#Fact: Owning your shit really friggen works!!
A hoi hoi from Boston nerderinos!!! I am back hanging out for the next half hour at the Starbucks in Harvard Square ... aka the site of Cute Boy Starbucks. OMG that entire thing was the most epic facepalm EVER!! And THEN to run into the dude again at a DIFFERENT STARBUCKS?? SAY WHHHAAAAA!!!
This Starbucks and I have history ... ::pounds chest - mad love::
Alrite, so when I realized I had to come back to Boston to do press and formally film season 3 of VidBlogger Nation, I was a bit disappointed but DETERMINED to go in with a new attitude and hopefully have a different outcome. My mission was simple: film TV show/ make new friends.
To help make new friends, I called in for back up ... my SPIRITHOODS!!!! I decided that for the next 4 days, I will accessorize all of my outfits with either my snow leopard, or night hawk hoods. Today I am rocking the snow leopard ...
Now, all that is fine and dandy. Spirithoods definitely look ... well, different. But to compound said needing to own awesomeness ... I also woke up this morning with a scratched cornea. I clearly picked something up on my contact lens, and my eye is MASSIVELY red. Like MASSIVELY MASSIVELY MASSIVELY RED!!! Like so red, I can't take off my sunglasses due to light sensitivity.
No worries, I thought. I'll just film exterior shots with sunglasses on, and in a couple of days when my eyeball is clear, film the intro and outro for the episode in an apartment, or whatevs.
Bottom line - I have no choice, eyeball being okay or not, I only have 4 days to film 12 episodes ... I HAVE TO HUSTLE.
So, that happened. Have no choice, still rocking and rolling - but am definitely noticeably quieter, (AS THERE IS SHOOTING PAIN IN MY EYEBALL), and appearing to be a bit more aloof by needing to keep my sunglasses on everywhere I go.
Dudes, if I take my glasses off not only does my eye start immediately tearing, but then I get super sniffly and congested til the point that I eventually go into a sneezing fit ...
Ewe. So not cute.
Between wearing the sunglasses, being a bit quieter, and rocking the COOLEST ACCESSORY ON THE PLANET (aka my spirithood) - I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how many people I have talked to today.
Literally, in 3 hours more than I talked to IN THREE WEEKS!!!
People keep coming up to me randomly, asking me about my hood, the dude this morming at Dunkin Donuts was like, yoooooo! Where do I know you from? You look mad familiar, dawg (his words not mine. And ftr, I'm technically speaking a cat not a dog).
People won't stop approaching me because for the first time my energy really doesn't give a flying fuck. I don't care if Boston people like me, I LIKE ME!!! People are TOTALLY picking up on that fact, man! It's UNBELIEVABLE!!!! I am literally contemplating strapping a gopro cam to my body just to pick up some of these reactions - FUCKING PRICELESS!!!
Own your shit.
Own your shit.
Own your shit.
I no longer look like a California girl trying to be New England - I am Jen Friel, from LA, here to work, and READY TO PLAY!!!!!
This is just like in middle school. The coolest kid in school isn't the one that wants to be cool, they're the one that just owns it so much, people HAVE to take notice.
This is amazeballs on a whole new level.
I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!!!
back to filming, peace love and lollipops!! xoxoxoxo
#kthxbye
