Oh, the stress…

“Too blessed to be stressed” is a catchy little phrase, but there’s no way it’s true. I’m pretty sure we all are stressed from time to time, and I am a bit stressed right now.

First of all, wow! I haven’t posted in a year! And the posts I had have been removed. Oops!

Now back to the topic at hand: stress. Speaking of stress, in my advanced reporting class Tuesday I have to turn in a story, well it’s more of a profile, about someone whose been laid-off recently. Our teacher wanted it to be a local person, but my person is from Chicago. It’s kind of very much against his rules, but I don’t have anyone else so I’m sticking with my interviewee from Chicago.

Her story is very interesting and incredible. I’m still waiting on her responses to my questions, and I’m a bit on edge because Tuesday is getting closer and closer.

Also, I need to read a couple of novels by the end of the week. Sounds easy right? Nope, they’re in Spanish. Although I’m about 75% fluent, it’s pretty difficult to entender (understand) all of the novels.

Oh, and since it’s the final week before SPRING BREAK (Whoop! Whoop!), I have a week full of midterms. Two on Wednesday I believe, and the other two on Thursday. Can’t you just feel the excitement oozing from my words. Um, hell no!

As the stress mounts from my current school work, I am patiently frantically awaiting word from the graduate schools I applied to out in Los Angeles and my safety school in Memphis. My Verbal GRE score is atrocious, and that’s what worries me about being admitted.

I really want to go to California State University, Northridge, so I hope I can get in there. Getting into USC would be nice, but there’s no way I could afford it and I mean really, who wants to go to a school in the middle of South Central?

I did hear from Pepperdine (Malibu, CA), who gave me a huge NO. But no surprise there; it’s a Church of Christ affiliated school that looks for students who are active in church and the campus is very conservative according to several college guides. Definitely not a fit for me, so I’m grateful I didn’t get in.

Even though I tend to worry a lot about it, I just know that I will make it out to Los Angeles this August. It just feels like destiny. I feel like it’s time, and I am excited about finally making the big change in my life that I desire.

So I will definitely post again soon. I need to keep up this blog because it’s a good way to get all of my heavy thoughts out of my head.

Hasta luego!