And by “Old habits”, I mean my tendency to forget to blog. But here I am, with some updates, amendments to my life plan.
First of all, no Los Angeles in January. I’d had a bad feeling for a while that it wasn’t going to work out, but then the final decision was made on Monday that I’m not going to be going this year. Hopefully I’ll be able to do it next year (hopefully as in most likely), when I’ve taken some Comm classes and started getting my feet wet in the industry (that’s such a weird phrase). I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t upset about the decision, but I’d like to think I was able to accept it with a good attitude.
Luckily, I’m still going to have an awesome January. Because life loves me, there was one more spot open in the January term experimental class I was interested in taking. It’s taught by one of my favourite professors, and the class is called “Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghost Whisperers”. Professor Rushing even emailed the registrar to tell them that she really wanted me in the class just in case it filled up before I was able to get my paperwork together. So I’m officially in that class, and it will help out with the paranormal studies minor Dr. Rushing is helping me create. The minor is based in the philosophy minor, but I’m doing independent studies in the paranormal field so I can get what I want out of it.
This is why I love Salem; few schools are willing to work with you to make sure you’re learning exactly what you want to learn while you’re in college. Dr. Dykers (my advisor in the Communication department) is helping me focus my major in New Media, and I can’t tell you how excited I am about that. I’m mildly obsessed with web television, which anyone who knows me can attest to. For me, internet television is already surpassing network television. Nowadays, most of it is so much more well-written than what you see on TV. Not to mention, it’s more about real people and what real people want to see. But I could go on that subject forever, so I’ll not do that now.
This past week was pretty busy, but not necessarily stressful. I had two presentations to do in one day (Wednesday) and in the middle of all that, I got hit by a cold that’s knocked me on my butt. The presentations went well, though, one was for Music 103 on the Making of Rent, and the other for Health and Wellness on Relationships and Domestic Violence. Neither was particularly intellectual, but they were both things that interested me so I had fun with them. Well, I don’t know if I’d say the domestic violence one was ‘fun’, per se, but you get the idea.
This week, aptly coined “Hell Week” by college students across the nation, signals the end of fall term, finals, and the beginning of Christmas break. I have an English presentation on my research paper on Tuesday, a final 8-10 page paper for English that I am most definitely not looking forward to, a biology lab final, and then my history and biology finals during the exam period Thursday and Friday. Another great thing about Salem is our self-scheduled exams. We have a reading day on Wednesday, then exam periods from 8AM-12PM, 1PM-5PM, and 6PM-10PM on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during which students can go to Bryant Hall on their own time to take their finals. It’s so much better for people like me who have the ADD and all. I’ll probably take my history final Thursday and my biology final on Friday, then drive home Saturday morning. I could take both of them on Thursday, but I think I want to spread it out a little so I’m not pressed for time.
Usually I would be starting to stress out by now, but I’m managing to keep calm. I’ve made a schedule for myself for the week, so I’m not too worried about the panic attacks that tend to hit me during crunch time. I mostly took it easy today, because tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, etc, are going to be incredibly busy.
I’m terrible at organizing my thoughts in a blog. Maybe from now on I should write an outline or something before I start typing. That would probably be a lot more effective than just publishing a blog full of word vomit. At least I’m remembering to keep up with this blog, which is already an improvement. Should I blog daily? Weekly? Intermittently throughout the week? What do you think?
That’s my piece for this weekend. Hopefully I’ll remember to blog from some time in the week. We’ll see how busy I get. Thanks for reading.
