. . . I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery . . .

. . . If we wish to be free . . . we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

. . . They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? . . . Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.... Read More

There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

. . . Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

-Patrick Henry

I want to think of ways to make my blog nicer...any tips?

I've been at VCU for 2 years now. Hopefully I'll be graduating in the spring. Right now I feel like I'm wasting my time. My mass comm classes are so repetitive and BORING and they're not teaching me anything new! I enjoy my English classes, and I'm wishing I had been an English major.

I'm just really frustrated with school right now. My copyediting class is like a basic, 2nd grade grammar class. My specialized project reporting teacher doesn't know what the heck she's doing, which means we have no idea what's going on either. I've been doing okay in my reporting class so far, but I'm not sure how. I feel so lost.

On top of that, I need a new job. I think my boss at NY Grill is trying to get me to quit. She seems very uncomfortable around me ever since she fired my sister. She hardly talks to me, and when she does open her mouth I usually wind up irritated. And next week they cut my hours. If they do that again the week after, I'm going to ask them about it. I haven't done anything wrong and I'm tired of being treated like I have.

That's about all that's going on in my life...sorry to complain. I just have a lot of pent up frustration and I want to just GET AWAY FROM IT ALL.

I know that I have sadly neglected my online presence over the summer, except for Facebook Mobile and Twitter, and for that I apologize most profusely! I haven't written in my journal for most of the summer, either, if that makes you feel better. ^_^

The summer was mostly uneventful anyway. I went to New Hampshire with my mom and sisters for a week, saw a bunch of family and even met some cousins I didn't know I had. That was pretty cool and I took TONS of photos. I worked at Kings Dominion again for a few weekends, but then I got a job as a waitress at a place called New York Grill, so I quit Kings Dominion. I couldn't have taken KD for another summer anyway. I'm still waitressing at NY Grill and I'm also still cashiering at Ukrop's in Mechanicsville.

I was planning to take a class over the summer, but it was cancelled. I'm so sick of VCU screwing up my schedule. >.<

Other than that I've just been working. I still can't believe that summer is over, it went by so fast. I know it would but I still can't get used to how fast time goes. I went to a few free movies at the theater with my sisters and friends - that was nice. ^_^

School started today. I've been to two classes so far, my mass comm classes, and neither of those seems like fun. Especially my special project reporting class. I think I will probably want to shoot myself before this semester is over. But last semester was the hardest yet and I made it through that one, so I'm sure I can make it through this one. I hope I can meet my goal of straight A's! I have my two English classes this evening. The first is a creative writing fiction class and the other is an 18th century British lit class. I'm looking forward to those more than the mass comm ones - I'm hoping they'll be fun. It's about time I had some fun classes!

Until those classes start, I'm hanging out online! In a few minutes I'm going to the office to try to get some answers about the internship deadlines - which reminds me I didn't tell you about my internship I'm doing at a radio station, WRVA, with Doc Thompson. I'm excited and nervous. I just hope I like it and they like me and it's not hard.

I'm hoping to keep up with online stuff much better during the semester since I have access to the internet AND it's hi-speed. ^_^

Tonya was going to have her birthday party today. Only one person who was invited and one person who wasn't showed (out of 5 invited). FAIL.

For our final broadcast journalism project, my group covered the Richmond Tea Party! Here's our video that we did. Please comment, rate, let me know what you think.

I used to have so many people reading my blog and commenting, once upon a time. They have all disappeared now. I think it's because it was so long of a time period that I didn't blog, so they probably lost interest. That makes me sad. *sigh*

My blog is very boring, anyway. I just ramble about nothing important. I have all my important news stories and everything in another blog. I'm going to start another blog that's a little different, it'll be news related info, but more of a commentary than hard news stories. And so this one is for rambling.

And of course it imports automatically into Facebook for all my friends to read, there, but I think I'm going to stop that.

I'm so ready for this semester to be over now.

In class.

BORED BORED BORED BORED BORED

Teacher rambling 45 minutes about convergence. We learned about this in like 3 other classes.

And I'm bored with my blog. Any suggestions for spicing it up?

Empty Holster Protest Week - got mine, you got yours?

This evening I will be attending the Richmond Tea Party. I'm both excited and nervous because I am the Citizen Journalist. I won this position by submitting my video "Why I Joined the Tea Party!" to the contest. Video is below and basically explains it all!

The Richmond Tax Day Tea Party is 6:00-7:30 downtown at Kanawha Plaza, near the Federal Reserve. Directions are parking info are on the Web site. Please come, and come say hi to me if you read my blog. ^_^

So now I can update my blog from my phone! But usually I won't. It's the same thing as Twitter, and I already have that widget up.

I'm wearing my Snoopy "I should have stayed in bed T-shirt" and that pretty much describes how I feel.

This week is going to be very hectic. I start working at KD on Friday, but I'll still be working at Ukrop's, too. AND of course I have school. So I'm trying to juggle all that and not lose my sanity.

It can be difficult.

Mostly I'm doing okay though. I like my classes, for the most part, and I'm doing well keeping up with homework. I'm not procrastinating as much this semester, which is a REALLY good thing. At least I don't have that to stress me out, too, on top of everything else.

Trying to figure out what classes to take in the fall and spring and hopefully get everything DONE is also kind of a pain. I should (key word: should) be able to get all my required mass communications classes done with no problem, but I need some more upper-level classes that are NOT mass comm. So I have to figure out what to take.

*sigh*

Must go do homework now, so I can go eat lunch.

This article was published in the Commonwealth Times: VCU students struggle for jobs, internships - News

Just for the record, I hate resumes. Actually I just hate my resume. I hate doing stuff with it. I hate looking at it. I hate trying to make it look more interesting/creative/professional.

IT'S BORING.