Daily Archives: October 10, 2012


Mash-ups, Texting, and The CommonApp Activity Blurb

Thank God for loud music during exercise class.  I don’t know about you, but when I start hearing myself breathing hard—okay, panting like an almost-50-year-old—I take a psychological hit, convince myself I’m more fatigued than I am, and stop pushing myself.  So when the instructor cranked up her iPod during this morning’s 6:00AM Boot Camp, I smiled to myself and kicked it into high gear—er, higher gear. Funny thing about her playlist.  It was all mash-ups.  And as I did my 237th squat in a row, I got to thinking about what a fitting metaphor for our time the mash-up […]