Lil Nashville Story

Here's a not very exciting story. If you want more info about Nashville, see the last post I made. I realized my blog was still private when I posted it so I made it public afterwards. So go down and check that one out.

Have any of you ever been to Popeye's chicken? BECAUSE IT IS DELICIOUS. Chick-fil-a is a white man's fried chicken. But Popeye's is straight out of the hood south. I had a hankering for some Popeye's after work so I looked up the nearest Popeye's and headed there. It was only a mile away but I know nothing about all the different areas of Nashville. I should've figured it was in the heart of the ghetto. So I start driving there and of course my gps fails about three times so I'm driving around lost in the middle of the ghetto. It had bars on the windows but since it took me a good 20 minutes to go 1 measly mile so I went in anyway. Not only was I the only white person in there, I may have been the only white person to ever step foot in that Popeye's. There were probably 20 people in there looking about as ghetto as you possibly could. Every head turned. I felt like I was in the inner sanctum! Did you have any idea how much black hood people fight with each other?? Every person in front of me in line fought with both the sales clerk and the manager and then the employees argued with each other. Also, they talked CRAZY. You know that hood-ish accent? Well imagine a really thick hood accent mized with a thick southern-black accent. I had no idea what anyone was saying or asking me when I ordered. I went up and Sholonda took my order and the manager LahKia fought with the old man in front of me and told me "No gurl that coupon ain't no good!!" and I was like "okaythatsfinemaami'lljusthavethreechickentenders." They didn't even ask me if I wanted it to stay or to go. They just handed me a to go box.

Then they all watched me walk out the door. Then my gps failed another three times. And an hour and a half after I started, I finally made it to FHE with my fried chicken. And it was delicious.

This may be the most racist post I've made yet. But it's exactly true....

For a more visual representation, watch this video. Except imagine it about 45x more ghetto and less happy. And at dusk.

http://youtu.be/B0Rau01wbeo

Things about Nashy so far.

So I figured I should update this here bloggity blog for everyone at home (aka mom. hi mom!). Here are just some lazy points about Nashville thus far.

1. Work. Work is good! I'm not legally allowed to say anything. But suffice it to say it is as good as working for free can be :) I'll give it a 7/10. But nothing will be a perfect 10 because working stinks in general.

2. Nashyville! Nashville is SOOOO cool. It's way better than I had hoped. The city is super nice! Or at least all the parts I have been to. My work is on music row, which is small and full of trees and is quiet. Which is surprising for what a big, profitable, and busy industry it is. It seriously looks like a street in Scotia. Here is a google maps of it, you can take a little gander of it.


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My office is slow and right off the highway. But if you go about 4 blocks you get to a big ol' downtown, complete with the Batman AT&T building, Bridgestone Arena, country music Hall of Fame, big pinnacle building, etc. It looks like a really nice, and pretty big sized city. This is basically what it looks like:

It really has the best of all worlds. You've got a big, prosperous downtown with tons and tons to see, then it's quiet about 4 blocks from that. And then where I live looks totally rural. And that's all within about a 15 minute drive.

Where I live looks like this. But prettier. I couldn't find pictures that really did it justice.

And a WHOLE lot of houses like this:

So far it's been a lot of fun. I have been a teensy bit homesick, but not too bad. It's only for a few months. So far I have seen country music hall of fame: 

Walked down Broadway (which was kind of sketchy. It's still cool, but I'd probably have more fun there if there was a guy with me ha.): 

Walked through the Music City Walk of Fame park and ate my first city hot-dog-from-a-stand: 

Walked across the famous pedestrian bridge and took is the delightful views of the wonderfully brown Cumberland river. Now isn't that pretty.

Went to a broadcast of the world's oldest radio station, wmn 650, the radio station that started the Grand Ole Opry and made country music and Nashville famous!

The band that played is three mormons called Due West. When they're learned I was interning from BYU they were all really excited. They're called Due West because they all hail from the west in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. And their tour manager actually lives right by Raqol in Lehi and flies out to Nashville every week. They've been really nice to me, brought me to their radio show, introduced me to their wives, etc. They release their first single which is like 40th on the charts right now, so they're doing pretty well. Hopefully they'll make it. Here is a video of a song they played on the show. They're almost bluegrassy, so dad might like them!

