As I was sitting here this morning sipping on a nice cuppa tea and reading my first tweets of the day, one of my fellow tweeters, followers, friends (or whatever you choose to call the people in which you converse via the Twitter world) had posted a link to what is known as a 'tweet cloud'. Intrigued, I clicked on the link and discovered that this tweet cloud collects the words used most within your tweets by either day, week, months, or within the last year. Being the complete word nerd that I am, creating one of these was obviously necessary.
Choosing a time frame was easy enough considering my curiosity for learning what words dominated one of the most stressful, thrilling years of my life! Within a few short clicks of a button, the past year of my tweeting life was organized first in order of most used words and then neatly into a colorful cloud of words (found here):
http://tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com/southerndreamer/69222
Here are the Top Tweeting Ten highlights:
1. The fact that LOVE is my most used tweeting word is both perfect and completely comical. I wish you knew how many times people have brought up the fact that I am what some would refer to as a 'love whore'. Sure, I'm a lover of the word love and I just love to use it whenever I lovin' can! I figure if that's the word most associated with my name, I'm not doing too shabby in this life.
2, 3, 4, 5. Time, Night, Life, Dissertation...these four words pretty much sum up what the mass majority of the last year of my life revolved around. Time for this deadline, time for that one; more sleepless nights than I ever care to remember; and it all lead up to the ultimate ruler of the 25th(ish) year of my life...the 'dreaded' dissertation. Yup, sounds about right to me!
6. Watching. Wow. This tweet cloud is showing my soul! I'm always watching. It's one of my all time favorite activities...people watching, watching films, watching life happen all around. The problem here sometimes becomes that I get caught up in watching, rather than living.
7, 8, 9. Happy, London, Days. I decided to group these into one category because I'm not sure that anything could more accurately describe my life and LOVE for that city. Happy London Days pretty much says it all!
10. Sweet. The fact that this word rounded out my Top Tweeting Ten actually surprised me a bit. Not because I'm against the word because it is in fact, a very 'sweet' word. Apparently, I'm just unaware of my extreme use of this word in my everyday descriptions of this 'sweet' life.
Further Tweet Cloud inspection can be summed up with the last year of my life apparently being filled with quality music and films. I must have run off coffee from the exhaustion of no sleep due to writing research causing my brain to go crazy and completely dreading the mornings when my body didn't feel ready to face the day! I spent many tonights hahahaing with amazing friends, talking about the pretty people and waiting on what the tomorrows would bring. I'm a girl with a lovely life, always feeling with my whole heart. I hear about news, write words, and dream of the world outside of Nashville, always missing London and looking forward to getting back to the true home of my heart soon. It's gonna be hard darlin to leave people behind but everyone knows I think mainly with my heart and not my head. But they know the life I hope for and know I will check in on them no matter where I am in this world. Oh, and I'm apparently very polite, always using my dears, pleases, and thank yous.
I can now safely say that tweeting your life away DOES in fact breed self-discovery. So how about all you twitter haters put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Peace, Love, & Chicken Grease
Beks
"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear." ~George Herbert
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
The decision to move back to London is FINAL. Visa information and applications are underway and the saving of pennies has commenced, which basically means that I am the happiest lil lady that this world might possibly have ever seen! However, the big move isn’t until next summer so as I’ve previously mentioned, I plan on fully making the most of my time here on southern soil. I shall also be using the next 7 months as one big giant self-improvement project because let me tell you, grad school did a real number on my mind, body, and spirit! So I’m counting on you lovely folks for support and the occasional kick in the ass when I start slacking, as I am fully aware that I do require those from time to time.
So here are the basics:
This ragged, abused, lazy body of mine MUST be whipped into shape! A gym must be joined and these muscles must be utilized. I’m certain they feel neglected after a yearlong hiatus from the world of exercise and overall well-being. Apparently sitting on your tookus in front of glowing computer screen while eating cheap junk food to survive the torture that is grad school doesn’t exactly do a body good. Shocking, I know! I could probably count the number of times I’ve worked out over the last year and belieeeeeeve me, my body has suffered the consequences. While I (miraculously) haven’t gained any weight, I know how my clothes are supposed to fall on my body and they sure aren’t fallin’ right. I’m ready for a change and my body is aching for one…literally! Not to mention, if I'm gonna be dragging my arse all over Europe next summer, I want it to be a toned one!
