Just a Yellow Light...?

There are things in this world called a stop lights. These stop lights are here to keep us safe and organized on the roads. Through the years, we have transferred the names of these lights to terms. One in any given situation could use, green light, yellow light, or red light.


If someone has the okay to do something, they are said to have a green light. Often someone will come by a situation that will require that caution should be used, this is what we call a yellow light. If someone were in a bad situation or find something that they just need to get away from, this is what we call a red light.


For instance, for most people, a wedding ring on the finger of a woman would classify as a red light. For some people in this awesome society we live in, it may just pose as a yellow light.


But, lets be honest, there are some things in our local culture that pose as a yellow light to many. I think that most college students, mainly males, have dealt with this phenomena at least once, if not multiple times.


The scenario is this, you meet a nice young lady. You enjoy her presence and could for sure see yourself spending some time with her. For one reason or another, you go over to her apt/house to hang out,maybe get some dinner. So you're sitting there eating bacon, sausage, or whatever you like to eat, and you look on the wall.... And what's there? Nothing but framed picture of this girl you like and some other dude!


There are multiple possibilities that this dreaded picture could signify. One of the most common around here is the often run into problem of a missionary. The thing about a Mormon girl, though they are a very good looking group of gals, they could have a boyfriend in any one of the worlds million countries... Excluding China, The Middle East, and Multiple African countries.


Another possibility is that she's got a boyfriend in her respected part of this beautiful country that we call the U.S. This is most likely the worst situation that a man could run into. And let me tell you why...


If this girl has a missionary, they are only talking maybe twice a year. There are most likely letters being written back and fourth, but a girl needs something a little more tangible sometimes. In the case of a boyfriend somewhere else in the country that's not serving a mission, they can talk whenever they want, they can in reality see each other whenever they want.

I do know some girls that are dealing with this missionary or long distance boyfriend. These young ladies still date, and have fun, but in the end won't go anywhere with it.


Ladies, this is tough on us. As the male race, we're not very good at recognizing lights and their color unless we're sitting in front of a traffic light. So please make things a little more clear for us men that are more-or-less color blind in this aspect.


A green light would be great, but if there is some shady area... Make it clear to us guys whether the situation poses a yellow light, or a green light. Thanks.

Still Awake.. What The?

Nearly two in the morning and here I am... Still awake. For some reason I am still awake and feeling good. Though I'm the only one in my apartment awake. I'm sitting here on my couch watching Roger Lodge (the host of the most amazing TV show blind date) live the American Dream! I mean lets be honest... Does it get any better than commentating on the worst dates in the history of the world? NO!!! In all honesty I can't take the show, but it's late and the pro-active infomercials all long played out in my eyes.

Besides terrible TV or infomercials, I do have something weighing heavily on my mind. I have this roommate. I love him to death. He's 18 and a freshman at BYU. He's a super smart young man, and I totally understand that he's in a different situation in the sense that he's the only one in the apartment that hasn't served an LDS mission and is younger than 22. Among other things, he's pretty different than the rest of us.

I get along with the man very very well. We sleep in the same room and he's great, we have tons of fun! But... There's one thing that I've been having a hard time with.

He and I share the the downstairs bathroom. Everything had been great except for the last month! I don't know if it's been the mans diet of only double stuffed peanut butter Oreos and chocolate fudge Pop Tarts or just the mere fact that he's struggling from a case of the plugs, but he's been plugging the freakin toilet everyday for the last month! I didn't think it was physically possible!

One incident pushed me over the edge. I went to pee on night and the toilet was full of black nasty water that he just let sit and for one reason or another didn't take care of it. I left it thinking he would plunge it in the morning.... Nope, guess who had to do it! You guessed right, ME!!!!

I've been being the nice guy that I think I am and plunging the toilet for him. But after about three and a half weeks of plunging another mans feces, I decided I've had enough.

