So, I narrowly missed getting evicted today…

Hows that for catching your attention?

Evidently I was quite literally “A day late and a dollar short.” Seven days and three-hundred dollars, to be exact. But I’m all set now, for those of you who care, with no ill effects. On this note I would like to inform you of the consequences of being evicted. I, myself, was not fully aware of such matters. However, it was rather nice of my landlord to provide me a paper with an easy to understand list:

1. Eviction Court: This will be humiliating, and a matter public record.
2. Dispossession: This also will be humiliating, and a matter of public record.
3. Judgments: This too will be humiliating, and a matter of public record.

I will tell you, the pamphlet was quite helpful and informative, I practically feel like I was there…

Actually, we were all served (Caleb, Danny and I) an eviction notice, and come to find it was primarily Danny’s fault, such a nice change. However, I am sure I didn’t help the matter.

God I have to get out of this house…

For more about work, school and the unraveling of modern society, read on…

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It had to snow…

Published by -MiKe- on April 3, 2007 in Personal. 0 Comments

It’s freakin’ APRIL! Gah… It’s been nearly shorts-weather for the past week, few weeks, and now its just as white outside as February… Ew… It’s not even cold enough! It’s still kind of warm out…

Whatever.

I feel I owe you, dear reader, an apology.

It seems my “update” yesterday was more of a rant than an honest, all encompassing, update. And I am sorry…

Sure, some bad stuff has gone down, but things have been on the up ‘n up too. And here’s where I get to boast…

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A little late…

Published by -MiKe- on February 5, 2007 in Work. 1 Comment

Well, we’re back. Actually, we have been back about a week now, and I’m still jet-lagged. We pulled in at about eleven o’clock last Tuesday night and I left my house at about twelve-thirty to get to school, sleep, and get to classes the next morning. It sure was fun.

PICT0106.jpgAs for the tip, all in all it was wonderful. Vegas is always fun, as usual. However, oddly, I didn’t get out nearly as much this year as I did last year. We did stay an extra week last year, but I also did a lot more in terms of meetings and rehearsals. This year I didn’t attend one single practice, as appose to last year when I attended each and every one. I didn’t go to any press conferences or meetings, save the very last one after Lauren Nelson was crowned Miss America 2007. And yet, despite my admittedly lax schedule, I only went out once, and even then it was only with Shari, my mother’s right-hand gal. Now, there isn’t anything wrong with Shari, I actually had a great time, but I was rather hopeing to get out with some folks my own age, which never really happened. I did hang out on the casino floor with Jr., and made sixty dollars to my fifty. Well… He did anyway. Hopefully I will be returning to hang out with him again. Other than that, I didn’t go to any clubs or bars, besides the frequently occasional drink here, there, and everywhere.

Maybe next year.

2007-01-29 at 21-52-02 - Version 2.jpgIn regards to pictures, this year did go quite a bit better than last year. Last year around this time I was still trying to figure what do do with all of my photographs. I had some up on the Miss Maine website, but I hadn’t really done anything with the vast majority of them. It took me over a week and a half to get them on-line, and I lost a good bit of sales that way. This year, I was shooting for a “night-of” release time, which didn’t happen… However, I did quite well. It took me a day to get my keywords set-up, and to get another project out of the way, but 255 keywords later, I was cranking them out and on-line. In the end, I got Thursday nights shots up Saturday, and Friday and Saturday nights shots up Monday evening. The final night (Monday evening), with the crowning, didn’t get up until Wednesday evening… However, all of this was a learning experience.

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Finally.

Published by -MiKe- on January 25, 2007 in Work. 1 Comment

So we arrived last night at about 6pm Vegas time, and what a city. I’ve been here once before, but I have this sinking feeling that it will never get old.

Wireless internet doesn’t work here in the rooms, but I heard rumors that the Press room and the convention hall both have open access, so we shall see.

I will be getting photographs up here shortly, once I get my camera charger… I left it in Bangor, and my roommates had to over-night it to Vegas for me. It should be in the Business Center right now. The battery lasted just long enough to finish off the Habitat for Humanity thing this afternoon, and now it is stone-cold dead. So if the charger didn’t come in, I’ll be joining it soon enough… :-(

So, once the camera is charged I will get some photos up for the lot of you to google at. Until then…

And we’re off.

Published by -MiKe- on January 24, 2007 in Work. 0 Comments

Actually, physically, heading out the door as I write this.

The next time you hear from me I will be in VEGAS BABY!

WOOT!