Friday, December 31, 2010
Year End Wrap Up
I am not even logging today because I am taking a breather from Second Life for a few days to enjoy friends and family and to kind of set a game plan in motion for things I want to accomplish. No, no, no, I did NOT make any resolutions; I never get a damn thing resolved when I do. Its just me deciding to make changes because I want to be the happiest I can be in real life AND my Second Life.
Most people I know in Second Life, spend a pretty fair amount of time inworld. Since we do so, its seems more likely that we would be doing constructive things with our time. Unfortunately, I have seen just the opposite! Especially amongst the urban, also known as, the African-American community. I hope that going into my 3rd year on Second Life, I see unity and harmony. We have enough disharmony in our community in real life, it seems so very pointless to come to a place that is supposed to be set for happiness and continuing the same patterns. It just makes absolutely zero sense to be negative, hateful, and try and hold each other back.
Half of your running around saying you have drama, haters and that people are jealous of you don't have a clue! At the end of the day, this is just a science experiment conducted by Linden Labs, in which we are all mere lab rats. Its best if we try to remember that. There is absolutely nothing you have in this 3D pixelized world that ANYONE can't have! Its all in how you "play the game"! You can do ANYTHING you want in Second Life, be ANYONE you want and have ANYBODY!
There is no reason for any one person to single out another and hate them. Its beyond pointless. I mean we can find people to envy and despise in real life who have more than we do, or look better or have the "perfect mate." We can't change our lives to out liking like we can Second Life. So with ALL the opportunities out there for you to have it all and do it all, I URGE you STRONGLY to go for it. Network, connect, explore, expand...do all the things they say you can do on the Second Life main page! Its truly possible!
But if you don't grab Second Life by the horns, you won't have the joy and excitement to be had inworld. All you will find is misery, anger, and loneliness. At some point, people will realize who you are and at some point you will realize its not everyone else, its YOU!
So in closing, make the necessary changes to your real life to be happy there first THEN concentrate on doing the same in your Second Life. If that's not as easy as it sounds and its possible it isn't, then what are you on Second Life to do exactly? Are you there to DOUBLE your misery? I assume you are there for an escape. So take that chance to create some happiness SOMEWHERE in your life! You deserve it...know that, own that and LIVE THAT!
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Labels: Happy New Year, Linden Labs, New Year, Second Life, SecondLife, SL
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The Dean's List (A Poem for World AIDS Day)
Way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the city was getting live
was a beautiful young lady who was becoming full grown
who left her proper upbringing
to call the streets her home
she left to study the fast life
and become a scholar
to learn to use what she got
to get what she want
and to make her momma and daddy holla
Way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the city was just getting live
that young lady learned from a pimp
how to survive
oddly enough it was only he who thrived
she sought the attention, the money...yet it wasn't how she planned
when she learned
the money she earned
went directly to that man
and
Way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the city was fully alive
a lost young lady learned lessons, while on her back she lie
somewhere in the interim, she stopped to hve two daughters
and it seemed she had been schooled on all the streets had taught her
but she must have craved to learn more
for she was back out the door
she hadn't yet found what she was looking for
Way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the the city got far too live
a mysterious little bug hit some folks
and they quickly started dying
a lot of the wrong people, felt at ease
for this was the gay, white man's disease
and being on the streets
this fast young woman thought she
was excluded from that number
even though with strnge men she did slumber
remember she was schooled in the ways of the concrete jungle
she wasn't gay, she wasn't white
thought none of how she lived herlife was right
no doctor's visits, no yearly exams did she have
just day after day on the stroll on Biscayne Ave.
Way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the city was getting live
she reminisced on the mistake in her life
she recalled how sexy she was
how the men gave her money
so they could have a taste of her sweet honey
show she left her kids to be care free
only to have a fatal virus to carry
she remembered how she could blow
do some blow
and in the end
she was
FULL BLOWN!
Because way back in the day in the 3-0-5
in the heart of the ghetto
when the city was getting live
she studied all the easiest subjects
drinking, drugs and prostitution
in which she got straight As
but learned the hardest lesson of them all when she died from AIDS
*Dedicated to my cousin Dean Wynn who lost her life to AIDS*
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Labels: AIDS, Poetry, World AIDS Day
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Me, me, me, me, ME!
No, I am not singing..I don't have shit to sing about right now in my Second Life. But I am not gonna make this post entirely about me right now. I will dedicate that to another post eve though this one is aptly titled.
