Jackie, Tim and Mackenzie are at the Grand Canyon on the Polar Express, which is the only reason why I'm updating this thing. My schedule's crammed and I've got a sticky note a foot long of things to do, so I'm taking advantage of the free morning before I go to the station. I'm working on visuals for the Advent performance again. The concert is this Sunday so I only have about a week to put it all together. It's also finals; classes are winding down, big projects are due, tests coming up...I'm glad I don't have to worry about making any more arrangements for next semester. I'll probably quit my job at Wetseal after the holidays. I've only been working weekends and lately with all of our weekend events I've had to request a lot of days off and the days I can work they haven't really been scheduling me. I might hang on a bit longer because it's worth it for the discount, but we'll see. I plan on applying for a summer internship in radio. I heard about it through ASU. It's paid and I think I'd enjoy it. I really miss working at the Blaze. I thought I'd be able to help out there this semester but it didn't fit in my schedule. And next semester I'll be going a lot of photography. I got in touch with the professor who teaches an advanced online media class I really want to take. They create the Zine, an online magazine with stories, photos, and video. A lot of their work recently won a lot of awards, too. Anyway, I wrote to congratulate them and ask how I could get involved. Turns out, the Photo II class takes a lot of photos for them and since I'll be taking it next semester, I really hope I can get my foot in the door at the Zine. I'm really excited to be getting into some multi-media reporting. I had hoped to create a lot of good packages for my broadcasting class this semester, but it just didn't happen. Either it was a time constraint or a technology glitch. But it was still a good experience. Speaking of packages, I'm working with an editor at the station this week to edit together my package about the car adaptations. This thing has taken forever to put together. I can't wait to finish it and put it in the bag. I was on the news the other night. Not reporting, unfortunately. On my way to the station the driver ahead of me ran a red light, got t-boned, spun into on-coming traffic and ran into a building. I saw the whole thing right in front of me. Luckily I had my camera with me (I was still hoping to catch my spot news for my photojournalism class), so I pulled over, called the station to bring someone down, and took pictures. A photographer from 5 came and interviewed me as a witness. And my photographer teacher, RD, was siked to hear about the incident. People in the news business joke all the time about what bad karma we're going to have because we're always hoping for things to happen. We get excited when there's an accident or a fire or something. But of course we always hope no one gets hurt. No one got hurt in the accident by the way. The driver was scared and upset, but okay. Last night my roommates and I were watching tv and saw a change of the times. A commercial for Dolce and Gabanna came on. It showed two women and two men dressed up racing seperately through the city. And at the end, the women race to each other and then men race to each other and it actually showed the men kissing. Dina said in the other version in shows the women kissing. We were stunned! Gays have broken through in television sitcoms and are becoming more and more accepted, especially on the West Coast and among younger generations, but we couldn't believe we saw it in a commercial. The weather dropped, finally convincing us that it's winter (or at least fall). The other day our house dropped to 60 degrees. We bought fire logs and had a fire going to warm it up, but it didn't help much so we ended up turning the heat on. But it felt nice to have a fire. I haven't had a real fire in ages. Anyway, things to do. Carrie