People’s lack of knowledge on immigration makes me sooo mad. I’m tired of people saying “Go home”. It’s not that easy for everyone. Most people were children and brought over by their parents. This is their home!

I want to get involved somehow. I hope the Dream Act passes and Arizona losses.

I’m somewhere around the midpoint of my summer break and I’m craving adventure. But nothing exciting has happened yet. I go to work for approximately 3 and half hours a day and I have weekends off. My work is fun though. I’ve learned a lot and even completed my first marketing inquiry and buy. Some other things I’ve learned are what goes into producing a commercial and writing press releases. I’ve even met one of the co-anchors for a local news station. He also happens to be an alumni of my university. I was in awe when he walked into the office and did the whole star struck celebrity alert routine. Besides work I pretty much do nothing.

For the 4th of July I get the weekend plus Monday off. Sadly Memphis isn’t doing fireworks on the River this year because they are broke, but there’s some others around town that I might go to instead and Phil’s family is having a bbq of sorts.

Phil’s brother and his wife recently had a baby. There’s a lot of drama about that and coincidentally nobody like’s his wife who happens to fuel a lot of it. We have not seen the baby yet because of her. It’s a sad situation.

At the end of the month a really good friend of mine, her husband, Phil, and I are going to Hot Springs, Ar for a few days. So far we have an amusement park, lake, spa, and shopping planned. It will be my first vacation since I’ve moved here, excluding a family reunion. We’ve been saving up for it for a while now, so I’m excited.

Here’s to dreaming that the second half of summer is better than the first.

I’ve finished my sophomore year. I don’t know my grades yet and quite frankly am not that interested. So much has happened this semester, worked 3 jobs, got an apartment, and tried to fit in some fun. No matter what the outcome is I know I tried my best. (Not that I did horrible but I’m not expecting a 4.0)

To sum up my sophomore year it seemed to last forever. Freshman year went by so fast. This was definitely the hardest round of finals I’ve had. 7 tests and a paper in 5 days plus working in between is not fun. I can only imagine what my junior year will be like, plus beginning my thesis. Just too much to think about.

Summer is here and I’m not sure what my big plans are yet, but there will most definitely be something. One can only stand the Bluff city for so long.

I’m excited about the World Cup happening soon, because OMG do I need some sports in my life. The NBA/NHL playoffs just aren’t enough. I’m anticipating football season and can’t wait to start up fantasy football!

Today would have been my Mom’s 50th birthday. I hope she is celebrating up in heaven.

I love you Mommy.

I got the internship. I wasn’t allowed to confirm it until now because they had to wait on paperwork and my boss had to let the other candidates know that they didn’t get the job.

I’m super happy. I start in the middle of May after graduation. The boss lady said that there were more qualified people, but that she liked my personality. (she also mentioned something about me bringing diversity etc, etc…basically I’m biracial so I help their department look good. But I don’t mind).

I want to thank Speck for fixing my blog. If you hadn’t noticed it was broken for a while.

The next two weeks will be busy. Its the last week of classes and then finals. But after that I get three short months of reprieve before the next semester of 18 credit hours.

Oh the joys of college.

I just found out that I’m in the running for a New York Times Internship at my school. I sent in my resume and will have an interview either next week or the week after. If you feel like praying that I get it I will be indebted. I REALLLLLY want this gig. It’s paid, last two years, and would look wonderful on my resume.

Also…I recently got inducted into Sigma Tau Delta the International honors society for English majors, and I was also voted in as the Vice President for our chapter for next year.I’m happy

Anyhow…Please pray that I’m picked for this job. It would light up my world. Thanks!

I’m getting inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the National Honors Society for English Majors in February.

Another goal has been crossed off the list.

I’m so excited.

THE COLTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!

AND….

THEY ARE GOING ALL THE WAY!

They put those mascot-less Jets back in their places!

Money is what I’m looking forward to.

Yesterday I was left two voice messages offering interviews for today. One I got during my last class, the other while I was shopping for clothes to wear to the first interview.

I’m really crossing my fingers for the second job, Ross. The first is a Bank Collections department. Of course the bank would pay more, but Ross would be so cool…and discounts! I’ll find out early next week the outcome. Cross your fingers with me!

I pretty much hate my spanish teacher. He acts like HE is our only class and assigns homework that way, when in fact he is one out of the six that I am taking. 2/3rds of the class is only taking his class because we are required to, not that learning spanish is bad but I would rather put my time, money, and credit hours to something else. For instance, we are in his class 3 hours per week, yet he assigns a test that can only be accessed Saturday at 4pm to Sunday at 11pm.

Really? A test during my weekend, and the third weekend of the semester?

Lame.

In other news: This week during Bio lab, I got to play around with sheep brains. It was disgusting but fun. And in a few weeks we move on to dissecting pigs and watching fruit flies get drunk and testing their alcohol tolerance.

Half of my blog links are dead.

When I actually feel like blogging again, blogging has gone out of style.

Lame.

But I’m not going to let that stop me.

Exciting changes are in the works. I’m extremely happy!!! I’m off campus and home at my aunts for a bit, but I’m in the works of looking for an apartment. NO MORE ROOMMATES that I do not know or like. I’m in control and I get to choose now. And I like who I chose.

Now to find an apartment. Did you know that utilities are expensive?!? There’s all sorts of hidden costs besides rent? There’s deposits and processing fees? There’s even utility company down payments? There’s location and layout to worry about too. It’s mind blowing.

But the outcome will be wonderful. Just got to hang in there and look forward to the outcome.