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My sorority, Divas Inc., has been doing a lot of events for the cause. Now normally, when we do an event, we GIVE away items. It gets packed, people show up! But now that we are ASKING for donations for a REAL LIFE disease that's killing THOUSANDS if not and affecting MILLIONS of women every year and EVERYONE is wrapped up in their own issues! Here are the statistics:
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Labels: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Second Life, SL
Friday, September 17, 2010
You're a Shining Star...No Matter Who You Are!
I am pissed...well, actually, I am LIVID! I got fired from my Second Life job, a job I was NOT ALLOWED to grow in mind you! I am an EVENT PLANNER! I do not promote; that is NOT what my resume says! Yet, I was not utilized for anything my resume entails and was expected to turn water into wine and get blood from a turnip!
Now that I got that out of my system, I will vent less randomly. The station I worked for does the same events week after week, month after month. I offered MULTIPLE times to plan an event but was ignored and blown off as if I didn't have the ideas or know how to bring life into that place. Yet, others were allowed to randomly come in and throw themed events WITH contests. I suggested that many times, to be ignored or have the sim owner act like it wasn't in the budget.Yeah, sure it wasn't; not for ME! It was in the budget for EVERYONE else. I must, however, say that 2 DJs gave that dead sim some life on Fridays and Saturdays! They are excellent DJs, they do POPPING events and I hope they jump ship the sim owner! It would be her karma!
I would get events a couple of days before the actual event, NEVER in ample time, and IF AT ALL! As an Event Promoter, they need events well in advance but I worked with what I got anyway because that's how I am! I DO MY FUCKING JOB REGARDLESS! So, all of a sudden it wasn't in the budget for me as a promoter but oh, I could still host!
I was stuck hosting for an asshole DJ who was a complete Diva! I rarely complained about him! None of the other DJs would support his cocky, demanding, obnoxious, sarcastic, RUDE ass! Like, EVER! I put up with his shit for almost a year and watched the sim owner lick his boots and kiss his ass, and trust, he gave everyone his ass to kiss! Then she turns around, kicks me when I am down and fires me! Ain't that some SHIT!?
I am having major issues with the nerves in my hand. Unfortunately, typing is hard and I was so miserable (and I STILL AM!) I didn't log for week. I missed 1 fucking event! I was replaced with no warning, no notecard, she didn't even ask how the fuck I was doing! She knew I had issues AND I even contacted DJ Asshole to keep him up to speed! Do you think he bothered to stand up for me? Of course not! all she could say to me was he needs support. Because what I was doing wasn't shit, right? UTTER BULLSHIT!
I will never do less than I am capable of for ANYONE again! EVER! People don't appreciate you when you do and don't see your worth! Shine WHEREVER you go and know you ARE A STAR!
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Labels: bullshiiters, events, favoritism, Second Life
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Waiting...Waiting....Waiting
*Tapping fingers impatiently* Hell, I did that for about 11 months, actually; I waited for something that just wasnt fated, as Lauryn Hill said in her duet with Mary J. Blige in "I Used to Love Him" off her freshman album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. What w as it I waited for? I waited for someone to love me inworld when it was never going to happen beyond the love of friendship! And I am not the only one that has done this. As a matter of fact I know someone currently doing this. But you can tell someone your story, they could have been right there when you were going through your pain and it would not matter. People typically learn the HARD way!
- Does he hint he needs something to better himself or to keep himself together knowing you will help him out but when you have a basic need to be met such as your tier being paid, he doesn't have it? A little convenient wouldn't you say?
- When you want to do something, does he not answer your IMs, or he says he is busy with mo explanation where he usually has one? He is with someone else at the time! And when he gets ready, he will answer you or come to see you and you will put up with it once again.
- Does he telelport outof your "quality time" together stating he has "something to do" or he will "be right back" and then you don't hear from him again? Wonder what that could mean? Hmmm...perhaps THE NEXT CHICK?
- Does he have a "key" to you house (that oh so sacred landmark we don't allow people to make at our house but give to select people..its a key because no one else can get in), or does he not have a place at all but rezzes at yours, does he have mapping rights to you but you have NONE to him? Yeah, pretty much, it's all you and NONE of him!
- Ever been around him and other females and they give you the side eye or snub you all together? That's because he is feeding them the same bullshit he is feeding YOU!
