Over the years, this has happened before. I’m on a roll posting blogs and then all of a sudden I fall off the face of the earth. I know, how rude, and I’m really sorry that in the past couple weeks the blog got the short end of the stick. I mean, I love blogging, I want to do it five times a day, but when you’re a grad student facing two 25-page papers along with a confluence of convergence hell, it’s hard to do the things you really want to do.

That’s my friend Beth in the Futures Lab at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at Mizzou. That’s where you’ll find me most days. I’m slaving away in there either pitching a story for convergence hell class or working on one. Oh, convergence hell class is just my name for convergence reporting. The good news is that it’s over soon and I won’t be revisiting the convergence sequence until next fall. And the word is that the next course is not nearly as difficult as this one. Thank God!

Basically, after my birthday on Nov. 10, I have been running around like a crazy grad student wrapping up my first semester at Mizzou. On the 18th, I had my major semester project due in one of my classes. It was a 15-page research paper and I think I did alright on it. I had a convergence story due the same week, so that was awful. I didn’t get much sleep, if any, that week. This week we are off for the break, but it sure doesn’t feel like a break to me. I’m doing a project in my media/politics class that’s due Monday, and I just finished writing that monster last night.

Since that stress is lifting from my shoulders, I figured I would chime in to at least give this blog another tug, in case it has garnered some interest somewhere. I’ll try to blog a bit more this week. In just two weeks, this semester will be history and I will be free for a month plus, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with myself. Hopefully copious amounts of blogging intermixed with back-to-back snooze session. Ah, it’s great to be a college student again!