Gay Girl Geek

So, I gave in. I got a twitter account. I know conformity, blah blah. The truth is, I've been thinking about getting one for awhile now. But I know I would abuse it as much as I do my facebook status, and as much as every other boring person out there abuses it. So I've been looking for an idea.

Then, the other day, I was walking to the lab, through the quiet upscale residential neighborhood I'm living in. And I saw a deer! A real, live, cute little fawn, who was clearly very lost, just running down the road. I didn't have time to take a picture, but I thought "I wish I could use this as my perkilator!"

For those of you who aren't in UA Circle K, the perkilator is a tradition that was started by the president of our club when I was a freshman, Jennifer Eckhoff. The idea is that we have a green travel coffee mug, and at the beginning of every meeting, we pass it around. Each person says their name, something that made them perky that week, and then puts in any spare change they might have into the mug - the perkilator. Whenever the perkilator starts to get full, we decide as a club on a place to donate the money to. Over the years, we've raised an awful lot of money for Unicef, the six cents initiative, the Fuller Center for Housing, etc. Plus, it's a great way for people in our club to get to know each other.

But the really cool thing about the perkilator is that it's forced me to come up with something good that happened to me every single week. No one wants to hear about how I did badlly on a test or made an idiot of myself (again) or any of the stuff I normally dwell on. No matter how horrible my life has been each week, I always manage to come up with something, and once I do, I usually feel better. The power of positive thinking, I guess.

So anyways, when I saw that deer and thought about the perkilator, I suddenly knew what I want to do with a twitter account. I'm going to use it as my own daily virtual perkilator.

It's probably gonna be a little boring; my perkilator stories at meetings sometimes are, too. But it will at least be positive - none of the FML stuff I tend to post in my facebook status. And, hopefully, it will force me to put the power of positive thinking to work in my own life, by making myself come up with something good for each day.

I also want to somehow incorporate giving into this, since the coolness of the perkilator is not only the fun stories, but the donations we make. I'm not really sure how to do it yet. Maybe I'll give a dollar to some charity for each post.

Anyways, if you feel like following me and finding out what makes me perky, here's the link: http://twitter.com/BeardIsPerky