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June 26th, 2007

Second Life turns 4!

If you missed it, I posted a blog this week over at SL Fashion Police about my adventures at Second Life’s 4th Birthday Celebration “SL4B” complete with pics!!

Pop on over and see why The SL Fashion Police urge you to proceed with extreme caution!!

Also, let it be known that with the help of Deputy Lynette Radio. Second Life has been spared the horror of two more bald males. YAY! On a shopping adventure this evening we put aside our own lustful spending and focused on helping two random Male Avatars select the appropriate hair styles.
:)

June 20th, 2007

Announcement: When “RL” & “SL” become one

I’ve been putting it off for about two weeks now…you all know I am a total slacker when it comes to blogging…err…maybe podcasting too…too bad! :)

As of 8:00am Monday, June 18th my Real Life became my Second Life.

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For the past year now I have been living in part time pixels. Second Life was just another platform for reaching a potential audience for my podcast…but as soon as I entered the 3D Virtual World and started meeting people….some who already “knew of me” as a podcaster (can you say ego boost?) well, I was hooked!

I started out attending Dance Parties at Podcast associated clubs and islands such as Podcast Island & Podshow Island, soon stumbled onto the Out Of Order Deck where I met Lynette Radio, Bucket Jen & Corey, The Goddess and Banana…from there it sorta snowballed in to a huge network of friends.

I bumped into Gideon Television a few weeks into my adventures. I was with a guy pal from RL and we decided to check out a strip club. Well, I had to see what all the hub-bub was about. :) Gideon was working on a piece for his blog and we started chatting…the rest is history in the making.

One day Gideon mentions that Big Brother was looking to do an extension of their popular reality tv show in Second Life (BBSL). We joked about it and he encouraged me to sign up…being the media whore that I am…I did! Hahaha! We both made it into the house and I was super excited being involved with something like that…the first of it’s kind. Thanks to my friends and the support of acquaintances I had made along my way, I made it 20 days of the 30. I wouldn’t trade my experience for the world…it was a challenge in itself to work a full 8 hr day job, get home and log in for 8 hours in a virtual box! I didn’t get much sleep that month, but I made so many friends and learned a lot about the cultures in SL that I prolly would have never been exposed to otherwise.

After my eviction from Big Brother, I was a little lost. All my friends had gone out and opened up their own islands while I was in the house. Took me a while to figure it all out and ended up building a small studio in SoHo, for Kat my co-host…she just HAD to have a yacht….from there the parties on the beach once a week started up, thus launching my DJing career.

I guess I’ve been pretty lucky in my SL journey. Last month I was given the opportunity to throw some parties for Coke’s Virtual Thirst Competition by my friends at Crayon. They even gave me a seat on the panel to help select the winning entry! It was a blast!

Shortly after I received an email from my friend Johnny Ming asking if I’d be interested in working full time in SL for The Electric Sheep Company and here I am! I resigned from my job of eight yeas as a Project Manager for the implementation of ATM Machines and now I’m a Sheep! :)   Still waiting to be pinched as it all seems so surreal to me still, but I am super excited and looking forward to being a solid member of the company. They have some really talented and passionate people doing lots of fun and creative projects for their clients.

So feel free to look me up if you are ever passing through or planning some vacation time in Second Life. I’d be more than happy to let you crash on my couch! I’ll try and get my act together as far as blogging is concerned and hope that this will at least serve as a means of keeping in touch with all my old friends and co-workers still living in the Real World.

~Diva

June 7th, 2007

My “Style” Bio

I’m a slacker blogger….but today my BFF, Kat, sent me one of these “Getting to know you” type emails, which I hadn’t done in some time now and with the some what recent trend (Chris Brogan, Goldie Katsu) I decided to post a few of the questions included in “Divaology”:

MOUTHOLOGY

Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Hidden Valley Ranch (It’s Jazzy Pizzazy!)

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Panera counts right? They are usually pretty quick!

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Any of the “Decks” in Portsmouth, NH on a summer night.

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick off of?
A. Moe’s (Lil Sammich shop back home…YUMMY!!)

. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Mushrooms

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Creamy peanut butter

Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. Watermelon Bubble-yum
TECHNOLOGY

Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. Yikes! Do I really have to count? I think less than 100 but more than 25.

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. Pink Stars
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. 3, but I hardly watch any of them
BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Righty

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Ummm….Other than clothes?

Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A. My sense of Style :)

Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. Seriously? I don’t even wash dishes, why would I lift?

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. Hahah- I quote Kat on this one… “”Knocked unconscious” – as in five bottles of Boones Farm “knocked unconscious”?”…I have SO been there!

BULL[CRAP]OLOGY

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No point, I’d be late either way! LOL

Q. Is love for real?
A. Love is a “real” feeling…although, there are many different degrees of it.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. I plead the 5th on this one – you people are naughty! I did ingest a spray form of hand sanitizer not too long ago…thought it was breath freshener! Poison Control laughed at me :(

Q. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
A. Although I was a life guard in High School at the local water park, no… saved a couple bathing suit tops on Gernonimo!

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. No, I would run like hell!! Haha

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Sure! As long as she has fresh breath and nice teeth.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000
A. Oww!! No Way!

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. HA! I hardly ever do so anyways.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. Frank’s Red Hot? YES!

Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. Wait, I can get paid to NOT watch TV? I think someone owes me some back dues!

DUMBOLOGY

Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Lip Gloss – Lancome Jucy Tube in Vanished

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: Haha…I laughed.

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Umm…I guess it depends on the shower…and the company.
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: As long as they coo, clean, and take out the trash.

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: Don’t tell Eric Tomorrow, but I have like 5 pair.

Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: Ever since Kat’s Birthday party when we got her the male stripper-gram in a cop’s uniform…I do my best to avoid them. I’m seriously traumatized! LOL

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: Hmmm… I think I still have some time on this one…

Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A. The-Broad-Cast, closely followed by my BFFs Kat & Kells.
LASTOLOGY

Q: Friend you talked to?
A. Gideon Television

Q: Last person you called?
A: A Client.

Q: Person you hugged?
A: My friend Steve at Work when I told him I got a new job!

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number?
A: 7

Q: Color?
A: Pink!

Q: Season?
A: Spring

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone?
A: Always

Q: Mood?
A: Lil tired

Q: Listening to?
A: Unedited Episode of The-Broad-Cast

Randomology

Q: First place you went this morning?
A: To the BlackBerry to check my emails.
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Start my new job with the Electric Sheep Company!!

Q: What’s the last movie you saw?
A: The tail end of Dirty Dancing

Q: Now that the surveys done what are you going to do?
A: Finish editing and see is I can get some sleep. :)

Well, that was fun…feel free to do one yourself!

XOXO Diva