not just cookies anymore

For some reason, I found difficulty getting into a project this week. I worked with a box of old Girl Scout uniforms (found an awesome one from 1930! Blue with long sleeves full of patches), and, although I followed some artifacts from their donation into this box (why are so many people donating their old uniforms lately?), I didn’t do much other than that.

I’ve noticed a correlation between this lack of productivity with extreme productivity in the journalism world. My advisor warned me of this before declaring a double major: oftentimes, students who do this end up emphasizing one over the other. I didn’t want to do that; I promised myself I wouldn’t! Unfortunately, I’m facing the realization that he might have been right… I still want to beat the odds, however; it will just require a little more effort in terms of balance.

Speaking of which: I spoke with one of the other interns this week, one whom I had never really met. She is a journalism/history double-major, and we were excited to find each other. She’s a junior, and she managed to make her required journalism internship through the museum via public relations.

She mentioned interning at the Cincinnati Museum Center last summer, too, and I immediately got excited. I’m from Cincinnati! If I could get a PR internship through the museum, I would be fulfilling multiple requirements while checking out something I may potentially want to do as a future career. I don’t want to settle for working at a newspaper for my required internship. I’m working for the Athens NEWS, and I know I don’t want to do only print for the rest of my life. This would also resolve some of the issues I’m having with finances. I hope this works out.

Generally, I spent a lot of time this week talking with people more wholeheartedly than I usually do. Rather than distracting myself with work, I talked with the other interns, Donald and Jessica. While this is a big step for me — not having a premise to talk to someone — I know it’s not exactly productive. I know I can’t do this every week.

It was a wonderful break, though.