Just A Second Life

This my Avatar standing in front of the William T. Young Library in the UK World in Second Life!

This Second Life stuff is crazy business!  

To begin the program, Second Life you create account with a username (which will be your avatar name) and a password.  Then you begin in the Welcome World were you learn all the different things your avatar can do in Second Life. 

After visiting the Welcome World you can travel any other world you wish.  I traveled to the University of Kentucky's world and I got to view UK's landmarks like the William T. Young Library, Keeneland, Memorial Hall and other classroom buildings.  


Second Life is sort of freaky and I probably won't use this type of media after my CLD 495 class, because it just freaks me out.


Also I just want to note that I always need my friends in real life and I still need them in Second Life, too.  If it was not for my friend Olivia I wouldn't be able to take a picture of my Avatar in real life and if was not for her in Second Life, I'd still be stuck in a bush!  True Story! lol

Just A Youtube Video for CLD 495

Here's my Youtube video for CLD 495, where I'm explaining about how the new media applications I've learned in CLD 495 have and will help me in the future.  Enjoy!!!

CLD 495 Podcast TAKE 4

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My First Screencast About Just Blogging

A CLD 495 Production About "Podcasting 101"

A CLD 495 Production About "Podcasting 101"

No Longer Want To Be Just Carol Seiler

Today, someone introduced me as, "This is Carol Seiler.  Not 'The Carol Siler', but 'Just Carol Seiler'.

I was referred to in this way, because there is a lady who works at WEKU, 88.9 and I work at WRFL, 88.1 (both independent radio stations) and we pronounce our names the same way, but our last names are spelled differently.

Someday, I want to be so cool that I'm referred to as 'The Carol Seiler' and NOT 'Just Carol Seiler".

Someday... (Sigh)!!!

Just Tweeted on Twitter

Ah...ha...Twitter!  The infamous social network that has everyone mesmerized and documenting their every personal thought and movement.  I for one thoroughly enjoy the addicting habit of reading the 'tweets' of those I am following and also'tweeting' my own personal thoughts and tribulations.


I have 11 followers...following me on Twitter!  Yeah, 11!  Little ol' me....who would of thunk it?  I'm just a small town girl from Southern Indiana, that's living the dream in Lexington, Kentucky and attending the University of Kentucky.


I'm following 52 Twitter accounts on Twitter.  Five 'twitters' that I follow more closely than my other 'twitters' that I follow are:

1) Jason "Mayhem" Miler
- Miller is a mixed martial arts fighter and you may also know him as the host of "Bully Beatdown" on MTV.  I just love to follow him, because for one he's hilarious and just reading his tweets brings a smile to my face and a chuckle from way deep down in my gut.


2) Joe Rogan
- Rogan tweets about anything and everything...constantly.  I like to follow him, because if there is anything of great significance that I need or should know...I just look at Rogan's tweets.  Also Rogan has his own newspaper publication called, "The Joe Rogan Daily"...so that too keeps informed of what's going on in the world.


3) Pitchfork.com
-All right, so y'all know I am a music person and I radio DJ, so I need to be up on all the new and independent music circulating about in this fine...fine..world of ours and Pitchfork.com keeps me up to date on all of the  new music artists' album releases and who's new and who's hot in underground/independent music.


4) Eli Young Band
- This is my favorite band ever...enough said!!!


5) Coach John Calipari
-Coach John Calipari is the UK Men's Basketball coach and he keeps me informed of everything UK and of course everything UK Men's Basketball!!! :-)


If you would like to follow me on Twitter go here:  http://twitter.com/#!/Seileca

Just Some Birthday Wishes

One week from today is my 22nd birthday.  I have two things I would like to do for my birthday.


1) Dye a pink streak in my hair
2)  Get a tattoo


I'm kind of going through a quarter-life crisis, because of graduating college, personal life stuff and I sorta of feel like I'm over the hill being over 21 now.

A Much Needed PSA That Just Came To My Attention After A Radio Show Phone Call

Please DO NOT construed, confuse or compare the beloved music genre of Americana to Pop Country.  In no way are the two genres the exact same or similar.  They are very much on different ends of the music spectrum.  

Americana is heartfelt passionate lyrics that derive so deep from the pit of the human soul from reflections of personal human experience, that in no way could Pop Country ever reach, such an emotional lyrical darkness that seems to be so supposedly conjured.

Pop Country has a connotation  of being associated with the oh, so familiar typical country radio stations that play music out of Nashville.  So, when you compare Pop Country music to Americana, you are going to kind of tick me off and therefore I become very defensive and if I come across as rude or mean, I sincerely apologize, but  when you compare "MY" Reckless Kelly to Rascal Flatts...we are going to be exchanging some fighting words, because that kind of talk is uncalled for.  

