About Me
- The Journalism & Writing World
- I graduated in May 2009 from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in Print Journalism and Creative Writing. I'm just waiting for my life to REALLY begin!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Lookville :) Fashion blogging
I just got an awesome opportunity to comment on fashion and blog about fashion on lookville.com. I absolutely love it so far and I hope you guys follow me on Lookville. I know this site is going to take off!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Recommendation Request ACCEPTED!
The most respected man in the University of South Carolina's Journalism school, and my mentor, wrote me back and said he would be more than happy to write me a recommendation for graduate school. I am completely elated. I took my ambien about 1 hr ago and now I'm just so excited. I need to lay down but this is a little bit of an update. Things are looking up!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Graduate School
So, I just submitted my first requests for Graduate School recommendations - which I hope to start in the spring to get my Masters in Arts in Teaching (english language and literature) at the University of South Carolina. I got my Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism in 2009. I hope to start university-level teaching after I graduate from grad school!! I have to do all of this by Nov 15th: Application, take the GRE, 2 professor letters or recomm., sample of my writing (at least 10-20pgs.), financial aid, get advised by BOTH College of English Language and Lit and College of Education and a letter of intent. wowieee. :-)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
A great blessing
3:30 p.m., 95 degrees and my car breaks down. It overheats. It smokes. It loses it's power steering.
Today showed me how good God is and how lucky I really am. Today was the second time my car has broken down in the past month and the second time an incredibly amazing man has helped me. Anything can happen when you break down. You could break down "on the wrong side of town." You could break down in a totally different city or state. Anything can happen and when you're a young woman it's even more scary. Instead of running from these men who happened to be a little dirty looking, blue-collar, older men of a different race or ethnicity than me, I wasn't scared at all (most women I think, would be). I sat in my car today when it broke down and lost it's power-stearing -- I happened to get it to an off-ramp and crookedly park it into the new BP gas station one exit from my house -- I sat there crying. I knew I had to get up and go out there and try to fix it. A guy in a cement truck came over, introduced himself as porkchop (a.k.a Ernest) and sat with me for 2 hours and fixed my car.
As I cried he asked what was wrong and then said, "I am so unlucky!!"
"You're not unlucky! I am here to help you and if you didn't break down here - I wouldn't be here!"
He made me laugh, protected me from creeps and even bought me water without me asking. He showed me pictures of his wife and kids and talked to me about his life.
I feel humbled. I have to admit, I judged this man at first sight. I wasn't scared -- but I judged him. I didn't know what I could get, but he was absolutely wonderful. So, when he said that I was good to go home he went to shake my hand and I gave him the biggest bear hug I could. Never judge anyone by their appearance, even though it is hard and we are all human. This really made me think about that. Only judge someone by their actions. This man could have left me, could have killed me, could have asked for money or demanded money - this man chose to help me. That is the kind of person I always want to be. And the last time this happened another great man helped me. It all was A GREAT BLESSING.
Today showed me how good God is and how lucky I really am. Today was the second time my car has broken down in the past month and the second time an incredibly amazing man has helped me. Anything can happen when you break down. You could break down "on the wrong side of town." You could break down in a totally different city or state. Anything can happen and when you're a young woman it's even more scary. Instead of running from these men who happened to be a little dirty looking, blue-collar, older men of a different race or ethnicity than me, I wasn't scared at all (most women I think, would be). I sat in my car today when it broke down and lost it's power-stearing -- I happened to get it to an off-ramp and crookedly park it into the new BP gas station one exit from my house -- I sat there crying. I knew I had to get up and go out there and try to fix it. A guy in a cement truck came over, introduced himself as porkchop (a.k.a Ernest) and sat with me for 2 hours and fixed my car.
As I cried he asked what was wrong and then said, "I am so unlucky!!"
"You're not unlucky! I am here to help you and if you didn't break down here - I wouldn't be here!"
He made me laugh, protected me from creeps and even bought me water without me asking. He showed me pictures of his wife and kids and talked to me about his life.
I feel humbled. I have to admit, I judged this man at first sight. I wasn't scared -- but I judged him. I didn't know what I could get, but he was absolutely wonderful. So, when he said that I was good to go home he went to shake my hand and I gave him the biggest bear hug I could. Never judge anyone by their appearance, even though it is hard and we are all human. This really made me think about that. Only judge someone by their actions. This man could have left me, could have killed me, could have asked for money or demanded money - this man chose to help me. That is the kind of person I always want to be. And the last time this happened another great man helped me. It all was A GREAT BLESSING.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live
Welcome to my blog :-)
As you may have guessed from the title, I'm a huge believer in dreams! I'm a 24-year-old woman who is currently a leasing agent, with a degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. Like everyone, I have struggles - sometimes I think a little more than others. I'm trying to make it on my own and am extremely indecisive. I want to do a lot of things with my life. I have a passion for so many things: love, family, flowers, fashion, photos, journalism, health...etc. I am starting grad school starting in the Spring (I hope. Still getting everything together) and hope to one day become a college professor and then start a business. I have no idea what type of business yet - it changes all the time. I know it will have something to do with either flowers, fashion or photography. Maybe wedding planning. I'm a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic. I was the little girl who dreamed of being a princess at her wedding. Life is too short not to have passions and I hope I can share mine with you. I hope that this will chronicle my journey from being 24, living with my parents trying to pursue my dreams, to hopefully having a family, an amazing career and a business. Let's see how this goes :-)
As you may have guessed from the title, I'm a huge believer in dreams! I'm a 24-year-old woman who is currently a leasing agent, with a degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. Like everyone, I have struggles - sometimes I think a little more than others. I'm trying to make it on my own and am extremely indecisive. I want to do a lot of things with my life. I have a passion for so many things: love, family, flowers, fashion, photos, journalism, health...etc. I am starting grad school starting in the Spring (I hope. Still getting everything together) and hope to one day become a college professor and then start a business. I have no idea what type of business yet - it changes all the time. I know it will have something to do with either flowers, fashion or photography. Maybe wedding planning. I'm a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic. I was the little girl who dreamed of being a princess at her wedding. Life is too short not to have passions and I hope I can share mine with you. I hope that this will chronicle my journey from being 24, living with my parents trying to pursue my dreams, to hopefully having a family, an amazing career and a business. Let's see how this goes :-)
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