With great stress comes a great lack of sleep...

I have to start off by saying, "Benita! I just found your post from this summer complaining that I only had two posts. Oops?"

Why doesn't Blogger email you when you have people post on your profile? I like Blogger, but I think it is stupid they don't have that feature.

So here I am at four a.m...

For more than a week now, my brain has refused to shut off before 3:30 a.m. at the earliest. I don't understand it. I am exhausted from school and allergies combined with work and everything else...and I still can't fall asleep.

Why is that? You would think that my brain would shut off as soon as I lay down... I think it is because I just have so much to think about and so much hanging over my head.

On the bright side: 98 days!

Only 98 days until I can go back to TN and leave Taylor behind. I am so grateful. I feel like the next 98 days are going to be awful and I have no idea how I will make it through. I am just trusting that God can nudge me forward until I can reach my goal.

I am just so weary.

Talk about Senioritis. It is here full-force kicking me in the butt right now. I have no motivation to do anything because I am too overwhelmed by the shear amount of work and the lack of time to do it in.

On the bright side, I get to go home this weekend! My Web Design teacher decided to be AWESOME and cancel class on Thursday because, "Last year I only had five kids out of 21 show up...and I just can't fight those odds."

Thanks goodness. My group that I am traveling home with could thankfully switch work around and now we get to drive back around 1 p.m. I am hoping for good weather this weekend. The forecast says rain, which is more than slightly depressing, but I'm hoping it will turn around just because I am coming home. =)

I also am hoping for a good view over the mountains when we come home because I want to show them off to my friend Karissa who hasn't seen them before. I think she will be disappointed since she is from Colorado, but maybe not.

Benita -- I miss you a lot. I hope that you are doing well and I cannot wait to see you in January! We HAVE to hang out. I know that people say that and that lives get busy...but this will be our last "big hoorah." Basically.

Which sucks. I am sad that I just started to get to know you at the end of Taylor. You are so fun to be around.

Everyone -- I am sorry that I am awful at updating my blog. I am surrounded by a massive amount of papers and homework and trying to juggle that with being "Intentional" with other people. I am sad to say that since the first few weeks at school, I have not really been able to do any dinner dates. I miss them and I am sorry if I didn't get to you. Seriously.

Well, I feel like I have blabbed on for a while, so I will go...

Hopefully sleep will come soon.

And We're Back.

Wow.

So I guess I'm pretty bad at this whole blogging regularly thing. To update you on what i've been up to, I am now back at school for my final full semester of College. I only have to finish J-term and then I will be done. Forever.
I hope.
The fall semester is in full swing. I am living off campus in a house called "the White House" and it is wonderful. I can not even begin to describe how much lower my stress level is so far. I don't know if it is because it is quieter in the house or not. I have a feeling it is because I don't have the pressure of committing to a wing and all of the pick-a-dates and parties and open-houses and everything.
Classes look to be...interesting. Right now I am procrastinating a paper that is due in...oh...two hours? My work half of my brain has not kicked in yet. I find it normally takes about a month for me to fully get into the semester.
I am really nervous/intimidated by Freelance Writing. Now I know everyone has told me that it was the absolute best class they ever took to help them with writing...but right now I am not seeing it. It's 3 1/2 hours long and rather miserable.
Senior Sem includes a bunch of dumb busy work, but at least it is only one credit hour.
Web Writing & Production will be good...I think. Mike Saunier teaches it and he is probably my favorite teacher right now. I am also excited about what we will be learning in the class since I am interested in writing for the web.
Web Design is rather stressful since I haven't used Adobe programs in over a year and I haven't really designed anything in a long time. Hopefully that part of my brain wakes back up quickly so I can produce good work. =)

Being...Intentional.
Everyone here at Taylor talks about "being intentional" in all that we do. I have used that word so many times this past week and I don't even like it that much. I have just found that being off-campus means that in order to hang out with people, you have to be intentional and ask them to hang out here. Otherwise, no one will come see you.
So, in the past week I have had over six dinner dates to catch up with people. My hope is that I can continue it throughout the rest of my last semester. I want to show people that even though I am a recluse and introverted, I do care about them and I have not forgotten that we are friends. I would also like my house to be a place of refuge for those who are overwhelmed by campus and just need to get away.
Though my house is right behind Swallow, my housemates and I have made an effort to make it feel like a home.

Now that I have sufficiently released my writer's block, I must go write a paper for Senior Sem.

Until next time.

Hey Guys,

Good news! I finally got a tiny bit of feedback on one of my media alerts (i've written 13). They finally nailed down the scheduling for the show, so Brandii (my supervisor) and I sat down to go over my media alerts. First we had to dig through the schedules to see when the episodes air...and the network did something screwy and is airing the fifth season before the fourth season. So it took us forever to figure how to make that work. Then she decided the formatting for the alerts would change because they are a part of a marathon weekend and that has to be pumped up. So we worked on that for a while. She said the basic format of mine is good and that my headlines, episode descriptions, and tool descriptions look good, but then again, she only looked at one of mine.

I spent the rest of the day trying to reformat and edit some of my posts, but have only gotten part of the way through.

Next week should be interesting. I get to spice up my boring schedule after I finish editing the alerts by working on a press release for a new television show they are coming out with next year. That should be interesting. Since they haven't started taping the show, I have to call around to different departments to find out as much as I can about it. Should be interesting.

In other news....

Step up 3-D was filming right outside of my sisters flat in NYC. She got to go out and watch them for a while. Said one of the lead actors was taller than her (amazing since she is 6'2") and a great dancer. She also got to talk to him for a few minutes and said he was nice.

I'm green with jealousy. Especially since she got to see "moose" (aka Adam Sevani) dance. Too cool.

I'm getting kinda frustrated with AE because they are only giving me one shift a week. They took tomorrows shift and made it an on-call too, which means I probably won't get to work. I don't understand why my four years at AE isn't counting for anything. I wish they hadn't hired so many new people. *grumble*

Life in TN is good, but I'm getting a tiny bit restless. I don't really have anyone I can hang out with, so nothing insanely crazy can happen. I'm not counting on any fun summer memories.

Anyways, I hope that you all are having a great summer! I can't believe it is halfway over already. I am not ready to go back to school, even if I am a little bored here.

Signing out.

Hi there.

So I am finally joining the wagon and starting a blog about my internship/summer/last semester of college.

I'm interning this summer at DIY (the Do it Yourself Network) as a Press & Editorial intern every Tuesday and Thursday. DIY is part of the Scripps Network which houses HGTV, Fine LIving, GAC, DIY, and the Food network. It's been a good experience, though much different than what I expected. My main project of the summer is to write press releases for two seasons of a TV show called Cool Tools. Every time I come in, I watch an episode, catalogue each tool used, then research to find more information and write a press release.

After 11 episodes, it's getting kinda monotonous. The worst part is my supervisors haven't read any of my work yet, so I don't know if what I am doing is on track or not. I understand that they have been super busy with budgeting and events, but I just wish I could have a tiny bit of feedback.

I have gotten to do some pretty cool stuff while interning though. My first day was spent on location of a show called Garage Mahal. That was pretty interesting. I also got to spend a lunch break previewing episodes of some Scripps Network shows and critiquing them.

In other summer news, I have been working with my dad to research possible car options for me. My sister has been in NYC all summer, so she has graciously allowed me to use her car while I look for one of my own. I still don't know for sure if I can get one, but I am trying to research them anyway. It has been lots of fun, but stressful at the same time.

I'm about to head to AE to try on all of our new jeans with Lindsay (a co-worker) and then work until close.

Over and Out.