Magazine writing, my blog for class

I used to be a hardcore blogger back in the Myspace days and had a bit of a following, had a few thousand reads actually. Maybe this class will get me back into it since Facebook doesn't really do blogs.

My how-to story is about How to have fun outdoors cheaply, hiking, biking, sightseeing, that sort of thing. I really enjoy those things and will enjoy writing about it. I hate the fact I feel so behind in this class and the semester overall in general. I work too much and when I'm not working I can't focus. The last month has been the hardest time of my life and it is not getting easier, I just put on a happy face everyday. My friend Christina, who understood me better than anyone and actually respected me, passed away in late August. We didn't need a lot of words, just looks and body language and tone of voice expressed a mutual understanding and repect for one another. Life hasn't and will never be the same. I just have to learn who I will now become and how to live life as that different person.

Maybe cracking down on my school work and writing assignments will help a bit. They won't change life but it would help to get good grades this semester. If I do well in this class, news reporting, mass media law and minorities in the media the rest of my college career should be smooth sailing academically. Socially campus seems pretty empty for me, so when I'm there I have no excuse to fail.

I'm probably going to be doing a lot of wandering alone this semester for this class and news reporting, so hopefully I'll become more observant of things. Enjoying nature and architecture is a wonderful thing to do with another person, but since I have to do it alone now I might as well become a better writer from doing it.

Saturday and Sunday I will be doing a lot of wandering in Sacramento somewhere. Here's to hoping I don't get mauled by a mountain lion or some drugged up maniac. I'd like to accomplish some things and help people in life while I'm here on Earth, I hopw I have a purpose in life. If it just to help people, I can live with that. Granted I would like to find happiness someday, but if I don't and only serve to help others, then so be it.

Well, I didn't think I would write this much but I am a writer, not much of a speaker. Maybe this outlet will help me.