I’m sure that I am probably the last person on Earth to have watched The Bucket List. Maybe there are a few folks out there that have yet to see the Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson vehicle, but that’s about it. Anyway, while watching the movie this past weekend, it occurred to me that there a few things I would like to accomplish before my time as your IMC Student blogger is up. It’s week 8 of the early fall and after this post, I have only two more to write before handing over the reins to another of our IMC peers (cue applause followed by gentle tears).
(For those of you with ears, I apologize)

So, here is my IMC Student Blog Bucket List for the rest of the term, in no particular order:

– Exceed 12 comments on a single post. With buzz marketing being a topic of IMC 619, you’d think I could do a better job of engaging the audience. Alas, the highest total of comments I’ve had on a post has been three, one of which is usually my response to one of the comments. So I’m challenging the vast IMC Student Blog reading audience to submit a comment?any comment at all?to see if we can break the record of 12 comments posted to Jamie’s blog this past March. Tell me what you like, what you hate; what the temperature is at your house this morning?anything. If we break 12 comments I’ll buy each contributor an adult beverage of their choice during the next IMC weekend. How’s that for buzzed marketing?

– Submit and publish one of my posts by Tuesday. This may be the toughest goal of all, but timeliness with blogs is very important. The audience needs to know when they can visit your site and read new material. I’m horrible about that. But at least once this term, I will submit a post by Tuesday morning! Get your RSS feed ready to roll.

– Refer to myself in the third person for no particular reason. Maybe it’s the Presidential election stirring up nostalgic images of Bob Dole himself Bob Dole. Ricky Henderson is also famous for doing this. But the most famous third person reference of them all is from The Incredible Hulk.

Yes, we know you can smash, but would it kill you to mix in an “I” or “me” every now and then? So Zita Knific (my high school honors English teacher) prepare to cringe. ‘Cause you won’t have Matt Miller to kick around anymore! Third person, here Matthew Miller comes. OK, that’s enough of that. Even Matthew Miller is tired of hearing Matthew Miller at this point.

– Link to something from YouTube that actually provides insight into the IMC profession. I promise never to stop searching for the weirdest and wackiest user generated videos to liven up the remaining posts. But at least one will have something valid to say. Keep an eye out for it and let me know if you catch it.

– Send a shout out to my Great Aunt Margaret. The last time I talked with her she was in a hospital in Cleveland and I hope she’s feeling better. No joke in this section?I just hope that everyone reading this is lucky enough to have some in their life like my aunt, a truly special person. Hope you are feeling better Aunt Marg! P.S. She’s probably never been online in her life?but it’s the thought that counts, I guess. Maybe flowers over a mention in a blog would have been a better idea. Way to go Miller.

– Expose the WVU Blogosphere to the wonderful world of breakfast cereal advergaming. Yes boys and girls, you can help Snap, Crackle and Pop choco-tize their factory. Too messy? How about diving for buried treasure with Toucan Sam. Think swimming tropical birds are a figment of someone’s sick imagination? How about pairing a cinnamon stick and an apple in a battle royal on Apple Jack’s Web site. Yes, my friends, every day is Saturday when you’re wasting time on Kellogg’s Family Friendly series of sites.

– Quit while I’m ahead. Far be it for me to get in the way of your advergaming pleasure. I’ll leave you with one final thought. Could there be a worse job right now than running PR for a financial service firm? Yikes! Not only do you have very little positive news to spin, but your job (as is everyone else’s in that industry) is in jeopardy, and your 401K is worth about as much as a can of WD40.