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A Day Without My Blackberry


June 05, 2008 | Tags: Blackberry

Post-graduation life without a full-time job ain't no crystal stair, and T-Mobile ethered my cell yesterday morning. Granted, this was solved that evening by my professor/mentor @ MSU express mailing me an amazingly generous check to burn him some CDs. But for the first time in nearly four years, I was without my trusty Blackberry. Well, I guess I wasn't technically without it, because I could still receive calls and texts on it. But I couldn't make any outgoing actions - calls, texts, e-mails, etc. And anybody that knows me knows that Ms. 8800 has been the woman of my life for a while now.This happened late last night/early this morning, so I was expecting for it to be an especially tumultuous (if not depressing) day.

But I've realized that I can do a lot without a Blackberry. Matter of fact, this day - June 4, 2008 - turned out to be my most productive day since I graduated a month ago. Fittingly, Wednesday's Daily Word from Rev. Run was the following quote: "Good morning. If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things- you don't have enough goals." -Lou Holtz ...Knowing that my bread wasn't where I wanted it to be and that I couldn't utilize my Blackberry motivated me to do as much as possible today, and that's what I did:

1. For the second day in a row, I actually cooked breakfast - scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, toast, OJ - instead of pouring a bowl of cereal and calling it a day. And this time, the food actually turned out good. That may sound like a fundamental breakfast to you, but coming from someone who never cooks at all, this is a good look.

2. I got cover letters, resumes and clips out to two new places. I've been constantly eying one of them for the past week, and I just found the other one that morning. The cover letters were particularly difficult to perfect, because I tend to ramble on in those instead of getting to the point. But I think I nailed them on the head, pause. I feel that I've got great chances at landing both of these, so we'll see where they go.

3. I finally touched base with one place that I had gotten at. They didn't snatch me up, but at least I got in contact with them and I found out what happened, so I can check them out and move on.

4. I interviewed Dwele for MichiganHipHop.com. A bit of a slow start, but I think I got some great material from him for the piece. We get legends, B.

5. I touched base with Kevin Powell (the first black person on MTV's The Real World, activist, nominee for Congress, and most relevant to me, journalist extraordinaire/founding staffer of VIBE magazine), whom I had met at MSU's Black Commencement. I e-mailed him this afternoon, and literally three minutes later, he had already forwarded me to his homie who's connected at a very prominent company looking for young writers. E-mailed his connect, we'll see where that goes.

What's even crazier is that I know that I could've done more if I would've really locked down. Today, I'm going to cook breakfast again, go for a walk right afterwards, then go to the library to knock some things out - articles, some interviews, and probably some Famous Firm bios. T-Mobile doesn't get any reception there, but it's all good: that's familiar territory, now. Hell, I might even change my plan, or pick a weekly or monthly day that I don't fuck with the Blackberry period. It was cool to not be on the constant lookout for that blinking red light, and I've already shown myself that I can be productive without it.

But don't get it twisted, it's still BB for life.

Good luck, Sickamore; I can see you doing fine at the beginning, but you'll be singing the hook of "Allure" sooner than later.

P.S.: N.E.R.D.'s new album, Seeing Sounds = wow. "Sooner Or Later" is the sonic achievement of the year so far.

P.S.S.: Check Necole Bitchie's latest blog, where she breaks down her life story and how she broke into blogging. Incredible.


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