New Obsession : DUNKIN DONUTS

One of the best things that I ever did was stop by a Dunkin Donuts and decided to try this new flatbread sandwich....oh how the heavens had smiled upon me that morning.

Dunkin Donuts is an under appreciated american establishment. It truly embodies the American dream whilst serving up fresh coffee and delicious treats and meals. I pity those who have not had the priveledge...NAY the honor of sampling their various pastries and sandwiches. Every Dunking Donuts I have ever been to is staffed by a group of immigrants. I commend those men and women who wake up at the wee hours of the morning to brew coffee for corporate America. They help start the days of various people from all walks of life. Anyway back to the sandwich....

I got the turkey sausage flat bread sandwich. The bread was warm and a little toasted and was filled with a piece of cheese and a turkey sausage omelet in it....it was wonderful...and i hate cheese. It was just warm and filling and quite flavorful. I would reccommend this to anyone wanting to get breakfast on the go. The best part about it, was that it wasn't greasy or feel super fatty. I was so obsessed about it that i looked up the nutritional value. It has 8 grams of fat and 280 calories vs the egg mcmuffin which as 300 calories and 12 grams of fat. All in all i was a satisfied and happy customer....

after reading this post, it should have been a yelp review...

Louis Theroux ....marry me

Many would say that I am attracted to a certain type of man. A man who is tall, lanky, bushy hair and has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. A man who needs the aid of spectacles in order to see, a man who is a DORK. Here we have such a man.

Louis Theroux- born in Singapore, grew up in England, went to Oxford and started a career in journalism. Look at that hair, look at those (swoon) glasses, this man is not only a dork, but a dork WITH AN ACCENT. HOT! Mr. Theroux has done a number of interviews and shows which in my opinion, stirred my curiosity

Many of the topics that he chooses to highlight are concepts that people are skeptical about. He may take jabs at his subjects, but he asks what every normal person would want to know if given the opportunity to meet said subjects.

On one such episode, Mr. Theroux submerged himself with, "The most hated family in america- The core members of the Westboro Church, in Topeka, Kansas." These are the people that would rally at soldier's funerals and would picket anything related to the Gay community. It was interesting to see how he interacted with the family and church, as well as trying to understand their ideologies....needless to say he would ask a question and they would respond with...YOU ARE EVIL...nice rebuttal.

His shows are entertaining and like all good shows he makes the audience think. After every episode i can't help but wiki or google the crap out of whatever person or topic he talks to. He says, "The subjects I'm interested in are quite extreme. They're so far beyond the pale of normal human interaction that you're never going to get a reality show on that territory." But the best thing about Mr. Theroux, is that whatever he believes in or no matter how ridiculous the person is...he never maliciously mocks anyone, presses his beliefs on them and has a certain sweetness about him when interacting with anyone.

He sums up himself perfectly with this-

"You have to be ethical and straightforward but also make people comfortable enough to be themselves. If they take issue with the way I portray them - but I feel that how I portray them is how they are - I don't think there's a problem. Sometimes, people have a different idea of who they are from who they really are. That's when feelings get hurt. But I don't think being a journalist in any way absolves you of the obligation to be a decent human being."

So Mr. Theroux...Louis.....I have a question FOR YOU..........

I recently just saw the....

I just saw this movie- you might have heard of it, it's called the SOCIAL NETWORK. IF you have facebook you know what its about.









!!!!!NOTE: DUE TO THE ADVANCES THAT MODERN TECHNOLOGY HAS CULTIVATED THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE WITH ONE AND THAT THE SOCIAL NETWORK BECAME A BENCHMARK IN THE WAY WE DISPLAY OUR EXPRESSIONS AND FEELINGS, I THOUGHT I WOULD PAY HOMAGE TO SOME OF THE MORE ARCHAIC FORMS OF PERSONAL DISPOSTION: THE EMOTICON!!!!!!!

