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I've really hit the ground running this term. My position with the SPFH is going to be far more work than I had thought, and both my other classes are equally intense. I get the feeling I won't be going home many weekends this time around.
I already have a headache from lost sleep and stress. And my head photographer just had to go out of town for an emergency, so I'm even more swamped. I'll probably relax a bit more once we're a few issues in and I have a rhythm set up, but for now, I'm scrambling and have to remind myself to take breaks to eat and do something mindless.
I just have to keep chanting the "last term" mantra to keep going. If I had more ahead of me, I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. As it is, I expect a few nights of being curled up in a sobbing ball, just trying to take the edge off.
Making matters worse, our e-mail server crashed this past weekend, meaning I'm getting mail at my two main addys slowly, if it comes at all. NOT good when my whole life revolves around that. I'm having to make people cc my alternate addy so I can be sure to get things within some sort of reasonable timeframe. I'm looking at at least two weeks before things get resolved, and that's going to make an utter mess of things.
The good part is that I'm heading to SF for a few days to do this. It looks amazing. I'm planning to pull some info from that for my senior project. I haven't completely nailed down a topic, but it'll probably be something about how news orgs need to shape their content for delivery in multiple methods and on multiple platforms. Call it the XML of news media or something. Or I may just go lazy and do something specific about the adoption rate for news content on mobile devices.
Oh, and the first half of my advanced reporting class is going to be learning this. Heh. Of course, it may kick my ass, but I suspect I'll have an easier time with it than some folks--the prof included, considering he's a Luddite who's still on dialup. Poor thing.
I already have a headache from lost sleep and stress. And my head photographer just had to go out of town for an emergency, so I'm even more swamped. I'll probably relax a bit more once we're a few issues in and I have a rhythm set up, but for now, I'm scrambling and have to remind myself to take breaks to eat and do something mindless.
I just have to keep chanting the "last term" mantra to keep going. If I had more ahead of me, I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. As it is, I expect a few nights of being curled up in a sobbing ball, just trying to take the edge off.
Making matters worse, our e-mail server crashed this past weekend, meaning I'm getting mail at my two main addys slowly, if it comes at all. NOT good when my whole life revolves around that. I'm having to make people cc my alternate addy so I can be sure to get things within some sort of reasonable timeframe. I'm looking at at least two weeks before things get resolved, and that's going to make an utter mess of things.
The good part is that I'm heading to SF for a few days to do this. It looks amazing. I'm planning to pull some info from that for my senior project. I haven't completely nailed down a topic, but it'll probably be something about how news orgs need to shape their content for delivery in multiple methods and on multiple platforms. Call it the XML of news media or something. Or I may just go lazy and do something specific about the adoption rate for news content on mobile devices.
Oh, and the first half of my advanced reporting class is going to be learning this. Heh. Of course, it may kick my ass, but I suspect I'll have an easier time with it than some folks--the prof included, considering he's a Luddite who's still on dialup. Poor thing.
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