Pop Culture: Where Refreshment Meets Technology

It's a slow morning in the office. Not that I don't have tons to do... moreso because the vending machine is empty of Diet Coke AND Diet Dr. Pepper. What's a girl to do? Despite the unexpected snow that dusted the metro ATL this morning, and my thirsty palate, the office space beckons.

Regardless, this is the maiden voyage, the inaugural post. How to appropriately begin? I live a simple life - not in the Nicole Richie/Paris Hilton sort of way - but I try to make the most out of my time working hard and playing hard too. Transitioning to a 40 hour work week from the freedom of college life has been a little harder than I thought, but nothing I can't handle. Had I had more foresight 5 years ago, I would have purchased stock in diet drinks and might be in a position where I wouldn't even need to work full time. Besides the fact that the industry is healthy these days (pun intended), I drink so many diet drinks myself that I am probably driving stock value up with every trip to the grocery store.

The funny thing is, I am discovering I am not alone in my small obsession. While I sit at work, the opening of soft drink cans can be heard over the ambient noise of keyboards, ringing phones and printers. The red "empty" light of our company vending machine always seems to pop up next to the diet soft drink selections first. The pop-culture phenomenon permeates all reaches of life, piquing the attention of my inner sociologist. And have you ever met more diehard brand loyalists than diet soft drink consumers? I rest my case. Actually... I take my case and start a blog. Where one cultural buzzword meets another. Welcome.