Mapping the Popcycle

Vernacular Genres

Cosmogram

Mapping Home

Micro-Scene

According to my parents I gave them a lot of trouble as a kid, I remember one day I had gotten in trouble for something and was sent to my room. Well while I was in my room my parent came in to get on to me about something else I had done apparently and they yelled go to room... well the problem was that i was already in my room. This story gets told constantly whenever my family is altogether.

In addition to getting into a lot of mischief, I also had the tendency to lie about a lot of things too. Apple pie is and will always be one of my favorite desserts. One day my mom had baked one and specifically told me and my siblings not to touch it because she had made it for her work or something. Well that night we get called in their room and my mom is upset yelling and asking who ate some of the pie. Of course it wasn't me, well me being the not so bright little kid that I was; I had forgotten to wipe the crumbs off the corner of my mouth... and well the rest isn't a pretty story.

Memory Glimpse

One of the earliest memories I have is not too pleasant, I think I was 3 or 4 and my aunt was babysitting me while my parents were out and I sneaked outside while she wasn’t looking and somehow managed to get into a truck in our driveway and locked myself in. Now the problem with this is that it was really hot outside, it didn’t take my aunt long at all to realize that I was gone and when she found me in the truck I was just chilling in the front seat with nothing but my underwear n covered in sweat.

When I look back on this memory and when my parent’s tell this story I usually laugh because described me pretty well as a child and actually somewhat as an adult. I can be a very adventurous person and like to push the envelope so to speak when it comes to my personality. I can’t really explain it but I just tend to do and say things that I don’t really have a reason for.

Decision Scene

                                              

This image describes me in regards to making decisions so well due to the fact that decision making is not and has never been an easy process for me. I tend to over think and over analyze certain aspects of a situation before making a decision and actually sometimes I don’t even wind up making a decision I just shut down and try to come with a way to ignore the problem even.

As embarrassing or however it may sound it’s true, I used to work at a retail store as a customer service supervisor and making decisions was like an all-day everyday task. I was constantly looked top to resolve a number of issues while trying to delegate tasks to people. The more I think about it the more I realize that it’s not that I can’t make decisions, I think it is that I just focus so much on not making the wrong one that I think way too hard and way too much instead of just making one and dealing with the results afterwards, I guess it is the perfectionist in me but often times I find myself just standing with my shoulders shrugged just like the picture and just thinking “oh boy… what now?!”

Illumination

A certain memory or memories that I have are relatively simple but as I relate them to my career it actually seems more complex yet makes complete sense. Back when most of my immediate family all lived under the same roof we enjoyed going out to dinner quite often, this was our time to kind of debrief for the week and just catch up with each other since we were all pretty busy. For the most part they were enjoyable times but a common trend starting occurring that put a real damper on us really enjoying going out.

To put it simply, my mom is addicted to her phone, she is always on it whether she’s talking to someone or scrolling through some news article or even Facebook. At first we joked that she was just being a typical older person who had just discovered just how much you can do with technology these days. It eventually annoyed go to the point to where she was physically present at dinner but mentally she was somewhere else and we all just got flat out annoyed to the point where we would just say why do we even go out when all you do is get on your phone? Like what is the point?

This got me wondering how and why do become so consumed by media and vice versa. Why is the need to stay plugged in so great that we displace our time with family and friends with other things? It’s memories ad situations like these that got me so interested in media studies and more specifically the UGT.