I HATE THE 6TH ST WALMART!

.....I really do. The Wal Mart on 6th (or Martin Luther King Jr Blv, but really who even calls it that. Its always been 6th so I'm going to call it 6th. And only people who haven't lived here that long call it MLK. Losers) ANYWAYS. The Wal Mart on 6th street is the worst Wal Mart in Fayetteville, and that includes Neighborhood Market with its lack of everything important. I'm in a really rant-y mood right now so here are the reason I DISLIKE the Wal Mart on 6th st. 

DISTANCE 

even if you are on that side of town it feels like the 6th st Wal Mart (which i'm going to now refer to as 6WM) is SOOOOOOOO far away. Its pretty much in the middle of nowhere between Fayetteville and Farmington. And the traffic is ALWAYS horrible over there so it takes FOREVER to actually get to 6WM. 

PARKING 

what the eff 6WM?!? why is your parking lot so weird. instead of making one isle of spaces face one way then making the next isle face the other way like EVERY OTHER PARKING LOT I'VE BEEN TO, you decided to put two isles facing the same way right beside each other. so when i'm looking for a spot it takes me 10min driving around the parking lot JUST to figure out which direction i can drive through which isle! 

if this doesn't make sense to anyone or seem annoying then just take a visit to 6WM and try to park, its IRRITATING.

LAYOUT

the inside layout of the 6WM really annoys me. i can't find ANYTHING. why can't all walmarts have the SAME EXACT layouts in every store. i've lived here 18 years and have been to the 6WM enough times that i should know where everything is, but NO. that store is so janked up that i can't ever find anything. 

PEOPLE

now this one isn't a huge deal but it still gets to me. the people that shop and work at 6WM are WEIRD. BIG TIME weird. ok I'm not saying EVERYONE that shops there is weird but most of them are. there's always mean old people, creepy old people, sketchy trashy people, dirty people, homeless people, stock boys that ask you "can i help you find anything" WAY too many times that i shop with my pepper spray out, and college students (ok I'm a college student so i can't say much BUT i don't really like seeing people i know when I'm shopping at Wal Mart for my personal things). 

Its these things that make me happy i live on the northern end of Fayetteville so i can happily shop at the Joyce St Wal Mart which is MUCH more to my liking.

The year is coming to an end!

Welp, its almost NEW YEARS! 2011! One more year until the world ENDS! dun dun DUN..... Guess that means its the year to PARTY! Hm. Lets recap this year....

I took my first trip to the west coast! 

I GRADUATED High School!!!!!!

I had to say goodbye to my boyfriend who went off to Basic Training. :(

I got a NEW car ANNNNNND a NEW puppy!

I took an awesome trip with my family and BFF Emily (emmmmm) to Florida.

I started COLLEGE at the University of Arkansas

I got initiated in the Razorback Marching Band

I performed for the first time in my new home Renolds RAZORBACK Stadium! 

I passed my FIRST semester of college! 

I got to spend Christmas with my wonderful boyfriend! 

all in all..... 2010 was the YEAR!

To Sum it All Up!

Well all good things must come to an end. I'm finished with my blog assignment! Thinking about all of these media contacts in my life i have really put a lot of thought about my future in the  media. When i'm in my car listening to the radio, i get jealous of how the radio DJs get to spend their morning laughing and having a good time while picking out music for people like me to listen to as they drive to their boring English class. When i get home from a looooong day of school, then band, then work, i thank god that my DVR has recorded my favorite television shows that i would have missed out on because of my busy schedule. Right now i feel thankful for Tim Bernes-Lee for his role in the creation of the Internet, because without it i wouldn't be able to be writing this post for my blog or creep on what my friends are doing via facebook. Finally when i turn on my TV i'm VERY thankful that i don't have to see anymore campaign commercials for at least the rest of this year, but unfortunately i still have to see those annoying geico commercials.


Because of this blog assignment, i have put a lot more thought into my media contacts and my future in the media. 

I'm Sarah Brown and I approve this message.

so today is ELECTION DAY, you know what i'm most excited about!? all those stinkin election commercials NOT being on TV! i swear sometimes commercials get out of hand. one day i'm gonna turn on the TV and hear "Blanch Lincoln KILLS puppies! Im John Boozeman and I approve this message." thats how ridiculous those commercials are. 

you know what other commercials are really stupid. car lot and furniture commercials. i know they're really low budget but still, enough with the cheese factor. there is this new commercial for a car lot or furniture (i can't think of which one because they're both so annoying that they blend together) and it has this little fat man yelling about all the deals they have going on and then at the end of the commercial he gets hit by a car. its SO cheesy. oh local commercials.

