Diary of Dan Frank

Here is my horoscope for today according to MSN.com. I like to read horoscope occasionally, however it is not something I put a lot of stock into. I have one big problem with some of these horoscopes including mine for today. My comment will be made in bold.

"You might feel a little out of sorts in your romantic relationship today, Dan ."

Oh really I had no clue I was in a romantic relationship today, or any day for that matter. Please tell me who this individual is and why haven't they called me latley? Wow I guess I kind of do feel out of sorts in my romatic relationship considering I didn't even know I had one. AND HOW THE HELL DID YOU KNOW MY NAME?

"You could be worried about your partner's loyalty or wondering if the two of you are completely compatible."

Yeah I am a little worried that this fictious person may be cheating on me because, like I said, they never call. It's like I hardly see them anymore...O wait, I don't. Maybe we just aren't compatible...Oh shit. Damn you MSN horoscope, you're right again!

"Don't forget that you need to have friends outside your relationship, too. One person can't be expected to fulfill all of your needs and interests. Don't panic today. Try to concentrate on better communication and compassion."

Hey our lack of communication is not my fault, I mean how can I communicate with the guy if he has never given me his phone number, let alone introduced himself.

"You might want to tell your partner about some of your concerns."

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The stress and worry about this semester here at the University of Minnesota is starting to slowly wind down for me. This afternoon I turned in my Jour 3004W major project, which was a research project for an advertising campaign regarding the Minnesota 529 college savings plan. Now that this project ahs been finished and turned into the professor, I am a little more confident about meeting the rest of my deadlines.

At this point I only have three more assignments to finish for this semester, one of the many benefits of being a week ahead in homework. Soon the only thing I will have to worry about will be final exams. Needless to say, this semester could not end soon enough.

Even though I swore I would never do this again, after this semester I only have a 10 day break before summer session starts. This summer I will be taking ASL 4, thus fulfilling my second language requirement, as well as a math course. I am nervous about the math course because I have not done math in about three years. I decided to take the lowest lever math course here at the U that would be accepted for college credit; this means algebra.

When I have finished my summer courses I will be on my last semester here at the U of M. The home stretch, I can not wait to get out of here. This, however, raises the ultimate question that unfortunately, I have no answer for…”What are you doing after you graduate?” If only I knew.

At this point there are so many options, here are a few I have been thinking about.

If I go into PR agency work, they will, most likely, require me to do an internship because they consider those positions as training. This bring us to Plan A. Plan A is the ultimate plan meaning, this is what I want to do if I decide that PR is the place for me.

Plan A:
Move to California and begin my PR career working for a winery in the Napa Valley.

Plan B:
Move to California and begin my PR career working for an agency. This plan can be done either in San Francisco or in Los Angeles.

Plan C:
Move to Chicago and begin my PR career working for an agency.

Plan D:
Stay in Minneapolis working for an agency.

Now let’s say that I decide that I do not want to go into PR, which is a thought I have kind of been toying with at this point.

Plan A:
Move to California in order to make my childhood dreams come true. As long as I can remember I have loved to entertain people, whether it is through acting or music. At this point I do have a few connections in the Hollywood industry so this could be a possibility.

Plan B:
Stay in Minnesota and continue to work at Bonfire and General Mills as I regret every cent I ever spent on a college education because look where it got me. I have one job that I could have gotten right out of high school and one job that I could have gotten by completing one semester of college.

Obviously the second plan B is not something I want to do and the second plan A is a long shot.

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Saw this on Joe's Blog, though it looked pretty interesting.

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As many of you know today is the day that dead heads around the world celebrate by lighting up a roll of the gangia, mary jane, pot, weed, etc. I have known this for a long time, hell I even have participated before, but what I don't know is why today? What is the significance of 420?

Is it that all pot smokers are really skin heads and they are celebrating the birth of Adolph Hitler? If that is the case, perhaps we should investigate what that white smoke coming out of the vatican really was. (if you're confused that is a reference to the new Pope, Benedict, being an ex Nazi.)

Is it a celebration of Legistative Bill HB420, which is a REPEAL SUNSET FOR TEMP WATER USE PERMITS ?