I went to use the bathroom once again, surprise, surprise, the toilet's plugged! AHHHHHH!! I went and hunted the man down and told him what he had done. The man then had the audacity to claim to me that it wasn't him! He's the only other one that uses the bathroom! I then proceeded to plunge the toilet, feeling like vomiting the entirety of the time!

I have been wanting to catch him in the act SO bad. I then heard the toilet flush after he had dropped the cosbys off at the pool, I went back and acted like I had to use the bathroom. What do ya know, the toilet had been flushed and was flowing to the top!!! I cornered the man and told him what he had done. He then went on saying, "It was already like that, I just added to it..." Are you freaking kidding me!?! I don't care if you plug the toilet up a thousand times a day as long as you claim it and take care of it yourself! It's more embarrassing to lie about it than to do the act itself!

I had had enough, so I nicely told him to go plunge his shiz (no pun intended). I went upstairs to pee and heard him plunging the down stairs toilet. All I know is it sounded super messy and I was hoping there wasn't water spraying everywhere. That would be terrible!!

I then go down to check the work of the bandit clogger... What do you know, I walk in the bathroom to dirty poop water EVERYWHERE!! Where does the man get off? Then to top it off, I flush the crapper and the toilet's not even un-plugged! He just splashed the entirety of the toilet bowl of water all over the floor and surrounding porcelain!

I proceeded to plunge the remainder of the toilet and make it a sanitary place to live and use the bathroom. I won't lie, I was beside myself the whole entire time and still am brewing over this.

I am putting of going back to my bathroom because I'm afraid I'm going to come across a dirty and clogged toilet bowl. That's something that I wouldn't be able to handle at this time of night. I would for sure leave a nice little hate note sitting on the toilet or maybe stapled to his nose for him when he wakes up!

I am vowing to never plunge a poop-filled toilet of a roommates ever again! The only thing that would constitute me doing that for someone else is if they are paralyzed and can't do it themselves, or I am madly in love with someone that has recently been injured and doesn't have the capability to do it herself! And that's for sure not going to happen with my roommate!

Wish me luck on this matter.... Or wish him luck on this manner because if it keeps happening, there's going to be some major plunging lessons going on!

The Future of the Music Industry

As an avid listener to a plethora of musics one can't help but sit back and wonder where the music industry is going. Is this digital age that we're living in good or bad for artist? Is it as easy for an artist to make it big in this day in age? Is it as easy for a artist or band that has already found "fame" to keep making money? These are all things that I am in the midst of learning and would like to write a little on.

After given an assignment to read some amazing articles out of Wired Magazine, my views on music in this digital era changed erratically.

No more than a day ago I found myself siding with those who said that artist and bands are being hurt due to technology that has swept the music and digital world. It's nothing to go over to a friends house and have them burn a CD for me. It takes a matter of minutes to get on to Napster or Limewire and leave 100 songs richer, for free.

After reading more on the subject, I realized, that bands may be losing a song download here and there, but there are so many other aspects to our digital age that we're living in that are helping artist to make more money.

In no other age has there been so many ways to get a name somewhere that the general public has access to it at any given time. An artist or band can have there name all over the Internet where they can be seen and heard by anyone who searches them out, or even stumbles across them.

Almost 30 years ago there was an epidemic that swept world. That epidemic was in the form of a round plastic disc that we can play music on. We all know this as a CD. People went from dubbing music onto tapes to putting their tracks onto Cd's. And that's the form of music we've known for the last three decades. We've always had something tangible that we can hold in our hands. The slowing of this, may not be bad for the artists or bands.

In Wired David Byrne stated that CD sales are on the smallest forms of incomes that an artist encounters. He also interviewed the singer for the band Radiohead. He stated that most of their money has come from licensing. In other words, they get most of their money from people using there songs in commercials, movies, TV shows, ect. He went on to say, there newest CD has had more Internet sales than all of their other Cd's combined.