then there are those companies that come out with one funny commercial, but then they decide to make even more of the same exact commercial. such as Gieco caveman (i HATE these), gecko, and cash commercials, and Progressive's Flo commercials, and etrades baby commercial. Gieco's commercials can get really annoying. seriously the caveman thing was kind of funny the first time it aired, but now they just need to stop with it. recently Gieco came out with a commercial that still makes me giggle when i see it. its the commercial where the guy says "Can Gieco really save you a lot of money on car insurance? Did the little piggy really cry wee wee wee all the way home?" then it shows a pig hanging out of a car window with pin wheels squealing. idk why but the commercial if really funny.

annoying commercials make me REALLY glad that i have a DVR. :)

TV Journalist

when i'm asked "what are you majoring in?" i naturally reply "broadcast journalism", then i seem to ALWAYS get "oh you want to read the news every evening".......... not exactly. i'm not interested in being an anchor AT ALL. all anchors are, are pretty faces that can read a prompter and take direction. i want to be the person behind the camera giving them those directions. my dream is to either direct a news show or produce. i want to be the person running around all stressed out trying to put the show together. i love being able to make decisions and giving orders. i'm kind of a bossy person so the position of director/producer would just come naturally for me. whenever i watch the movie "The Ugly Truth" i see Katherine Heigal's character at her producing job and think "thats going to be me." and now this new movie is come out, its called "Morning Glory". its about a female television producer who is in charge of reviving a failing TV news show. i'm definitely going to have to go see it.

i'm totally ok with starting out as a camera person or stage hand. i would also love to sometime during my broadcasting career get the opportunity to make packages to air on the news. i REALLY enjoy getting to go out and create a story and getting to interview people. its exciting getting to show people and say "yeah, i made that." but hopefully i eventually make my way up to the top where i want to be.

thebomb.com

where would we be today without the invention of the internet? does anyone ever think about this when they're checking their email, updating their facebook status, or even typing a new blog post?

its amazing to think about how FAST information can be accessed through the internet. what's the population of Mobile, Alabama? 198,915. how long did it take to find that. approx 30 seconds. THANK YOU, Wikipedia. if i didn't have the internet and needed to know that, it would take 30 minutes to go into the library, find the right encyclopedia, turn to the right page, and read through until i found the number AND EVEN THEN, that info might not be very up-to-date. but thanks to Tim Bernes-Lee, we now have the wonderful WORLD WIDE WEB to search for all our answers.

Facebook is also a pretty awesome invention as well. Its really neat using it now after i saw the movie "The Social Network" (which i WAS gonna do for my Movie Review choice assignment BUT forgot to print it off in time to turn it in, therefore did not get to turn it in even though i did the assignment, i'm very heartbroken about it Professor Purvis, if you're reading this) ANYWAYS. i liked getting to see how everything started. its interesting that it started at one ivy league college and now is used by almost EVERYONE. its like a disease thats spread all over the world. i like how you can learn someones name one second and the next you can get on your iPhone and know lots about them through a simple facebook search. SUPER CREEPY, but still really cool.

there's another cool invention. the Iphone! i love how we went from giant brick phones to small computer phones. you can do almost anything with the iphone that you can do with a computer. EVEN web chat now with the iPhone 4. my boyfriend and i are ALWAYS arguing about whether the iPhone or the Droid is a better phone. sorry honey, the iPhone 4 has a web cam. WIN. also as i always argue, Words with Friends. iPhone has it;, Droid doesn't.

a face for radio?

I always thought it would be cool to be a radio DJ. Sadly though, when I was in high school I asked one of my communication teachers about being one and she informed me that radio DJs really don't get payed that much, which made me sad. BUT I still want to be one sometimes.

I like listening to the DJs talk in the morning when I drive to school. Unless of course I'm in a bad mood or running late then I just plug in my iPod and drive really fast. I mostly enjoy listening to them make fun of things. For example the other day I was listening to the AMX 104.9 and they were making fun of Justin Biebers autobiography. It gave me a good laugh while I was sitting in my car waiting for the green bus. The only time I really like when the DJs talk is in the morning. In the evening I don't like when the DJs talk. I just want to listen to music. I especially HATE listening to Delilah and Dawson Mcalister. Delilah just annoys me, and as for Dawson, well I don't really want to hear about other peoples problems when I turn on my radio, I want to hear todays hit music.

I've also always wanted to get to pick the music that plays on the radio. When I was younger I would open my windows and play my NSYNC and Brittany Spears CDs and pretend like I was a DJ playing music for my whole neighborhood. Luckily today, if I don't like what is on the radio then I can easily plug in my Ipod and DJ for my ride home/to school.