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I hadn't intended on taking such a long hiatus right after my first post, but you know, life happens. And more importantly than life happening, school happens. I have reached a low point. No, I'm not depressed. Am I'm not being "emo", whatever the hell that means these days. I just had a reality check.
Let me explain.
A few weeks ago, I was approached by someone to do some freelance journalism work. Imagine my excitement when I received this email. It was like tripping and falling into a massive easter basket filled with bunnies and kittens and puppies and chocolate. And all sorts of other happy, wonderful crap. I nearly pissed myself. And this publication is only online, but whatever. It's fucking awesome to be published by something other than my college newspaper or this sorry excuse for a blog. Everything was going well, until one of the editors asked me if I could send in a short bio about myself. Fine. I can do this. Right? WRONG. I scoured the site to see what sort of information other writers put in theirs. Let me tell you, there's some really interesting, fun loving, exciting people writing for this publication. They have all sorts of hobbies, interests and are part of interesting projects. They dance. The read. They speak several languages They're involved in all sorts of exciting new social, political and envrionmental crap. Hell, someone over there probably owns a unicycle. That's how awesome they are.
So after being one-upped by all of these exponentially more exciting people, I sat down to write my bio. And you know what came out? Nothing. I couldn't think of one damn thing to write about myself that wasn't boring. And you wanna know why? Because college has stolen my soul and sold it from the trunk of her car in a shady part of town.
Before I decided to re-enter the world of the educated, I had a shit ton of hobbies and interests. I read extensively. I traveled. I skateboarded. I went to shows and had cheesy sci-fy movie nights with my friends. I went on adventures. I even attempted to create things that nearly resembled art, if you squinted your eyes and tilted your head to the left a little, with the lights off.
But now... Now what do I have? Just a pile of work, papers and research that I have to get through before I'm crushed to death. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy school and learning and whatnot. But I was surprised to find that I had nothing remotely interesting or entertaining to say about myself, because everything I do revolves around school.
I have decided that my goal for the summer is to revisit some of the fun things I used to do back in the olden days, and maybe pick up some new hobbies. So interwebz, tell me, what do you do for fun? What are your hobbies? What do you do that makes you more  interesting than myself?

Also, I have to add a shameless plug. Read my article here, if you're so inclined. Maybe you can figure out where I live if you don't already know, you stalkers.
 
 
So. Here I am starting a blog. It's Friday night and I should be out with my friends like a normal 20-something-year-old-female. Actually, what I really should be doing is editing a video I made. It was due last Friday. But instead of doing any real work, I'm creating my first ever blog post.
I don't even know what to write about. What are you supposed to write about in a first post? Do people introduce themselves and talk about what their blogs are going to be about? Or do they dive right in and just begin writing? I just don't know.
I used to introduce myself to all of my new diaries and journals when I was a kid, so why stop now?
Anyway. I'm Heather. I'm a 25 year old college student. How awesome is that? Twenty-five years old and still no degree. There's actually a really long and drawn out - and not so interesting - story about that, which I may share some day. But for now let's just say it involves three years in Redding, California, several countries and an international crime ring. Except with out the international crime ring.
At any rate, I'm back in school and working on a degree in International Relations with a consentration in Journalism. I go to school somewhere in the greater San Fransisco Bay Area and I'm almost done. Kind of. When I finish school, I hope to go on to more school and then eventually become a professional journalist. I'll probably be somewhere around 70 years old when this actually happens, but dammit, it's going to happen.
Aside from normal people things like listening to music and reading books, I really enjoy traveling. I've been to a few countries in my life, and I hope to go to a few more. Actually, the header is a picture I took in one of those places. Sri Lanka to be exact. You know, that tiny little appendix looking thing right at the bottom of India. Where the tsunami hit a few years ago. Yeah, that's the place. I was there - not for the tsunami - and it was great.
And that's all I have to say. Welcome to my blog.