I always said this could be an effective tool in keeping in touch. Wish more people would get into it.
Alright Emily, here's the update, if you're still reading:
I have... five blogs:
*This one *One for Daily Eastern News Alumni that no one reads *Lala Land *ILuvSTL- a St. Louis blog *My MySpace one *Things that get posted on facebook... I guess I have more than five, eh? I try to keep them updated. At least LaLa Land, my MySpace and my facebook. So if you ever feel the need to see what I'm up to these days or to contact me...
OH!
I now also blog as part of my job! http://hereandthere.freedomblogging.com
Work
I'm not really digging it. I mean, it has its pluses and minuses but I guess I always thought of working here as a way to launch my career rather than a place to stay forever. I've been here since Rachelowe's 22nd birthday - so, about 1.25 years-ish. I'm wondering if I want to be in newspaper journalism for the rest of my life, and I'll tell you the answer is probably not yes. I don't think it's my forte. At least, I'd like to see what else is out there in the world of journalism before sticking to this forever. Maybe PR? Maybe publishing? Maybe ... who knows? I'm keeping my options open. For the time being, I'm trying to make the most of what I do here. I don't think I get the chance to bloom to my full potential being that I copy edit sometimes and write sometimes and design sometimes. I don't get to hone my skills and become especially good at anything. The upside is that I can do EVERYTHING to an efficient degree, so I should be pretty marketable. The company is getting cheaper and they are starting to offer people severance pay to leave, in order to save money. If not enough people do that, they will start to let people go. Not me people- people who make good money. They wouldn't save much by letting me go, because since I have two jobs here, I would need to be replaced. And I'm not getting the sense that they are wanting to replace any of these vacant positions. The bad news is I have a whole lot more work coming to me after the change, and that eventually newspapers are going to be on their way out. The good news is, they are wanting to move me to a more normal schedule (Mon-Fri instead of Sun-Thurs) and I am getting online experience as we speak, so when newspapers do go out, I have experience in the online realm.
Enough about work.
Living at home
Ah yes, I still live with my parents. After talking to a bunch of people I'm starting to not understand why I can't move out. I mean, people who make less than me are living on their own. I guess they don't all have expensive car loans and student loan bills, but some do. I've set a goal for myself. I don't know whether I'll meet it or not but I'm starting to think I'll be able to find something reasonable sometime soon. By this April, I want to be in an apartment of my own. I don't know where- that's half the battle- but if I did know where and then I got any offers for jobs in other places, that would have to change wouldn't it? Anyway, I'm hoping that by April I have an idea of where my career is going and I can situate myself in a position to go forward with it, so to speak. David gets out of his lease in April so we can move in together -- and then we'll only need one bedroom and the apartments will be cheaper when split between two people. If we stay in the area, we've seen a couple apartments for 550 and less that are pretty decent in St. Louis. I always wanted to live in that city for at least a year. David wants to go back to school, so that might influence where we go. We've talked about leaving the area- and having a city of our own (Diane has Austin, Thomas has Cincy)... but we don't know. We're young, after all. Whatever happens, happens. I just can't live with my parents anymore. While they're very helpful and they do a lot for me, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, it's time that they respected me as an adult and I did my own thing.
The boyfriend
All this talk about living with David probably seems a bit foreign to you, because I haven't told you much about us. To sum it up -- he is the best friend that has that missing piece. You know, you have guy friends that you love everything about but just can't see yourself with them? That's the missing piece. Being with him and being attracted to him has never felt so right with anyone else. He's everything :) So expect to hear a lot more about him in the future then :)
Hmmm what else?
Volleyball still rocks. We finally got Norb's to pay our league fees so we play for free now. Another reason we'd like to stay in the area. Ron's gone now tho, and that makes Norb's about 33 percent less cool. But I guess we will survive.
My birthday is next Saturday and my friend Brian O'Malley is coming into town. Whoever's into it-- we're all going to the City Museum Satty night, which should be a good time. My old roommate was supposed to come but she stays away from St. Louis like she's avoiding the plague or something. It's people like her that make me dislike Chicago at times -- the ones that are too stuck up to even visit a place to see a supposedly good friend. I've been to Chicago several times since grad in 2006 and she's never been here- always with the excuses. This time, she's too poor. Maybe because she spends all her money on fake designer purses she buys from Chinatown. Sorry... it just miffs me a little. I asked her to come about 5 months ago, which would have given her ample time to ask off and save some money for a weekend (she has Saturdays off already). And this wasn't important to her I guess.
I went to visit Diane in Austin recently, which was awesome. You should definitely go if you get a chance. I can't wait to go back sometime.
Thomas and Beth have been married one year today. Isn't that wierd? They got Guitar Hero III for the Wii as their present to one another, which I also bought. It's very addicting. Sometime soon I might be able to play a song on hard. Maybe. Did u see that South Park about Guitar Hero? It was pretty funny.
David and I, and Rachelowe, hung out with Abby and Kevin last night, and played Guitar Hero, haha. Brianne is so cute. I don't hold her yet, tho-- she's so tiny. Plus I held her once at the hosptial and she cried. Tiny babies don't like me. They sense my fear. They're so small I feel like I'll break them. When she's a bit older she'll like me more I'm sure. Right now she's not even a month old though.
Alright that covers about everything. Hope all is well.
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