Bonus: This physical change will no doubt, have a positive effect on the weary mind and tainted spirit. My brain was sent into overdrive and pushed to its absolute limit! I was challenged every step of the way and have learned that I am capable of much more than I ever thought. However, I think it deserves a break and by break I mean that I am going to allow it to run free…reading, writing, and exploring the world, all for pleasure! On the other hand, the mind and I have a few things we need to work on as well. For example, my unexplained and misplaced guilt issues (which cause me to think I should probably have been Catholic).
As for the ole spirit, well let’s just say that while it may not have been completely broken by grad school and some rough patches this past year, it certainly has some cracks that need to be mended. I’m already seeing the progress in this area but when it comes to a few certain areas (i.e. matters of the heart, men, my reign as Queen of Unrequited Love, etc), I can’t seem to keep it lifted. I’m pretty much as hopeless as the hopeless romantics can get and I don’t even want to get started on my pathetic excuse for a dating life. Pardon me, my NON-EXISTENT dating life. I know, I know, it’s probably not the right time for me to be meeting a specific someone with the move back across the pond approaching in the not to distant future but the lack of companionship does wear on the heart at times. Granted, I have officially decided that Tennessee has something to do with it because it’s a proven fact that I’m appreciated more ANYWHERE but here. True story, theory tested, proven FACT! In other words, I guess I should just suck it up for the time being and look forward to taking steps in that area of my life when the timing is right and focus on lifting the spirits elsewhere for now? Yes?
So what I’m asking of you, my dahlings is that you take the time out every so often to check in and see how I’m coming along. A little support always helps keep me motivated and accountable. So get your words and boots ready because I will be the first to admit that I’m going to need you to give me a swift kick along the way to remind me what I’m working for…a healthier, happier, balanced, improved version of yours truly.
Peace, Love, & Chicken Grease
Beks
“It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will” – Sam Cooke
So here are the basics:
This ragged, abused, lazy body of mine MUST be whipped into shape! A gym must be joined and these muscles must be utilized. I’m certain they feel neglected after a yearlong hiatus from the world of exercise and overall well-being. Apparently sitting on your tookus in front of glowing computer screen while eating cheap junk food to survive the torture that is grad school doesn’t exactly do a body good. Shocking, I know! I could probably count the number of times I’ve worked out over the last year and belieeeeeeve me, my body has suffered the consequences. While I (miraculously) haven’t gained any weight, I know how my clothes are supposed to fall on my body and they sure aren’t fallin’ right. I’m ready for a change and my body is aching for one…literally! Not to mention, if I'm gonna be dragging my arse all over Europe next summer, I want it to be a toned one!
Bonus: This physical change will no doubt, have a positive effect on the weary mind and tainted spirit. My brain was sent into overdrive and pushed to its absolute limit! I was challenged every step of the way and have learned that I am capable of much more than I ever thought. However, I think it deserves a break and by break I mean that I am going to allow it to run free…reading, writing, and exploring the world, all for pleasure! On the other hand, the mind and I have a few things we need to work on as well. For example, my unexplained and misplaced guilt issues (which cause me to think I should probably have been Catholic).
As for the ole spirit, well let’s just say that while it may not have been completely broken by grad school and some rough patches this past year, it certainly has some cracks that need to be mended. I’m already seeing the progress in this area but when it comes to a few certain areas (i.e. matters of the heart, men, my reign as Queen of Unrequited Love, etc), I can’t seem to keep it lifted. I’m pretty much as hopeless as the hopeless romantics can get and I don’t even want to get started on my pathetic excuse for a dating life. Pardon me, my NON-EXISTENT dating life. I know, I know, it’s probably not the right time for me to be meeting a specific someone with the move back across the pond approaching in the not to distant future but the lack of companionship does wear on the heart at times. Granted, I have officially decided that Tennessee has something to do with it because it’s a proven fact that I’m appreciated more ANYWHERE but here. True story, theory tested, proven FACT! In other words, I guess I should just suck it up for the time being and look forward to taking steps in that area of my life when the timing is right and focus on lifting the spirits elsewhere for now? Yes?
So what I’m asking of you, my dahlings is that you take the time out every so often to check in and see how I’m coming along. A little support always helps keep me motivated and accountable. So get your words and boots ready because I will be the first to admit that I’m going to need you to give me a swift kick along the way to remind me what I’m working for…a healthier, happier, balanced, improved version of yours truly.
Peace, Love, & Chicken Grease
Beks
“It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will” – Sam Cooke
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