sometimes i'm impressed by just how much i care...
honestly, i've already passed all my classes this semester. i could go home right now and know that i got a C or higher in everything and don't need to worry anymore. but the thing is, i want to do well. it's a matter of pride. the real question here is... at what cost?
right now, i'm completely exhausted. i hit the 24 hour mark over an hour and a half ago and have 3.5 hours before my last final begins. i somehow managed to get through my group presentation at 8am this morning with flying colors. in fact, one of the guys from the company we were presenting our adv and promo plan to actually came up to us afterwards and told our group that we did the best out of all the other groups. he said we were focused, passionate, and carried ourselves well throughout the whole presentation. this amuses me a lot because the three of us walked away from the front of the room after our presentation giggling like little girls because we had all come off sounding like cheerleaders (high voices, rather loud, and a bit too cheerful for that time of the morning.) i guess it worked though. honestly, we were all so delirious by the time we got up that we just wanted to get through it.
so i shouldn't be in this position in the first place. i finished preparing for my group presentation at 11:00 last night, organized and printed all my notes for my second final by 11:30, knowing i'd have four hours to look over them today and was all ready for bed before midnite when it suddenly hit me... i forgot to do my damn take home final for my 8am class. realizing it would probably take two hours because it was all essay and cursing my poor organizational skills, i got comfortable on the couch (but not too comfortable... kept my feet on the floor) and got to work. i realized at about 1:30 when i was half way done that i wasn't going to get any sleep last night. if i even attempted it i would probably sleep past my presentation in the morning. so i popped in a move (the break up... frustrating movie, but i'll get to that later) and just plodded on. when i reread what i had written early this morning for some of the "give your own opinion" questions i realized thinking of intelligent answers at 3 in the morning when you are tired and watching a vince vaughn movie was like trying to do it while you were high... everything sounds good at the moment, but in retrospect you can't figure out what your point was.
here's a few gems... first off, i took a very strong "pro-puffery" stance, stopping short of calling most consumers dumb...
I personally believe that the FTC views the use of puffery in the correct context. Puffery should be viewed as a form of poetic license or allowable exaggeration. Consumers do expect exaggeration in advertising and should take personal responsibility in determining their stance on products. A company claiming to be the “best” at anything is simply stating their opinion. I could say I was the best at everything but wouldn’t expect people to just take that at face value. I think people see advertising and may take slogans such as Papa John’s to heart, but if they try it and don’t like it will continue with their favored pizza brand of choice. When it comes down to it, a snappy slogan or tagline can bring attention to a brand but I believe consumers should be responsible for making their own choices. Whether they base those choices on exaggerated claims or on their own beliefs is their prerogative.
and then there was this paragraph, where i made some really strange references and clearly was just making shit up to finish the test...
I tend to lean more towards agreeing with the advertisers and marketers in favor of shock advertising because much does personally not offend me. I think that they usually know when to draw the line because stepping over it can alienate and anger the audience they were trying to get attention from in the first place. I also think there is a time and a place for everything; I wouldn’t be offended by finding one of the Bijan ads in an Elle or a Maxim magazine, but wouldn’t want to find it in my niece’s Highlights magazine. While critics of shock advertising argue that it will somehow spiral out of control, it is exactly these kinds of public debates that the ads are hoping to spark. As my mom said, it is no coincidence that Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” happened right before a new album of hers was set to hit stores.
and when i realized that 7 and 8 on the test were the same question (and yes i was already part way reanswering the damn thing again) i got kind of snarky and wrote this...
Repeat of the last question?? Same answer I guess.
oh well, fuck it right? it's done.
so yeah, i watched the break up... how damn depressing was that ending? the fact that they got along so well after ending so badly... blech. i would rather they had stayed together and liked each other or broken up and hated each other. i'm a girl so i should have gotten the girlfriend angle in this movie, but for the life of me i couldn't figure out why she would try so hard to get him back and then just quit. what kind of backwards ass thinking is that? was the point that sometimes people need their own time apart before they can get back together and rebuild what they had, only better? is that what the whole "chicago is the second city" crap meant? or is that just it for them? dammit... i wanted my pretty little bow at the end... it's like a dangling particple... so damn frustrating because it just doesn't make any sense...
oh god... i just compared a movie to a dangling participle... i'm such a mess right now...
