Sshhh, I stole a balloon

So, once upon a time I was walking out of the Wilk with Brice in the evening.  We came out the west side and were cutting through Brigham Square, which was still decorated from some afternoon activity.  I have no idea what the activity was, but I could tell it included balloons because there were some of the awesome, perfectly circular balloons still tied to the hand rails and floating all around.  Well we happened to walk right by one, and it was orange (which I think is just a really fun color), and I thought to myself "Self, you are going to grab this balloon as you walk by it, and if it comes off easily from the hand rail without you having to fight with it and look ridiculous, it's yours". 

In my mind I thought there was going to be a lot of resistance (or at least enough resistance to make me look ridiculous, because it wouldn't take a lot to do that and it seemed like a pretty secure knot) and so I wasn't actually going to take it...but I grabbed it as we passed by (which is a fairly rash thing for me to do to begin with) and that sucker popped off without even hesitating! And I'm not going to lie, I was so happy! (Well, after I convinced myself that it was okay, and that it popped off so easily because it was meant for me...and after my husband reassured me saying that all the balloons would be deflated by the next day anyways and that they'd just have to throw them out...after all that I was so happy!) That balloon could have very easily made my night. 

When I got a closer look at it I realized it was for Student Wellness and it informed me that I could text "wellness" to some number to get something or other (be it some freebie, or just some new found knowledge about wellness).  And then it hit me again how much the media is everywhere and how many different forms it could take!  By the first definition in class about media (about it being a phenomenon of communication between a sender and a receiver), the media can entail so much, and it is always around us.   Even in perfectly circular orange balloons.