Get you some music education and learn the difference between Pop Country and Americana.  If you need any further information please get in contact with me, so I can help you out, because it should be a crime to think that Reckless Kelly  is like Rascal Flatts!

Some Revelations I Realized, Just Yesterday

1) Like Steve Rice from No Justice...I still believe in circles.  Even if it breaks my heart.

"Circles" by No Justice

2) Reddragons means awesome!!!

3) I need to quit being a wally and build a bridge and get over it!!! ~ 2004 National FFA Convention Keynote Speaker quote


4) I'm starting a diet as of today!!!  NO more chocolate, sweets or any other bad crap food.  All fruit, veggies and wholesome good food!!!  Turning over a new leaf today.  The goal is to lose 15 lbs. by December 19, 2011.  Can I do it???  Heck, yes I can!!!

It's Just A Direction, I Guess

Well, for this CLD 495 blogpost assignment we are supposed to post maps of three different places.  I decided to share maps of three different places that I plan to visit someday.  

The three places I chose are all live music venues in Texas, because some of you may know that I'm absolutely and totally in love with the Texas/Red Dirt music scene.  I even have the The Middle Hour Texas Hour on my radio show, The Crescendo, which airs every Monday from 3-6 AM (EST), on WRFL, 88.1, Lexington.

Someday I'll go out west and meet all my heroes and watch them perform at all the famous live music venues.  And someday I'll go and ride the mechanical bull at Billy Bob's Texas, I'll see Sean McConnell perform at ol' Gruene Hall and I'll watch the Eli Young Band bring down the house at Rockin' Rodeo.


Yeah, someday I'll go...I'd be fool not to go, because "they say the mountains touch the sky.  Far out west of the Great Divide.  And there's fertile fields and valleys down below."

I've never been out west and you may say that it's just a direction and that Texas is just another state.  But to me Texas is so much more and it right now it seems so far away ad I'm getting tired of waiting around for some day!  I know I need to patient during this time and get through college and everything, but I just can't wait till the day I wake up underneath the cornbread moon in Texas!




Gruene Hall



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Rockin' Rodeo--Denton, Texas

Billy Bob's Texas--World's Largest Honky Tonk

Just Picasa'ed

This is one of the photos I uploaded on my Picasa Web Album, Homestead.

I made a Picasa web album.  I uploaded a few photos that I took a few years ago of the lake, the cornfields and the woods around my house.  Therefore I decided to entitle my web album, Homestead.  I also added captions and tags to all of my photos.  My photos are available for anyone on the web to look at, so go ahead and give them a looksy.  :-}

Link to view all photos:  https://picasaweb.google.com/117982004198760469230/Homestead

It's Just Delicious

I used Delicious.com to store all of my bookmarks.  It's convenient to have sites like Delicious.com, because when I go to travel somewhere I have all my bookmarks right at hand.  However I don't like the fact that anyone can view what I've bookmarked.  However I can mark private on a bookmark if I want too.

Any who, here are a some links to my favorite bookmarks on Delicious.com:

Use this link to view all my links collectively on Delicious.com:  http://www.delicious.com/Seileca


or go to the individual websites:

A music news site I found:  http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

 A internet jukebox I found (it's like Pandora.com):  http://songza.com/

A song meanings and facts website I found:  http://www.songfacts.com/

To listen to WRFL, 88.1 FM online:  http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Free-Lexington-881-s22386/

My favorite Texas radio station website to listen online:  http://www.959theranch.com/

A Website I use frequently for everything Texas music:  http://texasmusicunderground.com/

My music blog:  http://carolseiler.blogspot.com/

Just Wanted To Say Thank You

Dear Person Who Told Me I Need To Have More Fun In My Life,

You reminded me that life is short, to live with no regrets, to have fun, to live and experience everything that you can in life and all I can say back to you is...thank you.  

You will never know how much you changed my life, by reminding of these things that I had promised myself that I would always live by, so long ago. 

Thanking you, in this blogpost is not enough, but the least I could do at this time.  If we ever do meet again and I hope that we do.  I'm sure our time together then will only be filled with extreme fun and adventure.

Until we meet again...thank you and live your life, as I will live mine...by having fun, living and experiencing everything there is in life and of course...living with no regrets.

Love Always,
Just Carol

Just Wiki'ed the Eli Young Band!!!

So, on Wikipedia I corrected the information on the page for the Eli Young Band.  I corrected the beginning paragraph of the biography section.  I added how Mike Eli and James Young were both college roommates their freshman year of college at the University of North Texas and how they both played guitar, sang and wrote songs together and eventually formed the acoustic duo, Eli & Young.  Then how Chris Thompson and Jon Jones came along and later they formed what they are now called, Eli Young Band.

