Spring Term 2020 Update

Some life updates:

To start, I know full well that there are people that currently have it a lot worse than me in this current situation we're all in, so I'll try to keep the entitled whining to a minimum.

That being said, I actually haven't had that bad of a time adapting to self-isolation. To be honest, I didn't really get out that much in the first place. Though it is kind of annoyingly ironic as to when the quarantining all started: See, I'd spent the last couple weeks of the winter 2019 term crunching like nobody's business in an effort to get caught up on all my work. About halfway through the last week before finals, I'd decided that I needed a vacation, and had planned to take a day trip to the beach once finals were done.

But the good news is I've got a nice little office space set up in my room now. Had nothing better to do after about halfway through the second week of Spring break.

Now as for my Feature Writing class: Well, if I was doing this for a living I'dve been fired years ago. I'll just say that up front. My room is basically a small library, with a game console and TV in one corner and a bed the other. And I am an avid reader, gamer, and "stupid-stuff-on-youtube" enthusiast. Imagine an alcoholic trying to work at a brewery. Yet perhaps in spite of that, I've actually managed to work on a much better time scale than last term, or ever. I've actually managed to make myself start writing some of my assignments the first week they were assigned, imagine that. I'm not even going to bother with the 3 goals this time; I'm just going to set myself one basic one for the term: "Learn to be a writer."

Where the Commuter's concerned, I'll refer you to the first sentence of my last paragraph. I conducted a few interviews for an article in the first week, and haven't touched a bit of it since. Been focusing on trying to get into a consistent work schedule for my course work, though I am trying make time for it. Think I'll try working on Commuter stuff on the weekends; I never get anything done then anyway.

I will say this about the class, though: The kind of things we're going to be covering are the exact kind of journalism I've been wanting to get into. Especially reviewing; egotistical though it may sound I've always kind of liked the idea of getting to put my thoughts on various topics into writing and seeing them get published.