What I’ve been up to

by Wendy Withers

I’ve been more than super-busy the last few weeks.

I’ve been working about 40 hours a week at my job at a bookstore for the semester break. I’m processing internet orders for textbooks for the upcoming semester, and next week I’ll be working even more, starting tomorrow.

I’ve been trying to catch up to my future classmates in a graduate class I’m taking. I have to learn web design and HTML; the class deals with multimedia journalism, i.e. making Web sites, writing television packages, writing online and print articles, and tying everything together. I bought a book and am taking baby steps; I’m unsure as to whether or not I’ll catch up sufficiently before the class starts, though. I’m nervous about it.

I spent five or six days from the last two weeks with my family. We did the whole “Christmas” thing, and then my aunt and uncle came to visit from Michigan. I’m am definitely family-stressed out.

I spend two or three days doing things with friends. We saw Sweeney Todd on Christmas day, and I went to a Christmas party that involved me getting presents and playing Nintendo (yay).

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Sweeney Todd= Merry Christmas!

I worked like crazy to finish up making and wrapping holiday gifts, and what I didn’t get done I made up for with store-bought gifts. Next year, I hope to do a better job on keeping on-task. Television helped me complete the gifts that did get wrapped and given away, although I’m not sure I’d ever want to watch so much Tila Tequila again.

I also bought the Dexter DVD and watched the entire first season in two days. Way to spend some quality time right there. I plan to start in on the Heroes DVD soon, even though I’ve seen the entire series so far.

For next year, I have some plans. They include starting an office hours tradition for writing, attending FX 2008 (for comic book artists and some actors/ creators/ designers I want to interview) and Megacon (for more of the same) and seeing the movie Juno. I’m also toying around with starting my own Web site and Etsy shop. I just hope 2008 is as fantastic as 2007 was.


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