I also corrected where it said in the biography section that their debut album was their 2005 album, "Level".  I knew that wasn't true, because the Eli Young Band's first ever album released was in 2002 and it was self-titled, "Eli Young Band".  I know because I own the CD, I actually own all five of their CDs.  So, I corrected that and added information about their 2002 album, "Eli Young Band".


I chose the Eli Young Band page to correct on Wikipedia, because the Eli Young Band is everything to me and I feel very, very confident in myself that I know quite a bit about them to be able to make corrections and additions to the Wikipedia page for them.

So, here's a link to check out the new biography section of the Eli Young Band's Wikipedia page:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Young_Band#Biography

LOOK What I Found Using RSS!

RSS is okay to use, but personally I just rather go to the website or blog to read the article or post.  I tried to use google-reader, which is great to use, because you can go to one place and be updated on all the blogs you're following.  However I just rather get e-mail updates of when the blogs I'm following add new posts, then I can visit the blog directly to read the new post.  I don't know why, but I just rather do it this way.


Here's a link to my favorite post that I found on this awesome music blog called, The Fire Note:  http://thefirenote.blogspot.com/2011/09/front-bottoms-front-bottoms.html

Here's a link to another blog, I really like to read:   http://senioritisjournals.blogspot.com/

Timing Is Everything...And That Just Sucks!!!

Ugh...the damn quote in the movie was right..."timing is everything!"

It seems like time is never on my side and I blame Mr. Fathertime.  And I'll tell you what, if me and him ever meet up in a back alley, we're going to be having some fightin' words.  And I don't know if he does, but I like to think that he carries a cane with him, because I'm going to be beatin' him down with that cane he carries.  

Just once...Just once...I wanted time and timing to be in my favor...that's all I asked for, most recently, but I guess that was just too much to ask.

So, the least that Mr. Fathertime could do for me know is take a few quicker steps, because now only time can tell what will happen next.  And if he doesn't start picking up the pace he better start watching his back and keeping a death grip on that cane of his, if he does carry one, because I'll be beatin' his wrinkled booty down.

Huh...I feel a lot better saying that!  But if, Mr. Fathertime really did exist, I wouldn't physically hurt him, because I'm really not a violent person.  Though if I did meet him in a back ally, for real, I'd probably say, "Thanks, for keeping track of the time."

I'm just kind of upset and frustrated, right now, because I've come to learn that "timing truly is everything"...and sometimes...sometimes that just really, really sucks!  If we were in another place or time it would all work out, but it can't cause the timing was off.  Funny how that is.  

It's been said a million and one times and here it is again..."there's a reason for everything and everything happens for a reason" and I truly believe that.  However I still can't think of another way to say it, but timing is everything...and that just sucks!

Is It Senioritis, A Quarter-Life Crisis Or Is Just Carolitis?

Whatever it is....it's probably both an -itis and a crisis.

The reason for my sudden panic driven dilemma is that this is my Senior year of college and it's 'hopefully' my last year of college at the University of Kentucky.  

Mixed emotions and ideas flood my mind when I think about what to do with my life after college graduation.   Job, career, internship, graduate school, Peace Core or something else? Oh, the choices and the decisions!  

I've always said that I wanted to move away from my home in Indiana and start a new exciting career and life somewhere else...by myself.  But something totally unexpected happened to me this summer and now what I've always thought I've wanted to run away from is the one thing holding me back from moving away and starting something new.  

I learned the lesson that life is short and precious and that it can be taken away at any second shortly after I had a tragic car accident in July 2008. (One month before I came to college).  After my car accident, I made a promise to myself that I would take full advantage of my second chance at life and that I would live life to the fullest, be happy and have no regrets.


I had forgotten all about this promise I had made to myself, as I have drifted and have gotten all lost through the past three years of college.  But this summer, the Summer of 2011, the summer before my Senior year of college...something or "someone" reminded me of this promise I had made to myself...so long ago.

I'm not going to go into any details, but the Summer of 2011 was what I would like to remember it as, "a bear-hearted summer".  At the beginning of summer vacation I was the girl who never took risks or chances at climbing walls, I was...just Carol.  Then towards the end of summer I had a revelation.  I put all my broken memories behind me and I started to climb walls.

I finally feel like I'm beginning to become the person I've always wanted to be and I'm afraid that if I move away from home in Indiana after college graduation then I'll stop continuing to grow into being that person I've always wanted to be.  That I'll become somebody else and I don't know if I'll like that person or not.  Also I don't know if I can let go of my new fondness of wanting to stay in Indiana.  That scares the Hell out of me in so many ways.


Oh, it's not an -itis or a crisis.  It's Just Carolitis!

About: Just Carol

This blog is for my CLD 495 class.  So far, I think I am going to use this blog to write down my thoughts, insights and whatever comes to my 'Jenius' of a mind to 'blog it' to the world.