it will be ok [and i'm avoiding studying]

I think when I look back on this semester I will remember it was a good one. That's how it usually works. I've been exceptionally busy, I feel homeless sometimes, I feel like I didn't sit down for four months, there has been much more drama than I have ever wanted in my life... but I've gotten to know some really cool people and had some great experiences. I went to Las Vegas! and St. Louis... yeah. So, maybe the good cancels out the bad.
I don't say this for no reason: fall semester last year, I had mono and took one of the worst classes in the journalism department while trying to find an internship without any real experience. And I look back now and it was one of the best semesters at Ball State. So it's whatever.
What doesn't kill you and all that, right? And I'm alive and have learned from my mistakes and am better because of it... or something.

reason number 112 why wacom tablets and finals don't mix.

in case you're wondering...

...what to get me for Christmas, I created a tumblr, where I am posting links to neat things in online stores, and online stores with neat things.

http://www.beckyrother.tumblr.com

So there ya go.

the end of the year

It's that time again. The end of another year, and time to think back on everything... blah, blah.

2008 was a good year. Being out of Indiana for half of it didn't hurt. Spring semester this year was the best ever, mostly because I was studying in London. Then summer was good, because I was in Colorado interning at the Colorado Springs Gazette. Then I had to go back to Muncie. Anyway, I don't want to describe it, so, being a visual journalist, I made a chart to show my level of well-being over the year.

2008 in review

What's that? Internship announcement? Oh yeah —
next
year
I will intern
at
The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
I'm excited. You should be, too, I've heard it's a great place to work.

Also, next semester I am doing an immersion project with the Institute for Digital Entertainment and Education. Hopefully I will learn Flash better than I know right now. It's not paid, but I get 3 credits for it. I'm more interested in actually learning than getting paid anyway.

Yup.