Or did they just say,

"Hey dude wouldn't it be like totoally rad if we like invented a day when everyone joins together in the holly matirmony of smoking weed? I think if we were to seriously, I mean seriously do this dude its like gotta be on a day that everyone would remember..Do you know what I mean? No dude seriously, seriously, seriously, we should, serious for real. HOw bout like, how bout like, umm, you know like 420, because dude its like this, its like this. Four minus two equals two. Two minus two equals zero...WHOA, 420 man!!"

If anyone knows the realy reason, please enlighten me.

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I suddenlt became extremley frustrated when I noticed the little orange light appear on my dash - check engine. I had just taken my car into the dealership two months ago, and gotten an oil change and transmission fluid replacement weeks ago.

Today I brought my car into the dealership for the second time this year. The car was running perfectly fine, but the check engine light had come on; perhaps there was nothing wrong at all and the computer in the car simnply malfunctioned. So I headed to the dealership before I made my way to General Mills for work.

When I got my car inside Walser Mazda in Burnsville, they asked if I had an appointment. I told them I did not make one because I was hoping that this would be an in and out visit. Unfortunatly this was not to be the case. I was informed that they would need my car for the entire day, and that I should call someone to come pick me up. I quickly tooled through the address book in my phone searching for someone who would be awake and willing to pick me up, it was 7:30am after all. I could not think of one person who would be up at that time so I ended up going with plan B. I rented a car.

Now I always thought that in Minnesota you had to be 24 or 25 to rent a car, but apparently because I was renting it with the dealership, it was ok. The car was going to cost me 25 dollars for one day, so lets hope my car in better by tomorrow morning.

I waited quietly for the guy to bring my car from Enterprise, I thought I would get a car simliar to my own, another mazda perhaps...ummm...NOPE. I got a FORD FUCK-US (Focus). The car really is not that bad, but they certianly did not make it easy for someone left handed to drive this beast. (It is very hard to look over my left sholder and see other cars when switching lanes) The car must be new because it only has 500 miles on it, at the same time the car is old.

This vehicle has no luxury options in it! Sure it does have a cd player, but where are the power locks, where are the power windows, where the fuck are my power side windows?

All in all I should not complaine because I am getting to rent this car for the day at a discounted rate. Although I am a little pissed that Walser Mazda is charging me $100 to look at my car and probably just off the check engine light. That will be the easiest 100 bucks they have ever made.

In other news

I have finished listening to every song on my ipod. It took me about a month and a half I think. I have 1,048 songs on it. The final song -- Fever by Kylie Minogue.

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I entered the depths of Murphy Hall today hoping to simply update my blog and check my e-mails. Little did I know the horrors that awaited me and would be sitting at the computer right next to where I was origonally going to sit.

There out of nowhere was a creature so loathsome and terrifying I quickly avioded sitting the computer I really wanted...There before my eyes she sat quietly registering for her next semester of classes, and old friend you could say, and a bad influence...TIFFANY.

On other news

This last weekend was spent studying practically nonstop...just like every other weekend of my boring life. I decided yesterday that I really needed to spice up my weekend a little so Katie, Tony and myself went out to Houlian's for a little lunch/dinner. It was only going to have the one beer and eat my meal as we sat out on the patio, but I was unaware that it was Happy Hour. Happy Hour at Houlihan's can only mean one thing...TWO FOR ONES!!

Four beers and two smokes later we left and decided we really needed to go to Sweenies. I am not sure if I spelt their name correctly, but oh well. Sweenies is a sweet little bar off of Dale street in St. Paul pretty close to Grand Ave. They have a really kick ass patio over there; it being a nice day yesterday it was obvious this was the place to go.

We quickly finished our first pitcher of beer as we sat and talked about anything we could think of. One pitcher turned to two pitchers, Katie had stopped drinking awhile ago so that left Tony and myself to drink this new pitcher of ice cold Miller Lite. Who could have forseen that Tony would only drink half a glass from this pitcher leaving me to finish the rest of it. Had we been there for another 30 minuets I would have finished that pitcher too, but we left, which is a good thing considering the hang over I was experiencing this morning.

