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Blog Awkward: Guaranteed to shake up your morning routine.

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Well hello there. It's a rainy and foggy Thursday evening in Toronto, where I currently write from the high-rise apartment where I am now residing. It's been an eventful couple of weeks to say the least: graduating from university, packing up the final shreds of my pre-adulthood life (aka the last four years), and starting the internship of a lifetime. Yes, lots is happening indeed.So, my

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And yet another guest post! Paul Sham of The Post Script fame is the latest contributor to the Blog Awkward community. Thanks for posting this Paul - this incident that happens to involve a Canadian participant was made for this blog. What is it with awkward celebrity interviews? We've all seen Joaquin Phoenix's shaggy, incoherent interview on David Letterman. Well, here is another one. On April

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This morning, shortly after logging in to Facebook, I was greeted by some unexpected yet delightful news: I have won MIT 2412's Blogger Award of the Week! Thanks to last week's winner, Paul Sham with The Post Script, for the award. Be sure to check out The Post Script for Paul's Canadian angle on media, politics, technology and food.

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The following is a guest post by my roommate Kat. This is just one of several posts that Kat is contributing to Blog Awkward. Expect more posts of hers soon!It was my twentieth birthday and I was having a big party at my house. One of my good friends Kristine didn't know any of my other friends, so begged me to let her roommates come. I had only met them briefly during the previous school year,

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If you've taken a look at my "Awkward Moments in the World" newsreel widget within the past day or two, your eye may have caught the attention of a headline that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday: "In comedy's age of awkwardness, nothing makes us laugh like embarassment"The article, written by Robert Lloyd, points to the recent plethora of examples of awkward scenarios showing up all

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While I do have my own blog, I thought this situation would fit better on Blog Awkward. Why? Because this situation is so, well, awkward. Even better, it has to do with blogging. Thanks Julie-Anne for letting me do it. Here goes:My friend has a blog called Towards the Unknown, and one day she wrote a post about some Jehovah’s Witnesses who came to her door:A Jehovah's Witness rang the doorbell at

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For those of you who have been patiently awaiting the fate of the mystery I brought up in my last post, you are in luck. Yesterday morning, as I sat in Weldon Library nervously trying to fuel out ideas on how to market my blog, I was approached by a tall young man with a neon green business card. Meet Theodor Barker, a contender in the London Free Press Perfect Proposal Contest. Theodor is

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Blog Awkward is now on Facebook! Find and connect with other followers of the blog. Join the group here. And a reminder that Blog Awkward is still looking for guest bloggers! Send your posts, pictures and videos to julieannecleyn@gmail.com and I will upload them for you, along with a short blurb about yourself! If you are a blogger it's a great way to get your blog out there, or if you simply

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This post comes courtesy of Laur Lore: Exploring Lunacy, Lies and Folklore. Last Monday, Laur posted on the somewhat awkward comment Obama let slip while appearing on The Tonight Show. Be sure to check out Laur Lore for more thought-provoking posts!Last Thursday when Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show, he said something he probably shouldn’t have.What a lot of the criticism seems to be (

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This is a repost from Cooking With Andrew's post from Sunday, March 22. Andrew describes his blog as "A cooking blog for college students! There will be simple recipes, helpful cooking tips, and musings about anything related to cooking. Everything in this site is from my experience, so if you have any comments regarding my cooking and methods, let me know."Here is what Andrew has to say:I cannot

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This is my fourth response post for blogging class. Enjoy! Comments are welcome as usual.In CBC Newsworld’s three-part miniseries The End, pop culture specialist Jian Gomeshi investigates the effects the Internet is having on traditional forms of information dissemination. He poses the question: Is this the end of print, radio, and television? This is an interesting question indeed, Gomeshi – one

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Coming up with ideas for my posts isn't always easy. Yes, there are times when I just can't think of anything awkward to write about. When I find myself in this state of writer's block, I find it helpful to head to Google Blogsearch and type in "awkward." This is what I did for today's blog post inspiration. What did I find? I noticed in my results that more than a few bloggers have been posting

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Have you ever flown WestJet? The Canadian airline often receives praise for its friendly and kind service. Has the service you received ever included a one-man act reviving the "Luke, I am your father" scene from Star Wars? I have. Southwest Airlines travellers also got quite the treat when flight attendant David Holmes rapped the entire security sequence to the plane's passengers. Note the

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Look what I found on Google blogsearch!Today is Awkward Moments Day! So relish in every embarrassing, uneasy or uncertain moment that comes your way today and celebrate the awkwardness that lives upon us!Plus, you must check out blog.holidays.net just cause it's so cool. There's a holiday for everything!