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Labels: Being Wiser, Love, Realizations, Second Life
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Second Life Drama
Our 1st lives are topsy turvy and this should be an outlet
but its a shame all of the drama SecondLife begets
when one has to go out of their way to keep shit going
you can just analyze
and scrutinize
fully knowing
that they may as well start a group entitled Misery
they wallow in self pity and want company
Bitches look at profiles and see partner statuses filled
and have the audacity to step to your man STILL
Lame dudes steady thinking they can take an inch a mile
cuz they balling inworld with payment info on file
And this one and that one getting in virtual fights
cuz people don't seem to know how to control them Xcites
Seems people tend to forget that behind each of these avatars
are real people, real emotions, and actions leave scars
please make no bones that you gone pay for that drama
because actions breed consequences, you gone feel that karma
"That bitch don't look like her avi!" Chick, NEITHER DO YOU!
Its SL and we really arent supposed to!
Tell me what sense does it make if I look just like me
when I am supposed to be perfection in the world of 3D?
Dudes thinking they the truth cuz the avis custom made
so they promiscuous, slanging primis and making prim babies
Its a shame when you wade so deep in bullshit
that the phrase you need a 3rd life to get over your 2nd life fits
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who’s the most dramatic of them all?
If you peer in the looking glass and it shows you
Then you got some rethinking of your strategy to do
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Labels: Poetry, Second Life, Spoken Word
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Be What You Wanna Be..Do What You Wanna Do!
Work at McDonald's under a crappy boss making minimum wage? Well, not in Second Life! You don't have to work for a damn soul! You can definitely be your own boss, chose what job you want if you do decide to work for someone else, set your own hours, and in most cases demand the salary you deserve.
Live in public housing or stuck with the parents? Heck no! Not in Second Life! You can own as many houses as you want, as much land as you want, and live on a beautiful, pollution free piece of property where the sun is always shining and the water is always blue!
Ride the bus? Walking? Stuck on the train? Have an awful car? Have a car with even more awful car payments? Well, in Second Life, you can have a Bentley, Beemer AND a Benz! I should know; I have an Aston Martin, a Ducati, a Challenger, and a few choppers. And in real life? Well, lets just say the brakes on my car haven't failed so I guess it won't be recalled and I am stuck with it! Okay, let me not be ungreatful, its a good, reliable car and its in great condition but it ain't an Aston Martin and I wouldn't buy it in Second Life!
Let me not start on clothes and jewels...oy, vey! In Second Life every married woman I have seen has at least 4 or 5 carats rings from the likes of JCNY, rocks over a thousand linden a pop Stiletto Moody's, sports six hundred dollar outfits from stores like Samahi Coture and Deetalez, and has 200 linden hairstyles from places such as Analog Dog. I am single but trust I have lots of bling and rock some rocks! I am usually in the best six inch heels lindens can buy and I am red carpet ready without one hair our of place! I would not be caught dead in freebie (in real life I guess that would equate to WalMart, KMart, Beall's..etc.) clothes, shoes, or jewels. I would not rezz somewhere like a Help Island (that's equivalent to being homeless) because I have a beautiful piece of property I bust my pixelized ass to keep and its hot! And oh, I have that dream job I would kill for in real life and I make a pretty decent salary considering. That's the utter beauty of it all! You can have it all and most of us make sure we do!
And really, why do you care WHAT someone's first life looks like anyway? Were you trying to date him? Were you trying to her new BFF, Paris (Paris Hilton)? You're just wanting to see how flawed they are in real life so you can bash them about that because you're jealous of a bunch of 3D pixels beautifully made that has more than you do! Shame! You came to Second Life to escape all that only to repeat the same shit in that life too! Really? Who does that? Oh, YOU do that, that's who! A lot of people do it!
And its a shame 1 has to be leery of being criticized and judged and fear someone will say, "He/she don't look shit like their avatar?"! *Noted sarcasm* Because you know YOU do look JUST LIKE YOURS, right! They don't post first life pictures for this very reason! A person can't even be confident about how they look because some unhappy person on the other side of the screen is ready to pick them apart for that! And solely for that! And its sad. I find it sad that one cannot accept a person based on their personality and has to see them only to ruin their fantasy because that person is not their type. Even if you hadn't plan to meet them, it can ruin what could have been a beautiful thing. And the whole purpose of Second Life is to live a better way than your first life. Without being judged for being what someone may consider too poor, too fat, too skinny, too dark, etc.! Second Life is the escape but some ignorant people are still trapped. And its a shame they will never understand that true beauty is more than skin deep. They need a third life to get over their Second!
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Labels: Acceptance, Confidence, Criticisim, First life Pictures, Insecurity, Judging, Real life, Second Life
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Do Your Homework!
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Labels: BJ Raleigh, liars, lies, Second Life