If this post randomly ends in the middle of a sentence, you'll know why. I am so tired I feel like that's what I could do. I've had quite a load the last few weeks and it feels to just keep piling on. One of the biggest time commitments is the Newsbreak class I'm in. I honestly can't remember if I've blogged about it yet, but its the student produced news program at the U. Our first show is next week I believe it airs on channel 9 sometime on Thursday (we tape on Wednesday) but you can also watch a live feed, I"ll post the site once I find the info. This week I'm doing a story on student voting and getting registered to vote. I went out today and got footage of a booth outside the Union, but it was bad light and I"m not sure how well it turned out. I"m also trying to write the script and just having a horrible time. I can't seem to get it right. I have the most amazing teacher who's worked for the major networks definitely knows his stuff, he's taught us, but I no matter how many times I change it just can't get it right. I also bought the express version of finalcut for my macbook, but can't seem to get it to work. I know how to use Final Cut Studio so I'm not sure if maybe that's just the problem. Anyway, I feel like I"m wasting a bunch of time even though I am trying. I think it will be a late night tomorrow in the edit lab using the studio program since I know it. I also am shooting tomorrow some interviews for my new job. When I took this position, I didn't nor they realize how far I could take this. I've been compiling video and going to edit it to post on our website for high school students and teachers. It will be a good resource for them to know exactly what we do. They normally just use a small camera and get I"ll call it "surveillance" video. Since I've came and know a little about videography, they're kind of letting me run with ideas and compile things for their website. I'm really excited about getting involved in it. It's been a very creative process and they let me control everything I want about it. Tomorrow I"ll be conducting my first interviews of professors who were at the Saturday event for high school teachers who didnt' have time for an interview. I"m kind of nervous, I already interviewed the teachers, but professors are just different. I"ve prepared my list of questions though and hopefully everything will go smoothly. I'm also still working just on Tuesdays to help transition everything for awhile at DFCU. It's been hard not having that day to shoot or edit stuff, but its also nice having a little extra money coming in. Plus I know I'd miss it terribly, I already do. I also just got word today that I"m officially a senior. My credit from BYU finally transferred and now I need to go to an advising session and get approved for graduation! I seriously can't believe I'm almost done. I've had a lot of awesome opportunities and have no idea where life will take me. I've already started thinking of ways I"m going to need to prepare. There's a tech fair as well as career fair coming up in October, so I'll hopefully hit those up and see what kind of info I can get. My other classes are just as insane. I have a quiz next Monday and huge assignment in another class due Monday as well. You can definitely tell the semester is in full swing. Even though I"m crazy busy and very sleep deprived, I"ve loved everything I've been doing. Even the radio show, which is still as popular as ever (haha I really don't know) It's a ton of work, but again I've had a lot of cool opportunities and it comes with some nice perks as well. Wow, I can't believe I've already typed this much. It almost feels like I"ve wrote an essay (I must just be in the mood I wrote two today) Well, I think I"m going to try to sneak to bed a little early its 10:00 now. I just realized how much that title sums up my life lately. Anyway, happy reading.
Wow, this week has blown by, seriously I can't hardly believe it. I've been crazy busy, but having fun while I'm at it. So, I might as well put the coolest news up first. I officially have purplish redish hair now. Now wait before you all freak out, its just three kind of chunks, underneath my dark hair. It actually turned out a lot cooler then I was even expecting. It's fun and different, yet its not like I died my hair pink and I'm going to lose respect from people I deal with, well hopefully not, most of them are old anyway and I'm counting on them being crazy and can't see it haha jk. Also, on a sad note today was my last "official" day at DFCU. Yes, that's right can you believe how fast that went?? I'll still be on, on a trial basis depending on my level of sanity, for Tuesday's like six hours a day to help transition new people into the branch. I also have been working with College of Engineering. Tomorrow I'm actually doing a shoot for them and editing a package to post for their website on a workshop thing they're doing for local high school teachers, I"m kind of exciting, finally something that's totally my own work although nervous to work all the equipment totally on my own. They're basically letting me do what I want with it, so I'm excited how it will turn out. I"ll be sure to post the link once I get it done (don't expect it for a good two weeks) I also started full swing into the TVJ production course at school. We produce the campus newstation. Be ready we stream live on the web not this Wednesday but next I think you can find the link from www.communication.utah.edu then click on lefthand side newsbreak. If you look at some of the old podcasts, that's what we'll be doing. It also will be shown on channel 9, at a later time in the week. Believe me these things take up most of a normal persons time, but then I have the radio show and my other classes. The radio show has been a lot of work but rewarding as well. I spent Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol trying to get interviews from different legislators also working on pulling different audio clips for future shows. Our next show is bright and early tomorrow morning at 8 am (well thats not so much bright and early to me anymore sometimes it feels 8am is halfway through my day) Hmm what else, oh good news I finally did some laundry after two weeks of pulling things from the back of my closet-----extremely scary thing to do. Well, I just wanted to give a quick update I still have some last minute things to put together for tomorrows show and get to bed at a decent time to wake up at 6 on a Saturday (just the thought hurts me) Well happy reading!