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I have my friend to thank for this post. This is a recount of an awkward story he told me after I expressed to him my lack of inspiration for awkward stories. To avoid embarrassment I will refer to him only by his last initial, Z.It is first year, and Z finds himself at Jim Bob’s. He is underage at the time. In the midst of dancing up a storm on the dance floor, Z notices a pretty girl, but only

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Consider this:You are walking towards the UCC when an unrecognizable figure in the dark yells your name. Well, half of your name, but it is clear enough that they are talking to you.You still have no idea who this is. They are getting closer. "I'm going to have to figure this one out within the next quarter of a second," you tell yourself.You are hugging. You are pretty sure you know by know.

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To all those authorities who thought students didn't care about voting or politics, I hope the bus pass referendum numbers will have you reconsider:16,327 students voted, approximately 60% of students 15,272 (93.5% of those who voted) voted YES to keeping the bus pass 990 voted NOAn overwhelming majority votes to keeping the bus pass!

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I just StumbledUpon this picture while looking for something to blog about:Weirded out?

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Last night, my roommate Kat and I walked into Christina's Pub upon our return home from campus."Do you have any mushrooms?" said Kat to the girl behind the counter.I turned towards Kat laughing. "You sound like you're asking for drugs," I whispered to her not-so-quietly.Oddly enough, next thing you know we were out there with a bag of mushrooms.

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This is a call out for guest bloggers to post on Blog Awkward! Yes, my life is filled with awkward moments, run-ins, and photos, but I'm sure you have a few worth sharing too.So let's start out-awkward-ing each other! Send me your posts, photos, videos, or whatever you would like to see on the blog to julieannecleyn@gmail.com. All submissions will be posted as long as they meet the MIT 2412

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Have you ever taken a picture with your camera only to soon realize that you are in fact in video mode? Have you ever been the subject of such a picture? Long Awkward Pose relishes in the glory of fooling your loved ones into thinking they are smiling for the camera when they are in fact being filmed:

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Yesterday night, which happened to be my birthday, I was out having drinks at Moxie's with a few friends to celebrate. Upon arriving, I was quickly informed by a kitchen employee that if I tell my server that it is my birthday, I will get a free dessert. Being the modest person that I am, I immediately lost all consideration of telling the server myself that it was my birthday, and hoped one of

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In spirit of springing forward last night, I’ve compiled a list of top five Most Awkward Things to Be Late for due to Daylight Savings Time: Your own wedding: I can see this being forgivable, but a such a mistake in front of your family, friends and everyone who has ever mattered to you is one you probably want to avoid An interview: Does anyone recall the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where

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This is addressed to the two guys sitting behind me in the library on the fourth floor who are using their "outside voices" to talk about who's playing forward at their basketball game tonight, as well as all you others who think it’s ok to talk at a normal voice volume on a quiet floor:Stop talking. I am trying to get work done and you are bothering me. I have relocated three times to see if the

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Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Seinfeld, and can only hope for the best in what's to come for Jerry Seinfeld. Apparently, a reality show is next. A reality show about marriage, to be specific. Seinfeld is teaming up with NBC to produce "The Marriage Ref," a show that will position at its centre a real-life married couple in a spat. Celebrity judges will share their comments, with a referee

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This is my third response paper for blogging class. Enjoy! If you have not heard of or seen An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, I urge you to watch it. This 55 minute You Tube video is a revealing, truth-seeking and captivating look at the miniature screen that has taken participatory communication to unanticipated heights. Creator of the documentary Michael Wesch is a cultural

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When I first saw those teens holding up a sign that read "Free Hugs" on a downtown intersection of my hometown of Calgary, I thought it would probably be awkward to receive a hug from a stranger off the street. However when I Stumbled Upon the Official Free Hugs Campaign site (which I believe was also included in An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, which will be discussed in a post to

