Update for all who care

Not that I'm feeling down, just a title that pays homage to something I wrote a long time ago, can't really remember what. You, know...inside jokes, man. Been really busy lately, that's why I haven't blogged about anything; nothing interesting is happening. I work 55+ hours a week between the internship and Carmax, so when I'm off I don't always feeling like doing anything cool (unless you count video games as cool).

Should be getting an AircheckTexas voucher any day now. I completed my paperwork and faxed it in Monday. They said it takes four days. And then its goodbye Maxima. I like that car, but it's time is up and I can't wait to get a new car. It'll be the first I've ever financed, so it's a cool feeling (the part about being able to pay for a car, not giving money away). The best part is that with a sweet new ride I can take a trip to San Marcos to see my pals and not have to worry about my car's transmission giving up on me. I like being back in Houston but sometimes I feel like this really isn't my place anymore and I'd be more at home in SM. There's just not much going on for me here, and why would there be after spending almost five years somewhere else?

I'll be leaving for New Orleans tomorrow, hitching a ride with my former prof, Sue Weill, for the Society of Professional Journalist convention. I'm going to be part of a presentation that shows why the Doctors Without Borders exhibit in downtown Houston prepared me to cover a crisis zone. I'll try to have fun with that. Hopefully I can get some downtime, because I'm tired of taking on one thing after another and would like to just zone out for a while. But it'll be a few more weeks until the internship is over, and then I'll go back to just 40 hours. That's sounds good. Not that I don't like working with the people at H Texas, because they are all cool, from the designers, ed staff, advertising, everyone. We've gone out after work a couple times and it's been fun. But I have too many things I want to do outside of a daily job to be investing almost 60 hours a week to work-related stuff.