Promises: Now with more sincerity..

This is the beginning of a whole new me. I have decided that to follow up the Summer of YES!! I shall deem this next stage of my life...

The Semester of Organization & Productivity AND... RESEARCH!

Yaaaahhhhh!

So first things first, we'll set some goals.

1. IOU some posts. And I'm going to finish them. One by one.
a. 2 in the Montreal series
b. review on Rain
c. review on Bananashpeel
d. Montreal photos
e. summer of photos
f. summer in review
g. goal achievement
h. butt-load of stories
i. an about-me section

Jeeze. Gimme a break here!

Sorry. *PuppyDogEyes* Please forgive me...

Poor neglected blog. There's been far too much procrastination and general tomfoolery in my life (perfect blog fodder, I know) Plus, pesky journalism keeps getting in the way of things. Oh, but I have BIG plans for this blog for the summer. Be patient. May 1st will usher in a NEW era of shenanigans. Quickly though, because I know that you, loyal reader, are chomping at the bit. In online meeting today, we all were shamed by our editors. Shame, shame, BAAAAAAD journalists. WHY? No one attended the 4/20 rally, where the shit went down. I guess we were all caught up in our own celebrations :)

Spring break... what break?

So it's spring break, and I've been waaaay to busy to post anything. At least it feels like spring. Monday: flip flops, sunglasses, a patio, and a pint.....AHHHHH!!! Working on so much... Observer online: finish story (done) find 2 stories for next cycle. Observer print: TDSB school board meeting (tonight) Synchronized skating Write column Radio: write newscast (has to be current...so mon night/tues morn) voicer...perhaps the synchronized skate? Multi-plat: stupid lame zoo story Magazine: O Canada changes Interviewing: contact the wrongfully accused. Plus my apartment is a disaster zone, my hair is a fright, TAXES, find a JOB, I'm working, and what else?? No time to even procrastinate! Wanted to publish my work on the bloggy this week... but stay tuned.. it'll be worth it, faithful reader!

Spring Break WOOOHOOO!

Today is the first official day of spring break. And I'm exhausted. I have sooooo much work to do, with school and cleaning this chamber of horrors I call my apartment. So don't expect long posts. It's spring break. I'm busy. I'll stop procrastinating... NOW!!

I'm a twat

I feel like such a sell out. I got a twitter account. To follow Conan Obrien. But things started to spiral out of control. I'm now following a cagillion news organizations and politicians. What a delightful procratination tool. So now that i'm tweeting on twitter, does that make me a twat??

I'm allready envisioning my future office

For our February 5th issue of the East Toronto Observer I was a production editor. Our faculty coordinator, Lindy gave me a colour printout of the front page. My immediate thought: Yay! I'll have something to hang in my office...one day. Second thought: Shit. I'm going to have to frame this. Third thought: What a wonderful new project to procrastinate on. We put out a pretty damn good issue, if I do say so myself... I'll figure out a way to post it on the blog... after much procrastination. Am also teaching a production workshop to some TDCB kiddies over my reading week. Because I really have too much free time on my hands, I need to throw another ball into the air! Oh, and just an FYI, loyal readers (haha). I will be posting a homework assignment tonight. For my multiplatform journalism class, Cathy Perry from the CBC gave a presentation to my class. Incidentally, she went to high school with my mother, and crazier still, I went to Cathy's 50th birthday party the next day.

Whoa. I'm getting the hang of this Interweb Thingamajiggy

I know how to link I feel so accomplished. I'm feeling ambitious, so I'm gonna try to schedule this post for tomorrow. Which, if I am successful in my mission, you will be reading this today. And today will be yesterday. WHOA! I've travelled backwards in time, faithful readers. (Oh.. wait.. what readers!) Now, back to procrastination.

Poor neglected blog

I have a serious problem with procrastination.

I started this blog to give me something productive to procrastinate with.

But I find I procrastinate from posting something new.

Its not like my life is boring. Quite the opposite. Maybe I don’t know where to begin.

I never follow through on things, and it looks like this poor little bloggy will just be another hit on my mounting list of failures.

I’m disproportionately depressed.

Ya, I have a blog.

So this is my first non-anonymous blog. I’m trying to ENHANCE my online “presence”.

Really, I’m just procrastinating. I have to write an article for The Courier (Centennial College’s newspaper). Due TOMORROW. And it’s just not coming.

I accidentally pitched the idea to the feature’s editor Dan Heyman. One Sunday evening I was reading The Saturday Star (my backwards tradition). And I came upon this article about Michael Ignatieff that was just fascinating. And I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Then I realized…HEY! There’s a story here! But WHERE! But HOW?

So I texted Heyman, basically telling him to check the article out, that it was really interesting, and could make a great feature in the student newspaper.

He texted back. ‘Great. Write it for me!’

Baaahhh…I was NOT prepared for that!

And now here I am. Such a PRO-crastinator. That instead of my usual work-evasion technique of blog-hopping, I’ve created my own! AND instead of actually writing my article, I’m telling randoms in the virtual-realm about the article that I’m not writing.

It’s OK tho. I’m in my parent’s basement, and my brother keeps telling me to get back to work. Now that he hears the clickity-clack of the keyboard, he figures that I’m actually being productive. Veronica, you tricksty minx.

So the Star article? Here’s the part I found interesting:

Ignatieff went on a cross-country tour of university campuses. In an online Q&A he mentioned the IDEA (NOT platform!) of

FORGIVING STUDENT DEBT ENTIRELY.

IN EXCHANGE.

FOR A YEAR OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

AT HOME. OR ABROAD

Holey Moley. I’d do it.

That’s what she said.

Link to original article:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/754807–ignatieff-hitting-the-books