RULE #32

It's been a fantastic weekend! I spent time with friends and family and thoroughly cleaned the apartment.

I feel so blessed to have the people I have in my life. My sister, brother-in-law and nieces are so wonderful. They encourage me in everything I do. I enjoying spending time with them because I feel so surrounded with love, even when my brother-in-law is being a total butt head.

My mother is a wonderful woman. She has raised me to be a strong woman with a good head on my shoulders. I am proud of her for everything she has done. She has made a life for herself and manages to include my brother and I in it even though we are so busy.

My friends are my world. Everything really does happen for a reason. I have made some amazing friends this year that I wouldn't have met if I hadn't made some mistakes that led me down this path. My friends encourage me in all of my endeavors. They make me feel loved and wanted. I am happy to have them.

As I sit on my couch next to one of my best friends/roommate watching TV and eating dessert, I am reminded of the little things in life that make it so great.  And because we watched Zombieland the other day, I will conclude by saying:

RULE #32: Enjoy the little things.

So, this is what relief feels like?

This semester has been crazy busy. Ya know, I never realized how much work "journalism" truly entailed until I signed up for these classes. Any free time that I thought I would have was quickly filled with last minute touch-ups or frantic redo's. The hardest part was that every time you thought you had completed a task, you were told to add another element, or remove this element, or switch these two elements, or throw away every element you had on the page and use new elements- that's the professors way of saying, "well that sucked, try again". Nothing was ever good enough.

It wasn't that the professors tore you to pieces, they just tore your WORK to pieces. I understand that is their job as journalism instructors to prepare you for the real world. But really, all that does is freak me out about the real world. Where the heck have I been living?! I was clearly mistaken in thinking that all this time, I've been living in the real world. According to these professors, I've been living in a fantasy world.

'SCUSE ME...if this was a fantasy world, I think it would be a hell of a lot different. My fantasy does not include spending my weekends filming a project, or taking off of work just to scrape up enough time to run to the lab, or spending sleepless nights laboring in front of a computer screen. There is a small chance that I will go cross-eyed before my college career is complete.

Now that I have torn apart the journalism industry, let me build it up a little. It has been a good experience. I can honestly say that I have learned a lot. I have learned new technology, new techniques, and new skills. I have experience new things and met many new people. Even though it was incredibly stressful and time consuming, now that it is over, I can look back and say that I enjoyed [parts of] it.

And NOW THAT I'M DONE, I can enjoy many things that I missed this semester. Hello summer break! :):):)