One Year Anniversary

So never in my life did I ever imagine I, Samantha Sutton, would be having a one year anniversary. It's so weird. Much like the word weird...it does not follow common rules of spelling. Silly word.

Our anniversary was on February 20th. The bf and I went out to the restaurant where we had our first date. It's a small vegetarian-friendly pizza place called Tomato Head. They have really awesome food. I had a sandwich that had tofu in it...and I LIKED it. 'Nuff said. It's also great for dates :)

We exchanged our gifts.
His was better than mine...
He got me a white-gold necklace. It's so delicate and shiny! He got it for the rings I wear around my neck. One is his ring that he used to wear all the time (until i stole it) and another is a ring he bought me...from a 25 cent machine at the bowling alley. I love it though. It fits perfectly inside his ring.

Then I gave him his gift. Six Flags tickets! Well, not exactly the tickets. I made some replacement tickets until I actually purchase the real ones. But they were cleverly constructed if I may say so myself. My stick people drawings were dead on. But I got those because we'd been saying we want to go to an amusement park together for the longest. He's never been to Six Flags over Georgia and I love it, so we should have loads of fun. Definitely waiting for warmer weather though.

I'm currently online looking at recipes for inexpensive dinner ideas. I want to cook a meal for David and I this week. I haven't COOKED a meal in a while. My cooking is as extensive as macaroni and cheese. Woo. I really want to make my Daddy's lasagna. I'll have to ask how to make it. It's soooooo good.

Anyway, I'm sorry I don't have anymore info on my career goals and stuff right now. I'm just sort of going through the motions. I have lots to think about...

Including Spring Break. Three Weeks. COME ON!

I don't wanna go to woooorrrrkkkk!

I have 30 minutes to chill until work.
So I'm sitting here at my computer with my cup of coffee.
Work sucks.
Never work in food service for four years if you aren't planning on making that your career goal.
It's painful.

So in my online journalism class we're about to start working with video. I have never worked with video in any journalistic sense. My teacher really liked my photo essay and said if I can keep the same ideas going I could do really well in video. I'm really excited to see how I do. I have to interview, do voice-overs, and get random (hopefully artistically done) shots of the event.

I really think visual journalism is where I am supposed to be. It's what I enjoy the most and what I'm actually decent at doing. So give it up for my future life in poverty!

Jokes.

Kind of :)

Anyway I really just want to turn on the boob tube for some good ole King of Queens. Best. Show. Ever.

So ... bye!

UT campus after the storm

Hey guys! So last night I worked relentlessly...tirelessly...determined..lly...on a photo essay that was due today in my online journalism class.

Yesterday I started freaking out because I completely forgot that I needed a sequence of 10-13 images by class today. There was a big fast-moving storm rolling in at the time. It was really exciting.

I was sitting in the room ALL DAY up to this point.

So I took this as a great photo opportunity and after the worst part of the storm was over, I braved the outside conditions and started taking some pictures.

I was afraid for my camera most of the time, but...it's all in the name of JOURNALISM!

I wanted to show you guys my photo essay because I'm actually pretty proud of it.
So please check it out here

Updates

Okay so the radio station is sort of fun. Sort of.
I have been a DJ there before and I really enjoyed that. I was so nervous at first just being on air...it's quite intimidating.
I mean...I'm sure there wasn't a SINGLE person up at 7 a.m. to hear my vocal skills, but it doesn't matter! I did it!

But the news is a bit different.
I have to look at news ideas online then write them for broadcast. Then occasionally the news director will have us go out and get sound bites.
THAT is what's scary.
The one sound bite I've had to get so far was on the economic stimulus package passing in the House. Oh my. My. My.
I mean I really didn't know that much about it. And I had to ask others about how they felt about it. No one really knew anything...or enough to make a sound bite. Plus it was class time so no one was around. It was hard. And it's definitely not an easy task just walking up to people asking them to talk. They're always like "Oh, I don't have time" or "I don't know anything about that." I felt dumb.
Interviewing is not my thing I don't think.

Also, last time I got to record a wrap. I seriously sound like a chick you'd hear if you dialed a certain 1-800 number. I hurried home to make my roommates listen to my first-ever radio news wrap. We laughed.
They, of course, said it was good. It was not.
But I have at least 3 or 4 more times to attempt to sound more professional.
Which I really want to do.


On a completely different level of my life at the moment, tomorrow one of my best friends, Amanda turns 21...FINALLY! Actually she JUST turned 21...like JUST now.
Jessica and I turned the legal drinking age about a year ago. So we've been waiting a good while.
Amanda just took a shot of orange tequila...after she already brushed her teeth. What a trooper.

Well, I need to get off this computer...and by get off the computer I mean post this entry and then find spring break deals.

Later.