And here are the only two pictures I have of me here so far. One is of my first fancy pants city hot dog. Fancy pants because it was way overpriced. And the one of the right is at the spot where we had my 4th birthday party at a park in Brentwood.

Anyway, that's about all I've got! I'm too lazy to proofread and realign my pictures. I miss everyone!

It's ALIIIIVVVVEEEEE!!!!

Mom requested that I resurrect my blog in order to have another media vehicle (FUN FACT: "media vehicle" is actually one of the more complex terms in the ad major. we spent a whole class period on it. it's not a very difficult curriculum.) with which to know what I am up to. And I will tell you what I am up to! Nothing.

Except, as should be surprising to NO ONE, living with roommates stinks. My apartment is way nice this year and I really like it. And, thank goodness, I finally got clean roommates! Or I got one extremely clean roommate which means I'm not fighting an uphill battle all the time. So, anyway, I can't complain too too much. Okay, I can complain. And I will! Right now! All but one roommate is pretty neat, and I brought her with me so I shouldn't complain. But I will! So I clean up the kitchen and straighten up almost every day. And then as soon as I clean up, a one woman tornado comes home and everything is trashed. It was pretty funny, on tuesday I cleaned up and literally as soon as I threw out the last dirty towel, she walked in the door with a kitchenaid mixer and I knew it was all for naught.

Feel my frustration in the following video:

So here is my plan to keep the apartment clean every week.

MONDAY:

Ariel freaks out and scrubs everything in sight before FHE every monday...except the floors. So Monday I will mop the lovely linoleum floors in the kitchen, hallway, and bathroom.

TUESDAY:

Clean toilet and shower. Gross.

WEDNESDAY:

Clean sink, counters, and mirror. Also gross.

THURSDAY:

Vacuum! Living room and bedroom, occasionally do the upstairs and stairs....if I'm not too lazy.... :)

FRIDAY:

Clean kitchen countertops and stovetop, etc. Wipe down furniture.

Now let's see if I can actually do this. I think I can, since I clean up every day anyway. Only thing is that it is pretty much impossible to keep clean when no one picks up their danged crap! I pretty much do the kitchen everyday since apparently no one believes in wiping up their spills or washing dishes. Or maybe their mothers just really loved using chisels.

This year's christmas card picture...this one is for posterity!

So. I was at the Nitro Circus movie shoot yesterday and we had to take some photos. This one required a fan, and I was given the job. I joked that I would do it "only if I can say I fanned Travis Pastrana". They said they would even take a picture of it, and they did. I was laughing, thus the goofy face. But still the greatest picture ever.

That there's sum real gud parkin

I think all people with cars in Condo Row need to watch this video and learn. Condo Row is the home of the crappy parallel park. My favorite is watching people maneuver about 30 times and still end up on the curb. There is a car right now that has both of its right side tires in the huge rain gutters.



**props to my friend Kevin for showing me :) does that make you happy kev? eh?

Dream job realized.

I've decided I want to work for American Girl. Those who know me well know that I have been a HUGE American Girl fan from a young, young age. I was very upset when mom made me cancel my long-standing subscription to the American Girl magazine at age 15. I was still getting magazines addressed to Reba Kan Field. So I signed up for a job/internship alert on the American Girl website. I said that I was interested in Advertising jobs and they send me email alerts from time to time. Today I got an email for the following job opening:

"Intern-Undergraduate - Mattel Brands Barbie Design"

Yes, it means exactly what it says. Barbie doll and fashion design. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE????!?!?!!!!? I don't know why they sent it to me, considering it has nothing to do with Advertising. maybe it's fate.

Can he also burst into flames?

Rachel, don't you see the resemblance????? But Forrest is WAY cuter. Sorry for posting your picture, Rachel, but I thought it was pretty uncanny.

I have lots of other things that I could post about but I can't remember now slash don't care enough to try to remember. Except for one thing. I went to the SDSU game and it was AWESOME. SO much fun. I've never gotten so into a game. I waited a few hours in the cold just to get in, but it was worth it. Here's a photo of me and my friend Jonathan with Cosmo after the game at the victory bell. My flash didn't go off so it's not a good pic, but still fun.