This is not a trend only seen by Radiohead. More and more artist and bands are selling crazy amounts of music over digital download sites. I think it will be a growing trend in the indusrty untill the next epidemic of music listening comes along.

Though I haven't proved much in this entry due to lack of time and not really wanted to write a research paper online, I for sure have seen myself become more interested and educated in the past day. The future of the music industry is strong and will continue to get stronger in the digital era that we're constantly surrounded by. I believe that we'll continue to see artists and bands grow and make money. We will most likely see the day that Cd's are an irrelevant part of our society and we solely rely on the digital music to feed our social needs and our music taste.

Livin La Vida Loca

Here I am continuing my endeavours on writing a successful blog. I've come to a conclusion, and it is this. It's going to be hard to write in a blog multiple times a week. I realize that I'll have to start getting a little creative on things to write about.

Being creative is such a huge part of writing anything. And if you're going to be good at writing, it's something that you have to be. So lets start now, shall we?

Sometimes after I do something, I look back and say, "Why in the world did I just do that?" This could go many ways. For instance, about two weeks ago, I bought a pair of fairly expensive pants. I have been deciding if I like them or not since the time of the purchase. I recently decided that I am going to return them. I feel when spending that kind of money on something, I should love them with all my heart. But I don't, so they will go back.

The pants thing is something small in comparison to other choices that we make that we might question. I've learned a little something about myself lately, and it is that any decision I make, I learn something from it. Whether it be big or small, important or trivial, if I pay attention to the outcome and the results of the decision I've made there is always something to be learned.

I can't speak for everyone, but I think there's so much to be learned from everyday choices in life. We don't make so called BIG decisions everyday of our life, but we for sure make lots of decisions everyday. It's kind of neat to sit back and see the outcome or results of little decisions made. Who knows, little decisions may turn into a big outcome.

I've seen it with me recently. Making a little decision that you or someone else may think is trivial and doesn't matter much, could turn out to be an amazing thing! On the other hand, it could give you all kinds of grief.

I guess the point of this entry is, try not to let good lessons pass by without being used to better who you are as person. There are so many ways to learn and become better, if we open our eyes and use all we can learn. Looking back at choices we make, big or small, is just one way to learn more about ourselves and maybe in the long run, be a little happier.

On a lighter note, the mustache I have in this picture was a bad choice! I wanted to meet some girls on Halloween, and that for sure detoured me from accomplishing my goal! Ron Burgundy doesn't get as many chicks as they portray on the movie!

Am I really doing this?

Hello.. My name is Michael Carl Hawker. I'm 22 years old. I was born in Oregon, later I moved to Utah. I did most of my growing up in the great state of the Beehive.


I like to think of myself as an open book. Not an encyclopedia or anything like that though, those are to complicated to represent me. I'm more like an open children's book, pretty simple. I enjoy the small things in life. For example, ants, nerds (the candy), peanuts, thumb tacks, small people. You get it, the small things in life? Everything I mentioned is small. As you might be able to tell, I enjoy to joke and have fun. I am quite sarcastic and often find myself in trouble due to it.



The reason I titled this entry, "Am I Really Doing This," is because I've always thought that blogging was a somewhat gay epidemic that has recently swept the world of mass communication. But here I am now, writing an entry for my own blog. The reason behind this madness is explainable. I've recently begun a new semester. In one of my classes we were informed that if we keep a regular blog, we can earn 5% extra credit. That being said, the only reason I'm doing this is to get 105% in the class. We all know that I'll for sure have 100%. Then if you do the math and add 5% it becomes 105%.


I'm not a very good writer at the moment, but the blog is supposed to be used to show how my writing is improving over the time in the class. I love to write, I just need to somehow join the love with skill and acquired talent.


Wish me luck and and let me know if you have any suggestions on how I can better my skills as a writer.


PS, I'm a PR major and when I got into the major I thought it meant relations such as kissing, hugging, and making out in public. Boy was I wrong! There's so much more to it than that! My bad!!