The main reason I haven’t blogged is because on September 16 I got a journalism position at The Minnesota Daily (the “mission” I wrote about in a previous post that really wanted to take on). It might seem unrelated for many reasons, like how the stories we write at The Daily’s City Desk are very not personal, and also follow rigid (AP style) rules. But I think it just filled up a certain bar I have inside. Or it did in the beginning, when everything was new with that position, and everything was also new in most other parts of my life, and it was fun but a lot of effort to learn how to do everything right. I am happy to report that reporting has gotten easier/the process smoother in this spring semester. I’m preoccupied with totally new things, and all my friends are so busy that we probably have hung out 2 or 3 times total this semester. But I don’t know. Today I went for a walk with Lia (to the Daily office), and took a moment to look at the waves roll down the Mississippi, and I’m feeling like some part of my life has reopened, in a way.
So what’s new? A lot! I’ve signed up for March Madness for the first time in my life. I used my Divine Feminine Intuition and it would be so fun if that actually works out.
I’m also in the law school musical, TORT. I’m Keyboard 2 (sometimes playing Keyboard 3 melodies when 2 is 2 hard). We’re premiering next weekend, which is unbelievable in the ‘I cannot believe how that will work’-sense, but there’s a tech week in between now and then that I’ve heard will work miracles. And it’s not that the cast isn’t talented-they are. At least the other pit members. We just haven’t rehearsed with any of the dancers, or the actors, so it’s still hard to imagine the show as a real full fledged thing and not just some random songs we play in Legal Grounds between 1:30 to 3 on Sundays.
I’m writing this from The Minnesota Daily Office, waiting for my editor to go through a follow-up story I did on Minnesota’s new paid leave program. The table is filling up now and I suspect that my editor will be here soon, so I’ll find a picture or two now and send the post out. Fun to write again! See you when?
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