Finding Time

Well I was going to post some of my short stories on this blog but Blogger Beta does not work with Google's document posting software quite yet. I don't even want to try to copy and paste the stories as that always leads to format headaches that I am not prepared to deal with. So until I can use that program that Google offers, I forget the name - probably Google Documents or something like that, I will get those stories up.

I've been keeping busy with school although it seems like no matter how much work I do, there is just twice as much waiting to be done. Lately the only two things I have been doing are work and school. I'm sure I've whined about this in a previous post but confession is good for the soul. If my course were purely news gathering, it would make life a hell of a lot easier. Right now though, school is about seventy percent news gathering and thirty percent academic work. It's tough switching back and forth between styles and staying on top of every assignment. You could walk into our newsroom and most of us would be sweating blood over the stuff we have to do. The work isn't hard, mind you, just abundant and often tedious. Having a job and being in this program is like working two jobs on top of going to school - but I still thoroughly enjoy journalism.

I recently watched The Insider and that got me really pumped for journalism. Before I started my course, I was all about going into investigative journalism. However once my program got started, a few of the instructors made investigative journalism look like a non-existent branch of news in Canada. The other day though, we had a guest speaker who happened to be an investigative journalist and he loves his job and made it sound just the way I had imagined it. Then I watched The Insider and that just sealed the deal for me. Now I have put in twice the amount of work if I am going to put together some investigative pieces as they are usually more time consuming and take much longer to put together.

Now that I'm finished ranting, I have about five assignments due this week that I still have to put work into. Back to the salt mines...