My younger sister, Jamie, who is a senior at the high school I graduated from, called me tonight with disturbing news ( Read more... )

I just got this message in my e-mail!

This is just an advisory that you are a semi-finalist for a Summer 2006 internship at the Austin American-Statesman. The review committee is evaluating the semi-finalists and will make decisions on finalists Wednesday. We should be able to let you know by week’s end what our decisions are. If you are no longer ( Read more... )

Whew. I still feel like crap, but I had a super-busy day today. I ran around and did a bunch of SGA stuff mostly. I had to drag myself out of bed around 2 after taking a 20 minute power nap to go serve on a traffic appeals committee... which basically consists of listening to people's stupid excuses for why they parked illegally on campus, and ( Read more... )

Well, I drained two ink cartridges at the library (without anyone telling me anything), but now I have 35 more internship applications to mail out bright and early on Monday morning. Most of them aren't due until Dec. 1 or Jan. 1, but I decided to get them over with. I only have a small stack of about seven I'll have left to mail... they require ( Read more... )

I want to rip out my nostrils and my uterus.

I'm soooooo sick in more than one way.

But life goes on, and I'm at the stupid library. These uncomfortable chairs are doing nothing for my stomach/back cramps.

I really want to quit school. It's going to be a miracle if I can get through this semester.

Bleh. I'm finally caught up in my creative writing class. But I'm still way behind in advanced reporting. Doc has been cutting me a lot of slack since I changed my topic, but I don't want to push his mercy to the limits ( Read more... )

I sent out 11 internship applications yesterday. I'll be sending out five or six more on Monday. I'm playing the "I have no idea where I'll be living seven months from now" game. For some reason I'm not enthused, and I ask myself where my sense of adventure is.

Ooooh it was so fun ( Read more... )

You wear Game Boy cartridges on top of your head, you make funny noises, and you love to moon me.

You are the love of my life.

I've decided graduate school would be a dumb move. So I've decided that this year I'm applying for 79 summer newspaper internships, a significantly higher number than last year's 55. (I'm now eligible for the ones I passed over last year that required applicants to have previous internships ( Read more... )