It’s funny. One week and everything has changed ( Read more... )

Sometimes I forget what it’s like to be...well...to be me. I get wrapped up in everything surrounding me and try to make it part of what I am or I am doing. It’s funny to think of life as your own. Simply because we spend most of our time trying to please others. I never really thought about until right now ( Read more... )

Across the Universe ( Read more... )

After thinking about weird things, I feel like doing something I’ve seen in various bulletins and blog posts. I’m going to write down a few truths about me people may not know and even find a little odd. I’ve done it before and it’s a bit freeing in a way ( Read more... )

First, I want to send my thoughts and prayers to my friend Stephanie. Her grandmother passed away this morning and I want her to know I’m thinking about her and her family ( Read more... )

Monday night about an hour after I got home from work I received a call from my editor, DD. I thought she said, “Hey Ryan, we just had a kid killed in a car wreck, can you come in and help?” I said sure and figured I would be listening to the police scanner until I got enough information to write a story. I walk in the office and they hand me a ( Read more... )

I have been with the News Messenger for a week now. One week as a journalist and it still hasn’t even started to set in. I am still in disbelief that anything I write gets printed. My editor does change my articles, but not significantly. There is still a lot of style I need to learn. I have a feeling if my major had been in journalism, then she ( Read more... )

It's Friday and I am so glad. The last four days have been the epitome of stress. However it has been the greatest stress of my life. I've gone from loving every second, to almost packing up everthing I own and heading out - in four days. I have no settled into any routine. I barely know what is going on. I am day to day ( Read more... )

Everything I need is packed in the back of two trucks. It really isn’t much. I have done my best to limit what I’m taking and my parents have done there best to increase it. The rest can come later, only if I need it though. When I moved to Huntsville I only took the basics and it worked out. I thought about it today and I prefer to live with less ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. I turned in my final paper for my correspondence course at Sam Houston at 4pm. So, essentially, once my professor finishes grading it, I will be an actual graduate. It only took me six years. I can already hear you saying, "It's 2007 and you graduated high school in 2000." Well, horrible friend, I took an entire year off, so ( Read more... )