It's definitely Fall

Sooo...I guess it's been a long time since I've posted on here. Life's been busy--nice but busy. This summer, I went on a study abroad to Wales. It was pretty sweet, and you can check out my other blog documenting my experiences over there. I only put up a grand total of two blogs on there, but that's better than none, eh?

School's great this semester. I'm taking three classes for my editing minor, and they all kind of overlap, which is nice. What I learn in one helps with the other two, so it's awesome. I'm also taking a Romantic poetry class. We spent the first couple of weeks on William Blake, and now we're onto Wordsworth. And then I've got one religion class that focuses on marriage and family relations, and it's actually very interesting. I think this is the first semester that I haven't felt too busy. My classes keep me occupied, but they don't overwhelm me. I have plenty of time to go to Leading Edge every week.

Oh, I did apply for an internship with the Church Office Building. I'm hoping to work with one of the Church Magazines, but we'll see what happens. I sent in the online application first, and they asked if they could see a portfolio. After many, many hours of copying, hole-punching, and inserting, I had my portfolio of about 170 pages. I know! I'm not sure if that's a typical size for a portfolio, but it felt rather large to me. The main reason for its size is that most of my editing experience has come from Leading Edge, and that means short stories. In most portfolios, they want a "before" and an "after" of the piece that was edited. I think I had one story that was about 25 pages, so that meant that it was 50 pages in my portfolio for that one story. But anyway, It would be cool if I got the internship. I wouldn't be crushed if I didn't get it because I'll have more opportunities to apply in the future, but I would definitely jump at the opportunity if it came my way.

All right, I think I'm going to go and read some slush!