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Which is worse? Not becoming USC President or becoming USC President only to see The Gazette filled with copy critiquing you for not cleaning up your garbage?Friday's Gazette counted a news article by Lauren Pelley and two letters to the editor, a particularly bold one from Kristyn Fetter, commenting on the state of our "once beautiful campus" now turned hill of waste. Also critiquing the issue

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As I sit in my bedroom on this Saturday evening realizing it's way too late in the week for me to start my blog posts, I think to myself "why not blog about that one area on campus that yields a way too undesirable amount of awkward encounters?" Yes, I am talking about the Thames Bridge.It goes like this:1. You step onto the bridge to begin your day's journey onto campus;2. You walk, minding your

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In regards to my I Change My Mind Like A Girl Changes Clothes post, reading week is over and I have come to a consensus about the future of my blog. The verdict?AWKWARD IS EVERYWHERE. I just can't stop blogging about it.Expect more regular updates! Keep your comments coming.

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"It's very hard to say tell us about your boyfriend who is a crook. So we say, tell us what kind of a year it has been."Barbara Walters, on interviewing Anne Hathaway about her recently improsoned ex. It may appear that I watch way too much late night television by looking at recent posts, but here is the clip of last Friday's Late Show with guest Barbara Walters.Along with Hathaway, Walters will

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No, it's not just hip hop divas who have their own clothing lines. Now Charlie Sheen does too. Sheen has launched his very own clothing line of shirts, The DaVinci Collection. The shirts are a mere reflection of Charlie Harper's style, Sheen's character on the popular CBS sitcom Two and Half Men.globalrebels.com describes the shirts as "a high quality California made product with buttons, trims

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A note to readers: if the title isn't enough evidence, consider this post a vacation from my blog awkward vacation. Because ladies and gentleman, this is OH SO AWKWARD....It wouldn't be long before Joaquin Phoenix's recent career makeover (pause for blogger's thought: makeover...does the word only apply to 'good' makeovers or are the bad and the ugly makeovers too? If they are in fact makeovers I

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If you notice my recent layout change as well as a few new additions to my blog (finally! a picture and a profile description!), you might be wondering why. Well, in the spirit of reading week, I decided to take the week off from blog awkward and take a vacation to blog...whatever.Truth is, if you did read my new profile (now here's the test) I mentioned that I have a tendency to be indecisive.

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This morning, I went in to HEART Business Journal for Women , the magazine where I volunteer. After an hour of barely hearing a sign of life from anyone, the assistant editor came into the studio where I was working. She was in jeans, and looked like she could have been in the office all night. But, the more noteworthy fact is that she carried with her a pungent aura of awkwardness, one that says

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Perhaps there is nothing that makes conversation more difficult than a language barrier.I have been fluent in English and French my entire (speaking) life, so learning the ins and outs of a language was, for a long time, a challenge I had never experienced. But I had always wondered what it would be like to learn an entirely new language. So, when I was seventeen, I took a beginner course in

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When I decided do a YouTube search for awkward actors, the first that came to mind was none other than Michael Cera. I came across this series of promotion videos for the movie Juno featuring Cera and Jason Bateman. As soon as I started watching, I couldn't stop.Here they are, in order of most to least awkward:1. A Public Service Announcement2. The Perfect Holiday Movie3. It's Word Association

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Ok, I may be a bit late on this one, considering the new UWO Recreation Centre opened over one month ago. But to follow up on some of the gym’s glorying ramifications (which I agree with, for the most part) posted on a few of my classmates’ blogs (see Borderline Ambivalent, Expand Your Addictions) I thought I would point out something that is erring on the side of an awkward choice in design. It

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Credit goes to The Post Script for pointing out this video. The chart topping is on! Post me a comment telling me what you think is the most awkward moment on TV. And in case you missed it, check out my last post on the topic.

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Earlier this afternoon, I arrived to the third floor of Weldon quickly to find the perfect spot – a surprise considering that the last time I got there at 1:30 on a weekday, seat seeking was a challenge. This spot was right through the first set of glass doors, which meant no scouring through rows upon rows of cubicles looking for a free one; it had a plug for my laptop which was going to get a

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As a heads-up, this is the second of my assigned responses for MIT 2412. Nothing awkward here! But drop me a line if you do spot anything that I apparently missed! This post is a response to The State of the Live Web, April 2007, which can be found on the blog Sifry’s Alerts.The blogosphere is kind of like The Energizer Bunny: it just keeps going and going, never stopping for a change of

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Tirico Suave called this The Most Awkward Moment in the History of Television. I find these EPSN reporters' attempt to imitate Snoop Dogg rather adorable.You decide.

