Marie in the Middle

I'm the mistress blog-skipping whore.  The only reason I'm posting is to say I GOT A NEW BLOG.  I really really love posting.  And I think about doing it AT LEAST once a day.  But, as you know, I never do it.

So.

I got a tumblr.  It's easy, and stress free, and simple, and nice.  So I'm over there for now.  If I can make it a habit, then you know, we'll see.

But here it is:

http://keepthesimple.tumblr.com/

PLEASE READ.

Oh. my. goodness.

I am clearly not good at updating.  I apologize.

It's been a rough last few weeks for sure.  School has been pretty much horrendous.  I miss last semester, that's for sure.  I had so much more free time, and made good grades and it was just much better.

I made a B- on my midterm for my CMLT class.  Yesterday, I went by my professor's office to talk about it.  The advantage:  at least he knows I'm serious about the class and about doing well.  Will that help my struggling grade?  I don't know.  I sure hope so.

It was incredibly difficult to sit through, regardless.  I was so worried I was going to burst into tears, and at the beginning of the meeting I was on the verge for a while.  My nose definitely started running, and I know my face was red.  I really did botch the paper, and I want to fix it.  But he warned me not to spend too much time on it.

Anywho,
Afterwards I went to my long await hair appointment at The Republic.  Listen, if you live in Athens, even if you don't go, try to go to the Republic at least once.  It's really cool, and hip, and fun!  I saw Lyric who has done Mika and some one from the All-American Rejects.  I got my hair done a really dark brown-red color.  I like it alot!  The cut is incredible too.  It's not actually not different than what I had, it's just cleaned up and refined.  But they're so nice there  Both Lyric and her assistant were constantly boosting my confidence with "you have great skin," "with your face shape you could pull of any hair cut," "you should be a hair model" - things like that.  It made me feel good after such a rough week.

It's a real change though.  Unfortunately, the appointment was incredibly expensive.  It wasn't so much the cut and color, but the produce I had to buy to be sure that I could protect this investment.  Gaah, I don't even what to think about it.  I can't wash my hair every day anymore.  Yikes.  I got this dry shampoo stuff that works great, but it makes my hair feel really dry and thick.  I might need to put less in or something.  I just hope I can stick to keeping in shape.

I seriously need some income.  HA, I do NOT have time for a job though.  I don't.

Anyways, last Tuesday, Uncharted 2 came out.  I beat it Wednesday.  It was very good, of course.  The bummer, I have nothing to look forward too now, boooo.

I'm going to make a to-do list, just like Allie.  I always right them on the top of my notes, so why not write them on my blog?

To do:
Grocery Shop
Clean the Apartment
Email Maureen about Audio/Visual Project
Email Johnson about Photo Editing
Retake one more lighting photo
READ TONS
Do my other CMLT Midterm
Work on revising my first CMLT Midterm


DOESN'T THAT SOUND EXCITING?

Well, the good news is, I got my jump drive back!

Yaay!  Turns out a kid from another lab found it and turned it into their lab instructor.  I'm glad I asked about it, or I wouldn't have gotten it back.

On to matters of real life importance.
Last week, I had gone into something akin to despair after watching a documentary in my photojournalism class about travel photojournalism.

The photographer, Joel Sartore, emphasized the toll that his job took on his family.  While Sartore was fortunate enough to have a wife and three children, he sure didn't sugarcoat the affect that his job puts on his family.  Then, right after watching the documentary, Johnson, my prof, explained that many times journalists don't have any social life, and they don't get married until after they retire.

Guh.

Now, of course, he's talking about rather extreme cases.  For many people, their job=life.  Will this be the case for me, I'm not sure.  Still, I'm still not willing to accept that.  For me, family and relationships trump any sort of personal gain through whatever means.  Call me old fashioned, anti-feminist, whatever.  My priorities simply lie in family.

And not just the family I plan to have in the future, but the family I have now, too.  In a short six months, I'm going to be an auntie.  Of course, I already consider myself an aunt to Ava, but this is my brother's kid I'm talking about.  I'll be a real auntie.  I want to be able to be their for my family.

Of course I want to travel and experience the world and live my own life separate from my parents, but I hold responsibility to them too.

ANYWHO,
Monday in photojournalism we briefly talked about making money in photography.  The good news is, from what I gather from Johnson, I might not be destined to be broke.  YES.  This has been a concern of mine ever since deciding to pursue a journalism degree.

During the discussion he brought up wedding photography.  Ahhh, here we are.  This is what got me interested in the idea of photography in the first place.  This is good.

The fact is, wedding photography is stressful.  But to me, oh so worth it.  So, as of right now, this is what I'm pursuing.  Upon graduation, whenever that will be (I'm going to angst over this in a bit)  I will try to apprentice under someone and hopefully get myself set up.  And perhaps I could write or hold a job in publishing or something while doing so.

It really is a shame we only get chance on this world.  There's too many lives I want to live, too many directions to take.  But I guess I'll do the best I can with the time I have.

Now for the angst topic.  Today, after contemplating my last two semesters of school, I realized, "hey!  I think something is not quite right."

I have two semesters left, yes?  Two more jours, two more photo jours, one more cmlt (children's lit, yes!  NEXT SEMESTER YES YES YES YES YES), and one more business.  6 Classes is extremely manageable for the next two semesters.  The problem lies in those two phorojours.  The next class I need to take is 3710.  Problem:  3710 is only offered during the Fall semester.  Well, next fall is my last semester.  Still, I figured I could manage.  But no, because the last jour I need to take is 5370 or something like that, which requires 3710 as a prereq.  Blast.

Not good.  So does this mean that despite being told for the last year + that I'm going to have to stay an extra semester?  Probably.  Am I pissed off?  Horribly.

I've already cried complained to my mom about it.  But I suppose if I'm meant to stay here another whole 6 months, then I'm meant to stay.  In some ways it'll be convenient, in someways, I really really really wanted to graduate in a year.  I was looking forward to it SO MUCH.  The other slightly good news, if I do stay, I will either start a full time job or something or take a few more classes.  I was actually complaining to Shaye the other night that I wish I had taken some New Media classes.  Well, this might be the chance.

Who knows?  I'll see what happens, especially when I get a response back from my advisor and during my appointment with her.

But yes, so life struggles happen.  And once again, college troubles have resulted in a drastic change in plans.

I can't think of much else to write.

Well, other than that a local Athens theatre is doing Dr. Horrible in a few weeks.
I'm not sure what to think about it.  I'll probably see it anyways.

Here, have a picture of my nephew:

I just realized where my zip drive is....

I left it in the computer in the lab.

Shoot.

I remember a week later.  I guess I'll see if it's still there tomorrow.

Well, it looks like I'll be getting Soul Silver.
I know how lame this is, but I am absolutely dying for a new Pokemon game.  Especially after losing my Pokemon Diamond.  I wasn't sure between Soul Silver or Heart Gold.  But I'm pretty sure I'll be getting the Soul Silver.
I just can't pass up a Vulpix.  Now, I just have to wait another 6 months or so and it will be mine!

Next I need to decide on my start pokemon.  I can't believe how epic these two games will be.

Anyways, tonight is the Emmys, I do believe.  Neil Patrick Harriss is hosting it, so I really want to watch.  I just don't think I'll have the time.  I turn on the TV at least.

I pimped my laptop yesterday.  My brother had sent me a link to a vinyl decal and I really really liked it, so I bought it.

I have finally gotten this blog up and running!  Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it this time.