mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

First day of my last (hopefully) year of school.

My schedule is a little crazy.

Monday: NO CLASS

Tuesday:
Poetics/Ethical Virtues & Values (Sr. Seminar) 10-1115
Voice and Diction 1-215
Intercultural Communication 330-620
TV&Radio Industry 7-10

Wednesday:
Convergent Journalism 7-10

Thursday:
Poetics/Ethical Virtues & Values (Sr. Seminar) 10-1115
Voice and Diction 1-215

Friday: NO CLASS

Also, I’m enrolled in the journalism practicum which gives me additional credit and means I have to write for the Dominican Star. Which I do anyway.

So Tuesday is clearly going to be the crazy day where I’ll be on campus from 10-10, but at least I get the three-hour classes over with and can leave at 215 on Thursdays. The Wednesday night class should be GREAT, and the two I’ve attended thus far today are EXCITING. Maybe it’s just the start of semester excitement, but I have a good feeling about these things…maybe because I’ve done all the gen ed bullshit and don’t have to take any dumb math/English/science classes anymore.

And I made a new friend today! I mentioned in one of my classes that I’m a writer and want to do book tours, and after class this funny chick Diane approached me and told me how her 21-year-old friend is getting her book published by the company that produced The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I just read that book and it’s fantastic. It also kind of gave me hope that I can actually do it too. Weeeew.

It’s sad that most of my peeps have graduated, but there are still a handful of familiar good people here this year that I like from the past. Cutie Michelle, who shares my birthday, saw me. She’s such a doll. Her haircut is a longer version of mine. Twins!

I decided this year that I’ll smile more at people and be more friendly, rather than walking around, being elusive and wearing my sunglasses indoors like I did last semester. I need to uphold my “perfect and sweet lady” attributes and reputation, and not be a sociopath. Rrg.

My focus: Use my off days for schoolwork, and get REALLY good clips for the university’s newspaper so I have SOMETHING to show when I graduate. We’re publishing biweekly now, so I gotta stay on top o’ this shiz.

Here goes nothing!