Lauren

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT

texting

I don’t have a lot of vices.

I drink enough Coke daily to keep the company in business. Because they’re hurting, you know.

I like to watch TV online. I have a habit of leaving cups in my room.

But one thing I do that’s really not good is read the news on my phone while I’m en route to anywhere.

Ironically, I was reading the story about how President Obama signed an executive order Wednesday night banning federal employees from texting while driving.

And then, after finishing the story and putting my phone down, I had a thought.

Most tobacco companies spend a fixed amount of their budgets on telling people not to use their product. And despite their efforts, studies have shown that anti-smoking ads by tobacco companies don’t really work. Of course, that begs the question as to how hard did these companies try to be effective in their campaign against cigarettes?

So could the same burden fall to cell phone companies? If there are enough cases in the coming years with driver-distraction deaths, I see a settlement looming over the horizon and an influx of commercials discouraging drivers from texting or using their phone. (Hint: It’s happening now.)

Time seems irrelevant

Since my last collegiate year starts Monday, I’ve been doing a lot of reflection. One memory that keeps popping up takes me back to when I was about 7 years old. The Wal-Mart Supercenter had just opened up in a neighboring town, and our family, like the entire Tri-county area it seemed, paid weekly visits to the huge store.

I remember on one of those visits waiting in the check-out line with my mom. While she loaded the conveyer belt with groceries, I recognized some kids in front of us. They too were with parents, but I didn’t notice that. All I thought was how grown up I thought they were. Looking back, they couldn’t have been beyond the 4th grade.

I thought that after 5th grade I’d be done with school. I thought that was the end. Then I remember how surprised I was that school kept going. And that I’d be much older when I finished. I never thought that time would come.

But here it is.

Now I can’t help but be genuinely frightened about what’s next. I felt so sure of being “grown up” when I was so young, and now I don’t know what step to take next.

See sometimes things are just beyond control

Ok power it’s time for you to turn back on…I need to make Ina’s peach crisp!!

Ok lol, my mom is walking down the street with a super bright flashlight and no shoes.

Progress Energy is crap.

Cake Boss is a blatant ripoff of Ace of Cakes, but dang it if it isn’t making me crack up!! Duff & Geoff (sp?) 4ever though.

Omg conan is bananas

Headed home from hotlanta. Except really orlando.