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U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed Harvard professor Samantha Power to Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council. Power resigned from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.”The perks of her new gig? Close contact and potential travel with Secretary of State Clinton. Full story here

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A picture is worth a thousand words, and did I ever wish I had a camera when I found myself as one of several hundred scantily clad Western students standing outside in -15˚C weather. Those used to braving the winter cold in line at The Frog, Taphouse – you name it – are probably wondering what the picture-worthy moment happens to be here.Does the fact that is was 2:30 in the afternoon do it for

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I recalled another General Lab incident that I thought was worth telling.It was exactly one year ago. My friend LJ and I both had an hour to kill before our Information and the Public Sphere class on a Thursday afternoon. We were on the phone deciding on a place on campus to meet. I was in favour of us meeting at Weldon Library (where I happen to be writing this in the present moment) so I could

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Having almost completed four years at Western, entering a general computer lab on campus still never fails to ignite a certain amount of anxiety within me. This morning, I received an e-mail saying my evening class was cancelled; however, to make up for the missed class, the instructor advised us to complete a software tutorial during tonight’s class time in the general lab where our class

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I caught a glimpse of a news story on CTV News Net while eating lunch yesterday afternoon.It happened in Dallas, Texas last week. And it happened to take place in a milieu conducive to mean girls, fast times, and of course, awkwardness. That’s right: high school.This was a basketball match between two high schools, girls’ teams to be specific. We have only minute details of what went on during

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It is approximately 10:44 AM on Thursday, January 22, in a classroom in Somerville House at the University of Western Ontario.Forty Media, Information and Technoculture students sit behind their desks, which are arranged in a U-shaped fashion around the classroom. The professor, who will remain nameless, announces to the class that they will be watching a short segment from the French movie "Le

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Dear readers,This post is to inform you of a transition occurring in my blog. I am saying sayonara to the world of julie-anne emilie, and hello to a new approach to everyday life. Which approach? I am keeping tabs on all things awkward, from world-broadcast events to tidbits of my daily happenings. I bring you Blog Awkward.

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As we discussed what a theme for our collaborative magazine in my publishing class last night, and we delved into the topic of the transition from slack student to young professional, my instructor posed an interesting question: how many university students own an iron?I, for one, am not among students who own irons, but I've been lucky enough to have roommates who do. If not, I would probably

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Nails seem to have taken on a fashion statement of their own within the past few years. Ever since jet black moved from the nails of goths to those of mainstream fashionistas circa 2006, people have been paying attention to their nail colour. I have come to practice nail painting quite religiously ever since last August. I've always enjoyed a good splatter of colour to brighten up my look, but my

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It looks like I forgot to mention that this blog is a requirement for a course I am taking called Blogging: For Passion, Politics or Profit, at UWO. Every once in a while, you will notice posts that do not appear to belong within the confines of this blog; do not be alarmed, they are just assignments for the class. Here is the first, a response to the documentary Rupert Murdoch's War on

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Step into your friendly neighbourhood Lululemon not to find the answer to this question, but to hear the statement "Yoga is Good" resonate through the walls. I decided I wanted to search further for a semblance to an answer, so I have done some Google research. Here is what I have come up with:"The short answer is that yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures,

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It is the time of year where we are finding ourselves in the midst of two seasons: winter and spring. Yes, it is only the middle of January and a glimpse outside my bedroom window at the constant snowfalling, tree-barren scenery makes me conclude that spring is more than a decade away; but a visit to the local shopping centre proves that winter stock is about to get the boot to make room for the

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I thought I would take this next post to discuss about the reasons why I chose the things I chose for this blog.Fashion: Before The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty, I knew I had an interest in fashion and a passion for writing, and I decided to combine these two to aspire to one day work for a fashion magazine. I have written fashion articles for on-campus publications at Western, and at

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"Welcome to my world," for those not familiar with the French language.I am starting this blog as a component of a course called Blogging: For Passion, Politics or Profit. The course is offered in the MIT program at UWO, in which I am completing my last semester of my four-year degree.This is my second attempt at blogging. My first was a very personal record of my teenage life that I kept in my

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