THIS MOVIE:






This movie IS strangely interesting.....











.....Made me take a good look at my friendships and myself.












.....then it made me super depressed-that guy gave away 65 million away like it was a "speeding ticket", gave one guy 5 percent stock in Facebook (worth over a couple billion) the man is one of the youngest billionaires......



.........then i began to think..................................................




WHAT THE EFF AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prepayphones.smartphones.iphones.droids. oh my

I recently joined the 21st century and upgraded my phone and my plan to something a little more high tech and a little more reception abundant.

So i went from something like this...a kyocera cell phone from virgin mobile...this picture does not do it justice...the animations were not as visible nor as smooth. The only thing my phone could do was text and make phone calls, and that was only if I was NOT IN A DEAD ZONE...which was rare. I would drop calls left and right and there was a time when I could not or receive texts because of an error with virgin that lasted for a full 27 hours. The most advanced thing my phone posessed was that it had only three colors to mess around with. I paid 40 dollars a month for 1200 minutes and unlimited texting. The best adjective to describe the phone/plan was SIMPLE.


After months of complaints from me and from my friends- to get a REAL phone I have conceded. My boyfriend was very impressed to see that I have grown into a big girl phone. I have upgraded to a "real" plan and to an "real" android phone and the phone scares me. I don't like admitting that an inatimate object intimidates the poop out of me, but it does. Yes on the up side this mini computer can do so much: it synced up all my emails, social networking sites, and contacts with just a little swype of the finger. It has megapixels, a keyboard, applications an freaking HD camcorder....I spent the last three days just picking out a wallpaper for the phone. And yes Orwell did mess me up, by implementing the concept of "big brother" but I guess I was on the radar the minute I got an email address. or social security number, whatever.



In the end, yes I got a new phone and service mostly to subdue my friends' complaints and my own. But I miss the simple life.

My New Pet Peeve

Teaching ESL has taught me a couple of things. One major rule to understand and to make your students understand is that the English language is always changing. It is always evolving, it is a great example of how popular culture and how people continuously repeat an action to then consider it to be normal. Well one such instance would be the word- AIN'T. It is not a real word, it is not a conjugation of anything, but due to popular demand and usage it has now become a regular in the English vernacular as well as in webster's dictionary. I have accepted the fact that sometimes we as a culture should embrace change. The one thing I CANNOT ACCEPT are people using chat acronyms in their verbal conversations!

OH HELL NO!!!!!

I am totally for using short hand messages while on chat or text, but to then verbalize it while talking to someone is an offense that is punishable by a punch in the face. I have a friend, who used to get charged per text. So when she would send a text, she would try to fit everything on one page. One of her text went a little like this:

Hi at the lbry thn 2 th cffee shp, wrtng ppr fr clss n wll c cldia 4 dnnr wnt 2 cum 2 dnnr mtng at vggi bar. by.


translation: HI AT THE LIBRARY THEN GOING TO THE COFFEE SHOP, WRITING A PAPER FOR CLASS AND WILL SEE CLAUDIA FOR DINNER WANT TO COME TO DINNER WE ARE MEETING AT THE VEGGIE BAR. B YE

I find it comical that people who say, L-O-L actually might think its shorter to say then LAUGH OUT LOUD....its the same number of syllables! But then to shorten it so saying LOLS, makes me want to put acid in my eardrums.

There are also those who use the term OMG. Whenever I hear a teenager scream these letters, my body naturally shudders and I give the speaker the look of death. I get even more irritated when people slowly pronounce each letter for dramatic effect...ITS THE SAME AS OH MY GOSH- JUST FREAKING SAY OH MY GOSH/God! What the hell is wrong with you?!?!?!?!

As the younger generation pulls up in the ranks, I am petrified that they will develop a language that lacks vowels and syllables, I pity the immigrants of 2020...they are screwed. They have to learn how to spell and then learn how to drop letters in order to understand and communicate with people of America.