Encounter: Starbucks Lady

Me: Hi, can I have a grande iced black tea lemonade sweetened?

Starbucks Lady: Sure, what's your name?

Me: Rebecca

Starbucks Lady: What is it?

Me: Rebecca

Starbucks Lady: Huh?!

Me: Rebecca

Starbucks Lady: Mecca? Okay.

That's what she wrote down on the cup. When she finished making my drink, she called out "Mecca!".

And I thought I had hearing problems.

Free Custom Reeboks!

About 2 months ago I entered in a contest offered by FemaleSneakerFiend and Reebok. I won a free pair of kicks at Rbkcustom.com, where I customized my own shoes.

The contest was to write about emotions that one may go through with the love of shoes, which was inspired by the Reebok's customized by Maeda called "Emoretions".

I wrote about the emotions I went through when waiting for that UPS guy to come at my door to bring me a prized gift. Here's an excerpt:

"I am checking the tracking number every night, as the anticipation gets closer for the day my shoes are to come. As the day comes near, I patiently wait for the UPS person with my package. My hands and palms are sweaty and I wipe my forehead. I kept looking outside my window for my shoes to arrive, but no luck yet. I get hungry and I go out to get something to eat. I told myself I would be real quick. When I came back, I found an InfoNotice from UPS, stating they came at 10am and will come back later that day. The frustration and anger I had, thinking that now I have to wait another number of hours for the UPS person to come again. I figure I would check out my window every now and then as I do things around my house, such as clean my room, wash clothes, watch movies and run some errands. After I had finished all my tasks at my house, I went to mail some letters out. I look outside the window every 5 minutes to see if there is a UPS truck or not, but I do not see it. I get more anxious as time goes by and I look at the clock. I had to mail some letters. Since, the post office is just right across the street, I figured that I would be back in time for my shoes. I walk across the street and drop off my mail. As I turn around to cross the street again, I see the UPS truck near my house. Once the stoplight turned green, I ran across the street with my heart racing hoping I would catch the UPS person. He walked up to my gate and did not see anybody there. Just as he was about to leave, I yelled out “Hey, I’m here”. I was breathing heavily as he came up to me with a box. He asked me to sign as I was still trying to catch my breath. I was so excited to receive my shoes. I couldn’t believe it."

Thanks to FSF and Reebok!

*back of the shoes: "BEATSME"

DigiZine Summer/Fall 2008

The all-new DigiZiine Summer/Fall 2008 is now available at your local Digidesign dealers.

You can also preview the DigiZine on the Digidesign website.

This issue features Flight of the Concords, Transfuser, Eleven, Composing Sibelius with Pro Tools, and NightBird: studio with an ICON at LA's sunset Marquis Hotel.

New iPhone 3G!

So after waiting in line for 2 1/2 hours, I finally got my iPhone. I didn't think I had to wait in line, I mean don't people have other important things to do besides waiting in line for an iPhone?

Apparently not.

As a result of waiting in line for that long, my cheeks and nose became all red. At least, I got some sun, right?

KRON 4, a Bay Area local news station, was there filming people in line, including me, and asking questions to a few.

Earlier today, I canceled my contract with T-Mobile. Both reps tried really really hard to persuade me to stay. One rep told me false things, such as, if I wanted to keep my old number then I would have to pay the penalty fee or get a new number to waive that fee. I told her I'll change my number then. Then, she told me about the unlimited messages plan and I told her that I don't want to pay $10 for that.

Okay, next comes the account rep who does cancellations and she tells me that I can keep my number without paying the penalty, so clearly that first rep was lying. Other than that, she was not much different in persuasion techniques. She told me that I could block incoming messages. I told her that I couldn't do that because someone from work whose number is not in my contacts list might text me. I would miss his or her text messages. Then she said oh well then you can block all incoming messages. Now why would I want to do a crazy thing like that? After all that persuading and convincing, I was finally able to cancel my contract without penalty. Also, called back to make sure that the "penalty would be waived" was noted in my account.

Oh yeah, if you are with T-Mobile and still under contract and would like to get out of it without paying the early termination fee, you now can if you have used text messages or went over your text messaging plan within the past 3 months, because of the increase in the price of text messaging to $0.20 starting in late August.

GMAT Here I Come!

That's right, today is the day that I'm finally taking my GMAT.  

After 2 hours of studying every night and 3+ hours on weekends for the past 2 months I am finally ready to take this test.  I'm not so great at standardized test, but I'll do my best.

Here we go!

Oh yeah, this is what the GMAT is, in case you were wondering.

Remixing Pro Tools: The Crystal Method Contest

Are you a remix artist, musician, and/or a music fan? If so, check this out!

To start the launch of Digidesign® Transfuser™ — the crazy, tweaky new loop and groove creation virtual instrument for Pro Tools® — Digidesign has teamed up with Remix magazine, Fuzz.com, and The Crystal Method to present you with fun and creative challenge: remix The Crystal Method’s “Double Down Under,” a brand new track from the duo’s highly anticipated, upcoming album. If you’ve got some mad, creative remixing skills, show us what you’ve got and you could win some wicked studio prizes!

For more information on how to enter and submit your mix, please click on the images to the right or click here.

Good luck!