Life changes quickly...

Each day goes by and it doesn't matter whether the individual day feels long or short, when I look back over the time that has passed, it seems that it has gone by so fast. This has been the case since the beginning of the year. Time has flown by. Some weeks feel long and some feel short - and when I am looking ahead, it seems that time will never pass. But then it does and I feel like maybe I have whiplash because it went so fast!

Things have been happening, on a small scale and on a larger scale as well.

Spring break has come and gone, and of course it didn't feel long enough. I've been keeping up well in my classes and not procrastinating (too much!), which is a bad habit of mine when it comes to school and homework. In fact, one of my classes finished before spring break started, and the other will stop meeting next week. Those are my journalism classes. I have three literature classes that will last until the end of the semester...

And then I graduate!

I got my cap and gown, even though I'm not walking, because I didn't have to pay extra for them. I also got my portrait taken, but I'm not buying the prints from this company because they are WAY to expensive.

The reason I'm not walking is that my family and our neighbors (who are like our adopted grandparents) are going to the Outer Banks and will get back on the day of the commencement ceremony. I'm really excited! We rented a beach house and everything. I've never been there, so it should be a lot of fun. It'll definitely be nice to get away for a while. My sisters and I and some friends are also planning a trip to Florida later in the summer, and I'm super excited about that, as well. I hope it works out!

Spring is here, and I'm definitely ready for it. We've had so major snowfalls since mid-December. I don't mind snow, but that's A LOT of it, and everything gets shut down and I can't get out to go anywhere (work or school) when there's that much snow.

I'm still working at Ukrop's, which has now changed hands and will eventually be called Martin's. Seems like Martin's will be a nice place to work, too. We'll see. I still only work there 1 day a week and work at New York Grill most of the rest of the time that I'm not in class. New managers came in to work in December and they are AWESOME.

On a bigger scale...things are changing very rapidly politically. The health care bill has been signed into law, BUT Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and some others are suing the federal government, essentially for breaking the law. Then there's all this hooplah with the militia group in Michigan which just happened to call itself "Christian," so of course the media is having a grand old time with that. All of it just makes me angry to think about.

Next week is Empty Holster Protest Week. I wish the VCU branch of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus was more active. April 12th is the 2nd Amendment March in Richmond and the 15th is the second annual Tea Party. I'm pretty excited about all these events and will probably write articles about them.

Speaking of my articles, check out my other blog, A Little Bit of Everything, to see what I've written. I've done quite a bit lately.

Writing this blog post is a better use of my time than this class. We're supposed to be talking about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but...we spent 30 minutes talking about the possibility of football at VCU. My teacher for this class always rambles about totally unrelated stuff.

Movie class tonight! We're going to watch Romeo and Juliet, the old version. Hopefully it's interesting or I might just fall asleep!

Wasting my time...

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 am still alive!

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. ^_^

Another tea party video

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.

Want to go back to the weekend

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.

Diversity...stop pressing the issue

I really think my school needs to let up on the diversity thing a bit. I HEAR IT EVERYWHERE and it makes me want to pull my hair out.

In my broadcast journalism class, my teacher just handed out this questionnaire thing for us to answer - just for ourselves - with regard to diversity in the media. It's true/false. Here are some of the questions....

Whites are generally portrayed in a more positive light than are minorities, i.e., as officials or experts.

(There is no opposite question like "Non-whites are generally portrayed positively...")

I think religious issues are generally treated in a balanced way on the news.

If I were Muslim, I would feel that my beliefs and viewpoints are treated in a balanced way on the news.


(There is no opposite question like "If I were Christian/Jewish/Buddhist/Mormon/etc....")

I think I can generally tell the race and often the sexual orientation of a person when talking to him or her on the phone.

I believe that judging a person's race or sexual orientation based on the sound of his or her voice always leads to bias.

......and so on......If you want the rest of the questions posted, I can.

Anyone who knows me, knows that this would DRIVE ME NUTS. It really annoys me. Makes me angry. I really think my ears are turning red because I'm so irritated.

GIVE IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you stop making it a big deal, it won't be a big deal anymore.

GAH.

I don't even know what to say to express my annoyance.