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You are Cocaine (aka: coke, crack, snow, 151...).
You are the second most commonly used drug in
the world. You are very witty, talented, perky
person if you can just have the right
opportunity to show to everybody how unique you
are, when you are in a good mood you can reach
a very high point of happiness. You are
classified as class (A and B) illegal drugs.


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congratulations. you are the "you smell like
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My event idea was approved by the Aurora Center here on campus, now it is just a matter of planning it. So far we know that we want the concert to take place in the Fall because there will be many people on campus. We will also probably have the concert sometime early in the Fall semester while incoming freshman are trying to meet new friends and returning students are looking to meet up with their old friends.

A few things I forgot to tell you all.

I have never told my Dad that I am gay. I have alway thought he knew and so I just never thought to tell him. For the last week we have had a house guest staying with us. This guest was either told I was gay or just picked up on it immediatley...Lets face it, it is not that hard to tell.

While this person was staying with us, they had made mention that they wanted me to meet their nephew who is also gay because they thought we would hit it off really well. Apparently this guest could tell I was gay, but not that I was not interested in her nephew or talking about the fact that I am gay.

One day our guest decided to bring it up thier match making plan while we were getting dinner ready and my Dad was sitting right there. Of course at this point I could not deny anything. I could see no way out, so I said that I didn't have the time to start a relationship; fully admitting that I was gay for the first time infront of my father.

Another thing that was wierd for me about this person talking to me about their nehphew or just gay things in general is that I am not comfortable discussing such things with my family. My mother and sister have both known that I am gay for sometime now, and I NEVER really discuss it with them.

Later on in the evening I had all but forgotten that my Dad now knew I was gay and I was giving him a hard time about putting the cutting scissors in the silverware drawer...I mean who does that? I can see if they were meat sciossors, but not paper cutting scissors. His responce to me was, "You should talk about putting things in weird places."

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Ok time for a quick update!

I am still really busy with school.

The Skills Workshop went really well. I think all the speakers were great, except one of them, the wedding planner, showed up late. Thank god I decided to cover our asses by opening one of the rooms that I was 90% sure we were not going to need.

My favorite speakers at the Workshop were Nancy Kremer (Talent Manager), and Kelly Moore (Fashion Show Planning). Both had great personalities and both gave great presentations. Kelly really seemed to like me as well because she mentioned possibly using me in her next fashion show, either behind the scenes or on the runway....DAN FRANK; MODEL..... To quote ABFAB, "THURSDAY!"

Anywho I am working on planning a little trip for myself before the Fall semester starts going around California and Chicago networking with different people at PR agencies. My hope is that it will help me obtain employement faster.

I also am about to go over to the Aurora Center in Boyton to pitch my next possible event. April is Sexual Assult Awareness Month and I thought it would be great to have a fundraising concert staring Charlotte Martin, who regulary speaks about this topic, and have it sponsored by the Aurora Center. This would be great because all the finds would probably go to Aurora Center, it would increase their on campus visibility and it would give me great non-profit experience.

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The PRSSA Skills Workshop is tomorrow, and I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off! I have been so entirely busy with this even in the past three days that it has gotten to point that if my fellow committe members are calling me to ask questions about it I will tell them that I simple do not want to talk about it.

Other than that not much has been going on with me lately.

I did reach the three month mark of being a non smoker on the 6th of April!! Yaayy for me. Three months is the longest I have ever gone in previous attempts to quit.

Tomorrow, make up at 5:00, leave the house at 6:00, get to school by 7:00, set up the workshop, make sure the rooms are ready withh all the tech stuff our speakers need. Posts directions, and welcome signs, debrief anyone helping with registration about the registration process and a whole slue of other jobs that I am sure I am unaware of at the moment.

After the event is over, clean up! and lunch hopefully with Nancy Kremer, Geri Wolf, Gabrielle Nelson or Jennifer McNamara, so I can do some very important networking.

After lunch I need to speed home and get myself ready for work at Bonfire.

After what will most likely be a grueling day of running around and working, I will finally be able to settle down with the rest of the Bonfire employees at a house party. Still have not decided if I will drink enough to render me unable to drive.

opps running late, gotta go.
sorry I really don't even have time to run this entry through the spell checker.

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