Decisions

A little over 10 days on now. Much of the tension of worry over money has faded. It’s been replaced with more contemplation on what I am planning to do in the near future. I have the money and capability to get myself home, hole-up there for a short while until next fall when I will hopefully be in graduate school. Living at home off UI will be an easier affair than struggling in the city until that time. And I feel it will be quite a struggle if I were to stay here, especially at the current rate of rent that I pay. Of course, I can find myself a new apartment, but that’s always a costly thing as well. Most places request essentially a double payment of the first month’s rent for security deposit. (Which reminds me, I should get my security deposit back from my roommate after I leave. I forgot about that.) So, trying to make a move just doesn’t seem like a good idea at this time when I’m trying to be as cost-effective as possible.

But I think a plan is formulating to apply to the CUNY Journalism School. It just seems to make sense to me with my burgeoning interest in politics and all. I feel I might have to tone down my obvious Left leanings on my blog, but I don’t think that will be too hard. I wish the Blogger was a bit more versatile. I’d love to be able to create sections, and different pages, similar to a real newspaper. I’d like to post stuff to current events, or politics, or local, or have an Op-Ed page, where I could rant euphoric. But Google seems to keep the capabilities of the Blogger builder rather low. I’m sure it’s a lot to manage for them, as it is, so I'm sure they want to keep it as simple as possible. But hopefully I can keep posting regularly to the blog and have a nice site ready to point to on my school application. I think I’m doing something right, at least. I have an interview on Friday for an internship for an online magazine doing marketing and PR work. They only saw my blog, as far as writing samples go, so I must have impressed them somewhat with it. The problem is committing to the internship and then having to move home and not being able to get much experience. I’d probably have to make that decision within the next couple of weeks, probably before the end of the month (moving home, that is). That will be the decisive factor in many of the things going through my head right now.