Post 228 | Stuffs

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

I am so utterly and completely done with this entire research thing that college is so intent on engraining into my mind. Well, I suppose it isn't the research I am done with so much as the process that my Communication Theory professor is putting us through.

Some research can be really fun and informative and interesting. I really liked learning about the Narrative Paradigm as much as I have so far, but I had to write down every quote I want to use in my paper on a notecard from at least 15 sources...

I've spent the last two weeks or so reading through my already collected sources and highlighting stuff and today I probably spent a total of 5-6 hours just writing the stuff down onto the notecards. Now I have a stack of at least 154 notecards (I may have miscounted) and one hell of a hand cramp.

I know next year I will be researching quite a bit as well, having to write a senior speech and all, but hopefully it wont be as bad as this 16+ page paper I have to write for this class.

Besides that torment I had this wonderful time in Chicago this past weekend with my fellow newspaper staff members. If I haven't mentioned it before, I run the website for my school paper. This past weekend we went to a conference and went to seminars and walked around Chicago, A LOT.

And it was wonderful. I loved walking around the city late at night while it was snowing and I even got to talk to one of my professors a bunch and heard some great stories and she's really awesome. She even gave my girlfriend a ride to her class this morning as it was raining ice bullets.

It was great to just walk around and just breathe the city in. I could really live there, I really hope I get to. I would love to work downtown at a radio station or TV station or even any communications job really. I feel like I am getting close to the point where I would be comfortable in a lot of different positions.

I am writing a short story for my creative writing class and I am satisfied with where it going so far, I am going to attempt to finish it tomorrow, it cannot run on for too long so here's hoping. It's about flying pirate ships and a battle between two of them. It's kinda cool actually.

I should probably be heading to bed now, 8am class does not treat me well. Thanks for reading! Please comment! I promise I'll respond!