Well, I started off the day in a pretty good mood, but it's just about shot by now. I just got more bad news about my dad, and it's so frustrating when I can't be at home to help out. I know my mom is really looking forward to me coming home, just so she doesn't have to be so alone with all this. In some ways, it makes me glad that my mother views me that way, but in other ways, as I said, it just makes me angry that I have to be so far away at times like this.
Things that did have me in a good mood earlier today: our TV story is all edited and finished, in relatively little time, so after tomorrow, I'm pretty much done TV journalism for this year! Woo hoo! :-) Next semester is radio, which I'm looking forward to a little more than I was TV. Tomorrow is our final newscast, and I'm just a copy editor, so there shouldn't be too much pressure. Everyone was laughing at me, saying that I was purposely taking a "low profile" job this time, after my recent stint as weather person. Oh, speaking of my weather, not only did I get a good grade on it, but apparently my classmates plan to nominate it for "Weather of the Year" at the Brownie Awards at the end of the year. This is to go with my supposed nomination for "Standup of the Year" for our Halloween costume story...I really hope that if I get famous someday, neither of these things ever gets public. :-)
I'm beginning to think maybe I talk about my obsessions a *little* too much...I had a message on my voice mail yesterday that started off, "Hello Stacy, this is the Scarlet Pimpernel..." It ended up just being my journalism partner Adam, but it did take me by surprise for a moment. :-)
I really need to find a new job...I'm *so* sick of my current one. I worked last night, and it actually wasn't too bad because I managed to find 3 people who REALLY wanted to talk to me, and that's always nice. But I'm really tired of having people hang up on me and just generally be rude. Really, there's no need for that. If you tell me you're not interested, I'll accept that. You don't have to blame all the problems of the world on me at the same time. I'm just a poor student trying to make some money. I wonder if McDonald's is hiring...
It's really hard to believe there's only another week and a half of classes this semester. In some ways, it's gone slow, but mostly I can't get over how quick it's gone. I think that's partly because I've gone away at least one weekend a month...something that I will *hopefully* continue in December. :-) But the weeks just fly by...it's only a month till Christmas today! That's unbelievable! At least I'm sure that no matter what the problems at home, it will likely be a happier Christmas for me than last year was. I don't think I could possibly be more depressed than I was last year. Except for when I think about the fact that Lindsey and Karen and Gill will be seeing Douglas... :-)
Okay, now I'm just starting to babble. So I'm going to get off to bed so I can actually get up and be on campus fairly early tomorrow! I've been so bad about sleeping in lately. Adieu!