One thing I'm notorious for is apologizing too much. If I said I were 'sorry' for not posting all these months while I was busy studying (i.e. being a student), it would be fruitless. I'm really only sorry to myself, because it's not like someone's hanging onto my every word here. I hope not. That would be incredibly unhealthy.
Anyway.
Loads of stuff has happened since...what was it, late September? But I'm not sure anything that has happened is relevant to this blog. Granted, I'm still a Student Seeking Purpose, for now.
But the fact of the matter is, I'm not going to be a college student for too much longer--though, as you know, I shudder to think of LAUD. In less than five months--God willing that I pass my comps and my remaining credits--I'll be out. A graduate.
So begins the Great Job Search of 2012. Never too early to start looking, of course. The area of business that keeps coming back to me is Human Resources. Literally anytime I search for a position anywhere, it leads me to that department of a company. But to be honest, it's not what I want.
Not that I'm completely sure of what I ultimately want out of a professional career. Still want to be a writer. That's not going to change.
Now, recently, I have come to another 'grand realization' about myself. That is, I'm actually pretty good at event-planning. Somehow I'm good about thinking everything through, and being practical about budgets and--naturally--the realm of possibility. Sure, I'm still learning how to handle monolithic logistics (bussing 150+ students across Dallas and back in an efficient manner, e.g.), but I'm learning.
You never really stop being a student, after all. I failed to mention that before, that I do realize that. I'm going to graduate in May, sure, and I don't have (immediate, anyway) plans to attend graduate school, or even more school at all.
I just exited my most successful semester of college a few weeks ago; little did I know, between forcing myself to write a twenty-page paper and watching all the seasons of Frasier, something good was happening. Is it possible to work your best from multi-tasking? I'm always, always multi-tasking (a cloaked form of procrastination, as it is often in my case).
The thing is, last semester, I never really stopped. Yes, I vegged out. But when I vegged, I was doing something. Probably watching a show while I played Minesweeper or made dinner. It's what I do. Call me crazy (I am, sort of), but I consider this stuff as thought-stimulating and therefore good for my brain. Not sure about any scientific studies or anything, of course.
Also, with November always comes National Novel Writing Month. Which I shouldn't participate in, of course. I didn't 'compete' against myself this year, but almost every day during that month, I wrote a few pages of a novel that's just slightly bending the truth of what actually occurred in my life during that time. Changed names, made up things that happened between other people when I wasn't around them...and so on. If it's actually publish-able--I don't think that's a word--as it stands, then it would be a novella. It's about 10,000 words. Hardly a short story, even. But it's mostly a true story, at least. My friend Allie is the only soul who's read it so far. I don't know what's "allowed" as far as non-fiction goes, especially since some of this is fictitious.
Oh well.
Where was I going with this? Don't remember. Posting gratia posting?
I'm very, very nervous about my last semester coming up. Second week back, we have the first round of English major comprehensive exams, and we delve right into our Senior Novel project. Then I have to put on the Valentine's dance since I'm the Socials director of student programming. Then the second batch of comprehensive exams, more Novel, spring break, more Novel, oh and I have these OTHER CLASSES. And of course I'm also putting on Spring Formal, which is our biggest off-campus event, aside from the Groundhog festival. Formal is farther away, distance-wise. Gosh I'm nervous. And I'm not sure when our project presentations are. Or what my job search will look like then.
Sigh.
Christine out. For now.
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