Well hello again to everyone. I'm here Monday morning waiting for my finance class to start. See, all my other classes I actually like and will pay attention to, but when it comes to this one, man nothing puts me to sleep faster. It also involves a lot of math, which when I did my last gen ed requirement three years ago I thought I was done with math, but no I need some crazy bachelor requirement so here I am. I just randomly went to my blog I have absolutely no idea what I"m going to write about, so it could be really short or maybe really long if I decide on some crazy rant to go on. So Saturday we did the second radio show. It went a lot more smoothly then the week before, but still some minor issues. Its crazy and I want to pull my hair out sometimes and takes all of my free time, but I really do love it. I really would love to see it go further and get bigger, but being only the second week we can't be sure. It is getting a lot of attention for mainstream media which is a good sign. Oooh last week I went shopping. I was gone from my house for exactly an hour and got an entire new winter wardrobe from one store. I got a lot of really nice things that I can mix and match which I was excited for. Hmm my class should have started now, but its not....there's a lot of random kids in here. I also always wonder all the kids who have laptops who actually is taking notes and who is just playing on them. oooh here's the professor, I think I might as well stop listening to her now haha. Crap we're getting an assignment back, not a good sign haha jk it was easy...hopefully. It's a game and we picked 5 stocks and we monitor them throughout the semester and our assignment we have to do all these calculations for it. You would think working with a bank I"d sort of care, but really I don't Oh I'm planning on getting my hair done this week if I can find a few hours. I'm going to go dark again and I really want to get some purple highlights in the bottom of it, subtle but still there. Well this has probably been the most random post and it seriously was what just popped into my head...all over the place. Maybe I can get something a little better soon.
Wow, what a difference a few weeks can make. My life has totally changed since the last time I did a post. I started school back up since then, which has probably been the cause for most of the change. It is finally my senior year! I hope, if things work out how they're supposed to I'll be done Spring '09. I can't wait, even though I do love school. I also, just last week actually, gave my two weeks after 16 months at DFCU. I'm really really really sad to be leaving. I'll terribly miss everyone I work with and even some (key word there some) of the members that come in. After seeing some almost everyday you develop a friendship with them. My last official day there is September 19, but I offered to come in on Tuesdays until they hire someone new, because one of the other tellers, Lidia, is quiting soon too and I just want to help transition everything. With the end of one job comes the beginning of another. I actually applied for this one because I thought I"d be getting an internship with KSL and knew I'd need something flexible, well that didn't happen (they give me a scholarship but won't let me work for them for free, go figure) It also is my sister JJ's old job at school. I'll be working with the Dean's office in engineering. I"m really excited actually It'll be really flexible with my schedule, less hours and more money. I'll be doing a variety of different things, one I"m most excited about is on Thursdays ( since I don't have any classes on that day) going to different schools around the valley promoting the college. I've done this a little before when I was on Taylorsville Youth Council and had a ton of fun. Along with a new school year came the opportunity for a new internship. It's working on a new radio show with state legislators giving them a voice. I help one of the state senators, along with another intern. We just had a first show Saturday, it was insanely crazy, but a huge hit a lot bigger response then any of us thought. We're just on an AM station, but with how the first show went they're hoping after 6 months to move it onto a bigger one. It's been way cool to see firsthand and help a production get started. We run the sound board, gather story ideas, basically produce the show. It's a lot of pressure, huge time commitment, and highly stressful but I"m loving everything about it. It's so neat having ideas, helping form them and seeing it take off and actually become something. Wow, I've already typed a ton and there's still so much more. On Friday me and my dad competed in a cooking contest at the state fair. Any of you know my dad, you know how he's traveled a lot of places and won a lot of things for his cooking. Well, this competition only had 7 teams and guess what we didn't even place. It was a grab bag, we didn't have any idea what food would be there and if someone else took something you wanted, then too bad. It went fairly well, I won't go into all the details, except for one minor thing. We accidentally put salt instead of sugar in the glaze of our orange rolls. They were extremely nasty to say the least and needless to say we didn't win anything. Oh well you learn. We did go to a hypnotist show after which was hilarious. Anyway, all in all its been a crazy last couple of weeks. One with very little sleep and a lot of driving around the valley haha.